You might remember my recent desire to acquire somewhat more professional work clothing now that I’ve climbed a little higher the greasy pole.
Having lived most of my life with no disposable income, it is actually *really* very difficult to spend decent amounts of money on myself (as opposed to the rest of the family). Spending even $100 on a garment seems wildly profligate and completely and utterly irresponsible.
In the comments on that post, the always-full-of-excellent-advice, anyresemblance suggested boden and Holy!Goodness! such a trove of lovely things.
I agonised about the expense and sucked it up (princess) and bought 2 dresses and a pair of fabulous tartan pants (despite it being not all the season at all for tartan pants) and they arrived amazingly quickly and in the best packaging I have ever seen.
The dresses were even on hangers!
Everything was of wonderful quality and fit like a dream and so a couple of days later, of course I took several deep breaths and ran off and bought even more things, which are now making their way to me.
I’ve also splashed out on a couple of (inexpensive … baby steps) necklaces from various etsy sellers. One has arrived already and I am thrilled with it.
Selfishly buying things for me is kind of cool. I look forward to a future of shoes (flats only) and attractive garments that fit me.
that tweed is very pretty – I have been eyeing off a tartan dress even though not the season, etc, etc. My only gripe is the australian site does not accept amex and its associated extra qantas points
In the next batch is a squirrel print dress, not entirely work appropriate, but I couldn’t resist.
We’re trying to push all the spending through amex these days, though we’ve a little ways to go (we should link PayPal to the amex for eg). We did fund a fair proportion of our Hong Kong flights with points though, which was like totally free money!