Just totted up how much money I’ve spent on clothes since September- a bit shocked.

This ⬆️. Mindful shopping.

No, it's far from crazy, and you're obviously a mindful shopper. I spend a lot on clothes, but I go for quality and they last me years.

In a normal year I could at least spend £2000 each season season being summer and winter
I don’t worry too much about spring and autumn

Clothes are much more expensive than they used to be and poorer quality.
If you don't want to live in cheap synthetic stuff from primark and the supermarket then you can barely buy a cotton t-shirt for 35-40 pounds. Decent quality shoes are also very expensive now.

I can well imagine if you've bought any work wear the numbers can stack up quickly. I bought 2 dresses, a jacket and some shoes recently and it was about 400!! And yes I'm aware I could have bought a £20 dress in primark but not everyone wants to wear clothes made by poorly paid workers in the 3rd world.

Good for you OP. I’ve just spent a small fortune on Aspiga and very happy. I’ve had some proper disasters on Vinted- straight in the charity bin!

Not much at all as I’ve lost a lot of weight which meant I could wear clothes I had that had become to small, or never fitted in the first place.

But come August I’ll be buying everything I need or want and I’m really looking forward to it.

Why not? It's your money and you can afford it. Some of those pieces will last for years.
Better to buy quality than cheap tat that ends up in landfill.

I’m retired and allocate the 13th monthly payment for the base of my clothes fund, which is just over £1k this year. I sell off things I no longer wear, so £600 from that this year and then spend maybe £100 a month on things I want. So, about £2.8k this full year. This is down a bit from when I was working.

I’ve given up on Vinted and EBay.

OP, why is this?

I’ve only spent about £200.

It’s only a couple of hundred per month on average. You have the money and needed the clothes so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I don’t keep track over the year but in the last month I have have bought a few new pairs of summer shoes, 6 dresses, a few pairs of shorts and some new gym wear, which was around £1300. It soon adds up.

Probably £1000. Bought a dress £150 and some items in Marks £150 so that’s £300 I can easily think of plus there must be others

I agree. I've spent nothing in the last year.
I'm going to a wedding later this month as a guest and I'm wearing clothes I already have.

I'm not going to tot mine up as I needed new winter boots (replacing a 3 year old pair), two pairs of running shoes ( trail and road), two much needed sports bras cost £80 alone ( important to me to have good support), a winter coat (replacing 5 year old one). I've also bought quite a bit of summer clothes as going on a different snd hotter type of holiday to our usual camping.
All this could easily be £2k or more but i'm unlikely to need anything else for the foreseeable, perhaps a pair of work shoes/ trainers come the autumn.

If you can afford it then it doesn't really matter.

I had a clear-out after Xmas and donated a lot of hardly-worn clothes to a charity bag. I have been an inconsistent shopper in the past, I buy something without considering what I will wear it with, plus I lost weight then put it back on and lost it again, so I had various things that were either too big or loo small or which seemed a bargain at the time but in reality I wouldn't wear them. So off they went.

Since then I have bought about half a dozen tops that I like and am wearing regularly, some new jeans to compliment the tops and two pairs of trainers (one smart/casual, one cheaper to walk the dog in).

So about £175 approx since December.

Quite a lot, I've gone from size 18-20 to 12-14 so have bought a whole new wardrobe of cheap fast fashion. I've bought some good quality coats and jackets and sold on my bigger ones.

240 sezane bobby jacket
2 cashmere blend waistcoats 68x2
White company trousers 62
Sezane cardigan 100

Less than £100 for sure. But I do not shop as a hobby and most of my stuff is second hand.

£2k seems outrageous to me, especially if it was just general shopping and not "I need a wedding guest outfit" or "I need salopettes and a ski jacket" shopping. We all buy far too many clothes.

@Notellinganyone oh god I’m not brave enough to do this. At least £5k. Probably far more. God how awful 🙈

actually this means I probably should be as brave as you and fave the music!!!! Eeek

In the past year I have bought a couple of tops/knitwear and new skirt to update my work clothes. I have a customer facing role so I do feel the need to look smart and replace anything that starts to look tatty but none of its designer and was bought in the sales. That said, I bought an expensive branded graphic t-shirt for the summer but I get a lot of joy from wearing those types of tees. Probably about 250 quid.

Since Sept I’ve bought one jumper - Whistles, pair of sandals- Next, t shirt- M&S, t shirt - another site, pack of knickers M&S, skirt - Oliver bonas for a cruise.

probably around £350

I could easily spend that amount in nine months. It’s about £220 a month which doesn’t seem ridiculous to me if you’ve got the money.

Maybe 500? Went back to work after mat leave and bought some dresses. jeans off Vinted. Pair of trainers and sandals. Couple of new bras. That includes some birthday gift cards as well.