Speaker 1: Episode two eleven, How to Save Money on Clothes. Welcome
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Speaker 1: Jen and Jill O. Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Jen, my name is Jill, And today
Speaker 1: we are revisiting a topic that we first talked about
Speaker 1: an episode two, literally episode two of the show. That's right,
Speaker 1: we are expanding and I think in the past four
Speaker 1: years we've maybe gained a little more insight on the topic.
Speaker 1: So clothing, it is one of the most searched for
Speaker 1: terms after how to save money on clothes, Like that's
Speaker 1: one of the hop ones. It's like on groceries, and
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Speaker 1: so much. So let's get into to talking about clothes. Uh,
Speaker 1: there are a few episodes that you can queue up
Speaker 1: to listen to after this if you love clothes. The
Speaker 1: first one is episode eight nine, letting Go of Material
Speaker 1: Possessions with our friend Desiree from the minimal Ish podcast,
Speaker 1: another great show to listen to. And then episode two,
Speaker 1: how to spend Less on Clothing, So that one's a
Speaker 1: lot of I would say, I wish we could switch
Speaker 1: the names of those because this one's kind of how
Speaker 1: to spend Less on clothing, and I think episode two
Speaker 1: is how to Save Money on Clothing, So they may
Speaker 1: have flip flop titles, but both are still good and
Speaker 1: you if you love saving money, episode ninety like how
Speaker 1: to Save money on transportation. Gas prices are high, so
Speaker 1: that will help if you need to get to the
Speaker 1: store and buy clothes. It's just another way, so that
Speaker 1: it's just another way to save. So those are a
Speaker 1: few two and uh, we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: how to spend Less on clothing and then also like
Speaker 1: how to do a full clothing shopping ban, which we
Speaker 1: love a big fan of no spend challenges. So let's
Speaker 1: get into the first one. This is ten ways to
Speaker 1: save money on clothes and dot com. What do you
Speaker 1: think of this one? Jill? Really excellent. I think it
Speaker 1: probably is worth going through all ten of the ways.
Speaker 1: Some are overlaps, so some of them will go through
Speaker 1: a little bit quicker, but just to start out with
Speaker 1: the begin with a great tip buying fewer but quality clothing.
Speaker 1: This is one that I will encourage for multiple reasons. Certainly,
Speaker 1: I think it's better for the environment and people humanity
Speaker 1: when we are not contributing to fast fashion. Now that's
Speaker 1: not to say that just because something is more expensive
Speaker 1: it is not a part of the fast fashion industry,
Speaker 1: so we can do our research on that. But to
Speaker 1: focus more on spending money on quality clothing that we enjoy,
Speaker 1: that's timeless, that's gonna last us for a while. That
Speaker 1: compare with a lot of things, rather than spending less
Speaker 1: money on less quality clothing, but constantly purchasing, throwing out,
Speaker 1: getting rid of, or stockpiling our closet with clothing we're
Speaker 1: not actually wearing. So if we're going to aim at anything,
Speaker 1: I think this first one is a great aim to
Speaker 1: really begin to pare down our closets and make sure
Speaker 1: that the things that we have, we really like, our
Speaker 1: quality will last us. And with that we can spend
Speaker 1: more money on it because it's going to save us
Speaker 1: more money in the long run. And if you're only
Speaker 1: wearing of your clothing, then you don't have to make
Speaker 1: sure hundred percent of it is great quality. You only
Speaker 1: have to make sure is good quality. So the second
Speaker 1: is that when you buy second hand, you save money.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we talked about this all the time. Um.
Speaker 1: The author in this article said that she got a
Speaker 1: shirt for like fifty cents from the thrift store and
Speaker 1: wore it out. I personally go to a good will
Speaker 1: near me that I know has good stuff, UM, and
Speaker 1: the shirt there are like five dollars each, So it's
Speaker 1: still less expensive than buying new. UM. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: pricier for other than other thrift stores, but I will
Speaker 1: pay a little bit more for the convenience because I
Speaker 1: don't love the hunt of thrift ng um, so so
Speaker 1: that works for me. I will also buy clothes on
Speaker 1: threat up, which is an online thrift store, and that's
Speaker 1: even a little pricier. But again, I can shop from
Speaker 1: the comfort of my home. Um, I usually have credits,
Speaker 1: so that works for me, and I think since they're
Speaker 1: a little more expensive, I will naturally just buy less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might not buy as much stuff that way if
Speaker 1: you're doing it online. I just took my friend Ashlynd
Speaker 1: to a goodwill outlet store. I don't know if anyone
Speaker 1: has ever done that before, but it's where you do
Speaker 1: a lot of digging. It is so much more digging
Speaker 1: than your typical second hand experience. Everything's thrown into bins.
Speaker 1: There's no rhyme or reason or organization to it, and
Speaker 1: you pay by the pound and sometimes they even have
Speaker 1: deals on how much the poundage costs on any given
Speaker 1: day of the week. And I was looking for something
Speaker 1: for the Frugal Friends party that we just had a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I didn't find it there.
Speaker 1: But Ashlyn had never been to a good will outlet
Speaker 1: store or anything like it, and the look on her
Speaker 1: face the whole time, She's like, oh my goodness. I
Speaker 1: had to adopt a strategy, like I had to keep
Speaker 1: my arms cross my hands, under my arm pits, just
Speaker 1: to make sure I didn't touch anything. We walked out,
Speaker 1: and now I will say I did hand sanitize once
Speaker 1: we walked out, because but I did do some digging.
