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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I do not purchase dressy clothes with nowhere to wear them. By the time you have an event, you either want something different or it’s out of style.[/quote]

Exactly. What OP is doing is the height of over-consumption.[/quote]

This is OP - and truly, I do not overconsume. Our one car is 14 years old and wasn't fancy when we got it. We have mostly secondhand furniture. I don't eat meat. Most of my clothes are secondhand. I just really enjoy clothes - but I don't buy fast fashion (mostly - there's some new Madewell and Everlane in there sometimes).

I am not buying polyester sh** then throwing it out - I promise. It's mostly stuff on Thredup and Poshmark that I couldn't afford new (and wouldn't buy new anyway - like I wouldn't buy a new leather jacket; secondhand I feel ok about).

You will just have to believe me that I am not an overconsumer overall. But I do really like clothes. The items themselves - and also the thoughts that go along with them; the planning and dreaming and also yes the wearing.

It's interesting what PP said about having been overweight and feeling like she never had good clothes, and now feeling like she finally does. My situation wasn't exactly the same but for a long long time I - for various reasons - just did not have a functional wardrobe. I'd have to go meet someone or go out for dinner or go to an event, or even go into an office, and I just did not have the right clothes to wear. And it felt awful. Caused me a lot of stress.

I could probably have fixed that by just reallocating some money toward clothes - but at the time I was drowning in student loans with a low salary, and it just didn't seem feasible to do.

I feel like a great pleasure of being older, and done with loans finally, is that I finally, finally am putting resources into building a wardrobe that I like and actually works for me. I hadn't put that together until I read PP's post - I wonder if that's part of this. Now I know what it feels like to have clothes I like, and that work for my life, and I want more of that.

Anyway![/quote]

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