One of my favorite bloggers is Paula Pant, who created the blog, Afford Anything . The link will take you to her "Start Here" page, which lays out her philosophy, but in a nutshell: You can afford anything you want - but you can't afford everything . This means you need to pick and choose. What will you focus on? Paula chooses to spend as little as possible on things that aren't important to her (such as her car), and instead spends lavishly on travel - she had saved enough money in her twenties to take off for three years of international travel. We can apply this same mindset to our closet. I just read The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe by Anuschka Rees (available at your local library). As the title implies, her prescriptions are very practical, and she includes lots of exercises to help you identify your personal style, choose from a limited set of colors and figure out what's missing fro...
Dressing well while saving money