I'm kind of holding my breath here. This is at least my third attempt at blogging, not counting the Livejournal (and Deadjournal! Remember that?) I had in high school and a few ultra- serious Myspace posts. I'm hoping this one takes not only so I don't have to live with the sting of someone asking, "so how's your blog going?," but also because I'm trying to build it around an idea that has become more and more important to me over the last couple years.
I've always been a clean person. Sometimes, like when I hoarded notebooks and bits of magazines in middle school, I was a closeted clean person, but the tendency towards wanting to lead a junk-free life has always been there. A couple years I almost chucked my W-2's during an intense bout of paper-purging and as a writer I've always been a fan of less-is-more prose. More recently I've become someone who is interested in and works with clothes. For a long time I fell into the trap of buying and buying and buying until my closet was stuffed and I still had nothing to wear. Twice a year I would purge my closet and shuffle off to Goodwill and then repeat the process, hoping for different results. However, the past couple of months have given me the opportunity to change things. Six year's worth of student loans have come due so my purse strings have tightened considerably. I love a challenge, so I invented one for myself: define your style better with less money than you did before. It's a challenge that everyone might not need to take up, but in a culture where consumerism is biting us in the ass in a major way it couldn't hurt. So, by buying vintage and thrift more, finding new uses for pieces I never wear, DIYing my heart out and thinking more about why I'm buying what I'm buying when I do shop I'm embarking on a fashion-y spirit quest. There's much more closet-cleaning, tie-dying, vintage-shopping to follow in the near future. Until then enjoy this picture of a cute, and very stylish, kitten.
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