One happy birthday to DS, time flies so quickly doesn't it?
Fedup I too am a lot fussier and rarely impulse buy any more. In fact sometimes I'll talk myself out of buying an item convincing myself I won't wear it it enough. I'm all about the cpw these days.
Dry well done on the studying and the new job, hope you buy yourself lots of rewards.
Queen great purchases, I never think of Mango for jeans but now I'm drawn to a pair there.
Blingy sage words re: life cycles
Blair great classic swimsuit, hope ds enjoys his swimming lessons
Marsha how's the teepee building going? 
Stokey how much longer now until it's finished?
Lib you must be coming to the end of your renovations now
I've been reading a few interesting posts on here, one about no-one's wearing high heels anymore and funnily Marsha you saying that you're wearing your Rossi's much these days. I've been reaching for my flats a lot more more out of laziness than anything but after reading that thread I was determined to wear heels but still haven't done so yet, maybe they are onto something? 
Also the weight thread was interesting about MC women being slimmer.
Back to fashion in answer to Lib's question re: winter favourites - I wore my black belted Burberry coat almost daily with black Toga Pulla boots and black skinnies. Underneath I wore merino jumpers from Uniqlo and JCrew. My winter wardrobe is the same year in year out, it's pretty boring.
On the upside I ordered this yesterday:
pink sweatshirt I'm trying to embrace colour again.
Question: Every winter I have to cull a lot of my merino jumpers due to moths, how can I prevent that from happening again? I use sandalwood wooden blocks in my drawers but still they chew my jumpers. Gah