3/7 - New Closet and Some Yap

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A new blog post. amazing. I don't have many pictures... my blogs are mostly text based lmaooooo but it's all good.

Today I wanted to blog about my closet in further detail!!! I've shared it on insta and the reddit, but I like using my blog for the huuuuge rambles. Below is a picture of how it's currently looking!!

 It is really nice!! My room has a walk in closet, but I am repurposing it as my office space since I work from home, so I am using the dresser the previous tenant left for non gal clothes, and then I bought myself this closet to assemble for gal clothes!! At my parents house, I had two closets and a rack I used, so it's nice to get all the pieces into one place. It also fits perfectly between my door to my office and the door I use to leave, and once I get my proper bed in there, there will still be space to walk!!! 😁

I was so thankful my friend Jordan carried the box of all the pieces up the stairs, I have no arm strength so this would have been a hard time for me to get up myself. I spent my afternoon working on building it and the instructions were pretty clear! I got it all built in about 40 minutes! 

And then it came to putting my clothes on it... this is probably about 90% of my items in the picture above. Some items require hangers (I ran out) or the item is still packed and I still have to unpack a lot of boxes. I did look at this and realize 1) people are going to tell me to keep my doors locked and 2) wow the shopping addiction got bad!!

I went back to my personal instagram archive to figure out how long i've been collecting gal pieces, I started in late 2021 / early 2022 ! I only got more into wearing everything I collected in late 2023, but really revved up in 2024. I also bought a lot in 2024. Which comes to me answering some questions I predict the blog readers might have? 1) How did you do it and 2) What do you even do to afford it all

1) During the second half of 2024 I moved back with my parents due to the building management at my last apartment sending out non-renewals and doing mass renovations which caused a lot of issues since I work from home. I helped pay towards living expenses but it was way cheaper than what I was paying in rent (1900ish including rent+utilities vs 500 a month).

Also... credit card debt which I am working really hard to pay off

2) I work in IT consulting! It's a bit confusing to explain the exact details of what I do, but basically just doing security assessments for clients and some compliance work as well. I also spend most of my spare money towards my closet (along with trinkets....). 

However... I realize looking at my closet I really need to slow down on my spending. My personal non gal goal for 2025 is to pay off all my credit card debt and return to using it as a "spend it and pay it off" type of deal. With moving back out, I'm back to paying rent and utilities (at the mercy of the monopoly that is RI energy...) so I have to just... stop spending so much. I think the insane scalped prices of ma*rs being timed with this part of my life is good! I also honestly have so many of my favorite pieces, I only have two dream dream dream isos from MA*RS s that will be insane to find, and two Robe de Fleurs dresses I need to like... goal set to let myself buy... but I need to stop buying things... to buy things. lol. I think just buying clothes to feel something hasn't been good for me, and I need to do something else... like eat Tajin straight from the bottle.

ANYWAYS!! It's friday morning and I've gotta start my work day today!! Have a great day readers.