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Is 14 pairs of jeans enough?

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Calcaata · 18/10/2025 21:08

I’m moving house and culling my entire wardrobe. I’ve sold so much on Vinted, and have a load more to sell.

I probably used to have 40 pairs of jeans and I’ve now got this down to 14. Is that enough?

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Notmymarmosets · 18/10/2025 21:48

What does having 14, let alone 40 pairs of jeans make you think of yourself?Would you not judge yourself as either having a hoarding disorder, or no moral compass whatsoever?
Good I suppose if you are trying to recalibrate.

Wishingthingsweredifferent38 · 18/10/2025 21:52

I don’t own a pair of jeans!

I think you’ll cope just fine with 14 🙂

Lidlisthebusiness · 18/10/2025 21:54

I have 7 pairs. 2 skinny - 1 black/1 blue, 2 black wide leg, 1 x light blue wide leg, 1 x mum fit and 1 x wide leg dungaree.

I wear jeans almost everyday, and could happily have more variations if my storage were more plentiful. I can't quite grasp how you'd accumulate 40 pairs, but 14 is fair enough I think.

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40coats · 18/10/2025 21:54

I have 6 pairs and trying to build on that.
There's so many styles, colours and various lengths of jeans I can see how you'd easily have 14 and wear them all.

bumbaloo · 18/10/2025 21:54

I probably have 1 long and 1 flat shoe wide leg, balloon leg and 2 x straight black. Some are black black and some are a more faded black The same plus some slouchy blue and 3 white.

thats 14. I may have a couple extra but yeah similar to you I guess

Devilsmommy · 18/10/2025 21:54

Way more than enough. I own 3 pairs

MildlyAnnoyed · 18/10/2025 21:56

I have 2. I could probably do with 1 more but I don’t think I’d ever get round to wearing 14 pairs.

CantBreathe90 · 18/10/2025 21:56

Probably not enough, presuming you work in wholesale import / export of leg-wear?

Barbarachicken · 18/10/2025 21:56

EmpressaurusKitty · 18/10/2025 21:18

How many legs have you got?

😂

Glitterkitten24 · 18/10/2025 21:57

I have two pairs. Fourteen! 🤣

Jewelledslice · 18/10/2025 21:58

Um, I've got 5 and i think that's too many!

My hub is a clothes horder. When we moved in together I suggested he reduced his wardrobe to 30 shirts. He replied how about 30 per season. I secretly thin them out every now and then!

CantBreathe90 · 18/10/2025 21:58

Notmymarmosets · 18/10/2025 21:48

What does having 14, let alone 40 pairs of jeans make you think of yourself?Would you not judge yourself as either having a hoarding disorder, or no moral compass whatsoever?
Good I suppose if you are trying to recalibrate.

Moral compass? 🤔

BeanQuisine · 18/10/2025 21:58

14 too many for me. I haven't worn jeans since the 1970s, and didn't really like them then either.

PerkyCyanPoet · 18/10/2025 21:59

Calcaata · 18/10/2025 21:32

😂 I’m not listing 14 pairs, but each are different colours, black, grey, different shades of blue. Some are straight, ripped, mom, ankle grazers to wear with specific boots.

I’d rather have 14 pairs of jeans than 2 pairs anyway 😆

RandomGeocache · 18/10/2025 21:59

A new pair for every day for a fortnight? You do know you can only wear one pair at a time, right? 40 pairs is madness. Over consumption is not cool.

CheeseDreamsTonight · 18/10/2025 22:00

Enough for what? You and all your friends? A whole barn dance? A scarecrow festival? A shop?

kindnessforthewin · 18/10/2025 22:00

How do you sell so much on Vinted? I find second hand women’s items of clothes just don’t sell! Baby and dog things or anything new with tags, different story.

Sonolanona · 18/10/2025 22:01

I wear jeans 90% of my dressed life...and that still only comes to 5 pairs! And I feel disappointed if they don't last at least 5 years each!

Hoopball · 18/10/2025 22:05

I have a black straight leg, dark blue straight leg, boot cut dark blue, skinny dark (still like these!) boyfriend and a lighter blue with a frayed hem . And an old skinny pair that I mainly wear gardening. So seven pairs.. which I think is quite a lot. I have worn them all in the past few months

ChocolateCinderToffee · 18/10/2025 22:09

I’ve got three pairs.

Notthatgameagain · 18/10/2025 22:11

I've got quite a few maybes 8 to 10 and I wear a lot of them. Different styles mom, barrell, flare, straight, skinny etc different colours. I also have different sizes as my weight fluctuates throughout the month

Drivingmissrangey · 18/10/2025 22:13

I don’t even know how many pairs I have so I’m going to write it down. I wear them all.

Black skinny
Very dark blue skinny
Mid blue skinny (long)
Mid blue skinny (cropped)
Mid blue relaxed/boyfriend
Grey straight leg
Black wide leg cropped
Red wide leg cropped
Pink wide leg
Dark blue flare
Dark blue bootcut
Pale blue wide leg
Mid blue super wide leg draw string waist

So 13. I do want a pair of black bootcut though.

EmeraldRoulette · 18/10/2025 22:15

@Calcaata you still haven't said enough for what

If you wear jeans every day, I actually think 14 is probably still enough.

If I count jeans and trousers, (I don't wear dresses or skirts), then I haven't got 14 items but that's largely due to lack of space.

MagicLoop · 18/10/2025 22:15

Do you have a compulsive shopping problem? Otherwise I'm not sure why you'd have 14 pairs of jeans (never mimd 40) or why you would own so many clothes you've never worn. It sounds like an illness tbh.

Chickydoo · 18/10/2025 22:19

I have
1 pair straight leg, mid blue (very old)
1 pair dark blue boot cut.
1 pair light blue wide ankle grazers
1 pair crop mid blue
1 pair old black skinnies
1 pair white ankle grazers
1 pair pale grey leopard print

Think that’s the lot. So 7 pairs.

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