Turns out it's genuinely kind of hard to find clothes that don't have plastic in them.
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I was just thinking this literally today… I almost even posted about it lol
Yeah, I've been paying a little bit more attention to the materials I wear. It's genuinely concerning, I could be off the mark, but something about wearing plastic all the time doesn't quite feel right. There are even some brands that boast about using,l, recycled plastic bottles and stuff to make fabric.
Great minds.
You really can’t.
I ordered some “100% cotton sweatpants” from Amazon. Seemed legit. Received them and what do you know 50% poly.
They may even be counterfeit, so who knows.
Over the past year or so I have swapped all my clothes for second hand made in usa cotton items. They feel better.
I replaced some of my at home clothes recently with bamboo stuff and came to the realization just how freaking comfortable they were. Started looking at all my other clothes realizing they had plastic in pretty much all of them.
Damn. 🤔
It is wild how many nice pieces can be aquired for a few dollars second hand. Our house has sworn off buying anything new and my wife has built quite a second hand reselling business. New clothes are so low value and made of poison. I even found an unused Filson tin cloth jacket the other day for few dollars. People buy and throw out stuff you wouldn't imagine.
Gotta thrift it up! If you have a Goodwill Wholesale "bins" near you, go for a few hours and discover the endless stream of consumer waste availble for pennies a pound. There is real treasure in there. My wife calls it her "trash to sats pipeline" 🤣
I have the full Calphalon Cook set that I got it for Dirty cheap, just thrifting. People throwing away $150 pans and I'm buying them for $10 if that.
Yeah, I need to be more diligent about hitting the thrift stores.
You can find anything you want with a low time preference.
When you look up the items value on ebay you will be stunned.
My wife bags over $5k a month reselling online now 🤯
Everything, my whole life is second hand now.
It's a lucrative game if you have an eye for what to find. I don't really know anything about clothing brands, but I have a friend who makes his living off of reselling old collectible fashion stuff that people want that he finds for dollars thrifting and can resell for like 40-50 bucks a pop or more. It's a genuinely impressive hustle.
Yes, she nabs every top female brand that I barely know. The margin is like crack or robbery. Turn 30 cents into $30 and the customer is stoked! My son does it too full time. They both have a real eye for trends etc. It is work but one item often pays for the entire haul. For me I just dabble in the reselling of very specific things and have an endless fresh flow of quality pieces to choose from.
If you guys ever wanna talk about this, I am an expert. I’ve been an antique vintage reseller for 27 years. I have been a power seller on eBay. I’ve owned my own markets. I also owned one of the few Vintage Clothing and jewelry markets in the country
True, I’ve been listing on eBay all morning
What is wild is when an item is new with tags and still available online for several hundred dollars. You can't find margin like that anywhwere else.
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Wool doesn't deserve the reputation these stupid fucks from older generations have led us to believe.
it's also hard to find 100% cotton clothing without any stretch, which I prefer, for better fit during exercise, etc.
I have settled for 95% cotton/5% Spandex until I can afford the wool versions of stuff.
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Socks are the hardest man 🫠 what a fucking world we've allowed to get built
You are exactly right at the beginning. I started selling on eBay in 1998 and I thought it would be so much easier to sell the same thing over and over again, but the margins are just pathetic. It’s so much better to find random things for nothing and sell them for everything.