Over a month ago I sat down and opened my secret stash of femme clothing and counted up my receipts for purchases over the past 8 months or so and discovered I had spent approximately $700.00. Last year I decided to start keeping the receipts as I have no real idea of how much I spend on my CD stuff. I was pretty stunned to tell you the truth. I only have one very large suitcase of clothes to show for over 30 years of dressing.
At this point I was getting the annual urge to purge (which is one reason why I only have this one large case, the others being I'm in the closet and we move around a lot with work, etc.) and it really struck me how stupid I have been over the years with all the purging I have done. The regret that has followed after a purge has usually led to a large shopping spree to try to replenish what I have lost.
So I quickly got the receipts back in the case with the clothes, locked it up and put it in a hard to reach place, covered it up and left the house. With the urge to purge dying down I was able to return to the house with the knowledge that the stuff was locked away somewhere for when the urge to dress again would return.
Today I recovered my case from its hiding place and opened it up and was so glad to see everything still there and in its place. I didn't have much of an urge to dress today, but I also had no urge to purge either. I did sort some of the stuff into different outfits and have a plan for a trip I will be taking in September.
What all this means is that I may have found a way to avoid all the unneccesary purging from the past as well as the large shopping sprees that ensued.
I guess that a lot of the problems would get less if I just found a way to tell the missus.
Anyone else face similar times in their life?