Clothes shopping & Wardrobe planning strategy

I wanted to share with you how I manage the clothes shopping for my family.

WARDROBE BASICS
I have a little photo album book that stays permanently in my handbag. In it I have slipped in some paint sample cards that I picked up from bunnings, colour co-ordinated by person and season. On each one I have written down a capsule wardrobe for each person in our house PER SEASON. So I have 4, hubby has 4 and our DS3 has 2 (just Winter/Summer for him).






When I go out shopping and buy something I simply cross it off the list so I never duplicate buy.

I also have a monthly calendar which lists the regular sales that occur throughout the year so I know when to re-assess our wardrobes and go to the sales!!!



As my son is still young and growing I have another list that has the years on one side and 2 columns titled Winter & Summer. Underneath each column is the clothes size and shoe size he will need for that year. I need to do this as I tend to forget what size he will need as I always buy his clothes during the sales for the following year. For example, right now I am building his wardrobe for next Autumn/Winter and am not buying anything for him to wear now.

STYLE FILE
I've also started a "Style File" folder to keep track of all my outfits. This is just a large photo album in which I have placed pictures of outfits I wear on any given day. When I can't decide what to wear I just flick through the file and choose something that I have previously worn which means I don't waste time trying to come up with another oufit from scratch. I haven't gotten around to adding Stephen's or Joshuas outfits yet but I'm working on that.





By keeping these two books and keeping tabs on what really gets worn every season I have been able to wittle down our wardrobe to some basics so all our clothes co-ordinate together and our wardrobes are no longer full.

Make your own face exfoliator

Here's a really simple and cheap ingredient that you can use to use make up your own face exfoliation scrub. Sugar or salt!

When washing your face in the shower, add a small amount of either sugar or salt to your face wash and then rub all over your face. I also like to rub my chest and whole neck, both front, sides and back as well as part of my shoulders. Keep on rubbing until the granules disappear and then wash off the remaining soap. Your face will feel sqeakly clean.

Make this part of your weekly skin care routine, especially now we are heading for the cooler months of the year, and you will have clean, fresh and glowing skin ready to apply some simple and quick make up to.