the lie of clothing overconsumption, i’m ranting again

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• 00:00

  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.

• 00:17

  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.

• 00:31

  Hannah Montana never has to feel that feeling because she has one of everything in that closet of hers.

• 00:39

  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.

• 01:06

  And then I started making my own money when I was 16.

• 01:10

  And one of the things I was most excited about when I first started making money was now I get to buy clothes.

• 01:16

  And I had always wanted to have a lot of clothes.

• 01:19

  I'd grown up seeing people that I admire get dressed in the morning in a fucking packed closet.

• 01:28

  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.

• 01:38

  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.

• 01:50

  And so I got really into thrifting.

• 01:52

  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.

• 02:02

  I'd come out with 20 things.

• 02:04

  It was kind of awesome.

• 02:06

  So I started slowly but surely building my wardrobe.

• 02:09

  And I didn't just buy things from the thrift shop.

• 02:12

  I was also buying things from in urban Outfitters, from a unif, from Nordstrom, like, I don't know.

• 02:19

  I mean, I was peppering in nicer things as well.

• 02:22

  But for the most part, I was building my wardrobe from the thrift store.

• 02:26

  I was giving myself that feeling of options in the only way that I could at the time, which was through thrift shopping.

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