Until a few months before my wedding, I'd never spent more than $2 on a bottle of nail polish. When I finally did, I was surprised by the increase in quality. Which ultimately means I stopped using my cheap college collection and started buying slightly more expensive bottles instead.
Now days, my college collection mostly sits in a box and attracts dust while I wear the same longer lasting ones over and over again.
A year ago, I forced myself to toss anything that was beyond help - including three bottles that had completely dried up inside.
Which left me with this:
With work this week keeping me too worn out to turn on the sewing machine, I thought a quick purge of my nail polish stash would be easy and painless.
The goal: If I haven't worn it in a year, it goes.
Almost. Some of those colors were sentimental favorites (the one I wore on my first date with my husband). I let myself have three sentimental keepers. Everything else that I hadn't worn or that was gunky, dried out, or full of cat hair (how?) went away.
Leaving me with this:
Ah. Much more manageable.
While I'm sure there will come a day when I talk myself into bringing another one home, right now I'm feeling a little lighter. I will never be a minimalist, but it feels good to let go of some of the stuff that's been taking up space in my life.
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