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I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)

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Post by al_borland »

devnullbrain wrote: post #142
al_borland wrote: post #92

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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…

If that same spot is the crotch, they may just be too tight for you or hanging too low. But if it's because of poor construction, getting over the hump of a higher initial price and buying well made jeans like Iron Heart would save you money overall.

It is in the crotch area. Maybe they are hanging too low, but I’m not too interested in going with tighter jeans.

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Post by hilux »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #179
hilux wrote: post #87

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Why so negative? You're not the keeper of his time. Maybe he doesn't smoke weed or play five hours of video games daily. Why can't you appreciate that he put effort into writing up a thought-provoking analysis that also helps other people?

I can appreciate that he put the analysis out but you can bet that he didn't do it to help other people. He did it to portray himself in a certain light. As I said there are many reasons why this is not helpful. Those are the thoughts that the blog post provoked in my mind, and I am one to geek out on the arcane sometimes too. I didn't say I was the keeper of his time or that he's smoking weed and playing games daily…

> Those are the thoughts that the blog post provoked in my mind

I didn't have any of those negative thoughts. Even though I'm nothing like the guy in terms of either data collection or dressing myself.

Ask yourself why you are being so triggered by a typically HN-geeky blog post that hurts no one.

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Post by klooney »

happytoexplain wrote: post #19
swatcoder wrote: post #15

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I think many people here at HN can admit to spending that much on their hobbies, even the ones without summer houses. It just sounds like fashion might not be one of yours?

3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby. I'm not going to argue whether it's "just a bit much" or "ridiculous", but I think it's strange to imply that it's somehow not a lot.

That's MacBook Pro money

Re: I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)

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Post by hilux »

rjh29 wrote: post #115
hilux wrote: post #80

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Is it? Lots of big-city gyms have memberships of $200/month or more. That's $2400 right there before you get into equipment, clothing, 1:1 coaching, sports massage, perhaps competitions, potentially travel. (And I'm not even talking about big-ticket sports like golf, horse-riding, racing cars, etc.)

In the UK I spend $30/month for the gym. Never heard of them costing that much.

Maybe it depends where you live and what you're looking for in a gym.

I used to do BJJ, which is a popular adult sport. I just googled: london bjj

My top hit was for Roger Gracie, which costs £179/month.

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Post by devnullbrain »

al_borland wrote: post #181
devnullbrain wrote: post #142

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If that same spot is the crotch, they may just be too tight for you or hanging too low. But if it's because of poor construction, getting over the hump of a higher initial price and buying well made jeans like Iron Heart would save you money overall.

It is in the crotch area. Maybe they are hanging too low, but I’m not too interested in going with tighter jeans.

I'm saying you should go for looser jeans

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Post by jlarocco »

hilux wrote: post #101
jlarocco wrote: post #96

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I'm convinced you don't need it, but my shin splints disagree, and I'm happy to buy new shoes after 300-500 miles.

Interesting you mention shin splits - those (and ITBS) were my crippling complaint for 15 years, before I tried barefooting, basically in desperation.

Honestly, I don't remember it being a problem when I was younger, but after taking a few years off and getting back to it, it's been an issue.

I wasn't having much luck finding the cause until a coworker recommended new shoes. Since then I haven't had a problem. I know it doesn't make sense, people ran barefoot for millenium, but for me it's been worth it.

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Post by 0m0xn »

tekla wrote: post #39
swatcoder wrote: post #22

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It's more than I spend, but you're on a tech forum full of nerdy engineers -- gaming rigs and their upgrades, hot new phones and laptops, travel, collectibles, legos, shop tools and materials, music gear, sporting and camping gear, etc each burn through that kind of budget real quick. And nobody would call out that kind of spend were it for one of those.

Yes I would, anyone spending this kind of money regularly is a rube. Most of the shit you mentioned are up front one time costs with a minimal maintenance requirement. Anyone who is paying several grand to upkeep this stuff is an idiot and deserves to be parted with their money.

