I remember being 12 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. 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.

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

15 in watching fashion YouTubers pick out an outfit in their gorgeous walk-in closet in thinking to myself,

if I just had a walking 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. And then I started making my own money

when I was 16. And one of the things I was most excited about when I first started making money was,

now I get to buy clothes.

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

I'd grown up seeing people that I admire get dressed in the morning in a fucking packed closet. 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. And so instead of going straight to

urban outfiters, 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. And so I got really into thrifting. And what was great about that was that I could go in and

spend 40 bucks, which is like the same price as, you know, a cute top from urban outfiters,

I'd come out with 20 things. It was kind of awesome. So I started slowly but surely building my

wardrobe. And I didn't just buy things from the thrift shop. I was also buying things from in urban

outfitters, from a UNIF, from Nordstrom. Like,strom like i don't know i mean i was peppering in

nicer things as well but for the most part i was building my wardrobe from the thrift store i was

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