How to stop saving things for 'best'

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I'm so terrible at this! I buy nice skin products and don't use them for ages for fear of running out and not being able to replace them. I buy nice clothes and don't wear them because I don't want to wear them out/waste them on the everyday. I am making a resolution to change and looking for some mantras to hold in my head to force myself to wear the nice things! Does anybody else do this or am I just bonkers?

I read something once that has always stuck with me, a lady was keeping some silk underwear ‘for best’ and the only time she wore it was when her husband buried her. Food for thought

I probably used to do this, but now I use and wear everything. High end skincare and make up everyday, use the nicest mugs all the time, eat the tastiest food that we have etc.

DH is starting to do the same, having seen so many (sometimes quite pricey) bottles of wine turn instead of drinking them when they were at their best.

Just use them!

BadlyDoneHelen we found the same when clearing my grandma’s house after she died. She had a state pension only, and yet always saved things for best. Growing up as one of three children in a tiny terraced house, my dad said that their downstairs front room was never ever used. It was kept ‘for best’ except that they never used it even at Christmas. We found many, many nightdresses, beautiful warm wool jumpers etc that she had been given for birthdays and Christmas still with the tags on after she died, which she kept for best, and wore thin, worn things instead. I don’t know whether she thought she wasn’t worthy of them. It was really sad.

I'm the same OP! I also have all these 'best' clothes and then buy more things on top why????? I think it is from my parents too.. My in laws are the same. Every birthday or Christmas I ask oh is there something you would like they say oh no we still have all your presents from all the years before... Unused still in the packaging. I think after reading this thread I am opening a perfume I was saving (its prob gone off by now lol) and will wear my nice jumper tomorrow for the school run!