Project 333: Cycle 2 Begins

I’ve been wearing all my “new” stuff for the past two days and I feel fresh and stylish. (Maybe delusional. It’s a possibility.) If you’re unfamiliar with Project 333, read up on it. I’m now starting on my fourth month, which means it’s time to change out the stuff from the first three months. Yay!

So, according to the official rules of Project 333, in your 33 wardrobe items, outerwear, jewelry, and shoes count. I followed the rules the best I could for the first three months, with mixed success.

I decided, though, that this time, I’m going to be less worried about the actual number of items and think more about creating a coordinated wardrobe that fits and looks great and can be mixed and matched. (This is my justification for cheating. I am an excellent justifier.)

So I decided that, for me, outerwear and jewelry don’t count in my 33. This is mostly because I’m not a big collector of outerwear and jewelry.

Seriously, about a year ago, I tried to find some gold jewelry to sell at one of those gold parties that were popular, and all I had was, like, a freebie fake gold charm bracelet from Cancun and a Hello Kitty broach from 2nd grade. I just really don’t have jewelry.

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Project 333: Cycle 1 Accomplished (Mostly)

Last week, I promised you an update on Project 333. November 30 is technically my last day of Cycle 1, but I had a day free today and switched out all my stuff for Cycle 2. Yes, I’m doing this crazy thing again for the next three months. So we’ll call it a success.

I did pick up a few things during the course of Cycle 1. I purchased: a pair of boots, a pair of flats, and a black skirt. The shoes were pure weakness. I love shoes. I will probably always love shoes. I will probably never be able to kick the habit. Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned.

Sin, pictured above

The skirt, though, I had to buy for a performance that I was in. (It required a long black skirt.) And then I wore it a couple times.

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The Great Kitchen Reorg

The Great Kitchen Reorg has been on my mind for a while now. Since I started Project 333 (on which I will update you sometime in the coming week or so), I’ve been trying to downsize other areas of my life, too, besides just my wardrobe.

I cleaned out my bookshelves (which you’ll see evidence of in a below picture), I stopped using shampoo, and I stopped using facewash (less gross than it sounds, I promise). Little by little, my goal is to live with what I need and what makes me happy, and none of that extra crap that just gooks everything up and makes me crazy (crazier).

So The Great Kitchen Reorg was the natural next step. I keep capitalizing it and giving it an epic name, but I’m telling you, that’s more truthful than I thought it would be when I started calling it The Great Kitchen Reorg facetiously.

When I moved in to our house 6-and-a-half years ago, I left all the kitchen stuff boxed for probably two weeks. Every time I decided to start, I would look at it, get nauseous, and decide I would rather pluck out my nosehairs one by one. Anything was less painful than trying to figure out the damn kitchen. I went to a baby shower one morning, and when I came home, my mother-in-law (bless her sweet, sweet soul forever amen) had put everything away for me! I was so grateful, and left things pretty much that way because she’s good at organizing and it all made sense.

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