34. Subscribing To Clothing Service
Clothing services have become pretty popular in recent years. You provide your size and a general idea of your style preferences, and a “personal shopper” selects a box of clothes to send to you every month. You determine which clothes you want to keep and which ones to send back. The “personal shopper” is just someone who knows what size to pick out and goes through and selects things that they think you may like (but you may not). Some of these clothing services capitalize on people’s desire to buy secondhand clothes that are better for the environment and end up sending subscribers items that are hardly fit for a thrift store.
You’re much better off going to a store, selecting clothes for yourself, and trying them on to see if they fit. Investing in clothes that you know you’ll like instead of paying a personal shopper every month is a much better use of your money and will ensure that you have the clothes you need. Wealthy people do not really even bother with these kinds of services. One reason is that they are not continually buying new clothes; they may have far fewer clothes than those who are middle class, but they have the clothes they like and need.