Speaker 1: I didn't adopt her strategy, and I actually dug thinking
Speaker 1: I might find a treasure. I didn't, but she definitely
Speaker 1: looked like she needed to be debriefed. After words, She's okay. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a new experience that has led to
Speaker 1: immense personal growth. Speaking for her, you know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think she would agree. Yeah, so maybe don't start
Speaker 1: with the outlet if you're new to secondhand, you can
Speaker 1: start small. I like the author recommends like Facebook pages
Speaker 1: that are bi seles By, swapped and cell. Actually, she
Speaker 1: also recommends eBay, which I really like for find finding
Speaker 1: specific things. If there's some a brand or like an
Speaker 1: item that I am specifically looking for, eBay is so good.
Speaker 1: I mean and and thrown up in Poshmark are two.
Speaker 1: But I find a lot of posh Mark and eBay
Speaker 1: are cross posted, and I usually find the cheaper price
Speaker 1: at eBay. So yeah, I like. I like that. A
Speaker 1: lot Number three on here is to save money when
Speaker 1: you buy clothes on sale now specifically talking about looking
Speaker 1: at the seasons. So yes, you can go to a
Speaker 1: clearance section. Still make sure that you're making wise decisions
Speaker 1: for yourself. And again, we never want to encourage people
Speaker 1: to contribute to fast fashion, but even your higher end
Speaker 1: stores or your more quality clothing is going to have
Speaker 1: deals in the off seasons, right Like if it's not summertime,
Speaker 1: then you can probably buy summertime clothing at a discounted price.
Speaker 1: I love the model that gets repeated through this article
Speaker 1: that is a bargain isn't a bargain unless you need it,
Speaker 1: So don't just buy something because it's on sale, because
Speaker 1: it's typically more money. And I love this tip embedded
Speaker 1: within number three, which is to keep a list, a
Speaker 1: running list of what you need. This is one of
Speaker 1: the things that I've adopted, not just for clothing, for
Speaker 1: literally anything. If it's not an immediate need, like Okay,
Speaker 1: i'm out of soap, I have to get soap the
Speaker 1: next time we go to the store, but a hey,
Speaker 1: I really need or it would complete my wardrobe. If
Speaker 1: I got a white shirt that's going to pair with
Speaker 1: like five of the different bottoms that I have, that's
Speaker 1: not an immediate need, but it's something that could go
Speaker 1: on a list. I keep a Google Notes list on
Speaker 1: my phone of things that I want to look out
Speaker 1: for when I'm at a yard sale or a thrift store,
Speaker 1: or I happen to find something on Facebook marketplace. So
Speaker 1: it's not something that I feel the need to get
Speaker 1: right then and there. But when I'm out, I can
Speaker 1: pull up that list and say, all right, what is
Speaker 1: it that I'm looking for? Do I still feel like
Speaker 1: I need that? And if I can find what I
Speaker 1: what I want within the price range that I'm looking
Speaker 1: for them, great, I can take it off the list.
Speaker 1: So I love that trick. I think it has saved
Speaker 1: me a lot of money. It's helped me build patients
Speaker 1: for the things that I desire and just wait for
Speaker 1: the deal to come by. Yeah. I like the in
Speaker 1: bold letters, she says, a bargain isn't a bargain unless
Speaker 1: she need it. That is so true, And I think
Speaker 1: even more so with sales shoulder seasons, when they're at
Speaker 1: the end of summer, when they're trying to clear out
Speaker 1: summer stuff to bring in fall, that's the best time
Speaker 1: to get summer deals versus if it's winter time. They
Speaker 1: assume if you're trying to buy a tank top in
Speaker 1: the winter, like you really need it for some reason,
Speaker 1: so there's not going to be a big discount on that.
Speaker 1: But when they're trying to clear out excess stock, that's
Speaker 1: when you're going to find the deals. So like shoulder
Speaker 1: seasons are the best. Fourth, this one I don't agree
Speaker 1: with is to grab a bargain by shopping the outlet store.
Speaker 1: So I worked in retail, and I know that outlet
Speaker 1: clothing is made specifically for outlet store. So it's not
Speaker 1: like the good quality stuff that doesn't sell and then
Speaker 1: it gets shifted to an outlet. This is more like
Speaker 1: tester pieces. They're like testing if it sells, and if
Speaker 1: it sells in the outlet store, then they'll make the
Speaker 1: better quality for the regular store. So it's it's even
Speaker 1: faster than fast fashion, I think. So I don't uh
Speaker 1: necessarily love this one. I don't agree with number four
Speaker 1: because it's really even cheaper quality than the regular version
Speaker 1: of the outlet store. Number five, then this one's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a man one as well. So number
Speaker 1: five is you can find great deals through store memberships.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that they'd say, if this is a
Speaker 1: problem area, definitely don't sign up and get rid of
Speaker 1: as many memberships as possible. But if there are brands
Speaker 1: or stores that you particularly like and there's something you
Speaker 1: are looking for, sometimes the stars can align where you
Speaker 1: get an update on a sale that's happening, or particular
Speaker 1: access to a sale by being a member to that store.
Speaker 1: So this is like I'm on the fence about it.
Speaker 1: I know that there have been times where you know,
Speaker 1: the place where I get my undergarments from happens to
Speaker 1: be having a massive sale and I'm able to get
Speaker 1: the things that I need. But like they say, there
Speaker 1: can be the way out. The downside of that, if
Speaker 1: you are a person who gets the mailers, the emails,
Speaker 1: the text messages, and it causes you to impulse purchase,
Speaker 1: then this is not a worthwhile tip for you. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna save um clothes. You're gonna spend on clothes.
Speaker 1: So maybe I would even encourage you that if you
Speaker 1: are out there's something that that you are identifying as
Speaker 1: a need, something you want to be purchasing on, to
Speaker 1: look up that store and see if there's any coupons
Speaker 1: or deals or upcoming sales that they may be running
Speaker 1: and maybe hold off on purchasing. I know I do this,
Speaker 1: this is not clothing, but I'll do this with like
Speaker 1: craft stores if there's something that I need to get.
