Online Thrifting Awesomeness!

My birthday was last weekend, and my MIL came by with a card including fifty bucks. I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to purchase with said money and gave a lot of thought to different crafts I enjoy: jewelry making, crocheting, sewing. I really couldn’t make up my mind, until I remembered this super awesome website called Thredup! I know if I really need anything, I NEED new clothes…even if those clothes are only new to me!

Thredup is an online thrift store, for those that do not know. And now that I’m truly embracing my secondary Type 3, one of the things I realized is that I’ve always loved a great deal! I felt really disappointed by my recent purchases at Zulily. I only liked a couple of the things I bought, and only got six items for almost a hundred dollars. Even worse is that I was not pleased with most of what I purchased.

Two items are great in color, but so thin they’re difficult to wear out anyplace. One shirt looks amazing, but the material (while advertised to be like a sweatshirt) is sooo scratchy my comfort-loving, sensitive skinned Type 2 self can barely wear it. The other shirt…well, it doesn’t look anything like it showed in the picture. Instead of soft and muted Type 2 colors, it was a dirty, muddy mess, and the screen printing job was so bad that there are literally runs down the front of the shirt and in every crease area (such as underarms and elbows).

All in all, the experience was sooo disappointing! The only saving grace was the cardigan I bought, an ultra cute charcoal gray one with a v-neck (still unsure about v-necks, though) and button details down the wrists.

This is not the way I like to shop. I really love to get the most for my money, especially since I am admittedly poor. Well, I know that I can be poor and still manage to Dress My Truth when there are awesome websites like Thredup around!

And truth be told…I would much rather get ten awesome things at a thrift store for fifty bucks than one really nice outfit at a department store for the same price! Heck, I think that at most department stores you’re lucky to escape with a single pair of jeans for that amount of money!

So I decided to browse around Thredup and see what I could find. I already made a second mistake buying a pair of nice new jeans at the local department store. I picked out a size 12 because…well, I wasn’t really sure what size I was. I realized two things pretty fast:

1- I’m not a size 12; these jeans are much too big on me, and;
2- well…I like the comfort of jeans, but they don’t really look that good on me.

My well-meaning 4/3 hubby also made mention of the fact that the jeans just weren’t working on me, and god bless him, but he was so gentle about it and worried I was going to have my feelings hurt if he told me so! Well, I had to reassure him over and over again that I did not have my feelings hurt at all, because I didn’t really like those jeans since the moment I got them. It’s so cute that he had such concern for my Type 2 sensitive feelings, though!

So when I went thrifting on Thredup, I decided to look for pants/slacks in size 10 (or large, because I do wear large in tops) instead. And skipped looking at the jeans altogether.

This is what I ended up purchasing. I am expecting this package to come on Monday, which is even more exciting because it’s my day off, so I’m sure to be home to receive it and try on all the awesome stuff I got!

The only thing in here I’m truly uncertain about is the top right hand tank top. I wonder if that color is really Type 2. I might have strayed into Type 1 territory with it, but I won’t find out until this package arrives.

All in all, though…I’m super excited! Instead of six things for almost a hundred bucks, I got NINE SHIRTS and THREE PAIRS OF PANTS for only eighty dollars, and that’s including shipping! My secondary 3 is VERY happy with this!

…I also note as a small aside how often I say/type the word “super”. That’s so totally a Type 3 thing! I don’t know how I could have ever missed this secondary!

 

My Secondary is WHAT?!

So I finally got Carol Tuttle’s book It’s Just My Nature. I thought I had everything pretty well figured out at this point, but decided I needed to get it for reference. And so I made a great attempt to read through the whole thing, but found myself kind of skimming over the general information about energy typing because I was so keen on getting to the REAL parts…the Typing sections.

And when I did, well. I found out something really interesting.

I’ve known for a long time that I’m a Type 2 (though for a while I thought– or make that feared– I might be a Type 4). I know that I’m a lower energy movement in general, but that secondary has always kind of stumped me. I knew that it was a higher movement. I get these bursts of energy, and I tend to burn myself out quite easily if I don’t pay attention to what I’m doing.

So I was reading along through Type 1 and wondering that, although I see some superficial facial resemblances, I didn’t find a lot that meshed with my body movements. I just gave a shrug and moved on. Obviously I’m a secondary Type 1. After all, I know I’m not a secondary Type 3.

Type 2’s section was amazing and very validating. I saw sooo much of how I am, how I act and react, my inner motivations and thought processes through the entire section. Gosh, I even saw how I tend to write while reading through the stories of other ladies’ journeys through Dressing Your Truth and their realization that they were in fact a Type 2. I cannot, absolutely cannot, write a tiny little paragraph and be done with it…and anyone who’s read this blog (not that anyone has! Ha!) would see that so easily.

And honestly? At this point I kind of skipped over Type 3 altogether. I really skimmed through it super fast and moved on to Type 4. But then something made me go back and take a more detailed, thorough look at what I was reading there.

All of a sudden, I realized that I saw SO much of myself in the Type 3 section! It was like a lightning bolt out of the sky striking me straight in the head! Oh my gosh, it was so crazy! All of a sudden, I started seeing things I do (to some degree, of course, because this isn’t my primary, it’s my secondary). And the big kicker? I saw that my body movements– how I walk, how I sit, how I stand, how I get from place to place– are ALL Type 3! ALL of them.

How crazy is that?!

So now, after all this hemming and hawing and going back and forth…yes, I’m certainly changing my type again. I’m not a 2/1 after all.

I’M A 2/3!

And it’s really, really freeing. It’s funny how much lighter and not-stressed-out I feel about finally figuring this out. And even more interesting is how well this Type combination matches up with my astrological natal horoscope. I have so much fire in my chart it isn’t even funny (Sun in Aries, Venus in Aries, AND Mars in Aries…as well as Moon in Sagittarius!)…but I was so dead sure that I couldn’t ever be a Type 3. In fact, I was so sure that I put Three DEAD LAST in type order!

Surprise!

Now I understand more fully why I act and react in certain ways. Coming up sometime in the future I will break down my Type 2 and Type 3 secondary nature…in detail!