Budgeting Clothing

Do you budget your clothing?
Not in the utility clothing kind of way – so many buttons permitted per garment, so many inches of stitching or feet of hem – but in the sense that you have a fixed amount of money each year that you can spend on clothing.

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Realizing just how much she spent this year…
How does your clothing budget work – and does it work for you?

Two Ways to Look at Stuff

I’ve always gone for the traditional method of decluttering: subtract the unwanted. Marie Kondo suggests the opposite approach: subtract everything and only add back what you really want to keep.


Have you ever tried that approach? How much of a difference did it (or would it) make, do you think?