It doesn't grow on trees ...

My closet is in serious need of updating. Like, serious.

Most days when I get dressed I feel kinda like an 87 year old woman trying to dress like a 20 year old in University and only grasping the concept of avoiding elastic waist pants.

As an aside ... I never USED to be like this. I was always on the cutting edge of style. Until I had kids. Because not only does having babies destroy your body ... it decreases your sense of style.

Shut up if your style is still as good as it was before you had kids ... I'm so NOT interested.

So back to getting dressed ... it's frustrating. (And even harder right now because the light bulb in my cupboard is burnt out and heaven only knows when that situation will be rectified so I have to "feel" my clothes to choose them because I'm too lazy to change the bulb or even get the flashlight that's probably under my bed somewhere ..)

Every morning I try on about 9 different combinations of outfits - they all end up having the same boring, schizophrenic effect - and end up with something I hate anyway and I find myself in a really really bad mood.

So ... on my way to work today I decided to be proactive about this and started to seriously consider putting my "get money plan" into action.

My "get money plan" is simply this: I will ask 2000 people in the city of Toronto - at random - to give me $1. Not borrow. Give. Me. One dollar. If I ask 2000 people to give me $1 I will end up with $2000.00. I know you're impressed with my wicked awesome math skills. Don't ask me to divide 2000 by 42.3 ... not gonna happen. But 1 x 2000 I can do.

So ... I ask each person to give me a dollar. Why wouldn't they? It's just a dollar. People will do anything with a dollar. I've even seen people put a dollar in those giant gum-ball machines - as if THAT isn't a totally unproductive use of a dollar.

But to pool those resources and use each dollar to go towards new clothes for me. Now THAT is a good idea.

I'd have $2000.00 for new clothes! And it wouldn't even be my money so it would be like guilt free spending.

But then my conscience kicks in and I start thinking. If I had $2000.00 that I'd collected from willing people then I should probably put that money to good use. Like give it to an organization that will do something good with the money. Like for Haiti. Or the millions of children living in poverty all over the world. Or trafficked women.

And my plan goes out the freaking window.

Not because its a stupid plan ... but because what I want to do with the money is stupid.

So. It sucks. But I won't put my "get money plan" into action and instead I'll go about encouraging people to give their money to worthy causes while wearing my tragic wardrobe and avoiding any areas of the city that have any kind of unwritten dress code ... like "don't come here if you're wearing brown dress slacks on a Saturday afternoon and trying to pull them off as casual because you're wearing sneakers ... we are totally on to how completely uncool you really are ..."

Sigh.