You own everything you will ever need

How do you know how long I've got to live?

Who are you?

Do you have your 'fat wardrobe' pulled together? Because that day is coming

it's never enough...human nature.

I do NOT have all the clothes I need for the rest of my life.

“ Why do you keep buying stuff, especially clothes?”

I don’t see how that’s any of your business.

I get that, OP -- and when I do need something, I buy it used. For the most part, old stuff was made better and lasts longer anyway.

But you'll never convince these guys of that.

Thanks for the insight Donnie Two Dolls

WE HAVE IT ALL

Because clothes and shoes never wear out and appliances never stop working? Why do you care so much, OP?

You think a Sonoma t-shirt from Kohls is gonna last 40 years? You think an Uppland couch from IKEA will? You think people don't gain or lose weight? You think we're suppose to look the other way when Hallmark updates their Golden Girls ornaments? Fuck off, OP.

[quote]You think a Sonoma t-shirt from Kohls is gonna last 40 years?

I just sold 30 of my (H-D logo) T-shirts to a guy for $5/apiece, and he was happy to get them.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

I buy less and care less about clothes and fashion. But I still like to wear well fitting clothes that aren't overly worn looking. But other than the shopping experience, thrift stores are fine with me.

I dont like the smell of thrift stores.

DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL!!

You’re not the boss of me cuntface!

U didn't say any of this in October 2024.

Back then you said Sleepy Joe has to go because he was too fucking old and detached from the daily lives of average Americans.

You said your orange lord and "saver" would deliver JAWBS and low grow-suh-reesies prices to the fallen Americans.

Now? in 2025?

You say personal financial hardships, including job loss and home eviction are necessary to fulfill the vision of your lord orange god who is playing 4-d chess while we mortals are playing checkers.

You say we own too much shit and the bare store shelves should be our new way of life.

You say the booming stock market (under the Biden admin) is deserving of a correction, (downwards).

You say egg farming is an exploitive and violent industry, we should eat fewer eggs or just wait for the prices to go down.

You say a lot of things, all rubbish, all lies, all the time.

I buy classic looks that don't go out of style. I don't go for trends.

All these people would register for the communist party and invite rupaul over to read their kids a bedtime story if trump told them to. Utterly unprincipled worms

They are taking out payday loans to purchase groceries, that is how far gone magats are.

Cult members who are deserving of a jonestown ending.

#r8 Just like Bogie and Bacall?

Things you have to buy every year:

Underpants

T-shirts

Socks

Pillowcases

Kitchen Towels

Things You Have To Buy Every Couple Years:

Sheets

Towels

Shoes

Sweat pants/leisure pants/whatever you lay around the house in

Jeans/khackis/whatever pant you run around in

Small appliances do not last very long anymore...within a five year period you're probably buying a new coffee maker or microwave or hand mixer or...

Laptops last about 4 years and they're falling apart/obsolete.

Cell phones are obsolete after about 4 years.

Not replacing this dick and that’s a fact.

R23 I've had my android for 8 years and it's totally fine. I've had my MacBook Pro since 2015 and it's also perfectly fine. What the hell are you doing to your devices that they're "falling apart" after 4 years?

Op, you could be right about everything but the clothes.

R25 Weird...you have a Mac Book for a computer and an Android phone.

I have an iPhone...10 or 11? It's fine but it gets slower all the time. I'm not close to trading it in though...but, in two years I'll probably be forced to get a new one.

I'm not rich and I don't use Macs. Not only because I can't afford them but...I'm not a huge fan. They're fine.

I work from home and buy my own laptop. I'm on my laptop 10 hours a day most week days, off and on. They last about 4 years before they fall apart...literally, fall apart. The screen was actually falling off my last Lenovo, which was one of the cheaper plastic ones. I spent more money this time, and got a better case so hopefully this one lasts longer.

R17 = Taylor Swift

Leveno is Chinese. Malware is preloaded

R27 I need the MacBook Pro for work (I'm a sound editor), so it gets PLENTY of wear and tear, and it's still in fighting shape. Androids are MUCH heartier stock than iPhones. I think Macs are a better investment for computers, and Androids for phones. iPhones are built to die.

[quote]R2 Do you have your 'fat wardrobe' pulled together? Because that day is coming —sooner than you think

Everyone needs some disaster pants tucked away. Buy them now.

(I howled when I first encountered that phrase in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Clarice is examining a victim’s closet and notes, “Like most women, Catherine had clothes in varying sizes. Some medium, some large, plus a few pair of disaster pants.”)

