{"id":7308,"date":"2024-02-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2024-02-24T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T01:33:12","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-fifty-seven-how-do-normal-people-manage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/26\/twenty-twenty-four-day-fifty-seven-how-do-normal-people-manage\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day fifty-seven]: how do “normal” people manage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So I\u2019m confused: I know I\u2019m a bit weird, but I stopped to think about the supposedly “weird” way that I do things and I genuinely do not understand how \u201cnormal\u201d people manage it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what you see above is my collection of genre T-shirts. I love genre T-shirts and wear them most of the year – as my shirt in the summer, and as my undershirt in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to think this collection was excessive; most of the other people I know don\u2019t have near as many themed shirts, just a collection of normal clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I started pulling on that thread (ha, ha) a bit and it just didn\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO what you see there is something like 300-500 shirts in my closet. I didn\u2019t count them all, but I estimated by counting a few piles and extrapolating by the number of piles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you wear a shirt every day, this is only enough shirts for roughly a year. And I know from *ahem* considerable experience now that even rarely worn old T-shirts, which are typically made from better fabric than modern T-shirts, last at most 20-30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, between science fiction conventions, travel, and very occasional clothes shopping, I purchase maaaaybe 10 or so T-shirts per year, which I thought was an excessive habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But over 20-30 years, this adds up again to 300 shirts \u2026 so by the time that I\u2019ve worn out all the shirts in my collection, I will have purchased enough shirts to fill it up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the conundrum: most of the people I know don\u2019t buy a lot of t-shirts, and they don\u2019t have a huge library of clothes. So how are they not wearing through all their clothes all the time?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I know my wife buys a lot of clothes (mostly at Goodwill), but she\u2019s power tool girl, and her clothes rapidly get worn out or covered with paint and later used as rags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the friends that I know who DON\u2019T seem to buy that many clothes ALSO have a similar strategy. One of them called it \u201cthe circle of shirts\u201d: First it\u2019s a nice T-shirt, then it\u2019s an undershirt, then it\u2019s a gym shirt, then it\u2019s a yard shirt, then it\u2019s a rag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if people don\u2019t have a huge library of shirts, and they\u2019re not buying a buttload t-shirts, why aren\u2019t they going around in tattered rags all the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do \u201cnormal\u201d people do? Go to Target and buy white T-shirts every week, as the six pairs of shirts and undies that they have rapidly disintegrate from the rotation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I genuinely don’t get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: my collection of T-shirts, some of which do eventually get retired from wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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