Consumption rule

The saying is “reduce, reuse, recycle” for a reason. It’s in order of impact, with recycling being low impact and reactive and reducing being high impact and proactive.

As if I had enough money for a second sustainable outfit

The prices on this things I swear :,(

That’s why thrift stores exist. Nothing more sustainable than buying used.
- My mom doesn't want me buying from thrift stores so I gave her two options: 1) thrift stores 2) more expensive sustainable brands. I guess we're going with the latter

I agree with that statement, but I also don’t know how to define where the line is where consumption turns into overconsumption. Any ideas?

People buying every shoe color in order to match all the time? I don't mean like 3-6 pairs.
- Wait people need more than 6 pairs???
  I'm god damn shoe obsessed and I don't have that many. I got:
  -Sports shoes
  -Work shoes (thick, leather, sturdy)
  -Fancy boots (black)
  -Fancy boots (white)
  The only boots I ever got purely to match was the two pairs of black and white fancy boots. Which is more than enough to be complimentary to any wardrobe depending on if I use brighter or darker colors. What more could you need? Two pairs of sports shoes? Two pairs of work shoes if you wanna be extra? But even that only brings you up to 6 and I can't fathom needing more.
  Like I consider myself a shoe obsessed woman. I pride myself in my silly little stompers yet I can't imagine owning more then 6 at a time. Unless you count during my lifetime because yeah boots got replaced as old ones wore out. I needed to replace the white ones as they literally fell apart, went through several rounds of work and sports shoes too.
- Apparently I own 13 pairs of shoes. Damn.
  I used to be way more consumer-y and I've been slowly reforming my ways. Case in point, two of those pairs are old running shoes repurposed into general beaters, and 10 of them were purchased 5+ years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
Unfortunately, people being cunts, this is very open to corruption by pretty power hungry authoritarians. But probably the only viable solution.

I feel fat shamed.

good

Not being able to afford over consumption at sustainable prices is half the point, right?