LOL @ "disaster pants" R31. I have watched it several times but never caught that line.

[Quote] Because clothes and shoes never wear out and appliances never stop working? Why do you care so much, OP?

You don’t buy new clothes because the old ones wore out. You buy new shirts and pants because you’re addicted to buying stuff, thinking they’ll suddenly make you look like the models in the magazines

I didn’t touch my closet of clothes for 5 years during the pandemic. I refuse to buy more.

Well, except for stretchy pants

Advertising has conditioned us to believe that life will be so much better if we bought the latest thing—appliances, clothes, shampoo. Each and every time, when we fell for it, it didn’t change our lives much at all.

Resist the urge. It’s actually freeing to commit to not buying any more clothes in the next year no matter how great a sale supposedly is.

I buy very few new things, just food, things for the kitchen and bathroom, cleaning products, and clothes. I'm not a clothes horse and buy with an eye to keeping them a long time. Electronics I tend to keep for many years (I just replaced a 2011 MacBook with a new one), though I do replace my mobile about every 3+ years.

Except for some lighting, my furniture is antique or old or custom made to last for many years. Only some of the paintings on the walls were bought new, the rest is stuff that people owned before me whether 50 years ago or 500 years.

No car. My house is very old.

I have a lot of things, but very few of them are doing the manufacturing industries any favor.

I know a recession is coming and I could lose my job.

I’m trying to save up as much as I can. So, only buying essentials like food, gas, and toiletries

[Quote] I just replaced a 2011 MacBook with a new one

I just replaced by 2012 one with a new one. Surprising how long it lasted. I only use my computer for internet and email so it’s not like I’m stressing it much

Even that shitty tshirt from Walmart you bought will last forever, so stop trying to convince us you’re buying new clothes because the old one wore out

Apparently if you alternate shoes, they last much longer

Oooo -- big he-man construction worker wearing out his t-shirts.

Yeah, sure.

T-shirts are not forever, not even if you stay the same size forever. They lose their shape, they develop tiny holes, wear thin, fade strangely, stain, etc.

I still wear a couple T-shirts I thought I had overpaid for in the late 1980s, but they have held up very well. Others which appeared to be of good quality lose the ghost within a scant few years.

I'm not especially vain but like my clothes to be in reasonably good order. I don't imagine everyone likes wearing T-shirts oddly stretched out of shape with unremovable stains and faded colors and holes. Because it's possible to keep a t-shirt until one's own death doesn't make it a sound idea.

Those are the best shirts for sleeping in, the thinned out ones.

R33 yes, my clothes DO wear out. I am actually very frugal, but I’m not walking around in clothes or shoes that have developed holes/torn. You are coming off as insufferable.

[Quote] T-shirts are not forever, not even if you stay the same size forever. They lose their shape, they develop tiny holes, wear thin, fade strangely, stain, etc.

It take a good 10 years of wearing before they do any of that—unless you wear the exact same Tshirt every day

[quote]U didn't say any of this in October 2024.

Did you troll-dar OP, or are you just talking out of your ass?

The witchfinder DLer who combs through every thread looking for what he assumes are MAGATs is just as tiresome as the MAGATs themselves.

THANK LAWDY FOR THEM TARIFFS!

Ours is a consumer economy. If we stopped buying things we don’t need it would fail.

Don’t buy, say, a new car? That impacts the livelihood of the automaker’s suppliers, the autoworkers who make the car, the truckers and railroads who ship them, the dealers who sell and service them, the oil companies (if internal combustion) whose gas they won’t sell, the tire and floormat makers, and the state and local governments that won’t collect taxes and fees to name just a few of the people and entities involved.

Stop buying stuff, even crap, and the whole house of cards falls down.

[quote]R32 LOL @ "disaster pants.” I have watched it several times but never caught that line.

It is in the novel : )

Stealth right wing thread. Get ready for empty shelves, losers!

Beware these kinds of threads because the trolls and bots are out in full force.

Trump and Musk said before the election there would be austerity R50. Why did the dummy voters not believe them?

Because austerity is a three syllable word that is unfamiliar to Americans.

Bare store shelves, depleted 401ks, shortages, NO JOBS= MAGA.

Someone just discovered r/anti-consumption.

R52 it is four syllables

Congrats to OP for wearing the same pair of underwear from now until death

You’re not my real dad, OP!

I have decided to put off non-vital home improvement projects for the duration of the Trump presidency, lest I do anything to help the economy.

[quote] Stop buying stuff, even crap, and the whole house of cards falls down

Mic drop.

