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“The average American buys more than one new piece of clothing per week. If that matches your shopping habits, in a span of five years you have purchased more than 320 pieces of clothing.”
Who the fuck is buying multiple pieces of clothing every week? I don’t know anyone that does that. I feel like buys-ridiculous-amounts-of-clothing George is an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.
This article is so entitled
It really is the entitled version of the boots theory. I wear my clothes literally hundreds of times before they get worn out and this article is suggesting that 10 wears of “cheap” ($50) clothes and it’s trash time. This article is way out if touch to the average non-fashion obsessed buyer imo.
I may be a snob because the socks go in the bin, when the holes grow too big.
“too” big, sure, but not when they first appear
TIL that I’m probably entitled cause when I see a small hole, that socks goes to trash and the other one in the pair becomes orphaned.
Hey as long as you’re not throwing out both if one gets a hole, I’m glad to have you on the team.
Yeah exactly, the orphan must now wait until a matching orphan joins it. Then it can be worn just a bit longer!
Do individual socks count? If so, buying a 10 pack of socks and a 6 pack of undies gets you through half a year by this metric.
Man, I don’t even do that every year. Maybe every 3-5 years. I do not buy clothes very often at all.
Judging by the amount of clothes at second hand stores in the US, its mostly middle class women
I have a shopaholic aunt who is said to wear things she buys once on avg. She could open her own 2nd hand shop (or if she moved her stock to Europe she could open ~6 2nd-hand shops). Many women in my family are inflicted with this disease to varying degrees. It’s a gender-specific disease that I think men are immune to.
Men are not immune to it, but it is less common
looks at $150 Warhammer model next time buddy, I’ll grab a paint pot on my way out, and maybe a brush, hmm I need better sprue cutters…
Here’s the thing about “signaling to the industry with your money”: They will take it and not give you shit.
Pay 30$ or $300 for a drill it’s still made in China from plastic and planned obsolescence.
Underwear is no different.
Pay cheap and you get cheap. Pay more and sometimes you get fat better quality. Unfortunately, you can also get cheap with a larger mark-up.
I dunno, Makita and some Milwaukee tools are absolutely worth the money, especially if you’re willing to buy into their battery ecosystem.
You’ve never bought a $30 drill, have you?
I use my Makita drill a significant amount. Right now I’m using it instead of a hand crank on my case trimmer (for reloading ammunition; I’m a moderate volume shooter). I’ve had it for nearly a decade. Yeah, I’ve replaced the batteries twice, and now have the higher capacity ones. But the drill is still holding up. The Festool Rotex disc sander I’ve got is easily the best sander that I’ve used.
