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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Why I Love Clothing Rental [Encore!]

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered about clothing rental? Christine has rented since the fall of 2022 to the exclusion of buying clothes, with the exception of underwear and a couple of pairs of basic jeans. She shares her original “My Clothing Rental Experiment” episode and follows with encore notes about why she decided to stick with clothing rental after her professional transition, what she loves about it, and what she has learned in years since starting her membership. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.

0:03.0

A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:06.0

But that's not where her story ends.

0:08.0

Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:11.0

she got her score into much better shape

0:13.0

and relocated to a box fresh new place,

0:16.0

with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.

0:19.0

Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian, better your score,

0:28.7

better your story.

0:35.3

Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:42.4

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

0:56.8

Hello, friends. My recent conversation with Dacey Gillespie made me think about my journey

1:02.4

with clothing rental, which kicked off in the fall of 2022. I shared about my clothing rental

1:08.7

experiment here on the podcast on December 1st of that year.

1:12.7

And it seems to be working because, well, I've been doing it for about two and a half years.

1:18.3

In that time frame, the only thing I have purchased is a pack of underwear and two pairs of old

1:23.1

navy jeans because I was tired of wearing skinny jeans, so wanted some basic straight-leg jeans.

1:28.9

My family has otherwise gifted me pajamas and socks at my requested holidays or birthdays,

1:34.5

but otherwise, I have to say, it has been pretty amazing to not buy anything.

1:40.0

In mid-20203, after I left my creative director agency job to strike out on my own as a freelancer,

1:46.5

I had way less meetings, even when I eventually was managing the same number of clients,

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