Shopping

mmmm gift certificates are my favourite!!! always. It's like two presents, the actual certificate, and permission for some "me" time!!!

I love the VV on Rogers Road in Toronto..... soooo big and well organized!!

I am a clothes horse--so is my husband. We love to shop and buy new clothing. In May I decided to stop buying clothes until every piece of a certain type of clothing is too big, (ie. no new jeans until every pair I own is falling off.)

I wasn't sure I could stick to it but here I am in Dec and I have bought nothing new. It is actually kind of freeing to not "need" new stuff all the time.I had no idea how much time and money I was spending on the wardrobe. A bit of a bonus is that a woman in the office down the hall lost about 100 lbs in the last 8 months--"diet and hard work" so she gave me a couple of tops and tees--so it felt like new stuff.

The social worker and I spent a few minutes talking about behaviours that sometimes take the place of eating after WLS. I may have to keep an eye out for the old shopping habit to resurface.

I talked myself out of buying something for our holiday dinner at work. Makes no sense to spend $100 for something I'll wear only once and then have to give away. I'll jazz up a black blouse with some jewelry, throw on some makeup and I'm off to the races. I decided I'll make do this winter and my next big buy will be spring/summer.

I've become a Value Village junkie. You'd be amazed at the awesome, brand name, new stuff you can get there for $10.

Very good for you Mon, I fear that will be my weakness, shopping for cloths. I haven't mentioned this to my hubby of coarse. lol
I know I will get use out of V V too.

I am banned from shopping till I hit goal... I mean will pick up some pieces at VV to keep me going but NO SHOPPING. I'm melting and I refuse to waste the money.

Well as some of you may know from my previous thread I gave in and shopped the other day.  Up till now I have been hitting V V for clothes which is great.
In old Navy however I hit the clearance rack and got a jacket, jeans, 2 tops, a sweater, and for my son a dress shirt and 2 t-shirts all for $42.
Dress pants from Rikki's were on clearance for $12
I did over spend on underwear from Le Senza however
I will have to be careful as its very tempting and as we know we won't get alot of wear out of what we buy.

Joanne

I took advantage of that wagjag deal at the VV in Barrie.  I got three $15 vouchers for $7.50 each.  I am going to Barrie on Monday and plan on buying at least one pair of pants and one top in the next two sizes, 20 and 18.  Thanks to my mom I have lots of 22s (that's the size she wears and she also bought me some new stuff on sale).

I got a cute winter coat on clearance at Walmart.  It was $50 on for $30.  I tried on the 2x (the biggest size they had) about a month ago and it was too tight, but I bought it anyway.  I wore it for the first time yesterday and it fits!!

No "new" clothes for me unless I see a really awesome clearance rack!

Also, for each new thing I get (VV or hand me down) I get rid of at least one thing from my closet...to avoid hanging on to things that don't fit. 

Tracy

Tracy, for me, i kind of skipped sizes, esp size 20, it seems, so you might want to concentrate on size 18s.