It's a New Year's miracle. I didn't wake up with a headache (ahem....hangover....cough) this year. In fact, I only had a couple of drinks around 5pm with friends and we called it an early night. Happy New Year to all of you!
May 2017 be filled with happiness, good health, and lots of H goodies!
And I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for keeping me company on this thread. It wouldn't be as much fun without all the fun sharing, banter and chatter.
So thanks to my extraordinary restraint on adult beverages yesterday, I am fresh and alert to tackle 2017 with my resolutions. So I thought I would share my scarf resolution with all of you. Maybe some of you even want to join in the fun? I know PbP is also in! Anyone else? Oh, you want to know what we are doing before committing yourself? OK, fine.
I know some others have already done this but this will be my first year. And I am sooo excited to see the results! I'm going to keep track of how many times I wear each of my scarves on an excel spreadsheet. Those that don't get worn X number of times (have not decided the cutoff number yet) will need to be rehomed. I'm trying to only keep scarves I actually wear in my closet. But PbP and I think we should get 3 reserve spots for scarves we don't wear but love. OK who's in???? Let's do this!! It's the perfect time to start this experiment.
Alrighty - what should be the minimum number of times a scarf needs to be worn in a year before it gets rehomed? I think holiday scarves are the exception. I can't possibly go running around with Noel au 24 Faubourg in July. I was thinking 5 times. Is that too few? Should it be 10 times? 10 seems too many. I dunno. So confused. What do you all think? Well, I don't need to figure that out right now. Maybe once I finish the experiment, it will be evident what that number is.
So here's a peek at Page 1 of my excel spreadsheet. Scarves are organized by category (scarf format) and then within each category they are in alphabetical order. I also decided to make columns for Jan-Dec out of curiosity to see if certain scarf formats or colors get more wear in certain months. 70s, Maxi Twillies, and Misc formats are on Page 2. I've printed out the spreadsheet and will leave it in one of my closet drawers and put a tick mark every time I wear a scarf. I think running to the computer after putting on a scarf is too much trouble. I'm going old school with paper and pen.
Not only am I interested to see how many times each scarf gets worn, I'm also curious to see how many times each scarf format gets worn. So I know which format to buy more of in the future. Did I mention I'm so excited!!
This is my inner geek coming out...
I've also decided I'm not going to force myself to wear any scarf in particular to save it from the chopping block. The natural order when I get dressed is usually clothes first, then bag, then scarf. Sometimes, if the outing is specific, it's bag first, then clothes, then scarf. But scarf is always last. So I will keep it last. Scarf wearing in it's purest form (PbP's words).
Let the scarf games begin! Are you going to participate with your own collection? Come on! It will be fun. It only took me about 20 min to type out all the scarves in the spreadsheet so don't feel like that part is daunting. We will all report back at the end of the year. I will probably do a mid-year update as well.
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Thank you for the lovely compliments on my two new giant silks from this season though.
