Hush, I could've sung you a song about it.

[aruan]

Today, I sorted my closet. Which was so, so much larger a chore than expected. And it was already half done!

Question on the floor: How often do you go through your clothes and retire stuff that's maybe too childish/out of style/not your style anymore? Because I had stuff in there from freshman year of high school (am now a senior in college). I usually only get rid of clothes when they're unwearable for some practical reason, i.e. holes, bleach stains, etc. There's gotta be a better way of doing this, some sort of tough love regiment that's escaped me because I've always had the space to store stuff. This is not a luxury I'm facing with the new dorm.

Also, since we're on the topic, do any of you have a shopping regiment? How often? Do you go with a list, like a grocery trip? Do you have specific criteria that an article of clothing has to satisfy before you buy it or are you impulsive? Are you adventurous or stick with what you know looks good on you?

Besides all that, there was reading valiumbitch until the pain in my sides from laughing too hard got to be absolutely intolerable, loving on the picture of wee!Justin recording his little heart out, laughing myself silly some more listening to JC negotiate a two-hour interview with a gay fanboy, a lovely dinner, and revelry in the oddly reassuring non-answers (hey, I'll take routine at this point as opposed to another similar shake-up) from both Joey and JC re: the group and Justin. Good times.

Though all that valiumbitch made me crave Starbucks something fierce - betcha there ain't one within twenty miles open past six tonight. *curses living in BFE, FL for the 45734967347th time*

While not a terribly scary one, I as a vampire will live 58,754 years and have the power to control the elements. Not too shabby.

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[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

Okay, so first the scary stuff. Since I'm now supposed to be dressing a tad nicer than my normal college schlub clothes allow, I've been forced to wear dressy things. Turns out that I have quite a few basic dressier type things from oh, about 6-10 years ago -- and I can still get away with wearing them to my office. God bless my pack rat tendencies...well, at least with shoes and button down shirts.

As for the shopping thing, oh my god, I must be so annoying to shop with. I weigh every purchase heavily, no matter how much an item costs. How much wear will I *really* get out of it? How many pieces of clothing can I pair it with, thus providing the maximum amount of outfit possibilities. Basic things really, but I have this strange feeling that I go about it Lance sort of ways...probably with hidden spreadsheets and everything. *g*

So yes, I tend to keep things for ever (dude, my 35 year old sister still wears some clothes that she's had since *her* freshman year of high school), but they always come back into rotation.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

It's nice to find things from eight years ago that one can still wear, of course. That's the fun part of cleaning out one's closet.

And good, I'm not the only overthinking shopper. I try to discourage people from shopping with me - I go through every single rack in the story; every decision is made with having spent at least three minutes in front of the dressing room mirror and another three on whether the price is worth it in the end.

As far as stuff coming back into rotation - how very, very true. There are probably things from seventh grade that would be high fashion right now (sixth grade was last year's trend.) My X-Files shirt is looking at new life as a vintage piece, whereas I mournmournmourn all the slouch slocks that met their maker after their brief but glorious stint in elementary school high fashion.

I think what I meant was, do you have a time limit on how long you'll keep an item without wearing it? Or do you, too, see potential in every item?

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

Since the majority of things I buy are fairly basic and/or classic in the first place, I tend to hang on to things (even if Id on't wear them) for a while. Usually, even after several years I finally find something to wear with it, or the proper occassion presents itself.

For those random sparkly halter tops and hip huggers though, well, I guess I keep them around in case I ever need to go to a pimps and hos party again.

Yes, I am *so* much help. But something tells me we might do quite nicely shopping together. :)

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

valiumbitch! Oh, the pants are to pee! Or some grammatical interpretation thereof!

Although it *seems* like there are myriads of gay fan-boys with their own radio shows, I maintain that there needs to be more. Because if there were more, they could all get together and overpower JC and physically drag him to the gay club, and pour Midori down his throat, and loosen him up enough to admit that hey, the gay thumpa-thumpa is where the party's at. Which he probably already knows in his little JC soul.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I like the way you said it. I'm liking this new linguistic twist we're all trying out at large but don't feel confident in my mastery of the technique to use it yet.

And the thing is, valiumbitch is new to me! I didn't have a chance to read it in Europe and haven't caught up yet, so the funny is all new! Dying here, man, dying. So dearly wish I had AIM on this computer so I could talk to someone because periodically waking up my brother, sleeping on the sofa behind me, with my riotous laughter and having to minimize windows and say nothing's funny was only amusing the first couple of times. The "dinner" party at JC's house! IloveMamaBassmorethanwordscansay!

But this was the second gay fanboy DJ in less than a week! It is glorious and funny and JC is such the fantastic interviewee in the face of anything at all. And hey, depending on what gossip column/site you read/believe, JC's well aware of the virtues of boy lovin'. If not, I'm sure one (and really, any one) of the others will vouch for him in a pinch. ;)

Mmm, Midori.

[arallara.livejournal.com]

I have a skirt from my freshman year of high school that I still wear. And I'm, um, 33. *g* I tend to hang onto clothes until I wear them out, too, though there are definitely clothes I give to thrift stores every few years because my sense of personal style has changed enough to make them uninteresting to me. But I still love that skirt.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

That's quite a career for the skirt! Yeah, the only way my clothes seem to rotate in and out is because of personal style, too, though I still wear an alarming amount of T-shirts, which I'm having trouble negotiating as society deems it less and less acceptable the closer I get to Real Life yet every bit of conditioning in my body says they're Of The Good. That one's proving to be a nigh impossible habit to break.