I respect your view and any others that have differing views , the 1 - 5 reasons I gave were self serving.
On average fashions in this country have an average of about 20 years turn-around , (eg) layered ruffled short skirts are popular at the moment as they were in the mid eighties.
In the 90's we saw the return of 70's type flared jeans
In the 1970's the mini skirt was replaced by medium and full length skirts as the 50's was re-lived with Happy days and laverne & Shirley.
At the moment I can get away with dressing years younger but I dont believe that in 20 years it will be possible to do so , I would be too old to wear the current stock but remember I also said that anything that holds semtimental memories will be kept .
I related to the fact that you don't CD when you feel blue very strongly. It is also something I only do when I am feeling good. (Feel good want to feel better? Drug of choice is more?)
Anyway the only time I have remotely purged is when this recently began again. I had bought some pantyhose which was my only fem attire at that time. Everything else was borrowed surrepititiously from my wife. When they got worn out I threw them away, which I don't consider purging, but my attitude was I am done now and won't buy anymore. A purging attitude.
Why? It was new to me and I didn't realize how strong the desires would be. I thought that if I had no clothes the desire would go away. I had mixed feelings about the desire. CDing was fun but the concern about being caught was much stronger. So I thought it would be simpler to go back to occaisionally borrowing stuff. I guess I woul dsay I was fighting temptation.
What changed? I discovered a year later how strong the desire was. I started reading more about these things and then found some on line forums where I discovered just how not alone I am. And I developed a void in my life that needed filling. CDing was not a good way to fill the void, which is nothing to do with CDing but a lot to do with the void, which has been addressed. Yet the desire to CD remains........Interesting. I suppose I could write a whole book about this but I won't.
Why don't I purge now? I don't want to stop CDing although with warmer weather it will decrease no doubt. Why don't I want to stop? I guess that has a lot to do with self acceptance. Plus I am to cheap to buy another wardrobe.
As for the future, who knows? I certainly didn't know that this would happen
Andrea
everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
