The thing about fashion is that we’re all programmed to get tired of the stuff hanging in our closets. The manufacturers and retailers, of course, want you to just go out and buy more. But we’re talking frugal here.

How’s this alternative: gather with five or ten friends all about your size. Each of you brings five outfits or garments you’ve grown tired of, but that are still in great shape. One person’s trash becomes another’s treasure, and you take home some things you didn’t bring, that someone else was ready to swap. The women among you will probably enjoy modeling them for each other, too, and have an impromptu fashion show. Men may just want to swap and be done with it. If there’s stuff left over, it can go to charity or back to the original owner.

You keep stuff out of landfills, let it be used again, spruce up your stuff, and spend nothing. Pretty cool, hmmm?

Same principle works just as well for books, CDs, movies, foods you bought by mistake, even garden tools, sports and recreation equipment, whatever.

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