I'm still here. So far, so good. Soon I'll have a report on quality. In the meantime I wanted to drop a few notes here.
First, I'm a bit disappointed that one of my fair trade organic cotton socks that I've owed for about 6 weeks already has a hole in the bottom. I didn't wear this pair of socks excessively. I would guess I've worn them about a dozen times. I doubt I snagged it on anything. It's just worn.
Second, and this is totally on me, I have a stain on one of my new tunics. This has been a frequent problem of mine. Doesn't matter when you are spending only a few bucks on a shirt. But, when your spending $40.00+ it hurts. I've worn the shirt only a few times and now I can't wear it anymore. I guess I should start bringing a stain remover with me wherever I go. The thing is I didn't know I had a stain until I washed it. It was a really small stain. Don't even know how I did it. If this keeps up it's going to get rather expensive.
Third, as I've already discussed in the previous post there is an unintended consequence - I have discovered I don't need as many clothes. I've slashed the amount of clothes in my closet. My hope is to slash some more. It's not just the wanting to have fair trade/living wages, etc. clothing. I've also been loosing weight so I've been getting rid of a lot of my clothing naturally. I want to keep the number of clothes down even after I loose weight. I'll keep a limited amount of clothes of quality. However, what I don't know is come fall I might have to buy clothes that are second hand/not fair trade, etc. because it just might be too expensive otherwise. (I did allot for this in my very first post- if I loose more than 10% of my body weight I'm allowed to...and I've already exceed 10%. Another unintended consequence? Maybe.)
Soon I'll post on how to identify quality, etc.