Speaker 1: This just happened for our party a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and needed to get fabric to be able to hang
Speaker 1: in our garage, make it try and not let it
Speaker 1: look as much like a garage. And so we just
Speaker 1: looked up a cupon and found a cupon online and
Speaker 1: I got like off of the fabric because I was
Speaker 1: just able to have access to that cupon online. So
Speaker 1: I would say try that out more so than getting
Speaker 1: all of the emails from all of these different stores.
Speaker 1: Six is to shop around online because it's hard to
Speaker 1: shop online and not try on the clothes and then
Speaker 1: be scared that you can't return it. So here are
Speaker 1: her tips that I really like. Take your body measurements
Speaker 1: at greatly, have them written down so that you know
Speaker 1: exactly you can align it with the sizing chart, and like,
Speaker 1: no specifically what sizes you are in the brands that
Speaker 1: you like the most, and kind of like stick to
Speaker 1: those brands. This is very helpful and threat up because
Speaker 1: I buy a lot of old navy stuff just because
Speaker 1: it fits well, so I know my measurements and on
Speaker 1: styles there also use the look and drape of a
Speaker 1: piece of clothing. We obviously recommend compostable, so a hundred
Speaker 1: percent cotton silk stuff like that. The more you can
Speaker 1: buy that's compostable, the better. Try to stay away from
Speaker 1: synthetics if you're buying new, like, try to stop buying
Speaker 1: like synthetic materials and then look for ways to save
Speaker 1: on shipping. Like whenever we shop on Amazon, we don't
Speaker 1: have prime, so we make sure our cart is over
Speaker 1: twenty before we check out. You know, I don't always
Speaker 1: try to hit the minimum for shipping. Sometimes I will
Speaker 1: pay for shipping just so that I don't accumulate that
Speaker 1: like more clothing just to get free shipping sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it's worth it to pay a little bit more,
Speaker 1: Like I'll pay six dollars shipping instead of a twelve
Speaker 1: dollar shirt with free shipping. And I know that's kind
Speaker 1: of like anti frugal mentality, But if I don't love
Speaker 1: the shirt, if I'm just buying it to like get
Speaker 1: free shipping, then it's not worth it to me. And
Speaker 1: if it's a twelve dollar shirt. It's probably not that
Speaker 1: great of quality either. So yeah, those are some of
Speaker 1: the understand the return policy before purchasing. And then she
Speaker 1: says to sign up and get emails, but I say, no,
Speaker 1: that's key. Yes, absolutely, way too many people we lose
Speaker 1: money by not paying attention to the return policy. Um,
Speaker 1: but I thought the sizing thing was the best. Definitely
Speaker 1: pay attention to like this the cuts. Understand what that
Speaker 1: means in genes um stuff like that number seven one
Speaker 1: that will move through quite quickly because it's an overlap.
Speaker 1: But again, buying quality and particularly highlighting timeless styles, things
Speaker 1: that you know will last. It's not on trend. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be on trend, but maybe it's timeless something
Speaker 1: that you believe could last. Awhile you'll wear it often.
Speaker 1: It can match with a lot of things in your closet.
Speaker 1: You know. This is the think quality T shirt, little
Speaker 1: black dress, great pair of jeans, like the timeless stuff.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, this is probably my gemin quality, my
Speaker 1: favorite one on here. Then eight nine we can kind
Speaker 1: of combine those. Eight is borrow clothes from a mate.
Speaker 1: I love that, uh, and nine is host a clothing
Speaker 1: swap party. I love these I think they help us
Speaker 1: rewrite the narrative that I have to get an outfit
Speaker 1: for every event, or I have to go shopping when
Speaker 1: I need new clothes, like very common narratives. But instead
Speaker 1: we can rewrite those like invite a few friends over
Speaker 1: that all have similar sizes styles. Three to four people
Speaker 1: is usually enough post a clothing swap party, and you
Speaker 1: can even like check out what each other has that
Speaker 1: they don't want to part with, so you can know,
Speaker 1: like what's available to all of you to borrow when
Speaker 1: there's an event, and make sure it's a mutual agreement.
Speaker 1: You're not just mooching off people. But that's why hosting
Speaker 1: a clothing swap party first helps, and we can start
Speaker 1: to rewrite those narratives that when I need something new,
Speaker 1: I must consume. Maybe when I need something new or
Speaker 1: want something new, you don't always have to need it.
Speaker 1: When you want something new, you can borrow or swap.
Speaker 1: I think even for the people who don't buy a
Speaker 1: lot of clothing that it can be one of the
Speaker 1: biggest pitfalls is a particular event that happens and I've
Speaker 1: got to had a new dress for that thing, and
Speaker 1: now you don't because if the last time you went
Speaker 1: to a wedding was last summer, and the thing you
Speaker 1: wore to that wedding still fits you, go ahead and
Speaker 1: do it again. Yeah, nobody knows what you wore, nobody
Speaker 1: cares what you wore. Even if they know, they don't
Speaker 1: care or borrow. I've done this the lenty of times.
Speaker 1: Just what do you got in your closet? Let me
Speaker 1: wear it? Thank you, And thankfully a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends know that I will absolutely take their sloppy seconds.
Speaker 1: So that's generally how I get new clothing is from
Speaker 1: my friends desiring to not wear their things anymore. So
Speaker 1: thanks guys. Also, I really like that they highlight this
Speaker 1: tip for children. We're primarily looking at this topic from
Speaker 1: the lens of clothing for ourselves as adults, but many
Speaker 1: of us also are responsible for getting clothing for our
Speaker 1: smaller humans, So clothing swaps are great for that. Getting
Speaker 1: together with other moms in your area, within your network,
Speaker 1: swapping clothes, giving hand me downs, even if you have
Speaker 1: another kid on the way. I have plenty of friends
Speaker 1: who kind of still pass clothing around when their kid
Speaker 1: then comes of age again that they need those clothing,
Speaker 1: those clothes back. They give it back, so just you
Speaker 1: keep it within the family. Kids do not wear clothing
Speaker 1: for that long, so definitely consider this rather than spending
Speaker 1: an arm and a leg on new clothes for your kids.
