I tracked the clothes I wear while cycling last fall and winter so I would know what to wear given the weather. I record temperature, humidity, windspeed, and level of sunshine. It’s been very useful. Even after years of outdoor biking, I still sometimes get fooled by a bright, dry, windy, 65 degree day and forget how chilly they can be, but my spreadsheet will remind me.
I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
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#202Wow. I buy one pair of jeans per year, I now have three pairs. This year I've bought exactly 2 t-shirts on vacation in Spain. I cannot imagine spending so much on clothing, that just seems.. overkill. Where do you put it all???
Maybe one thing is that price per item can vary a lot, eg a $50 coat isn’t going to take 60 times less space than a $3k coat so it’s possible to spend a lot more without using lots more space. That said, the author doesn’t seem to be buying wildly expensive items. I assume they get through with something like an ordinary sized wardrobe and chest of drawers, plus some kind of shoe storage near a door. And I guess they…
I have one modest closet, one chest of drawers, and my wife has the same with a little more; shoes.. What struck me was that this was his clothing purchases in a single year. That's a lot of buying and disposing, which results in .. disasters like the mountain of discarded clothes you can see from space in the Chilean desert
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and the fact that they have a summer house where at least one pair resides. This person lives differently to me. He seems to live in Finland. It's a sparsely populated country covered in forests and with an abundance of lakes[0] which has led to a quite democratic summer house culture. It's completely normal even among working class to own a summer house by a lake. There's of course variation. A large summer house…
>It's completely normal even among working class to own a summer house by a lake. Just want to understand, by normal do you mean less than 1/5 Finnish households? Going by the source below, I don't know if I'm missing something but it does not seem to be normal? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01692... .
By "normal" I mean that it's .. normal, not exceptional. Nobody will bat an eyelid if you tell about your summer cottage. It's not some rare privilege.
Many summer houses have shared ownership with a wider family. Say, your parents got one and now you own it with your siblings, each getting their own time there or agreeing when to visit together.
Even when you don't own one, you will very likely have participated in the summer house culture. It's very much part of the mainstream culture like sauna is. Maybe you visit your relatives' place, or you may opt to rent a place for a week.
Personally I feel renting is the best option as you can visit different places each year and avoid the maintenance burden -- and they obviously need active maintenance. But some do prefer a familiar place where they can spend all their holidays, and in some cases all weekends too on top.
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#204I did a double-take at the 3.5k Euro spend per year on clothing. My own spending is probably 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller. But then I saw how many shoes they own, and the fact that they have a summer house where at least one pair resides. This person lives differently to me.
I'm not sure whether you really spend so little on clothes, or have misunderstood the term 'order of magnitude'. If it were 3 orders of magnitude less you would be spending €3.50 on clothes per year. Even 2 orders less is €35, which I find doubtful a grown person can do (in America/Europe at least). Did you actually mean that? As I'm surprised your socks/underwear don't cost at least €35 per year, eventually they get…
I'm in the UK but socks cost what, £1 per pair? And boxer briefs maybe £2 per pair.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are buying all those, then you are buying massively more then you even have a chance to use.
What are you talking about? Someone can't play videogames and go camping?
It would me more of someone gaming a lot, traveling a lot, building legos a lot at the same time, crafting by weekends too, playing music to the extend they need to buy gear regularly, doing multiple sports on to of it all and also going camping.
On itself, neither of these hobbies cost that much money yearly unless you consciously decided you want to spend a lot of money.
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#206Interesting data tracking. I have to say for my jeans - I never put them in the dryer, always hung dry. All my jeans are now 10-20 years old now and except for some wear on the back cuff from wearing them around the house without shoes on they look and feel brand new. I can't find author mention "dryer" anywhere in the article. Hung dry clothes last a long time. it's the machine dryer that slowly destroys them IMO. A…
I grew up being taught that cotton was best and for decades wore it almost exclusively. But something I have realized over the years is that it is also much, much heavier than polyester or nylon blends, especially when it's wet. If your shirt can't dry overnight then you're forced to buy more shirts just to handle the washing/drying overlap, which is wasteful. Not to mention only owning cotton makes doing anything ou…
Linen and wool are fibers I havent really tried and I plan to very soon. A couple other comments mentioning cotton does not dry fast for hang drying well some new washers have really impressive spin cycles. The clothes come out way more dry than the washer I have now, which is actually older than me LOL. Anything more than 50% polyester and I dont like the lack of breathability feeling that I get. Especially at night in an all foam mattress.
I think maybe my ideal home laundry room would have a little dehumidifier connected to a floor drain with plenty of racks and hangers. Room temp drying but the dehumidifier speed up the process significantly.
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#207Interesting data tracking. I have to say for my jeans - I never put them in the dryer, always hung dry. All my jeans are now 10-20 years old now and except for some wear on the back cuff from wearing them around the house without shoes on they look and feel brand new. I can't find author mention "dryer" anywhere in the article. Hung dry clothes last a long time. it's the machine dryer that slowly destroys them IMO. A…
What brand are the jeans? When I think about my shirts, socks, and underwear, all of it lasts 4-6 years.. though my socks are 6 years old and I see no sign of needing to replace them any time soon. However, I have a stack of jeans that all start coming apart in the same spot. I've started looking into how to mend jeans, as I'm sick of this being an issue. They are the most expensive thing I'm wearing (other than shoe…
Levi's and lacoste. My only wear in the back cuff. Ive started to be a little more conscious indoors and put some flip flops to stop the wear there. No other wear spots for me.
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#208Interesting data tracking. I have to say for my jeans - I never put them in the dryer, always hung dry. All my jeans are now 10-20 years old now and except for some wear on the back cuff from wearing them around the house without shoes on they look and feel brand new. I can't find author mention "dryer" anywhere in the article. Hung dry clothes last a long time. it's the machine dryer that slowly destroys them IMO. A…
Consider 100% linen or a blend as well for hot summer days. I have a few short-sleeve linen shirts which are great for days over 28°C. Linen has a coarser weave than cotton, and breathes even better. It can handle sweat better too (dries faster when wearing). I don't have a dryer, so all my clothes are hung to dry. Jeans tend to go in the seat first. I think I average eight years or so, wearing jeans most of the year…
Definitely going to be trying those soon. Running a dehumidifier in the same room where you dry your clothes speed it up.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting you mention shin splits - those (and ITBS) were my crippling complaint for 15 years, before I tried barefooting, basically in desperation.
Can you recommend any good resource on how to start seriously with barefoot running or walking?
Honestly, it's not hard. Just buy a pair of wider toe box shoes, nothing too extreme or minimalist, and start wearing them for normal everyday tasks like going to the grocery store, then build from there. I recommend Lems (I like the Primal Zen) or Altras (I like the Lone Peak style).
After a little while you'll have more foot strength and can start working out in them and/or transition to wearing barefoot shoes 100% of the time. It takes some time to build the foot strength so I wouldn't go too minimalist to start.
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Sure. I guess it's interesting how differently people can interpret the phrase "buy what you need".
~~"buy what you need"~~ "do not go shopping until after something has a hole in it, then when you are there, replace only that"
I'm not sure whether you're providing a reasonable interpretation or trying to be satirical.