If you've got it, wear it once
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flexagonYesterday I finished a project I started in Jan 1 -- to wear every one of the shirts in my closet at least once (or discard it). I did this by putting a marker on the left of my clothes rod, not unlike a stitch marker in knitting, and always hanging things on the left of it when doing laundry. Yesterday I wore the last shirt; in the process I discovered lots of things I didn't really feel like wearing again ever (goodbye!), and also some great stuff I had forgotten I had... or hadn't realized I could wear to work if I wore a tank top underneath... or hadn't realized I could wear on the weekend with jeans and a little bit of chutzpah. :)
This Friday I got a small Athleta order in the mail, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heisenbug said: it seems like you've been getting a lot of new clothes lately. All week I've kept seeing you in shirts I didn't recognize. Nope, those were the really OLD shirts. I got a little more focused about wearing them when I noticed how close I was to finishing my little project.
I did go shopping this weekend -- what can I say, I had a good coupon -- though it was all quite restrained and list-driven, and I still put more items in the Box of Departure than I brought in the door. Old Navy was kind of a madhouse because they were selling flip-flops for $1 for one day only... people were loading up with 10 or 15 pairs of flip-flops. Really, folks, you need that many flip-flops? Does every single pair pass your red velvet rope test?
I also read Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less, which, oddly, was SO good that I don't have a lot to say about it. I'll definitely be reading it several more times. It suggested listing out my fears, which I had just talked tonevers about, so I did (fear meditation on the bus to the mall!). I won't list the results here, but it was a more tolerable exercise than I had expected. Also, more than half of the fears were career-related, and there were some things that didn't make the list that were my #1 fear a few years ago. Fascinating. Apparently the author helped to develop a course called Search Inside Yourself, which I've seen listed as part of the internal education at Zillian; I got a little zing of recognition when he named the course and said it was for a cutting-edge tech firm.
This Friday I got a small Athleta order in the mail, and
heisenbug said: it seems like you've been getting a lot of new clothes lately. All week I've kept seeing you in shirts I didn't recognize. Nope, those were the really OLD shirts. I got a little more focused about wearing them when I noticed how close I was to finishing my little project.I did go shopping this weekend -- what can I say, I had a good coupon -- though it was all quite restrained and list-driven, and I still put more items in the Box of Departure than I brought in the door. Old Navy was kind of a madhouse because they were selling flip-flops for $1 for one day only... people were loading up with 10 or 15 pairs of flip-flops. Really, folks, you need that many flip-flops? Does every single pair pass your red velvet rope test?
I also read Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less, which, oddly, was SO good that I don't have a lot to say about it. I'll definitely be reading it several more times. It suggested listing out my fears, which I had just talked to
nevers about, so I did (fear meditation on the bus to the mall!). I won't list the results here, but it was a more tolerable exercise than I had expected. Also, more than half of the fears were career-related, and there were some things that didn't make the list that were my #1 fear a few years ago. Fascinating. Apparently the author helped to develop a course called Search Inside Yourself, which I've seen listed as part of the internal education at Zillian; I got a little zing of recognition when he named the course and said it was for a cutting-edge tech firm.
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Date: 2010-05-24 08:35 pm (UTC)i'd like to check out that book; thanks for the recommendation. i'm glad you found the fear exercise tolerable! so interesting to find out what dominates. for me it was all health.
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Date: 2010-05-25 03:24 pm (UTC)i'd love to hear what you think of Less. There were some other wonderful-sounding exercises in it, like to describe yourself in paradoxes. And holding a strawberry (or other small object) and thinking what you would name it if the name were up to you. Honestly, after the fear exercise I find it kind of amazing that I'm functional at work at all. Something to work on.