Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Over the past year or so I've realized that between my friends and I, about half of the clothes we own are not being worn. Clothes now a days to us are less of a luxury and we think of them as more of a given thing. As my mom was growing up she owned one pair of jeans and THAT was a luxury. My mum told me that back then she and her friends owned maybe one pair of pants and two skirts if they were lucky and now we don't really appreciate the clothes that we wear or own as much as we should. At one point in time I owned 12 pairs of jeans, TWELVE. I find that a bit ridiculous when there are so many people who don't have what we do.
I think this is a waste of the clothes that I own to just be sitting there in my closet being completely unused so I've decided to come up with some solutions and have been working with them, slowly decreasing the amount of clothes that I have.
Part one was to go through my closet and see what I tend to wear a lot so that they don't get mixed up with the things you wear less. After doing this you put all of your hangers facing one way and once you wear something you turn it the opposite direction. After a couple of months take a look again and see what is still facing the same way. Once you've done this try on the pieces and think about whether or not you would wear it in the future, whether you love how it looks, or just plain don't like it.
The next part to this for me is figuring out what goes where and there are many places you could take these.
I think this is a waste of the clothes that I own to just be sitting there in my closet being completely unused so I've decided to come up with some solutions and have been working with them, slowly decreasing the amount of clothes that I have.
Part one was to go through my closet and see what I tend to wear a lot so that they don't get mixed up with the things you wear less. After doing this you put all of your hangers facing one way and once you wear something you turn it the opposite direction. After a couple of months take a look again and see what is still facing the same way. Once you've done this try on the pieces and think about whether or not you would wear it in the future, whether you love how it looks, or just plain don't like it.
The next part to this for me is figuring out what goes where and there are many places you could take these.
- Second hand store so you could get a bit of cash out of it
- Value Villagehttp://www.valuevillage.com/
- WIN (Women in Need) http://www.womeninneed.ca/
- Clothing swap
- Donation to any groups like a single parents organisation
- Give them away to friends
I once had a student who pointed out that we have one pair of feet so we should only have one pair or shoes at a time. Traveling through life lightly is something to aspire to in in our consumer-goods mad world.
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