Speaker 1: That's just that's ridiculous. This is I think a little
Speaker 1: bit less less easy. For our male listeners are frugal
Speaker 1: male friends, the clothing options just aren't as great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I noticed Eric had a lot of issues finding clothing,
Speaker 1: and clothing swaps aren't as common amongst his friends, although
Speaker 1: sometimes they'll join in on the hand me down game.
Speaker 1: But if you've got tips, particularly for for male clothing,
Speaker 1: let us know. One of the things that I've seen
Speaker 1: work decently well is like Facebook marketplace. Sometimes guys will
Speaker 1: get rid of lots of clothing. I've done that for Eric,
Speaker 1: and I've actually made more money off of selling Eric's
Speaker 1: clothes than selling my own clothing because it is so
Speaker 1: hard to come by, and the clothing section for men
Speaker 1: is usually a lot smaller at thrift stores and other stores,
Speaker 1: so you know, it just it helps them along the
Speaker 1: way in their own minimalist wardrobe. That's that's my summary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and for our gentleman that do have to buy new clothes,
Speaker 1: natural fibers, cotton wool, stick to those things. M hmm.
Speaker 1: And finally, the last one on this list, which is
Speaker 1: also man, is ten save money by making your own clothes. Jill,
Speaker 1: I thought you would love this one. I love the
Speaker 1: idea mender of mending our own clothes, sewing on buttons,
Speaker 1: making it continue to work. I don't actually think that
Speaker 1: it's cost effective to make our own clothing. And I
Speaker 1: was just in a fabric store recently and there there
Speaker 1: are no dummies over there. At the fabric store. Your
Speaker 1: clothing fabrics will cost you about twenty dollars a yard,
Speaker 1: if not more. Granted there's coupons, but by the time
Speaker 1: you spend the money on the different fabrics that you
Speaker 1: want and then you put time into making it yourself,
Speaker 1: that's a labor of love. I would say. Unless you
Speaker 1: are highly interested in fashion and it's the way that
Speaker 1: you make a statement with your clothing, great, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you're actually gonna save money by making your
Speaker 1: own clothes. You will save money by mending the clothes
Speaker 1: you have or taking a thrift style and like ups
Speaker 1: exactly to be what you want exactly. So let's get
Speaker 1: into our next article, and this is from mid Notion
Speaker 1: on how to stop buying clothes for a year. And
Speaker 1: I love this idea because we I can't remember the
Speaker 1: act the actual number, but like we waste like pounds
Speaker 1: and pounds of clothing every month on average in America,
Speaker 1: like a lot of clothing, like five pieces a month
Speaker 1: or something, and so I think we could all use
Speaker 1: a ache from buying clothes. I think we could all.
Speaker 1: That's a very easy thing to challenge yourself with, is
Speaker 1: to go buying clothing. Uh, And so we love this
Speaker 1: article that kind of goes through that gives us tips
Speaker 1: on how we can do this. And so the first
Speaker 1: one we've already mentioned it, but unsubscribed from retailer emails. Definitely,
Speaker 1: if you're going to try and not buy clothing for
Speaker 1: a year, then you don't need to know about the
Speaker 1: deals that are going on at all of your favorite stores.
Speaker 1: You don't need to do that to yourself. So unsubscribe,
Speaker 1: don't resubscribe, get them out your inbox, and move on. Two.
Speaker 1: I love this one. Unfollowed people who influence you to
Speaker 1: buy stuff. So this is not just social media influencers
Speaker 1: who like show off all these cool things, like we
Speaker 1: We just had a um we're doing interviews for our
Speaker 1: annual Summit Spending Symposium, and we were talking to Caroline
Speaker 1: Bencil and about like comparison and jealousy spending, and we
Speaker 1: had this whole conversation about how rational frugal people are
Speaker 1: buying things, mainly us because we saw them on social media,
Speaker 1: not even from these these influencers quote unquote, but like
Speaker 1: from our friends, and it's because they seem more attainable
Speaker 1: to like, quote unquote perfect lifestyle seems like it should
Speaker 1: be attainable because it's coming from people we know, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's easier to say, like, if you're looking
Speaker 1: at a beautiful magazine with all of these beautiful people
Speaker 1: and and homes and whatnot, it's like, oh, that's for
Speaker 1: a magazine. That's perfect. I can never be like. But
Speaker 1: when it's people we know, we're like, oh, well I could.
Speaker 1: I should be able to attain that, And we buy
Speaker 1: these things and we are influenced by these people. And
Speaker 1: so you can very easily unfollow someone without un following them.
Speaker 1: Instagram has a thing where you can mute someone so
Speaker 1: you're still following them, they won't see that you're not
Speaker 1: following them, but you will not see any of their
Speaker 1: stories and or posts in your feed and Facebook has
Speaker 1: I mean, you can unfollow people on Facebook as well.
Speaker 1: It's easy, highly highly recommend and it serves us well
Speaker 1: for things even unrelated to clothing, So keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: Number three is to really jump start this year of
Speaker 1: not buying clothing with a thirty day challenge. There's all
Speaker 1: kinds of challenges that we can do, but one of
Speaker 1: them is to shop your own closet. Of course, the
Speaker 1: writer of this article has a challenge like that. You
Speaker 1: don't have to get it. You could. You could come
Speaker 1: up with whatever your own challenge would be. But essentially
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of different prompts to help you get
Speaker 1: reacquainted with what's in your closet, how to put together
Speaker 1: different outfits, maybe even discover that some of the less
Speaker 1: worn items in your closet are going to become new staples,
Speaker 1: So really getting acquainted with that rather than going out
Speaker 1: and buying new clothing. It can help us to really
Speaker 1: focus in on what do I already have? How can
Speaker 1: I utilize it in ways that I haven't yet utilized
Speaker 1: what I already own? Yeah, I liked the tips for giving,
Speaker 1: like turning all the hangars backwards. That's a great tip.
