The average household spends about 2% of their budgetaround $1,600 every yearon clothes.
Here are at least ten ways to save money and still have great clothes.
Perhaps you’re thinking “just don’t buy any more clothes!”
Gaining weight, losing weight, and/or trying to clothe children who grow like weeds are also challenges.
Buy Better Quality Clothing
Wait, spendmoremoney on clothes?
Feel free to disregard this advice for kids, though.
How do you know if it’s the absolute lowest price it’ll go?
Don’t Wash Clothes as Often
This sounds bad.
Protect the clothes you love and have bought withvacuum storage bagsor canvas storage containers and mothballs or cedar blocks.
Make Your Jeans Last Longer
Perhaps no piece of clothing gets more care and attention than jeans.
Know Whether You Should Buy an Item of Clothing
It happens to the best of us.
Otherwise, it’s probably not worth it.
One scarf can betied 25 waysand a tie can be tiedover 100 ways.
Instead of buying new,take it to a tailor.
It’s cheaper than buying new and will look better on you than the default size.
In a similar vein, you could get a quality pair of secondhand shoesrepaired for cheaper than buying new.
You cancreate a work-friendly wardrobe on a budgetor any other kind of wardrobe byfocusing on the essentials.
Title illustration by Tina Mailhot-Roberge.
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