Clearly, it isn't spring yet. But a recent “What Not to Wear” binge sent me to my closet, brimming with determination. Time to get rid of stuff. I have a bad habit of keeping things that no longer fit in the belief that if I just lose that last five or ten pounds, they'll fit again. Clinton and Stacy have made me realize that's not very good in practice.
I'm not done yet, but I've gotten rid of several things. Truthfully, I think more than half of the closet will go. And that's not because it's all too small, but because I don't actually wear most of it. I keep stuff thinking I'll wear it, but I somehow never do.
The beauty of this process is that it gives me a fabulous excuse to go shopping for new clothes. I wish I had that 5K that Clinton and Stacy hand over every episode, but if I spend that much on clothes, my husband will probably kill me. Guess I'll have to be reasonable. 🙄
Presents heroines often end up going on fabulous shopping sprees, don't they? I know I've written one spree, when Nico takes Lily to Paris, but my editor made me cut most of the shopping detail (darn it). But I love to read those sprees. Jennie Lucas wrote a great one not too long ago, and one of my favorites is in one of Jane Porter's sheikh books. I love the parade of clothes, the handbags, the shoes, the super-expensive price tags, and the enigmatic hero who stands by and basically says that money is no object.
It's not the money, though, it's the way he wants to clothe the heroine in beautiful things. It just gives me that little catch in my heart. Like the shopping scene in “Pretty Woman” when Richard Gere goes to the stores with Julia Roberts, after the shop girls wouldn't wait on her, and buys her all those gorgeous and swanky clothes. Oh swoon.
I know my hubby would buy me whatever I wanted if a) we could afford it and b) he didn't have to go shopping with me. But of course he's not a billionaire and I'm not a 20-something Twiggy who can wear anything and look fabulous in it. 😕
*If* I could go on that fantasy shopping trip, I'd hit the Christian Louboutin store for shoes, and then I'd go to Prada, Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Vera Wang, and etc. I'm not sure I'd know how to act when faced with those price tags, though. 😯
So if you could go on a fantasy shopping trip, what would you buy? Doesn't have to be clothes, btw. Cars, vacations, homes, whatever. What is your fantasy?
I went shopping for new jeans two weeks ago — only to discover I was TWO sizes smaller than before. SQUEE!! That made shopping a lot of fun that day 🙂
Looking at that tag with the lovely small size made me feel like I was a heroine…
Two jean sizes is awesome!!!! As if you weren’t little enough. I’ve been dropping weight lately. I noticed that my jeans are getting saggy. I never mind when that happens. 😉 I highly, highly doubt it’s two whole sizes though…..
If money is no object I know exactly what I’d go shopping for and it is:
an Aston Martin V12 Vantage, Carbon Black Metallic exterior color! 😀
And your Dad would go with me!
Aston Martin, shoot yea !
But if it’s only clothes, I’m running the other way.
I remember being suckered into going shopping with you and mom; “We won’t be long” was the promise. But I now realize that 8 hours of shopping is your (& mom’s) version of not long. My feet hurt just thinking about that. 🙂
You two are so predictable. 😉 And I’m pretty positive we never shopped 8 hours for clothes. It was probably antique shopping….
It was shopping no matter what ya call it for 8 hours. OH MY GOD !
I’d love to shop for vacation homes. I’d like a little cottage on the beach, a chalet in the mountains, maybe a little houseboat in the Northwest. Yeppers. That would be mighty fun!
I hate to shop at the stores so I love online shopping. I’m like a guy in that respect. Show me a mall, then show me a chair – something happens to me. The lifeblood gets sucked out of me and I get exhausted. Maybe it’s the lights in the stores? DH loves shopping. Go figure. 😉
Take care.
Gibb