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Funnily enough, I've been trying to do the opposite! In that there are certain clothes in my wardrobe I feel I can only wear for specific occasions - "this is a going-out-for-a-meal dress; that is a lecturing-job shirt" - and yet, when those occasions come around, I usually find myself reaching for a different piece anyway. To free myself of that restriction, I've been trying to loosen up the rules I've created around when it's appropriate to wear certain dressier pieces, and instead wear them more regularly, for less special things. Thus the everyday becomes more special or something. (I've also been trying to elevate my loungewear, because you're right - it's important to have something you feel glamorous and special in at home.)

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I also have a carefully curated wardrobe but tend to wear a handful of the same things over and over (Taurus Rising). One thing I did recently was download a sobriety appt that will help me be accountable for my online shopping. I want to appreciate what I already have and know that I don’t have to constantly be attempting to “improve” myself by buying things I don’t *actually* need. It’s helped!

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*app, not appt

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I also have a huge wardrobe but still dress kinda schlubby for winter. For the new year I actually took a lot of my comfy standbys and put them in a deeper part of my closet so they weren't as easy to get to and I'd have to look through my nicer clothes first and make a real 'fit

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Very smart, I might try with a cozy dresser drawer that's packed too full of stuff to open.

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