5 Below Jammies Haul! đ đ¤ My New Favorite Pajamas!
Hello Folk of the Hollow!
So let me bring it back a second before we really get into this post.
Over the weekend, Danny and I were watching BARRY (Which, by the way, I absolutely recommend. Itâs a fantastic masterpiece of a show) and I made a joke about a background character (invented in my own head, not in the show) passing by a serious scene and doing something funny. Danny looked at me and offhandedly made the joke âHow often do you see yourself as the background character?â
And wow.
He hadnât really meant anything by it. Just making a joke about a joke, but man. That really unlocked something in my head. Over the course of the weekend, this question simmered in the back of my mind. Then, one minute on Sunday afternoon, while I was making tea, something in my brain unlocked.
I have been treating myself like a side character my entire life.
I made myself the funny sidekick to everyone else in my life, the character that exists solely to draw attention to the protagonist and their struggles. The character who, if they have anything going on in their own story arc, immediately drops it to devote themselves entirely to someone elseâs story. Iâve been doing all of this when I should have been treating myself more like the protagonist.
Does that make sense?
Ever since then I have been thinking about what my life would look like if I finally stopped being the funny sidekick and put myself in the place of the protagonistâwhat would my story be? What would the narrative be like?
The answer: a fairytale.
Cottagecore (but not Trad Wife cottagecore) meets coquette meets twee meets dark academia.
If youâve followed me on Instagram / have just picked up on what Iâve been trying to do here at The Hollow (or if Iâve just plainly mentioned it somewhere and just for got lol ) youâll know that I have been striving to make my life into a fairytale come true. Iâve been doing an okay job at itâIâve made some pretty big changes in my life towards that endeavor.
On Sunday, after I made this realization, I found myself scrolling around on TikTok contemplating turning mine and Dannyâs bedroom into a pink coquette princess room (Iâm lucky enough to have married someone who lets me express myself however I want, because all he cares about is that Iâm happy đ ) and was subsequently alerted by TikTok that 5 Below (for those who donât know what 5 Below is: Itâs a kitsch store where most of the stuff is $5 or under, though the larger furniture items are often around $20 or $30) has a whole coquette collection!
After being taunted with it all Monday night, I decided that I would stop in today and look at what theyâve got. My 5 Below rarely has what I see on TikTok, so I wasnât expecting much, but it really had a lot of cool stuff!
Anyway, that was a really long-winded way of saying that I decided to buy myself new jammies that looked more like what a girl in a fairytale would wear, and hereâs my haul!
I got two sets of the same jammies, but one in blue and one in pink! (The headbands arenât part of the haul, theyâre something I got off Amazon that I think looks fantastic with these đâ¨) I wanted to get a set in yellow tooâyellow was actually what I was imagining the mostâbut they didnât have any yellow ones đ§. Thatâs okay though!
I had to purchase the tops and bottoms of these sets separatelyâwhich, honestly, Iâm not that upset about. I needed a large for the shorts because of my hips, and I needed a medium for the tops, so it was nice not having to commit to a top that was too large in favor for bottoms that were the right size, or a top that was the right size but bottoms that were too tight. Each top and each pair of shorts were $7 a piece, which wasnât too bad.
I donât think anyway lol
You canât really tell in these pics, but the jammie sets were kinda sheer. I had wear a bra with the tops, but the bottoms arenât too bad. When I put them on at first, I wasnât sure at the look. I looked in the mirror and kind of thought the jammies were uglyâuntil I went downstairs in them and Dannyâs face lit up and he told me they were really cute, and after that I started looking at them with much kinder eyes đ.
The next thing I got was a big pink sweater with a bow on the front. I absolutely love the softness of the pink (and the bow on this sweater will go with my coquette bow mug / bowl / plate I got for Christmas!). I donât know that I would wear this one as jammies âcause the sweater is a touch too warm for me to sleep in, but I can absolutely see myself wearing it out to sit in the garden once we get it up and going, taking my bow mug full of tea or coffee and a good book with me.
And OMG the inside the sweater is so soft. 10/10 worth the purchase.
My last purchase of the day was this pair of white and blue bow slippers!
I had my eye on these specific ones since I saw them on TikTok, and Iâm so glad I got them! I donât usually wear house shoes (or, as Iâm calling them, my âslippy-shoesâ) but Iâve been wearing these around since I got them! Theyâre really soft on the inside and fit like a glove. I donât have to walk any different to keep them from falling off my feet (like I usually do with flats that donât have anything to secure them to my feet) and my lil-tootsies fit like a glove in them. The bottoms are made out of this solid, like, foam stuff? I think is what itâs called? Anyway, itâs got a pretty solid bottom.
They are kinda slippy though. I felt my feet slide on the hardwood floor downstairs a little when I moved too quick in one direction, so be mindful wearing these on stairs that arenât carpeted.
Thatâs it! I hope you guys liked my haul!
Let me know in the comments if thereâs anything from 5 Below you have your eye on, if thereâs anything youâve gotten recently that youâre really excited about, or what you think of the haul!
I feel good about my purchases today. I feel like these are all going to be my go-tos for a long, long time to come and now I really need to decide if I want to redecorate the bedroom in a totally coquette style, or if I want to leave it as-is lol
See you next time!
Bye-bye~đ!
