In an act of insanity, I have taken the pledge. No more shopping. No more spending money on clothes--that is. For how long? For ONE year, my friends. This morning at 9am I was sewing along and I thought, it is dumb for me to buy things when I can just make them or refashion them. I was making a pee blanket. Its a big pad that is waterproof so Amaya can lay naked on our bed and pee all over the place and it won't soak through to our bedding. It has soaker layers in the inside of old towels and old burp clothes and then the top layer is polar fleece. But not any polar fleece-- trice refashioned, it was long ago our duvet cover that I sewed, then fashioned into a baby sling to wear Amaya when she was a wee baby and now it's for making wee wee! The polar fleece will kept her butt dry, it wicks away the pee to the terry toweling that is underneath.

Then my friend Sara told me about the Wardrobe Refashion Blog and Flickr site where women are gathering to share sewing tips, ideas and no buying clothes! (they do allow thrifting, which I will not allow myself.) In fact, yesterday we drove to the thrift store and I donated three big bags of my clothes and a DVD player. My closet is quite bare and that is how I like it. At grandma's house, she left me a veritable thrift store of its own which we will start sorting through this week. Lots of crazy old French ladies house marm dresses and too short in the cuff jackets. Good thing I have a lot of thread and "jeans" needles for my sewing machine!

So no clothes buying for ONE year.
No thrifting
No fabric buying. (I will allow myself thread from the flea market guy 4 for 1 euro)
What else? The baby you ask, what about the baby?? I will not buy any clothes for her either (ha, I never had, they are all adorable hand me downs and gifts anyways--keep those hand me downs coming folks!)

I will continue to make her cloth diapers. She is on size medium right now and I have already made a lot of larges out of the smalls so she is fine. I still have loads of fabric for making them, plus all those things ready to be refashioned into cute baby diapers!

What about my husband? ha, no clothes for him either. His father just went up a size in girth and gifted DH a bunch of clothes; he is set for YEARS! He thinks this is no big deal, btw. Wait 'til I start cutting up his old flannel shirts and tshirts to make dresses.

No shoes. No purses (I donated a ton of those). No more jackets. (sniffle) No more. I tell ya.

Yeh, but you still buy groceries and crap, so you are still a consumer you say. True, but less of one than I was. I will only do one grocery shop once a month (at the BIO store) and the rest of the weeks: once a week to the farmer's market to get fresh fruit and vegetables. Ones that we don't already have from our garden at grandpa's house. Right now he has: carrots and onions! Last month it was green beans. The month before, favas. I made about 30 serving of green beans for baby and its in the freezer. Plus the bags and bags for us. I want to get creative with my deck garden. We have tomatoes, basil, mint, oregano, rosemary, elderberry, and strawberries. I have some seeds so I will plant some more edibles for us. My sister just finished her one month 100 yard diet where she only ate out of her garden.

The dress that I made for Amaya out of my tshirt turned out so well I just know that I can do it! You will have to stop back for more than just photos of the baby from now on!