2024-10-13
51 分钟when i started earning my own money at 16, one of the things i was most excited about was being able to buy my own clothes. i thought that having more clothing options meant i would be more fashionable. over time, my shopping habits got out of control, leaving me with an unmanageable and overwhelming closet. this past weekend, i decided it was time to clear out as much as possible from my closet. in today’s episode, i’ll be sharing what that process was like and my personal experience with clothing overconsumption Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
I remember being twelve years old and watching Hannah Montana and seeing her walk into her walk in closet and pick out an outfit in a closet so filled to the brim with bags and shoes and purses and sparkly dresses galore.
I wondered to myself how freeing it must be to have this many options, how freeing it must be to never think to oneself, I wish I had a black, sparkly sequin dress that cut off right at the knees.
Hannah Montana never has to feel that feeling because she has one of everything in that closet of hers.
I remember being 15 and watching fashion youtubers pick out an outfit in their gorgeous walk in closet and thinking to myself, if I just had a walk in closet packed to the brim with clothing, only then would I finally be able to be the fashion girl that I've always wanted to be.
And then I started making my own money when I was 16.
And one of the things I was most excited about when I first started making money was now I get to buy clothes.
And I had always wanted to have a lot of clothes.
I'd grown up seeing people that I admire get dressed in the morning in a fucking packed closet.
And so I decided to start thrifting because I was like, okay, I want to get as much of a bang for my buck as possible.
And so instead of going straight to urban outfitters, I was like, hold on, let me get into thrifting for a second here because, yeah, it's a lot more work, but I'm going to be able to get a lot for my money.
And so I got really into thrifting.
And what was great about that was that I could go in and spend $40, which is like the same price as, you know, a cute top from urban Outfitters.
I'd come out with 20 things.
It was kind of awesome.
So I started slowly but surely building my wardrobe.
And I didn't just buy things from the thrift shop.
I was also buying things from in urban Outfitters, from a unif, from Nordstrom, like, I don't know.
I mean, I was peppering in nicer things as well.
But for the most part, I was building my wardrobe from the thrift store.
I was giving myself that feeling of options in the only way that I could at the time, which was through thrift shopping.