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Sorry, But I Won't Be Making It To Your Home Party

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The home parties. Do they ever stop?

I get invited to at least one home party per month. Most of the time I politely decline the invite, because I'm not in to paying way too much for something not that great. And yes, I know that the host gets a "credit" for all of the sales netted from the party.

I'm on to your ways of wanting to get me to show up. Your enticing "door prizes" bribe that is really not worth me hiring a babysitter for. Your promise of a discount, that really doesn't save me any money in the long run. Your jewelry that is made my "Hindu Artisans" that arrives in the mail looking like it got run over by a Mac truck on a dirt road in Timbuktu.

Glamming Down

I heard an interview with Jamie Lee Curtis a while ago, in which she talked about her decision to limit her wardrobe to black and white. Rather than a fashion statement, she is trying to simplify her daily routine and taking "picking out an outfit" out of the equation. She quipped:

"I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring. I find it to be the least interesting thing that a woman can pay attention to, is clothing. I'm so much more interested in what's going on in the world today and what we're thinking and how we're feeling."

When she said that, I thought, "Right on, James!! Fashion is banal.  I'm so above fashion . . . I refuse to be a slave to trends any longer. I am deeper than that, and more important that that!".

I held those convictions for about 4 hours until I walked by an Urban Outfitters display window. 30 minutes and $69 bucks later, I had a cute bohemian top that is SO Marc Jacob's spring line.