So men are better for the environment?
On that front, yes. But then there’s our usual fascination with engines/computers/power tools (you have to pick at least one) so it probably evens out
And don’t forget about all the methane.
We do be venting
“Probably” is doing a lot of work here.
I could buy a New Outfit every day, but do exactly this. Well, minus the into-space-part 😁 Wifey has more bags in a specific color than I have clothes altogether… As long as it’s somehow clean and doesn’t reek, it’s still fine.
There’s no point to discard something that is still useful.
Clutter.
You don’t have to keep buying new shit all the time. If you keep your old, still working stuff then you don’t need to buy new stuff
I can’t remember the last time I bought something just to replace and throw out a perfectly good item. That’s not how clutter originates.
Better solution for that is not to get new shit when you don’t need any
Yeah, when I turned 18 I just went out and bought everything I’d need for the next 60 years or so. Doesn’t everyone do this?
That would honestly be awesome. Me, I just buy stuff as the need arises
Clutter is a slur invented by big minimalism to sell more less.
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Welcome to Costco
Yeah that works until you have a stack of 20 pizza boxes you’re saving “just in case.”
Used pizza boxes attract ants. They are net-negative usefulness.
They’re useful for putting down before an oil change. But that’s like, one every six months or so. Not 20.
Could just use any old cardboard for that. Pop open your recycle bin and just grab whatever box you broke down recently.
Or even worse cockroaches!
You can make great papier mâché out of cardboard
Pizza boxes are a bad example, they are compostable
Why is everything either 0% or full tilt with some of you folks?
Throw your trash away, keep the things you like. For fuck’s sake. Judgement exists.
You have never lived with a hoarder…
Well, how else am I supposed to maintain my anxiety and anger?
Guilty.
Literally what everyone should be doing now for the environment. Clothes waste is a huge problem. The fact that people throw away stuff that can still be sold at thrift stores is appalling. Understandable if your body shape has changed it something, but “getting bored” of clothes is indefensible. This extends to people “getting bored” of phones and cars too, which is terrible.
My friends and I have been doing clothing swaps with the local femme community and honestly its been a huge game changer for closet refreshing! We had like 260 people come through last time and anything left after the swap is done is donated to local youth/addiction/women’s centres :)
I’ve gotten some of my favourite outfits from the swap!! And it’s completely free!
That’s such a great idea!
Thanks! Feel free to have your own clothing swaps, the more, the better!
All my homies love sustainability :)
Well, I had 260 people come through me just last night at our emergency church service at midnight that definitely wasn’t a booty call on my congregation
30y/o.
I have bought a grand total of 3 brand new pieces of clothing in my whole life(not including underwear/socks). Every single other piece was either given to me for xmas/birthday/random gifts or bought from thrift stores. Anything I can’t wear anymore has either been donated back to thrift or cut into rags myself.
I’ve also directly worked in a thirft store, where anything unsellable get tossed into ‘rag out’ where it’s donated to a company that turns it into cheap bags of shop rags: so even stuff that’s falling apart is still worth donating.
In England they tell us not to donate anything that we wouldn’t consider worthy of gifting to someone. They have to use volunteer time to soft/sort (and I guess clean) all items. If it’s not something anyone will buy then best to take it directly to clothes recycling drop offs rather than charity shops.
(and I guess clean)
May be a difference between regions, but thrift doesn’t clean clothes around me. You’re expected to donate clean clothes; But if it’s visually in such rough shape that it needs to be washed first, it’s ‘rag out’, otherwise it goes on the sales floor. Laundry is a huge expense for a nonprofit; instead, they expect you to wash it yourself before wearing it.
I’m not aware of any seprate clothes recycling facilities around me, and can’t find one with a quick search. Just the typical thrifts.
I got a pair of 25 year old Chuck Taylors I’ll still wear. I had no idea they came back in style among the Gen z kids until my buddies 12 year old daughter was impressed by them. Lol
Those will always be in
I’ve had the soles of a couple pairs of Chucks fixed. One is almost a decade old. I got the leather kind so I can keep repairing them
If your body shape has changed, donate your old clothes! My wife lost a bunch of weight because medical reasons, and she recently went through her entire wardrobe; I dropped five 30-gallon bags of perfectly serviceable clothes off at a nonprofit thrift shop.
