Monday, May 4, 2015

Will it ever be good enough?

So many words ahead. You've been warned. But they're good ones - I promise! 
(if you don't want to read, the juiciest information is that I opened an eBay store)





I've mentioned in one or both of my previous posts that I tend to geek out when it comes to business. I also do this with music and fashion and clothes. I guess to jump around and sound like a crazy person I should give a background story.

I was overweight almost my entire period growing up and my very early 20's. I won't get into all the nitty gritty details, but I think it's safe to say that I went through a period in my teenage years where I really didn't like myself and I wore track pants, my dad's t-shirts, and ADIDAS sandals because it was comfortable and covered me and I could keep gaining weight and they accommodated (side note: in my defense, this was kind of the style back then). But while I was wearing my track pants and dad's clothes, I was watching. I was watching People magazine and Entertainment Tonight and Current Affairs (we're talking 1997. bear with me). I was watching what people were wearing and what was fashionable and in style. That love continued into college where so did the weight gain. I just kept admiring from affair and left college to work at a job that accommodated what I did wear - jeans and t-shirts. Every.Single.Day.
Around this time I got engaged and decided that I never thought I would get married first, so I was going to make damn sure that I looked good on the wedding day I thought I would never have. And I did. I lost a lot of weight in an unhealthy manner. But I never felt comfortable and despite losing 50 pounds, I still felt like I looked like that girl in high school that felt like she would never be thin or good enough. I've battled those feelings for years now and they are still things I struggle with on a daily basis.
What will this blog be? 
Will it be successful? 
Will this first phase of this new venture be successful or will I quit when I find it's hard and the reward isn't immediate?
These are the types of questions that are constantly running through my mind. But I'm very much faking it 'til I make it. I'm finally in a place where I'm being healthy because I want to and I like the way it makes me feel. Where at almost 31 I am finding my style and that it's ok if isn't like anyone else. And that leads me to my next big adventure.

So here is where I make the very public declaration that I have started the first phase of what I hope to grow into something. I've launched an eBay store. At the moment it is a literal closet dump. I kept a few shirts, sweaters, and coats, but everything else is being listed in the store. The very first infant phase is this - getting rid of the old to make way for the new and fun. And I don't just mean clothes. I'm taking a lesson from the company I work for and I'm going to take the stuff that no one wants to weed through and make it something people want.
So phase 1 will be finding the good things from the vintage and thrift stores and bringing them to the shop.
Phase 2, well phase 2 and beyond I'm still working on. But I do know that what I would love to do is help people who are having trouble defining their personal style (for whatever reason).  I've struggled for so long with not knowing what my style is because I didn't think I was good enough or looked good enough to have style. And now I just don't care and I know I feel better when I like what I am wearing. And I want other people to feel better too. So there we go. I've put my dreams and goals and a whole lot of information no one wants to know out there. You've got to put it out there and be vulnerable to get it back right?

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