Further news on The Wartime Wardrobe Challenge

As I have mentioned, I am seeing how I do trying to participate in The Wartime Wardrobe Challenge. Check out the explanation and see the points chart at Jean of all Trades and you will see that you can only purchase clothes this year up to the value of your 66 "clothing coupons" using the updated Womenswear Rationing Chart. I only had 7 left for the remainder of the year but luckily secondhand clothes are points free. So the two sleeveless tops I thrifted recently still leave me with 7 points.

This is a great challenge to do in conjunction with Project 333 as the whole point of that project is that we don't need so many clothes in a season's wardrobe and could do without a lot of our clothes shopping! 

I keep shortening my clothing shopping list and in fact have cut it down to one item: a sleeveless sleep top which I bought today. I'm going to turn an existing pair of PJ pants into shorts and that will make a summer sleep outfit. PJs are 8 points but a shirt is 5 so I'm going to have 2 points left. For 2 points I could get a pair of tights/stockings/nylons or 2 pairs of socks or 4 handkerchiefs or a scarf/hat/gloves/mittens. Right now I don't want or need any of those things. 

It is interesting to contemplate what I would do if this was real. I'd probably get one of those things with my last 2 points and trade it for something I need and would use if I could find someone who had excess or something that didn't fit. I'd probably be shopping secondhand diligently. Or I'd just get on with my life and focus on other things! Good advice at this time - instead of shopping, do something productive, interesting, kind, or fun.