Speaker 1: We've all heard that one before. But it does show
Speaker 1: you what you are wearing and what you're not wearing,
Speaker 1: and it can help you be more intentional about rotating
Speaker 1: what you're wearing. So this can be a great way
Speaker 1: to see what you should get rid of and to
Speaker 1: show yourself like what you need to be wearing more of.
Speaker 1: Fourth is to understand what clothes you need for your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: This is one that I actually am. I'm going through.
Speaker 1: I'm going through this really hard because my lifestyle is
Speaker 1: different from what it was five years ago or even
Speaker 1: or like, oh, we were just talking about that on
Speaker 1: a girl's night. Yeah, it's different and it's a better different,
Speaker 1: but my closet still says like I'm a different Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a different body type. I do different things like
Speaker 1: and these are things that I am. I am proud
Speaker 1: to be different, but I haven't made the change in
Speaker 1: my closet. So this is kind of one where you
Speaker 1: have to do some deep inside work. I know we
Speaker 1: all love the deep inside work to like write down, okay,
Speaker 1: what what did I do and this wardrobe? What are
Speaker 1: the things in the wardrobe that are built around that.
Speaker 1: What am I still doing now and what am I
Speaker 1: no longer doing? Um, it's harder for me to get
Speaker 1: rid of like some party dresses or like cool you know,
Speaker 1: going out tops that I don't I mean, I go
Speaker 1: out very rarely and it's a special occasion for me
Speaker 1: and I love it, but I don't need this many
Speaker 1: going out tops. I'm coming to terms with that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then also getting the pants that I used to
Speaker 1: have because I do so many more squats now than
Speaker 1: I used to, and I thought that would make my
Speaker 1: butt smaller, but it's not. It's having a reverse effect.
Speaker 1: So here we are getting rid of some pants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do the deep work, Yeah, do the deep work on this.
Speaker 1: That's real talk. We're sitting at a red light at
Speaker 1: an intersection on our recent girls night and it was
Speaker 1: like end of the day and we saw this two
Speaker 1: females walk by in front of us. They had just
Speaker 1: ended their work day quite obviously in like downtown St. Pete,
Speaker 1: and they were where they were looking so good and
Speaker 1: their business casual coming from probably the amazing high rise
Speaker 1: office that they work in, and or just like, oh
Speaker 1: we all work from home, we don't dress like that anymore.
Speaker 1: We don't none of us are going into an office
Speaker 1: to even have clothing like that. It was just like
Speaker 1: a real time example of Yeah, I don't need to
Speaker 1: have a ton of business casual outfits if I work
Speaker 1: from home. That doesn't mean that we can't look nice.
Speaker 1: I mean I I would consider myself to have a
Speaker 1: relatively minimalist closet, So I still like to get dressed
Speaker 1: and look nice for the video calls that I have
Speaker 1: throughout the day, but I don't really have to be
Speaker 1: that concerned about what shoes I'm wearing, which is nice.
Speaker 1: And I think by not purchasing clothing, challenging ourselves to
Speaker 1: not do that for a time does raise our awareness
Speaker 1: for what we need. This number four point on here
Speaker 1: of understanding what we need rather than oh there's a
Speaker 1: problem with this shirt. I don't like it, so let
Speaker 1: me just go out and by another one. We can
Speaker 1: become more acquainted with what are the types of fabrics, fits,
Speaker 1: clothing that I gravitate towards. What about the clothing that
Speaker 1: I have can irritate me, annoy me, doesn't work for me,
Speaker 1: So that we can really understand when we do need
Speaker 1: to purchase again for whatever reason, we have a deeper
Speaker 1: understanding of making a good purchase and being sure that
Speaker 1: it's going to last a while. A simple example for
Speaker 1: me before I move on to number five is exercise clothing.
Speaker 1: I had even bought second hand shorts. What I realized
Speaker 1: when I was exercising at one point was this thing
Speaker 1: was digging into my back as I was doing a
Speaker 1: lot of the like core exercises on the ground, and
Speaker 1: these exercise shorts had a zipper in the back, and
Speaker 1: there was no way to avoid that zipper digging into
Speaker 1: my lower back. And I realized in that moment done.
Speaker 1: I am never ever again going to purchase workout shorts
Speaker 1: or pants that have a zipper in the back, because
Speaker 1: all of them, like at some point my workout is
Speaker 1: going to include that. I don't want to have to say,
Speaker 1: oh am, I doing floor exercises today. Let me make
Speaker 1: sure I wear the right shorts for that. They need
Speaker 1: to be versatile. So things like that, I think we
Speaker 1: can start to understand what's going to work best for me.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna buy any more pants that don't have
Speaker 1: a pocket. I have to have a pocket. We're done
Speaker 1: with the yoga pants that don't have pockets. That's just
Speaker 1: me I'm getting I'm getting fired up about clothes. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have realized. Yeah, I wouldn't have realized that
Speaker 1: if I hadn't have given myself the time rather than
Speaker 1: let me just go out and buy something that fixes
Speaker 1: this problem versus really understanding what are the issues with
Speaker 1: my wardrobe? Is there a way to work around it
Speaker 1: and be patient before I buy something new and make
Speaker 1: sure it ticks all the boxes? All right? Number five,
Speaker 1: take inventory of your wardrobe. We have to know what's
Speaker 1: in our closets. I think that's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: reasons we can spend a lot of money is because
Speaker 1: our closets are so jam packed we can't see it all.
Speaker 1: Stuff gets hidden in the back. So actually look at
Speaker 1: every thing that you have. Try and clear out the clutter.
