To think this is why people buy all brand new clothes for holidays?

[Kittythepink]

We are going on a family holiday to the seaside tomorrow. I am so stressed under mountains of clothes to wash, iron and pack for five people.

AIBU to think this is why so many people go holiday shopping for brand new clothes? Put them straight into the suitcase what a brilliant idea!

Seriously though, does anyone buy all brand new clothes for going away? I used to know someone who bought all brand new underwear and socks for each holiday, so maybe it's a thing?

Your original point was about heat. I just picked somewhere hot.

But you just proved my point again. The idea of somewhere hot to you is somewhere in the Med. That's what you automatically think of even though those countries don't feature in the top 10/20 hottest countries of the world. Plus other countries have different religions & customs which impact dress code.

If you don't want to wear the same clothes on holiday as at home fair enough but don't make out it's a life essential to have a holiday wardrobe.

Please point to any part of my post that claimed a holiday wardrobe was a life essential?

I simply stated that I have some beach clothes that I wear in my parents home country which frequently has temps at 40 degrees that I wouldn't wear in London & you have repeatedly tried to twist what I've said (waste of storage etc, wtf).

Do you normally dismiss other people's experiences because they are not your own?

@Smallsteps88 oh you're one of those posters.....

So first of all you said people should stop having children. I suggested you can't ignore the increasing ageing population, you ignored this point.

You then said the best thing for the planet is to stop humans being on it & explained how you try and make other humans aware of that fact by

Address those who treat it badly in the hope they reconsider their actions and might start to think of the conditions their actions are creating for other humans and species on the planet.

I mean cars are dreadful for the environment but I wouldn't tell everyone they need to stop using cars or switch to electric because you know critical thinking. Plus I find if you take a very militant stance your message often doesn't have the opportunity to even reach ears. But crack on 😜

no, what are you going to do about the fact that humans should stop being on the planet? Just tell other humans this, ok....

@getoutofthebin it’s pretty widely acknowledged that having children is a huge drain on our planet.

No one is suggesting existing humans drop dead.

Having children is one of the most destructive things you can to do the environment, say researchers

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html%3famp

Not sure which of “those” posters you have decided I am. You are clearly one of “those” posters who have issues with comprehension and I can see we won’t find a meeting point here. Have a lovely day.

If you can afford holidays, and new wardrobes for holidays, then you aren’t so poor that you can’t buy quality clothing from reputable sources.
Smallsteps88 we don't go on holidays, 2 in 15 years. We go on hikes go to parks etc.But I'm talking about clothes in general. And I think someone said you can sometimes find cheap tee shirts in next, in all fairness that's a rarity, especially with 4, you can be lucky sometimes but more often you can't. Sorry, this whole thread seems to be derailing!

@Cadent I didn't say having children was not a huge drain on the planet did I?

My reply to the point about not having children was the below

Is it though from a logical perspective? Surely it makes more sense to have younger people who can toil, pay taxes & innovate as opposed to a load of older people living as long as possible on an array of medication.

People are already having less children in many parts of the world. Do you really see no issue with populations living longer & less young people?

@Smallsteps88 yes I'm the one who lacks comprehension.

I mean you can post faux philosophical statements all you like but they are not particularly helpful when it comes to real action that governments & the population can aim & achieve.

we don't go on holidays, 2 in 15 years. We go on hikes go to parks etc.But I'm talking about clothes in general.

Well then my comment wasn’t about you! Clearly!

I am not alone in suggesting that wearing new clothes without washing them first is really not advisable

I've been wearing new clothes unwashed for the entirety of my (almost) 65 years. I've never caught anything or had any other adverse effects from this practice.

I don't buy new stuff to go on holiday, either, unless I specifically need something. Some of my t-shirts are well over 10 years old and still perfectly fine and I have a sweater that comes on most holidays and it's over 25 years old!

Smallsteps88 sorry, I think I was the one that started the cheap clothes thing though!!

I always wash dirty clothes on holiday, I hate packing dirty clothes. Also means I hardly have any washing to do post holidays. I take a load to the laundrette mid holiday and on the last morning of holiday.

I don't wash clothes that I buy although admittedly I buy online mostly so those clothes will not have been on shop floors but it doesn't bother me.

I've been wearing new clothes unwashed for the entirety of my (almost) 65 years. I've never caught anything or had any other adverse effects from this practice.

Me too (almost 40).

What’s ‘unadvisable’ about it?

this is the comment I responded to by @Ponoka7 at 07:15

a lot of people can't afford clothes that aren't made in Bangladesh etc.

I've packed my children's almost too small seasonal clothes and shoes to wear on holidays to Asia.In the last few days, I'd wash them and give them to charity along with the toys, books and colouring things we had collected.

We would buy new summer clothes for the kids in time for our holiday each year, hut we would go away in May and the clothes would last all summer.

I would treat myself to one or two new things but not all new.

And we definitely still now buy new knickers and socks for holidays. Easy to pack and we then retire and throw away worn older ones.

I find old t shirts are good for the beach and covering up to swim or when too hot.

They go into the textile recycling afterwards

@honeygirlz

A tee shirt for a child in eg Next is coming up to a tenner, two euro in Penny's (Primark). So yes!

Fine to buy the £2 shirt but why so many? I see people’s baskets overflowing at Primark. I bet loads gets worn once and then discarded.

Yes I've always wondered about that.

I love decanting my toiletries into travel size bottles or using up my small sizes from the M&S advent calendars

I'd love to be able to buy good quality, eco friendly clothing, but it's not feasible with 4 children. A few tee shirts, some shorts, socks and underwear of good quality would break us, anyway. I'd love to, but we can't

M&S are doing 3 for 2 on a lot of kids's clothes at the moment, so you can effectively get things for two-thirds of the normal price. I got 3 pure cotton tops for DGD for £12 the other day. I can't imagine Primark is much cheaper than that.

@habibihabibi, I think that's a really nice thing to do.

You all know next clothes are made in Bangladesh too?...

That isn’t the price range you need to go to, it’s way more than that.

Please no more throwing clothes away.

Oh and M&S too, they’ve also had repeated incidents of using sweatshop factories, including in Bangladesh, last year.

I mean, not saying people shouldn’t shop ethically - but realistically if you’re buying clothes from high street shops, don’t kid yourself on just because they cost more.

@tabulahrasa

Oh and M&S too, they’ve also had repeated incidents of using sweatshop factories, including in Bangladesh, last year.

I mean, not saying people shouldn’t shop ethically - but realistically if you’re buying clothes from high street shops, don’t kid yourself on just because they cost more.

This.

But it will fall on deaf ears to the sorts of people who buy new wardrobes for holidays. They want cheap, convenient, disposable clothes.