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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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“The average American buys more than one new piece of clothing per week. If that matches your shopping habits, in a span of five years you have purchased more than 320 pieces of clothing.”
Who the fuck is buying multiple pieces of clothing every week? I don’t know anyone that does that. I feel like buys-ridiculous-amounts-of-clothing George is an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.
Do individual socks count? If so, buying a 10 pack of socks and a 6 pack of undies gets you through half a year by this metric.
Man, I don't even do that every year. Maybe every 3-5 years. I do not buy clothes very often at all.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/26/economy/recession-underwear-alan-greenspan/index.html