Speaker 1: Make sure everything is visible so that you give everything
Speaker 1: a fighting chance before we get rid of or before
Speaker 1: we buy new. Yeah. I love that. It's like having
Speaker 1: an inventory of your refrigerator. Like you don't use what
Speaker 1: you don't know you have. Like how many people have
Speaker 1: like looked at the back of their or bottom of
Speaker 1: their drawer to find a shirt they forgot they had
Speaker 1: or found a shirt or something in their closet they
Speaker 1: forgot their they had. So I think this is a
Speaker 1: big reason why a capsule wardrobe or a minimalist wardrobe
Speaker 1: is really powerful, because then you always know what you have.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to have a capsule wardrobe to
Speaker 1: do this, so you can create your own inventory in
Speaker 1: your own menu of outfits. Essentially, Next is number six,
Speaker 1: Get creative and rethink how you see your clothes. So
Speaker 1: the author says she would like look in her closet
Speaker 1: and see the same thing and say I have nothing
Speaker 1: to wear, and that's because she was looking at the
Speaker 1: things she always wear. Uh. So she challenges us to
Speaker 1: wear something you wouldn't normally wear, so like something from
Speaker 1: the other eight percent, and to mend clothing you may
Speaker 1: not be wearing because you're procrastinating on fixing it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And she says that the feeling of like finally putting
Speaker 1: a button on a jacket that's been missing it um
Speaker 1: is so gratifying. And I think I would agree. I
Speaker 1: don't like mend clothing a lot, but when I do,
Speaker 1: or when I have it mended, I do really feel good.
Speaker 1: But now I can rewear that thing and it's not
Speaker 1: going to end up in a landfill or me spending
Speaker 1: more money to replace it. And this one was already
Speaker 1: said before, but number seven is to borrow clothes from
Speaker 1: friends or family. So if you've got an event coming
Speaker 1: up that you need something special for, borrow clothes. If
Speaker 1: you're going on a vacation and you kind of want
Speaker 1: something new but you don't want to spend money on it,
Speaker 1: asked to borrow a bathing suit, cover up or whatever
Speaker 1: it is that's going to make it feel special and
Speaker 1: new to you and give it back to your friend
Speaker 1: or family member when you get home. This one may
Speaker 1: be a little awkward, especially if you're an introvert um
Speaker 1: or if you're not the same size as your friends.
Speaker 1: You have to branch out and ask some people you're
Speaker 1: not as close with. So maybe you've got your close friends,
Speaker 1: and then you have your clothes friends. Because not every
Speaker 1: relationship has to be like a best friend relationship. There
Speaker 1: can be some that you just have an agreement on that, hey,
Speaker 1: we like each other, we also wear the same size.
Speaker 1: Let's try to exchange clothing and that's like a win
Speaker 1: win for everyone, all right, And then we've got eight
Speaker 1: find healthy ways to distract yourself from shopping. And this
Speaker 1: is great because it gets into the psychology of a
Speaker 1: no spend challenge or a shopping band because if you
Speaker 1: just try to take away something, you have to refill it.
Speaker 1: Like if you take an event out of your schedule
Speaker 1: um or your lifestyle, you have to be intentional about
Speaker 1: what to put back into it or you will inevitably
Speaker 1: go back to unhealthy habits. So if you realize, when
Speaker 1: I feel bored I go shopping in person or online,
Speaker 1: you have to decide, when I feel bored, I'm going
Speaker 1: to now do X or Y. So identify what you're
Speaker 1: feeling or doing before you go shopping, write it down,
Speaker 1: Write down what you will do instead, so that you
Speaker 1: don't have to think so hard in the moment because
Speaker 1: that's going to be your weakest point. And so that's
Speaker 1: why it's important to plan ahead. And it's important to
Speaker 1: say it has to be of equal value. Like you
Speaker 1: can't say, instead of shopping, I'm going to do ten
Speaker 1: push ups. Nobody likes ten like nobody likes push ups,
Speaker 1: so that's not gonna work. It has to be of
Speaker 1: equal value. Number nine is kind of related to this idea.
Speaker 1: Something you could do with that desire to shop, which
Speaker 1: is make a shopping wish list. So it's an action
Speaker 1: item that you can do, but it helps you to
Speaker 1: put it on pause rather than immediately going and buying
Speaker 1: that thing. So if there's something that you think you want,
Speaker 1: you think you need, you think should be your next purchase,
Speaker 1: get it on a list so at least it's out
Speaker 1: of your head and it's something you can come back
Speaker 1: to when you are at the store, not only to
Speaker 1: reevaluate do I still need this, but to keep an
Speaker 1: eye out for can I find this for a reasonable
Speaker 1: price something that's currently on my list that has been
Speaker 1: there for I kid you, not an entire year. I
Speaker 1: had these really amazing oval gold earrings that I lost.
Speaker 1: They weren't real gold. Don't be worried, and I would
Speaker 1: like to replace them, but it's not urgent, So I
Speaker 1: just have it on my wish list. I can see it,
Speaker 1: I can remind myself when I'm out this is something
Speaker 1: I'm looking for if I happen to see it. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend hardly any money on this,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just like going to become a birthday
Speaker 1: present from Eric then that's where it is that doesn't
Speaker 1: have to take up brain space. I don't have to
Speaker 1: immediately purchase it. I'm just being patient for a replacement
Speaker 1: for my Oval gold earrings. Last one is ten. Understand
Speaker 1: your shopping trigger. So I kind of just touched on this,
Speaker 1: but understand why you shop. So our emotions and our
Speaker 1: environment can impact our behavior. I touched on emotions, but
Speaker 1: environment can be just as powerful. Is there one friend
Speaker 1: who you always go shopping with? Is are you always
Speaker 1: going shopping with your with your mom? Is that what
Speaker 1: you guys do together? Figure out? Some times it is
Speaker 1: out of bardness, sadness, anchor or even like something good
Speaker 1: happens to you and you celebrate with shopping. Or is
Speaker 1: it after watching a particular television show or seeing a
Speaker 1: certain friend or family member who makes you want to
Speaker 1: drown your sorrows in retail therapy, It could be anything.
