1000 Flowers for the Planet - #101 Own Fewer Clothes

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #101 Own Fewer Clothes

If you surf the Internet you’ll come across different ways in which people deal with fewer clothes. There’s the 30-for-30 challenge, which is to only wear 30 items of clothing for 30 days. I’ve also heard of this twisted to only owning 30 items of clothing per season (which in my case would mean going out and buying lots more clothes – not the idea, I know). Some challenges revolve around not going shopping for clothing for a certain time frame. I’ve read about a person who wore only one outfit for an entire year, which was completely fascinating and led to a whole bunch of personal revelations for that person.

For this Flower all I want to suggest is that you own fewer clothes. Whether you choose one of the aforementioned ideas, or simply reduce your wardrobe by donating unwanted clothing or seldom used pieces, or maybe refrain from buying any new clothes, the choice is yours. I’d just like to encourage you to give it a go. It will create more money in your pocket for other things (perhaps an ‘experience’ rather than buying ‘stuff’), it will create less landfill of non-biodegradable fabrics (how many items do you have that are made from pure natural fibres?), you’ll have less storage issues, choosing what to wear will be easier, less resources will be used to manufacture what you’re wearing, you’ll get more use out of carefully selected clothes and you may even realise that people of importance don’t really care much about what you’re wearing.