That’s what I did. I hope they don’t end up in a landfill in Africa :(
I have a sweater that my grandma got me when I was 7. It’s purple with a handful of printed comic panels featuring Harry, a snow dog. It goes “Harry is a snow dog. Harry is a good dog.” and you can see Harry doing snowboard and stuff.
I am 35 today. It’s worn out a bit but still my dearest, most beloved pajama. It still fits, somehow
Are you a dwarf? XD
It was very baggy back then but today it fits perfectly. Great foresight on her part. Ah, grandmas…
W grandma
My mind is also feeling at the idea of something fitting you both at ages 7 and 35. I’m roughly 5/3 as tall as I was then and weigh about four times as much. Do you have a pituitary gland?
Not quite that extreme but I’m older than they are and still have some clothes from when I was in 7th grade.
It’s more plausible that someone stopped growing around that grade.
Growing taller maybe.
It’s in there somewhere, let me take another look
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Are they really throwing it away if it ends up at a thrift store? I wear my clothes until they’ve disintegrated but if someone wants to keep up with trends is donating them so someone else can buy some gently used nicer stuff at a lower price really that bad/wasteful?
I only throw shit out if there are holes or massive stains. I thought everyone was doing that…
No
I just went to the thrift store last month for clothes. And this is absolutely correct. The entire store was huge, and then there’s two racks for men lol.
Something interesting I noticed is most of the men’s clothes are nice shirts. Button downs, dress shirts, polos, all sorts of different fabrics, there was even a wedding shirt in there. Not a lot of tshirts, unless they’re made of something different.
My theory is the men’s clothes that ends up in thrift stores are the nice clothes given to them as gifts, or the wife found it and added it to her bag of clothes to donate.
Either that or there’s old people clothes because the guy died.
Or stuff someone had to buy for some occasion
Buy for an occasion, change body shape, donate, repeat…
“Home clothes”, “repair clothes”? Nah. There’s just clothes, and clothes my SO gets mad at if I get paint on them.
The best part of this approach is that I don’t buy clothes very often, saving money!
Yeah I did a big clothes shopping trip 3 years ago for a new job, so going by the record I should be good for another 7 years.
The final use of a piece of clothing is as a wick for a Molotov cocktail.
I swear some of my underwear is 50:50 underwear to holes ratio.
Well there’s the leg holes, hole I use to put it on and ofc the peepe hole and poopoo hole.
The …poopoo hole?
You need a hole to poopoo out of. Or what, you’re just poopooing in your pants??
And the big trunk home too. Actually more holes than I remember.
Donated men’s clothing tends to be dead man’s clothes
What is “the entrance”?
Well, I usually, not intentionally, have a pile of rags by my garage door that kinda sit there for grease, oil, etc. till they get washed separately, so I’d assume probably something along those lines for the guy who made this.
For the same price, men’s clothing are often far thicker with better quality fabric.
Next time you see a simple men’s t-shirt, look at the equivalent for women. It’s more expensive and thinner.
People always say ‘vote with your wallet’ as if women didn’t already have to deal with the ridiculousness of non-standard sizes, bloating, bra compatibility, and constantly being heavily judged for appearances. Taking all of this into account, better fabric and pockets are a premium that can’t always be afforded or not even offered.
What does my head in is the way so many casual clothes like t-shirts are pointlessly gendered. There’s way more variance between one individual person and the next, versus the difference between men and womens’ bodies as an overall group. There’s plenty of top-heavy guys just as there’s plenty of justice-chested ladies, so why not just market casual clothes based on what shape they are rather than what gender you should conform to in order to wear it, and let the customer decide whether a given design is too girly or manly for them.
Sports shoes are the worst offenders, because stylistically these days 98% of them look absolutely identical but are split by gender anyway for no fucking reason.
Yeah I do this. I never buy clothes myself. Usually kinda just acquire stuff over time. It goes good -> everyday -> work -> rags
Space! Of course!
I knew I forgot to look somewhere for that shirt… er, rag…?
Whatever I can still fix it!
Maybe…?