Speaker 1: I think I've personally experienced all of the above. So yeah,
Speaker 1: identify the preceding event or emotion for you shop and
Speaker 1: identify it and then replace it with something that is healthy.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know what's not boring and is
Speaker 1: a healthy celebration? Oh my gosh, and it always brings
Speaker 1: me joy, but not joy that makes me want to
Speaker 1: shop the bill of the week. That's right, it's time
Speaker 1: for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a
Speaker 1: baby was born and his name is William. Maybe you've
Speaker 1: paid off your mortgage. Maybe your car died and you're
Speaker 1: happy to not have to pay that bill anymore. To
Speaker 1: build buffalo bills, Bill Clinton, this is the bill of
Speaker 1: the week. Hi, Jen and Jill. My name is Chris
Speaker 1: Sanna and I'm from Kansas City, Missouri, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to share my favorite bill with you all this week.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned this on the Facebook group and it
Speaker 1: is paying ourselves. So to give a little background, my
Speaker 1: husband and I have thought we've been doing this budgeting
Speaker 1: thing right because we make sure our bills are paid
Speaker 1: and I have a lovely spreadsheet and I take care
Speaker 1: of all of that, but we never really paid attention
Speaker 1: to all the other money that we spent. I just
Speaker 1: knew it was really hard for us to save money.
Speaker 1: I was able to pay off one of our car
Speaker 1: loans last month. I'm super excited about that, but saving
Speaker 1: was always really hard. So we started using mint recently,
Speaker 1: and because he's now paying attention to it, my husband,
Speaker 1: who is really good at jazz swipe it, has a
Speaker 1: debt occurred, has spent less than two or two fifty
Speaker 1: dollars less this month in fast food than he had been,
Speaker 1: which means we can put that money towards our emergency
Speaker 1: fund and that puts us some better position to continue
Speaker 1: on our debt free journey. So I wanted to share
Speaker 1: my favorite bill ourselves. So thank you so much. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that is amazing. I am so proud
Speaker 1: of you. Understand a well done, and I love the
Speaker 1: very tangible examples that you gave of how you are
Speaker 1: taking steps towards progress and improvement of paying off a
Speaker 1: car loan and cutting back on some really simple spending
Speaker 1: areas that is making significant dents in your budget and savings.
Speaker 1: So hell, don we are celebrating with you. What an
Speaker 1: amazing bill when you get to actually pay yourself. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: if you are listening and you want to submit your
Speaker 1: own bill of the week, whether it includes paying yourself
Speaker 1: for cutting bills or bills you don't mind paying, or
Speaker 1: people named Bill who are awesome. Visit Frugal Friends podcast
Speaker 1: dot com, slash bill, leave us a bill and now
Speaker 1: it's time for let me around. So there are two
Speaker 1: questions today because I couldn't pick one I liked better,
Speaker 1: and so you can answer both or just one, Jill,
Speaker 1: what's your most favorite piece of clothing that you own
Speaker 1: and or what's the worst fashion choice that you've ever made? Um,
Speaker 1: I can start with worst fashion choice, because it's that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted you to start with. That's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to hear for. Well, this is a little bit.
Speaker 1: This is here you go, You're this is gonna get
Speaker 1: quite vulnerable. You don't have to feel bad for me
Speaker 1: because I'm a grown woman. Okay. There was a point
Speaker 1: in time that I wore stockings like one might wear leggings.
Speaker 1: So they were quite thin. They were gray, so they
Speaker 1: weren't nude. They were gray, but very sheer. They were stockings.
Speaker 1: If anyone's familiar with stockings, if you were to hold
Speaker 1: them up to your face, you'd still be able to
Speaker 1: see through them. Wore those along with an oversized T shirt.
Speaker 1: Oh huh, yeah, it was like a T shirt. I
Speaker 1: was dating my husband at the time, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: like that long ago, although we haven't married for ten years,
Speaker 1: so you know, maybe like eleven years ago. This was
Speaker 1: a fashion choice that I made, or see through stockings
Speaker 1: with just one of his oversized T shirts. I believe
Speaker 1: I was in college at the time. I totally went
Speaker 1: to class. I think I even went and hung out
Speaker 1: with some like elderly people that evening, who knows what
Speaker 1: they thought of me. And then I was like, I
Speaker 1: stayed on campus at the college that I attended at
Speaker 1: that point, and it gets worse, and this is where
Speaker 1: you might feel bad for me, but it's okay. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a grown woman and I have dealt with this
Speaker 1: that night, that very night when I had made that
Speaker 1: fashion choice. Um, my roommates thought that I was asleep.
Speaker 1: I was not asleep, and I was not wearing earplugs.
Speaker 1: They talked about that fashion choice that I had made
Speaker 1: that day. They were like, can you believe that she
Speaker 1: had the audacity to where leggings see through leggings with
Speaker 1: just like a T shirt? It now now it did,
Speaker 1: it did cover my bottom, but like not like not enough.
Speaker 1: Like it probably made everyone quite nervous that this is
Speaker 1: how I was walking around. And I do feel bad
Speaker 1: because one of my roommates was like, she might not
Speaker 1: be asleep. I'm not comfortable talking about her, like she's fine,
Speaker 1: she can wear what she wants, but blah blah, and
Speaker 1: the other girl like, I don't care if she hears me,
Speaker 1: she give me awake, and so like she is kind
Speaker 1: of like my my sole person. I kind of appreciate it.
