Rules for Living - and how they're working out.

They just spontaneously popped out of my head this past week.

Rule #1: I've already posted here; it concerns the extensive use of your public library. I really should post more reviews here. SO far, most excellent!

Rule #2: - no new clothes except to replace worn-out underwear and socks. And -
Rule #10: don't pick out my T-shirts. They all go with jeans. Take them off the top of the pile and rotate them so I end up wearing them all. Likewise church-going-quality clothes: wear my pretty things as required in the same sort of rotation.

The results so far? One skirt put away as postseasonal, lots of compliments on a $2 vest I bought for Denvention that goes with the skirt. And it seems to me that either I will have doubled and\or even tripled my casual-wear wardrobe, or will have cleared out the totally unsuitable tops revealed by this method. Either way, it's a good idea.

AND on the subject of Wretched Excess -

Rule #5: Before buying anything, see if I have it in the house, or anything equivalent that will do the job. Along with -
Rule #7: No new notebooks or writing paper. Use up all the unfinished ones first and/or salvage pages from them.

NOTE: If the aforesaid rules don't reduce the clutter in my house and save me a few cents, nothing will.

What that's doing?