> Most of the shit you mentioned are up front one time costs with a minimal maintenance requirement.

Are you kidding me?

> gaming rigs and their upgrades

Oh cool the newest NVDIA GPU is out, that'll be a $500-1500 cost!

> collectibles, legos

Yup - this hobby is all about upfront one-time costs

> shop tools and materials, music gear

Have you met anyone with a machine shop or who is into playing gigs?

> sporting and camping gear

lol..outdoors people love accumulating gear for each trip

Re: I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)

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Post by deathanatos »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #164
deathanatos wrote: post #104

20 to 25 uses for an undershirt seems terrible. Once per week for church and it is worn out in 6 months. Heaven forbid you dress formally for work and it is gone after a month of use…? (spread out by the other shirts in the inventory, but still.) An average of 102 USD for a pair of shorts¹ is something else though, and like other people in the thread note, … Larry, I'm on DuckTales. (171 USD, real / pair of shoes.) (…

This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality. Once you find these brands you can buy stuff without worrying about whether it’s going to suck. For dress shirts, definitely do Made-To-Measure (MTM). There are a bunch of brands that do good MTM shirts. Look on styleforum.net. I like Proper Cloth, but have heard good things about Luxuire…

And perhaps that's the problem: they're 4 to 6 times more expensive than decent stores (Old Navy runs ~$40, on jeans, for example, vs. the $200-$300 base price on Proper Cloth), which themselves are a few times more expensive than the drop-shipped junk bin of Amazon.

There's not enough "slack" in a (normal? middle class?) person's budget to support that. (There's no slack, really / I don't think I can justify living at such a price point.)

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

deathanatos wrote: post #188
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #164

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This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality. Once you find these brands you can buy stuff without worrying about whether it’s going to suck. For dress shirts, definitely do Made-To-Measure (MTM). There are a bunch of brands that do good MTM shirts. Look on styleforum.net. I like Proper Cloth, but have heard good things about Luxuire…

And perhaps that's the problem: they're 4 to 6 times more expensive than decent stores (Old Navy runs ~$40, on jeans, for example, vs. the $200-$300 base price on Proper Cloth), which themselves are a few times more expensive than the drop-shipped junk bin of Amazon. There's not enough "slack" in a (normal? middle class?) person's budget to support that. (There's no slack , really / I don't think I can justify living…

I feel like MTM jeans are pretty rare, and $200-300 isn’t actually that much for nice denim.

I don’t think price is the main problem though. Most people could probably spend that if they wanted, they just don’t care about clothes enough to do so, which is completely fair.

Unfortunately it seems like people balk at even spending $100 on a piece of clothing.

Also, Old Navy is a Gap brand. I would consider it fast fashion. Nudie and Naked & Famous are a couple of denim brands I would consider good.

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Post by fat_cantor »

hilux wrote: post #180
funcDropShadow wrote: post #129

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Can you recommend any good resource on how to start seriously with barefoot running or walking?

I could be biased, but I like the book Run Barefoot Run Healthy . Also Barefoot Ken Bob's book and website. There isn't much to learn - it's mainly a question of unlearning bad habits picked up through a lifetime of wearing unnatural built-up shoes, plus allowing the feet to slowly strengthen. If an able-bodied person spent a lifetime using crutches, the adaption to walking freely would take some time. For inspiratio…

There isn't much to learn if you have proper (or at least bilaterally symmetric) range of motion in your muscles and joints. If, instead, you have long-term injuries, tissue damage, etc., that have led to patterns of movement that are causing degeneration and inefficient patterns of movement, then you basically need to learn how to fix those problems, then relearn to walk. There are complex sequences of neuromuscular cues that healthy people possess but don't think about consciously, just like the ability to recognize objects. I needed to learn a LOT about walking and running in every sense of the word, in addition to slowly gaining foot strength. It would not have happened if I had taken a passive approach. It was more like programming a computer to recognize objects from scratch in R or C (whichever you believe to be the pirate's favorite programming language...).
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