Speaker 1: She didn't care, and I'm like, and I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to wake up this. I would now, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to make them feel
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for talking about me. Well, anyhow, I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever made that decision again, but that did happen.
Speaker 1: It was probably the worst fashion choice I made, trying
Speaker 1: to probably just you know, be frugal and borrow clothing
Speaker 1: and use what I had. But that was that was
Speaker 1: a fail of borrowing and shopping my closet and not
Speaker 1: actually purchasing leggings. I think I didn't have leggings and
Speaker 1: that was my alternatives. Oops. Oops, that was everything I
Speaker 1: wanted it to be. I will just say, like most
Speaker 1: of my fashion choices up until college, even I would
Speaker 1: say graduate school. Up until graduate school, most of my
Speaker 1: fashion choices were a fail. I just didn't have an
Speaker 1: eye for fashion, and I tried to do things other
Speaker 1: people were doing, but I didn't know how to do it,
Speaker 1: and I was like a little puffy, and so it
Speaker 1: just never worked like and it wasn't like it was
Speaker 1: before it was cool to be puffy. What does that
Speaker 1: mean you were puffy? I mean, wasn't like I wasn't
Speaker 1: chubby like I wasn't. I wouldn't say that I was overweight,
Speaker 1: And just like I was, I had puff, you know,
Speaker 1: like turn your puff into tough. That shirt I've never
Speaker 1: seen that. No, Okay, anyways, I don't going to debate
Speaker 1: this powder puff the sport. Not when I think of
Speaker 1: one of the sport that powder puff is. Just any
Speaker 1: sport that women play is well, powder puff football, I
Speaker 1: would say, Is that why they call it that? Nope,
Speaker 1: that's not why they call it that. I don't even
Speaker 1: think they call it powder puff anymore. Anyways. The point
Speaker 1: of the story is that all of my fashion choices
Speaker 1: were poor. But I will say that my most favorite
Speaker 1: piece of clothing now that I own, and I own
Speaker 1: probably three or four of them because I love them
Speaker 1: so much, black tank tops. And I wore one yesterday.
Speaker 1: I probably would have worn one today, but I just
Speaker 1: chose the shirt. But black tank tops are what I
Speaker 1: wear most of the time, Like, that's just it for me,
Speaker 1: and I get them all used our secondhand But I'm
Speaker 1: just a black tank talk girl. I don't like having
Speaker 1: my shoulders covered usually, and I like the color black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. I like everything that's in my closet. That
Speaker 1: is one of the amazing things about learning what you like,
Speaker 1: what fits you well, buying quality and not buying a lot.
Speaker 1: Is I I really do wear everything that I have.
Speaker 1: You can probably attest to that. Jen. You see like
Speaker 1: this rotation of clothes over and over. But the things
Speaker 1: that I'm most drawn to are like my summer dresses.
Speaker 1: I love it when the weather is warm enough for
Speaker 1: me to just rock a summer dress all day, every day.
Speaker 1: And that's that. Yeah, everyone for listening to our stories
Speaker 1: of fashion Fails time. Many of you know that we
Speaker 1: have a private community where we do monthly money challenges,
Speaker 1: kind of like the challenges we were talking about in
Speaker 1: this episode to help you save money and clothing. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of other types of challenges that we do
Speaker 1: and offer accountability groups because we're only going to go
Speaker 1: so far if we're trying to just do this on
Speaker 1: our own and we want to elevate that community and
Speaker 1: congratulate one of our members for a big win. Stuff
Speaker 1: like this gets shared in our membership all of the time,
Speaker 1: but we want to let you in on this. And
Speaker 1: it's from Debbie and she titled it o MG mindset Wow.
Speaker 1: I love this group mindset shift from idle to first gear.
Speaker 1: Love the car reference, Debby. I can't use my skill
Speaker 1: set from my previous career in a new career too.
Speaker 1: I can figure out how to use my skill set
Speaker 1: from my previous career in a new career boom. I
Speaker 1: can't manage all of the house slash home you name
Speaker 1: it tasks and bring in household income to hubby, and
Speaker 1: I can figure out a way for the house home
Speaker 1: you name it tasks to be taken care of and
Speaker 1: I can bring in household income to to Yes. I
Speaker 1: love that mindset shift. It is so good to go
Speaker 1: from I can't to how can I? It's so simple,
Speaker 1: but it's so powerful, and it's so difficult and so Debbie,
Speaker 1: this was a huge win for you, and congratulations. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much everyone for listening. If you want to check
Speaker 1: out our monthly challenge community, head to Frugal Friends Podcast
Speaker 1: dot com slash Club to see what challenge we have
Speaker 1: coming up next to see you next week. Frugal Friends
Speaker 1: is produced by Eric Syrian Jill. Yes, my birthday is
Speaker 1: on Monday, mm hmm, and that means we will no
Speaker 1: longer be the same age for like a month. You'll
Speaker 1: be older and wiser for like there's three months. I'm older,
Speaker 1: so much older than me, that's right, Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: should so, and next week I should probably impart my
Speaker 1: um elderly wisdom. That's true, you don't have it yet.
Speaker 1: Not I don't have it yet. You're actually the next age.
Speaker 1: Are you still on this idea of wanting to bike
Speaker 1: thirty three miles for your thirty third birthday? I would
Speaker 1: love to, But now that we've like we're in the
Speaker 1: process of getting this house, which hopefully will have by
Speaker 1: the time this episode airs, I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anything. Who knows, But it's going to take a
Speaker 1: lot of like renovations to get up and running quickly,
Speaker 1: so I will not be able to train for it.
Speaker 1: So no, but I do want to ride my bike
Speaker 1: more so I am committed to that. Yeah, well, then
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it yet. It's still technically a
Speaker 1: month away because we were are these episodes very early,
Speaker 1: so um, I've got to think about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta think about it. Well, I'll leave you and think
Speaker 1: about it. May