Day 27: A New Challenge

Yesterday, I wrote that I was going to do the big purge next weekend. I had a plan: Do the purge while still in the middle of the challenge so that I was in the right mindframe when I was going. I'm afraid that if I put all the clothes back and THEN start going through them, I'm going to be all, "Oh hello long-lost friend! I need you! I can't get rid of you!" and then the whole thing will be a bust.

But then I realized that next weekend we will not be IN the challenge. WHAT? We are DONE THIS WEEK! 30 days is TUESDAY! Crappers! That went fast!

In looking back over the original post I wrote, I realized I said we were going until 9/30. This is false. I think I meant 30 days, because for goodness' sake, that's what it says on the banner of our page.

So that means the purge happens this weekend. In considering how I was going to approach the re-introduction of old clothes and combine that with the purge I envision happening with my new sense of minimalist clothing freedom, I realized I needed some parameters to stick to my guns. So my goals is this: Purge 75 articles of clothing from my wardrobe. In reality, I hope it will be much more...but it must be AT LEAST 75. I hope to do a little weeding tonight (maybe when I'm done with this entry), and then continue tomorrow.

But enough about the future. How about today?

Today, Andy and I went to the country. So I wore pig tails:

We picked a lot of apples. As usual, my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Then we went to Pizza Hut (Nom nom) and came home and I made a pie:

 (It's frozen and waiting to be baked on Monday). I also made apple fritters, because my coworker mentioned this fried wonder, and I've been reminiscing about the ones at Der Dutchman lately:

These are obviously mine, not the Der's.

It has been a delightful day. Fall is here, Walt, our landlord, is taking down the cages around the tomato plants, and the leaves are just hinting at changing color. I can't wait for the cool weather to keep rolling in and the sweaters to come out. Wheeeeee!