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Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Anyone who is bothered by that is not someone you should care about

'noticing something' is neutral. 'bothered' is indeed not the way.

If someone notices it in a neutral way then why does it matter? I’ve noticed colleagues wearing the same t Shirt repeatedly and not put any more thought to it

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I live in the following: - 2 pairs of jeans, on rotate - About 20 t-shirts - 20-ish sets of underwear + socks - About 3-4 sweaters/jumpers/hoodies - 1 pair of boots - 1 pair of worn out trainers That's basically it. Some of my t-shirts are over 15 years old, in fact 99% of what I wear is over 3 years old. Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! Einstein had it right: "Albert Einstein reported…

> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. > "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he wouldn't have to waste time deciding what to wear each morning." This sounds incredibly joyless -- the aesthetic equivalent of eating huel for every meal.

> If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less.

Is it a requirement of ethical production that clothes don't last and must be regularly replaced??

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. > "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he wouldn't have to waste time deciding what to wear each morning." This sounds incredibly joyless -- the aesthetic equivalent of eating huel for every meal.

> If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. Is it a requirement of ethical production that clothes don't last and must be regularly replaced??

Clearly not, that's such an uncharitable read of what I'm saying that it doesn't feel worth responding to.

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> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. > "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he wouldn't have to waste time deciding what to wear each morning." This sounds incredibly joyless -- the aesthetic equivalent of eating huel for every meal.

I prefer to find my joy in things that are not food or clothes.

Yes, HN does seem to skew heavily towards a sort of performative rejection of simple pleasures.

Personally I don't think it's zero sum, enjoying your meals won't make your immaterial pursuits less worthy, for example.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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LOL this is awesome! I ran choosemyboxers.com in college back in 2001 and had people rate and pick my underwear. I told all my friends and no one found it interesting because my boxers were "lame". One month it randomly blew up and I got enough ad revenue to replace my entire boxer collection. However it never went anywhere so I let it stagnate and eventually the shell I was hosting it on moved on to new ventures

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> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

In my experience, socks are pretty expensive (at least here in Lithuania) and wear out pretty fast, so for me its reasonable to spend most of the clothing budget on socks...

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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post #54

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> If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. Is it a requirement of ethical production that clothes don't last and must be regularly replaced??

Clearly not, that's such an uncharitable read of what I'm saying that it doesn't feel worth responding to.

I'm not sure what you're trying to write that implies that ethical clothing production requires $500 annual clothing spend, then.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

OP here. The value here is really the price it was when new. Most of the clothes was purchased over the past 10+ years. I didn't buy any new clothes the year prior to this project at all. I spent more in clothes during the project than I had in the prior few years. But I also had lost nearly 50 pounds and my old clothes wasn't really fitting.
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