I was googling around, looking up clothing budget suggestions to try and figure out what is reasonable for us. I came across this thread in the forum at Lucky magazine, which admittedly is all about shopping.
The amounts discussed are astounding, even to me. Only one person admitted to spending less than $500 a year. One person mentioned $7000! One entry, in particular, blew me away.
"Being a grad student, I think that I have been spending probably $1200-$1500 a year. The reasons for this are due to my budget, lack of closet space, and also because I don't need very many things - I can dress casually most days. However, I anticipate that once I complete my degree and enter the working world, my budget will go up more in the first year because I will be buying better quality clothing for work, plus I'll have the salary to match (hopefully closet size will increase too)."
When I was a grad student, I was working 3 part-time jobs, borrowing money left and right just to survive, and living in a pretty disgusting apartment, complete with raccoons living in the wall! Who ARE these people?
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Now that I think about it, back when I was married, I was spending about $800 a year in clothes just for myself (we liked to splurge and, DH was a fashionista, no way HIS wife was going in outdated styles!...but then, our life together was so empty, we definetely needed SOMETHING to fill it!)
July 14th, 2006 at 07:32 pm 1152905561
DH works as a printing press operator and needs no clothes for work at all, other than steel toe work boots so he spends maybe $200 a year on clothes, and that's just to replace stuff that's worn out (socks, jeans, t-shirts and such).
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