One of the aspects of simplifying your is life, is to only have clothes you wear and like. This is hard for me since I just love having a ton of clothes that don't fit and have stains on them. I love how I don't think to do the laundry because all those clothes I don't want to wear in public are still on the shelf so clearly I'm not out of clothes.
Tonight I was going to help someone interpret. I had only talked to the person on the phone so I figured I should look presentable since I had the opportunity to actually make a nice impression. She would not even know the difference and would therefore maybe not say "Wow, you look nice!" which I often take to mean, "wow, you look not so scrapy."
I do actually have nice clothes that fit me and that I never wear because they are nice. Why is that?
So I got rid of a lot of clothes that I never wear. Sure it's good to have a set of painting clothes. But I actually only have 2 pair of pants and 1 pair of shorts that I actually want to be seen in public wearing. And getting rid of all the embarrassing clothes, I can justify 1 or 2 items to bring me up to a functional number.
Also, I want to wear skirts more often instead of shorts.
The great thing about this simplifying of your wardrobe is that you can feel great about what you wear every day because you get rid of the things you don't want to wear. You get rid of clothes that don't fit. They no longer stare at you from the shelf with condemnation.
Getting rid of things that make you feel guilty is great.
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