So.....33 Items is NOT very much :)

My good friend Ashley came over last week and helped me clean my closet.  I called her because she is great about being non-emotional about stuff that is not hers, and I knew she would be honest.

Wow.  That is all I have to say.  I really thought I was at least a little bit fashionable and had a good sense of style.  I might somewhere deep inside know what looks cute, but my closet was nowhere near reflecting that.  I got rid of...are you ready for this, SEVEN bags of clothes.  Not like a ziploc bag, like huge bags.  Not shoes or accessories, clothes.  Sick isn't it :)

I have this obsession need to buy things if they have a clearance tag, or if I can get them for really cheap at like a garage sale, or if they are free.  I am drawn to these things.  And thus, I have done this with clothes.  Almost everything that I own was cheap.  Not that there is anything wrong with a good sale, but nothing in my closet fits me.  I take things that are too small, too big, too young, too old, and even just plain ugly.  I feel bad if something goes to waste.

I had THIS skirt in my closet and could not seem to get rid of it, because I wore it on a mission trip ten years ago.  SERIOUSLY?!?!

And I also realized through this purging that I was (still am but trying to change) hiding with my clothes. I wear baggy or ugly clothes, or don't put much effort because I am not secure enough in who I am.  I forget to find my identity in Christ and let myself get caught up in a leftover baby pooch, or the scale, or dark under-eye circles, or whatever it is on a certain day.  If I don't try, then if someone thinks something about how I look, oh well right?  But if I actually put forth the effort and still look "bad" then that would really stink.  WHERE DO I COME UP WITH THIS STUFF?  I know it is not true, and getting rid of all my ugly, old, some from 6th grade, clothes also feels like I am finally chucking that attitude as well.

So for now, I am not going to do the project 333.  I want to, but I am still getting used to only have these clothes to my name.

Don't you worry though...I WILL be rockin these :)