the first step is the easiest

The underwear exception: I was explaining to some friends about my plan to go a full year without buying any retail items except for groceriers and got many supportive (I know that sarcasm is meant as support) comments and words of encouragement but of course there always has to be one nay sayer, one negative nancy, one debbie downer who has to point out a flaw in my 2010 endtheclutter campaign.."what will you do for underwear?" now many men could go a full year without new underwear (I have unfortunately witnessed this first hand-no names here) but women cannot. It is a biological law of nature, like our ability to smell the milk and see if it has gone bad. So of course that got me thinking that there may be some items that I will have to go to Target for but I want the full experience of not stepping foot in those places for a year so now I am looking into ordering underwear on line-which you know you can do because you can order frozen bison burgers on line so I should be able to get underwear. They sell socks at the grocery store but I don't think they sell underwear, I would also feel wierd buying underwear at the grocery store because I certainly would be the first person to judge someone that needed underwear so desperately that they had to buy it at the grocery store. My husband says it should be ok to buy things that will replace something that is lost, broken or when the elastic band on your underwear is so stretched out that only your jeans are holding them up. But when I make a commitment (I usually break it) I make a commitment! So I need to spend some time today figuring out what to do about the undewear exception-I should have thought ahead and stock piled enough of it to get me through the year but that seems a little too survivalist, like hoarding prescription medicines or bottled water. Hope you all had a fun new years eve-I did! we danced, we drank, we ate..I even got asked to dance by another man! but I started off my new year well and didn't add to the clutter because I left behind the plastic Hawaiin leis and other party favors even though I am sure I could have found a use for them one day.