"The Story of Stuff"

           I have a lot of stuff, when I clean my room and get too overwhelmed on where to start I just yell "Why do I have so much stuff?" The thing I usually have are magazines, hair products, accessories, and make-up everywhere. What I have more than anything though are clothes and shoes. I even have so many plastic bags because there are just bags lying around my room with clothes in it that I have not worn. My items are nonperishable items. That I do end up giving away. When I clean out my closet and drawers which are about twice every season I give away about a trash bag or 2 of clothes and shoes. I donate it to my church, or I give it to my mother, and she gives to fa miles that she knows with daughters. I also sometimes give things to my own friends if I don't want something that I know they really liked. I use my clothes and shoes very frequently, but since approximately every week I bring home a bag, then I have more options. Since I have more options, I then wear the same item less, and when I discard, I usually tend to drop items that have only been used about a handful of times and wonder why I even got it. I definitely can do with less, I have improved much lately since school has started I don't even have time to go to the mall and make unnecessary purchases. Sometimes I would only get things just because they were on sale and those were sometimes the items that I would end up giving away first so now I stay away from sales. I won't go to get anything unless I absolutely need to.

           I never really thought about how my clothes and shoes were made. I know that they are made in a factory and sent over to the store. As ignorant as that sounds I don't really think that much about the before of my clothes. I buy them and wear, I just only really think about how they are going to look on me and where I could wear it or what I could wear it with. After watching the video's more than half of my stuff could have been made in a different country and been through more of a process than just being made and shipped off to the store. I know clothes are simply obtained in many parts of countries, but there are a lot of places where there are children and even adults who do not even have a simple shirt to wear or a good pair of shoes without holes in them. Some have the same shirt for more than a year or can only switch between two. My item is a need, and I think that the fact of my use I help others. I do give away a lot of clothes, and I know they are being given to less fortunate. I have decreased my use, but there will still always be things that I give away. 

The first two pictures below are ones that I took when I was clearing out my closet, the third is an after picture when I finished cleaning my clothes from my room.  I have a picture of leftover hangers from clothes I didn't want.