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Kelly Williams's avatar

Tiia your quarterly shopping round ups are some of my favorite to read! Thank you so much for your transparency. I want to offer you a bit of grace as I can see the mindfulness you are bringing to your shopping and while you didn’t hit your goals, you brought that thoughtfulness year-round. Bravo!

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Faith's avatar

i am sick with how much i over-shopped in 2023! fluctuations were part of it, but so was the resulting frustration and desire to feel better. some takeaways: (1) 70+% of my purchases were 2nd hand, almost all online, and my new purchases were mostly due to influencer recommendations. (2) i seem to regularly sell and replace a lot of my knits, and i'm not sure why. now i have some quality pieces from studio nicholson and lauren manoogian, so i'm hoping they keep me happy for many years. (3) i have recently shifted my focus to separates that can be dressed up for special events. although these dressier pieces will get less wear, i was in a cycle of buying a dress for an event and never wanting to wear it again, which i hated. hoping some mix and match special pieces bought out of love instead of last minute panic will fix this.

finally, going into 2024, i hope to shop MUCH less, and invest time in selling and/or mending/tailoring. i don't expect to be capable of only 5 pieces, but i can at least ask myself: if i were to commit to buying only 5 items this year, could i make a strong argument for this to be one of them? if the answer to that is no (i've found it often is a quick no), then i don't want to buy it.

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