Mummy Goes Solo Shopping

One morning as I struggled to find a decent set of clothes I realised that not one item I was wearing was less than five years old! As a stay at home/work at home mother opportunities for indulging in such luxuries as clothes shopping drop off the bottom of my list of priorities. It had been a year and a half since I last purchased an item of clothing for myself, unless you count t-shirts from the supermarket! It then dawned on me that for the first time in my adult life, I didn’t actually know what was in fashion. Alarm bells rang.

Overcoming life threatening pangs of guilt about abandoning my family for an entire day (‘how selfish of me, what a bad mother I am, how will they ever survive without me’ etc!), I set off via a local newsagents to peruse some fashion magazines, and check out the ‘what’s hot’ and ‘what’s not’ lists. It was worse than I feared … most of my clothing fell into the ‘what’s not’ list, and I own nothing whatsoever in the ‘what’s hot’ list!

And then, oh the joy of ambling through shops at leisure and taking time out to try on various outfits. I think I managed to get most of the key fashion icons for this season, as far as I know, but then again I could very easily be so terribly mistaken!

Comments

[kellys]

How dare you take time away from your family to endulge in such frivolities as shopping for yourself! How come you didn't invite me. I would have loved to shop with you.

I was just thinking the same thing. Or at least the teenagers at my church were telling me the same thing :) Good for you to take the time to shop. It feels so good. Doesn't it.

Just once I want to shop and not feel guilty for spending $30 for a pair of pants at a real store. But my nature won't let me spend more than $5 without guilt of some sort. Oh well.