Phase One

So, I've decided to look at my clothes critically and through the lens of sustainability for my activism project. I figured the first step would be to take out all of my clothes and just see what I actually have and attempt to count and categorize everything. I didn't imagine that it would take so long to go through all of my clothes. I had no idea how much extra and unnecessary clothes I have. I found that things with absolutely no story or relevance. I couldn't remember when or where I'd purchased some stuff or even roughly how long I'd had it. I found some shirts in the depths of my dressers that I had forgotten I'd had. I had planned to lay all my clothes out together and take a picture as a visual starting point for my clothing related excess, but due to the wet lawns of the past two days I decided to find a place within my dorm to spread everything out. Before I was able to get very far I realized that even the biggest room in Mabee couldn't showcase all of my clothes.

While the rain was somewhat of a setback, it was just another reminder of how much stuff, clothes in particular, I have that I need an entire lawn to spread it all out. I'm going to do some research on where and how a few of my clothes are made and evaluate what I actually need soon, but for now remain shocked and a little embarrassed by how many clothes I have.