Confession - I have way too much clothes but never anything to wear!

Just to amuse myself during my weekly ritual of picking up the pile of clothing from my floor, I counted my wardrobe. Yes I realise only a super anal fashionista (that is a big call) would do this. 

70 dressses.

37 shoes (5 boots, 4 runners, 1 pair of thongs and shockingly 27 heels/wedges)
15 pairs of jeans.

20 jackets/coats.

Let us not start on tops/shirts/knits etc. Clearly I have a lot and anyone that knows me knows I have aloootttt! The constant gasps when they open my wardrobe are enough. Some friends even insist that they want to browse through my clothes just for fun and I regularly do a little bit of show and tell. The most shocking aspect of this excessive consumption is that most of the time I feel like I have nothing to wear. I purchase something ecstatically, wear it a few times and then I lose the high/love/devotion to it! 

When it comes down to it I have a bit of an excessive consumption disorder with clothing. I am not a shopoholic in the respect that I hit the shops with vengeance (I am too scared of my credit cards) but more so I have too much clothing simple as that. I started doing a bit of online research on this little disorder and found ample examples of women feeling the same and tackling their excessive consumption problem in different ways. 

The Uniform Project is where one fashionista wore one dress for one year everyday!  It was a versatile little black dress and done in the name of charity. God bless as I would never have been able to do that experiment.

The Six Items or Less experiment is based on a global investigation into what we don't wear. Can we live on wearing six items or less? That 'or less' part freaks me out! I don't think I could manage that for even a day!

Then there is self-imposed wardrobe challenges. Blogger Legally Fit is on this mission where you select ten (whoa big increase from 6) items of clothing from your wardrobe to only be worn for a month. The challenge is a little flexible as this does not apply to workout clothes, undergarments (seriously thank God!) and pajamas. The ten items does not include accessories.

If I was a super savvy  and highly motivated clothes hoarder then perhaps I'd give one of these a go... but sadly (gratefully) I am not. I have come up with my own softer challenge. I am on a three month clothes shopping ban. Baby steps people. So I pledge to not purchase any item of clothing for the next three months regardless of anything, anyone and any event. This will be hard considering I need new jeans, I am going to Spring Racing Carnival and  I will be sad about not visiting my little secret cheap shops. I considered hardening up the challenge to include must wear a different dress everyday for the next three months but maybe I might do that next year. My reasons for doing this self-imposed wardrobe challenge are to appreciate what clothing I have, be more creative, let the minimalist inside me come out to play and well let's be honest save for my coming overseas adventure where I plan to buy more clothes (I just can't lie!). Baby steps... wish me luck.