If your t-shirts are lasting ten years then you're not wearing them very frequently. Once a year?

I wear boring white t shirts to sleep in. I probably have about16 of them and I buy a 3 pack of new ones every 6 to 8 months or so and retire the oldest t shirts to the rag bin. By the end of their wearing life cycle, they're pretty worn out...stretched out collars and dingy looking. (Yes, I separate my whites from my coloreds when washing. I was raised right.)

For everyday t shirts, the collars get saggy, the fabric gets thinner and if they have any appliques on them, they start getting flakey. Even if you're wearing a plain colored t, they start looking a bit rag baggy within two years with regular wear.

There was a comment up higher about t shirts from Walmart...I doubt there are too many Walmart clothing shoppers on DL. At least I hope so.

No. Planned obsolescence makes that impossible.

[quote] separate my whites from my coloreds

Do I need to say it?

You need to stock up when things you need are on sale, your fav body wash, shampoo etc

You aren't the boss of me.

"You will own nothing and you will be happy"

You’ll have nothing and like it!

I don’t have a Bundt pan, OP. I think I would like one.

I get what you mean, op, but unfortunately you are wrong. Socks, underwear and ttrousers must always be replaced. I have plenty of the other stuff.

Oh, and cigarettes.

[quote] Do you have your 'fat wardrobe' pulled together? Because that day is coming

it's already here.

Hanging your clothes to dry--t-shirts and underwear included-- extends the life of them more than threefold. In garments that have any nylon, elastic, etc (anything with any amount of "stretch") , this is especially true, as heat breaks down these materials quickly. You can easily make cheap/fast-fashion pieces last decades if you hang them to dry instead of using dryers.

Why are white me so stupid?

So I take it you will never be buying toilet paper again OP?

I have sheets that are almost 20 years old. They are as soft as silk.

OP, I like this thread. There's a documentary - "Buy Now" - that makes your point. The only thing I will always need will be new clothes, new underwear and new appliances when they break. No more "Ronco products", gadgets, or plastic. I never thought I'd adopt hippy values in my 70s. Full disclosure: I've bought shitty stuff in the past just because I had money and thought it would make me feel good. Now, just having a nice cushion of money and no 'wants' makes me feel good.

The new "Ronco" products are the Keurig and Nespresso Machine. We need this to enjoy coffee?

[quote] They last about 4 years before they fall apart...literally, fall apart.

You must be really rough with your stuff.

[Quote]They last about 4 years before they fall apart...literally, fall apart.

[quote]I have sheets that are almost 20 years old. They are as soft as silk.

R72 That's because they are TWENTY YEARS OLD! I envy you.

Until I die or the apocalypse happens, whichever comes first, I'll buy what I want. Stuff can be fun.

OP, I hate to contradict you, but I do need a few new items for my capsule wardrobe after a particularly nasty moth infestation.

The shelves will be empty in a couple of weeks. The MAGA freakout will be delicious.

Why would you want fast cheap fashion to last forever?

I agree that driers are hard on clothes...that's why I don't dry my nice clothes in them at all, or just part way dry and then let them air dry the rest of the way.

However, I don't have the space, or desire, to hang Target/H&M sweatpants, sweatshirts, t-shirts, etc to air dry in my apartment. It's going to shorten their life slightly, but it's cheap clothing...it doesn't need to last for 20 years.

R72 I'm curious about these 20 year old sheets...what are they made of? Cotton? Linen? Thread count? Are we talking top AND bottom sheet?

I use linen top sheets and pillow cases but cotton bottoms...partly because linen is pricy and bottom sheets wear out faster than top sheets.

My lovely linen top sheets get softer and softer. I think the oldest top sheet I have is about 5 years old.

R81 Well... I suppose the POINT of preserving your clothing for as long as you can no matter how much it cost would be if say, you didn't want to produce more waste unnecessarily, contributing more to landfills unnecessarily and spending more money than you need to unnecessarily, forcing you to work more than you need to unnecessarily.

R83 What's the point of making $24 sweatpants you wear around the house last a smidge longer? I don't approve of idiotic wastefulness but I don't think my cheap cotton sweatpants are gonna tip the earth over the edge to total environmental collapse. They're my in house clothes...I wear them until they're pretty ratty then they frequently get chopped up to use as rags. I'm 61 years old...I'm not buying a new pair of sweat pants every week and tossing them out after I wear them twice.

I also have no desire to fastidiously care for them so they'll last 20 years. Who the fuck wants to wear 20 year old ratty sweatpants?