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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

How Much Clothing Do I Really Need?

Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Colette Media

Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Crafts, Arts

4.9830 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever look at your closet and wonder, how much of this stuff do I really need? In today's episode, we share some approaches to this question, and ideas we've used (or want to use) to eliminate clutter and maintain a reasonable wardrobe.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

0:10.1

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

0:12.4

Today we're talking about how to figure out how much clothing you really want and really need.

0:18.3

We're going to cover why it's so hard to stop acquiring more stuff and six practical things

0:24.1

that you can do to figure out whether you really are collecting clutter instead of making

0:28.1

things that are really personally meaningful to you.

0:31.6

So we have an icebreaker for makers today and our icebreaker to start us off.

0:37.2

Haley, what percentage of your clothing would you

0:39.4

guess is handmade by you? Oh, man. I would say 25 to 30 percent currently. That's pretty good.

0:50.9

Do you think? I don't know. I think that people maybe expect that I might have more.

0:57.1

I do have a lot of secondhand stuff, to be fair.

1:00.3

But yeah, I'd say about 25%.

1:02.3

I feel like my goal would be 50%.

1:04.9

I feel like that's pretty like a realistic goal.

1:08.2

I think mine is probably not too different. I would probably guess 30%

1:13.2

for me as well. And I think I also buy a lot of secondhand stuff. I don't like to buy a lot of new

1:21.6

clothing. And when I do, I try to buy from small brands or made in the U.S. or ethically made stuff.

1:29.3

And so I think I own a lot of jeans and I don't really like sewing jeans.

1:34.0

So that kind of throws me on me off.

1:37.0

But I would guess about 30%.

1:39.1

I would like it to be higher though.

1:41.6

I think that there's definitely been times where I've had a higher percentage,

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