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December Micro Wardrobe

It's like a holiday pressure-release valve

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Caroline Joy
Dec 04, 2025
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There’s this part of me that still buys into the 90s-movie-version of holiday shopping, where everything at the mall is twinkling lights and flocked Christmas trees, and hehe maybe I’ll run into my crush!

Buuut more often than not, the holiday add-to-cart push quickly descends into unpleasant overwhelm.

No thx. I want the glimmery holiday magic! Sans overwhelm.

So today, I’ve got a quick, 3-step guide to setting up a micro-wardrobe that’ll remove the overwhelm from your holidays (the getting-dressed part, anyway).

But there’s a catch!

You can *only* use what you already have.

Here’s why:

Shopping has a tendency to stir up feelings of, “Don’t have enough, must get more.” And nothing zaps a good vibe faster than that. But! Deciding to lean into what you already have — even if it’s not perfect — is an instant pressure release valve. And that makes it much easier to tap into that glimmery magical holiday feeling we all want so badly.

So take shopping completely off the table while you put together your lil’ wardrobe. Notice the good things you already have. Let the pressure release valve do it’s thing and then feel your spirits rise.

Okay, let’s go! I’ll walk you through the 3 steps, and then show you my micro wardrobe from my closet. It’s cute!

STEP 1:

Pick 3 events on your December calendar

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