and the mother of all clearouts just gets bigger....

running late on my personal deadline of posting my favourite fashion throw-outs for sale....the pile just seems to keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger! It still feels somewhat liberating but the last thing anyone needs is an extra washing basket brimming over in the corner of your bedroom so I have to get onto it tomorrow. Stay tuned for link to pics and postings....and let me know how you're going too of course!

major wardrobe overhaul in progress

Caught up with lovely friends on Friday and got to talking about that saying "you only wear 15% of your wardrobe". One of the lovelies had spent an afternoon clearing out her wardrobe under the critical yet guiding eyes of 2 friends. Several massive bagloads to the charity bin later and she was now raving about how liberating it felt to be so organised. She was loving her favourite wardrobe surviours with renewed vigour and shopping adventures would have focus now she knew what she really needed and what truely suited. This exercise has to be the perfect example of less being MORE.....so i've started my own clear out as the picture shows. I'm about half way through and will also add an extra element. I am being ruthless in my culling but there will be 2 piles for me - those destined for the charity shop and those destined for Trademe resale. I've had some success selling and buying clothes on trademe (NZ's ebay equivalent). So if you too feel so inclined to do your own wardrobe overhaul and wish to follow me into Trademe retail land too then send me the link to your listings and I'll promote your listings to fellow squanderers too (just click on "comment" below and post in box).  Its going to take a while for me to clean, photograph and list these items but I hope to have most of them up by Monday. Will keep you posted and I hope to hear from some of you too....

where's your 2nd hand nirvana?

I can't say my visit to the local Hospice charity store (Royal Oak) drove me to start this blog but it has been a recent discovery for me and something which I feel fits my brief for inclusion here. It was a mood altering experience $113 later and I was up 1 x Suede Jacket, 1 x Wool Tweed Coat (perfect should I ever be invited to a hunt by some aristocratic english person), 1 x pair of gorgeous brazilian cow hide shoes, a gigantic toy truck, ornamental wooden shelf thingo for girlie trinkets, and brand new hand knitted hoody for baby in brilliant wiggles blue, husband ended up with a lotto ticket but he could have had a pair of amazing hardly touched camper shoes for $20.....gobsmacked at the quality of gear most of all and the fact that it didn't smell like dead people/animals......do you have any quality vintage or 2nd hand stories to tell, secret shopping spots to reveal?...