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A Library for Clothes

By Trevor Reichman

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By Team Planet Green
Silver Spring, MD, USA | Thu Jun 26 11:00:00 GMT 2008

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On Wa$ted, we learned that 70% of the world's population wears 2nd hand clothing. This eases the guilt associated with buying new clothing, because someone, somewhere has to start the chain game.

I once met a man who told me of an interesting way to always get free clothes and never have to do laundry. He told me about Goodwill's two week return policy. He would buy all his clothes at a Goodwill store, return them after 13 days for a store credit, and then start the cycle again. I was a bit shocked, but impressed at the same time. What he did wasn't illegal, and it wasn't wasteful either. No new clothes were ever made for him, his laundry was done in bulk in large efficient machines (assuming the clothes didn't just go right back on the rack), and the returned clothes were made available to outfit a new body. Brilliant! His friends must have thought he had a giant wardrobe, never repeating an outfit.

While this scheme could only work for the schemer, it makes us wonder if this man might get his act together one day and fashion up a business plan for a clothing library.

This post has been inspired by Planet Green's show, Wa$ted.

 
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