My Facebook friend Heather recently started a blog and one of her very first posts was about joining Stitch Fix.
I’d never heard of it before, but it sounded almost too good to be true. Do you know how much of a pain in the you-know-what it is to go shopping for clothes with three little kids? Dressing. room. disaster. They wait until you’re totally undressed to say something like, “Mommy, I really have to go potty. Oh wait, it’s too late. Oops, I think I got it on that $85 shirt you wanted to try on (just to see how it looked, them try to find something cheaper at Target). Oh, and the baby just spit up and now she’s playing in it. Oh, and my other sister took the lid off her sippy cup and poured it on the rest of the clothes…” So then you are hopping around in your underwear blotting expensive clothes with baby wipes while they all start screaming and you have to abandon your hopes of buying anything for yourself to go to the kid’s store and get a replacement outfit for the kid who just had an accident.
Nightmare.
Stitch Fix is a new company that is like an online personal shopper. You sign up and fill out a style profile and use Pinterest to give them an idea of your personal style, then for $20 they send you a box of 5 items, clothes or accessories, selected based on your personal style.
If you keep any of the items then the $20 is applied towards your order. If you don’t want to keep them you send them back, and they have free shipping both ways.
I’m on the wait list right now, but I will definitely let you know how it goes. I’ve lost some weight and want to invest in better clothes (fewer pieces, but better quality) this time around as I re-build my wardrobe. Their clothes seem to be at a higher price point than I would normally pay, but I like how the fee gets applied to the order if you keep something.
$20 is cheaper than a babysitter, which I would definitely need to get before attempting to go shopping, and somehow I feel better about the idea of a $55 sweater if I only have to pay $35 more towards my order. Plus I get to try things on a home and mix and match with my own clothes.
Avoiding all the waif-like high school girls in the dressing room whining about their “fat” popping out of a size 00 waistband doesn’t hurt either.
If you think you might be interested in trying it out, you can use my link.
And you can follow along with my “How to Not Be a Frumpy Mom” board on Pinterest.
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