Capsule Wardrobe

   I recently decided to do a capsule wardrobe. Now I am late to the start of this three months but I still wanted to do it now instead of waiting. Since for one I already pretty much had a capsule wardrobe, and two I was only wearing a few items that I loved. Now for the first week I started with about 30 items. I decided to do a little less since I knew that I was sewing some pants and knitting a sweater that I was hoping to add to the capsule wardrobe. We will talk about those two items later. I had two shirts, two jeans, three sweaters, two jackets/coats (I normally use my jackets as coats since I layer anyhow), two dresses, two boots, and the rest was shirts. I refrained from including some accessories due to the fact that I really don't know what I wanted to use. So I did not want to limit myself. I was honestly excited. All the clothing that I picked where things that I loved and wanted. I wanted my star wars tee shirt, I wanted my acid washed gray jeans.
   For me I tried to not look at other peoples capsule wardrobe for inspiration cause I felt like it would take away from my own personal style. I would want to look and dress minimal like them instead of like me. That whole black and white wardrobe which I don't know about you but that's not me. I like color, I like graphic tees, and I just like to be me! Anyways back to me capsule wardrobe. It was actually pretty funny. The first few days I was overwhelmed. I did not know what to wear or what I wanted to wear. I thought that was funny since it's said that having less would be better for you having to pick out outfits to wear. I think that for me I wear what I'm in the mood for and I was not in the mood for any of them. After I got over it I was able to pick out outfits and wear things in combination that I would have not otherwise done. It was really fun. I would get up or even the night before and be like I want to wear my blue and white stripe shirt or Star Wars shirt and not feel like oh I'm going to wear this cause I have to but because I want to.
    I still only have 30 items instead of 33. I was like I previously mentioned was going to add my sweater that I was knitting and the long black pants that I made. But the sweater did not pan out which is ok. The black pants are great and they fit right but the would be better for the warmer months instead of the colder. So it's going to be in my next capsule wardrobe. I have noticed that I think about other items of clothing that are not in my current capsule so I might add them to the next one. I thought that was interesting since I really was not expecting to feel that way. I thought out of sight out of mind and that was not so. It's funny that as I minimize my closet I'm increasing how much handmade stuff I have. ( I will talk about it more in a later blog post.) For me wanting more handmade stuff helps with having a minimize closet. I am able to create what I want verses what I can only get my hands on. I have more flexibility and joy. I really don't want anyone who is wanting to try capsule wardrobe to be afraid I was. I was like how many stuff do I have to put away or if I want to throw away. But I ended up gaining more than I thought I would. I am able to enjoy my clothing and have fun dressing them up and for me mix and matching them. I hope that you would consider a capsule wardrobe as a new way of looking at what you wear and have fun with it. Don't do what you don't want to. Or wear what you don't want to wear cause every minimalist is wearing that. Be different and stand out. Peace, love, and minimize.

White buttondown and flowers

When you think about minimalism what is the first few words, imagines, and thoughts that come to your head? For me a white button up and flowers are the first thing that comes to my head. Either because I have both in my room as I write this or this is how I've always perceived minimalism as. Minimalism in my mind clean and beautiful. These things are not wrong but can be things that hold us back as we strive to minimize our lives. We purge and clean and expect it all to look like that picture perfect house that we see on instagram. The one that's sparkling white with three things on the nightstand and one of the three things is a plant. This idea is something that for a while held me back. I purged my closet and I still had a lot of clothes. I got rid of fabric in my crafting stash and I still had a lot ( hence the word stash). I got rid of the stuff in front of my dresser and it came back. It was tiring and after a while discouraging. I'm trying to make this change for myself and no one can see it. No one could tell that I had less clothes, fabric, and etc. Then I remembered something, I was not doing this for other peoples affirmation. I was doing this for me. I was getting rid of stuff to be less stressed, happy with the stuff that I had, and as a challenge to me to see if I could even do it. For a few months I've minimize slowly my closet. I have just what I need when I need it. Yes this is a long and slow journey but it's a journey nonetheless. A lot of people including me like to see the outcome over enjoying the journey. I like things to be fast but would fast even last? Knowing me probably not. This is why I'm taking my time. Why I'm appreciating everything that I do that gets me closer to minimalism. Right now in some areas of my life both physical and not physical I am getting closer to minimalism. I'm not fully there and that's ok. The most precious things take time to come into existence. So let's take out time and enjoy every minute of minimalism.

Life Update

   I'll be honest my first post was in my mind very short. I really did not explain who I was, why I was doing this whole journey, and what I wanted you guys to get out of all of this. So let's start over. I'm Hannah and I'm 17 years old home school/ college student and I started minimalism for ME. I hated getting up in the morning and seeing piles of clothes in front of my dresser and stuff on top of my dresser that really did not need to be there. I was always the one in my house that had the most clothes and it was tiring not having enough days in the different seasons to wear it all. For a really long time I never saw anything wrong with it all. I thought it was how life was supposed to be. I got to the point where I could not take it, so I started to look up how to organize my stuff (it never occurred to me that the real problem was that I had to much stuff not that I was lacking room). While I looked these things up I stumbled upon minimalism. Let me be honest for a minute it looked interesting how these people were living with less but I also thought that they were *cough* crazy *cough*. I mean living with what seemed like nothing?!?! How can these people do it? But after months of researching and of even starting to purge my closet I was hooked. You have no idea how freeing it all felt.
   Me doing this blog is a way for me to be able to share with you guys my journey and help you guys on your own as well. I would be sharing things that I've been learning, stories, and even at times tips. I hope that you guys stay around for this journey and get inspired to start your own. If you guys ever have any tip or things that you want to be talked about be free to share your input. I would be happy to hear. Plus even though I am in no way shape or form an expert you can always ask me for help with anything. I'll get back to you asap. Hope you stick around for what's to come.

Intro

  I'll be honest I don't know how to start this. I don't even know exactly what I am doing. I've started so many blogs that did not pin out and I gave up after a week. Lately I've been inspired by something that has been happening in my life and that's minimalism. Minimalism to me at first seemed really crazy and kind of weird. I'm taking my clothes and life from a social norm to a smaller scale. I was always the girl in my house that had the most clothes. I mean you have to have clothes for every season, right? How could I shrink the amount of clothes that I already had? Now I had already started to not buy clothing since I was not at all happy with what happens at sweatshops. I did not want to support companies that was treating their worker as animals. As I did more research I started to learn about minimalism. I was enticed, for me it was almost like a challenge. How many clothes do I really need and actually use? I've been trying to purge my closet and life of the crap that could and has held me back. I would like to share my journey with you.

  The blog is my way of sharing what I'm learning and doing on this journey. This is not an instructional blog not to say that I will not share little tidbits and stuff, but that is not my main purpose for this blog. It's more of a sharing thing where we can share my life and talk about minimalism. So lets get talking.