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I like to look fashionable though. I already went through my $3/shirt, $35/outfit phase and it was great, but I've moved past it now.

Those prices already are cheap. That's a $40/year jacket. I mean I guess I could hunt and wait for deals but I don't have the brainpower to track yet another "thing" you know? I only spent a few hundred on clothing in the past decade with the majority of my main purchases being at the start of the decade. Shaving off $50 here and there from that would do virtually nothing for me. If you shop frequently then by all means hunt for deals but I wear the exact same thing every single day (this is where I makeup the money I lost on expensive items by not getting them on sale).

Please don't pretend like the prices that you are posting are in any way normal. Fit, quality, and style are greatly sacrificed for price. I can't even remember the last time I saw a $10 t-shirt that wasn't on sale or clearance.

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Sorry, I just look at it from a viewpoint of efficiency.

And, even when dressing with style, you are just burning money.

With that mentality, I should just stay home in the fetal position because it's better than anything since I won't be spending a dime. Honestly, it's cheap as fuck. Have you met a regular person? Regular people go shopping every week for different shit, its unbelievable. I have friends that buy bags for $2k each, hats for $200, etc. Just because I literally only bought a few sweaters, a jacket, and boots a decade ago does not in any way make me inefficient. I am also not burning money by buying $50 sweaters.

Where do you live? There's no way you live in the modern world if you think $10/sweater is a regular price for something because that's absolutely insane. Do you only wear 90's crewnecks? I can see those being $10 at the local goodwill. If you do then why are you trying so extremely hard to find the lowest prices possible? Are you living in poverty?

Oh, it’s pretty simple.

Buy during sale at H&M, C&A, Vero Moda, etc. Normal clothes.

Normal people don’t have money to buy bags for $2k. Normal people are struggling to pay their bills while being a single mom with kids. Normal people can be lucky if they can afford clothes from ALDI, and don’t have to go to the Red Cross. That’s the reality for most of the former middle class.

My family luckily doesn’t have to live like that, but you are seriously not "normal person". You’re rich. Your friends are rich.

When your friends buy bags that are over twice the monthly salary of some people, bags that cost more than a vacation for 4 people in another country, then you are rich.

World GDP per capita (PPP) is about $13,100 a year. The median is probably lower than that. I doubt "regular people" buy $1-2K outfits, considering they might still need to pay for food and living space. Perhaps it is you who have not met "a regular person".

Some people, living on uncommonly-high tech salaries in the bay area and similar locations, might indeed spend $1K on a change of clothes. I imagine some other highly-educated professionals in expensive cities might do as well. There is nothing wrong or unreasonable with that, per se. But "$1000 outfit is standard" is a statement that applies to very few people, and implying that it should be the norm is absurd under present world economics.

For the record, in my experience, most people I meet in tech and in the bay area, still won't often get close to wearing $1k. Those who do is often only when you include things like prescription glasses, leather jackets and wearable gadgets ;)

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