Dejunk Yourself Week Two: A Capsule Wardrobe Without the Capsule

How to figure out the age-old problem of clothing

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Aaah clothes. We love them. Sometimes a little bit too much:

• The average person owns 148 items of clothing (in the US, it’s 173)

• On average, people spend $161 per month on clothing

• We only wear 10% of our clothes on a day-on-day basis

• 40% of our clothes are never worn

• We buy 60% more clothes - but keep them for half as long - as we did 15 years ago

• 350,000 tonnes of wearable clothes end up in landfill

• The average American throws away 65 pounds of clothing every year

In other words, clothing is a pickle. Too many of us have too much of it but don’t know how or what to do with it all. Do you throw away? Donate? Keep just in case?

Welcome to week two of Dejunk Yourself - a comprehensive how-to guide to curating a beautiful, practical closet that makes you feel neither guilty nor deprived.