Wardrobe Challenge

Evening readers, I hope you are well, I am as ever in awe that the weeks of the year seem to go by so rapidly - I find myself planning for Easter, my daughter's 8th birthday, whilst still trying to find a place for Christmas presents, please say I'm not alone!!

 I have been so challenged, as I know many have by the hugs amounts of waste and plastic that we are leaving behind us. I can't say I am an all out eco-savvy Mum just yet but I try and do my part. My poor husband has come to learn that glass jars and loose fruit are now a main filler in the weekly shops. Clingfling has been replaced by beeswax paper and kitchen roll and cotton wool by reusable bamboo sheets (it's incredibly). I can't say my rubbish fits into a match box yet, nor have I given up my electric toothbrush for a bamboo one … baby steps.


My most recent finding has probably brought about the biggest challenge for me (prepare yourself, your wardrobe may never be the same). My finding is about clothes, more to the point it's about the volume of  clothes that we throw out each year! My information (which comes from the very reliable Great British Sewing Bee) is that people throw into landfill sites about 15Kg's of clothes each year!! That's a lot of clothes...


I was challenged … that's never an easy thing … and so my goal (it might be so COMPLETELY unrealistic) is to for the rest of 2019 (I'm now thankful it's going fast) is to only purchase clothes (within reason, I'm not planning on making myself a swimming costume or raincoat straight away) from charity shops or swap shops (not that I've found any in Ireland yet!!)  Crazy right. My sewing machine won't know what's hit it over the coming months. I hope this teaches me to sew better - if it ain't in your size in the charity shop, you either got to leave it behind or make some alterations. I hope it teaches me to be more certain and selective about the clothes I want and if I really need them (fuller purse = happy bank account!), and to get creative - what's plain and boring on the rail might be amazing with some buttons, a belt, some added detail, please know I know not how to do any of those things yet; dear readers, what have I committed to! 


For now I purchased 2 dresses and a skirt that need more work, to ease myself into challenge, continuing to take baby steps to care for this beautiful creation, I believe God made for us to enjoy!


Why not take up a challenge yourself even if just a bamboo toothbrush.

And for my lovely local readers … excuse my outfits for the next few months!

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