I have gone through my wardrobe - first the mountains of dirty clothes, then the jam-packed closet full of clean clothes - and purged nearly 300 items I plan to give to charity! (And that doesn't even include the five grocery bags' worth I gave to the non-charity resale shop.) I carefully itemized each one for tax-deduction purposes, assigning a value based on the Salv Army and Goodwill tables, trying to lowball it if anything so the IRS couldn't say I was too extravagant in my estimates.... and all told, my nearly 300 items are worth over $1700 for tax deduction purposes!! Imagine how much money I would have today if I hadn't bought all those clothes, new. No wonder I'm so deep in debt.
I knew I had a fetish for clothing, but I never realized how intense the sickness was till now. I didn't even realize I had as many clothes as I had. I guess those manic episodes just caused me to go wild, and they accumulated, and accumulated...
Now I need to be disciplined and not buy any more clothes for a while. I think I'm pretty much set for life, so no need!
Switching gears, I am finding myself really pulled toward the Baha'i faith, while I am pretty much deciding that Judaism is not the path for me. And I still need to try a Quaker service. If I can ever get up early enough on a Sunday.
I might very well end up in the Baha'i camp...
