Last year's challenge

Hi There,

If you are new to this blog, then you are probably wondering what it's all about.

Basically from the 23rd May 2015 until the 22nd May 2016 I limited my wardrobe to 35 items including shoes, hats, scarves and gloves.

Why? Partly to raise money for Contact A Family, a brilliant charity working on alleviating the financial impact of raising a disabled child (did you know 65% of families with disabled children report going without essentials like clothes in order to meet the costs of raising their child? Shocking huh? - If that makes you feel like donating you can do so here)

Partly because I wanted to simplify my life a bit and getting a handle on my clothes shopping feels like a great place to start.

You can read about where the idea for the challenge came from here, and the extent of my clothes buying issues in  What doesn’t a capsule wardrobe look like?

The year was brilliant. We held some great events in partnership with Soho House you can read about the life drawing dinner party here - and the epic clothes swapping event here.

The final total isn't in yet - but the year raised well over £5000 in all. If you fancy donating the just giving page is still open.

At the end of the year - I realised much more had changed than my wardrobe - that by redirecting my energy away from buying stuff I'd got happier. So the blog has changed a bit. I'm still blogging about buying and wearing less, but I'm also thinking a lot about happiness.

Post challenge blogs are exploring secrets to being happy. Visit the secret to happy page to find out more.