What's the Goldilocks zone for amount of clothing?
Posted by BurkeSooty@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 8 comments
How many pairs of trousers/shorts/jumpers etc is the optimum amount to own? We're sorting the house out as we're putting it up for sale, and seem to have more clothes than storage but I'm struggling to ditch anything; what sort of criteria have you used when deciding what to ditch and what to keep?
General_Knowledge881@reddit
I (f) have 2 pairs of jeans (one casual one dressy) and 3 pairs of shorts. About 5-6 dresses, one pair of sandals, one pair of wedges, one pair of fashion trainers, one pair of sports trainers and a pair of winter boots... I think I may be on the low side hahha
huskydaisy@reddit
Depends on how often you do the laundry and how often you change clothes. Personally I like to have enough clothes for each temperature range/time of year to cover a laundry cycle plus a couple of days extra.
cypherspaceagain@reddit
I can't decide which of my eleven pairs of shorts I don't need any more. But I'm reasonably sure I don't need eleven.
sameoldkit@reddit
How long have you had the clothes for? After 10 years I've found they get a bit sad but some of my favourites are going for 12 years
Lion-Resident@reddit
My partner has 25 pairs of trousers. I think that is excessive
jamnut@reddit
A wee bit yeah
SpiderLight97@reddit
I personally go by “how long has it been since I needed/wanted to wear/use this particular thing”. The number of clothing articles you’ll need would massively depend on your lifestyle and activities, though. For some 2 pairs of each would last years. For others a few dozen of each is not unreasonable.
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