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The extreme minimalist wardrobe strategy: Get your best hoodie

  
This time, our favourite topic again; Minimalism.


In northern Sweden where I live now, we are having quite high temperatures compared to the winter and everyone is digging out their spring/summer clothes.


If you are living in a place with harsh summer or winter, the way you dress will be kind of limited but it is good because you can think in a minimalistic way.

Trust an extreme minimalist so that you will get some ideas out of my experience.


Get your best hoodie



My suggestion for the spring/summer outfit is to have a really good hoodie.


A person like me who loves the idea of minimalism hates the idea of having lots of things in one genre.


I stick to the idea of one genre one item rule, a maximum of 2 items for the cleaning timing reason because it is much easier to manage fewer things.


Most of the time, you have so much of clothes or things because you can not manage your impulsive shopping emotion.


There is a way to stop it.




The reasons you should get your best hoodie and stick to it



The three reasons that you may want to get one suitable hoodie with you are...
  1. Less decision fatigue 
  2. Less possibility of losing clothes
  3. Higher quality of the outfit

Reason 1. Less decision fatigue 



It's very simple if you only have one hoodie to wear, you don't have to choose which one to wear.

In my past articles, I have repeated that minimalism is all about focusing and focusing means fewer decisions.

If you want to use your brain energy for an important event, then you want to save the energy for it by not deciding something important for you such as what to wear in my case.



Reason 2. Less possibility of losing clothes



Less possession means less possibility to lose things; it also means less expense since you do not need to buy the same thing over and over again.


For you who want to experiment with a minimalist lifestyle, I think you want to start with the 3 clothes and 2 colours rule.

It will make your clothes management much easier if you only have 2 colours in your outfit; in my case, only black because I am a true extreme minimalist.

I just do not need fancy clothes but instead, I need the comfort in the routine that I keep wearing black outfits every day.


Reason 3 Higher quality of the outfit



Let's say you can only have one hoodie in your entire life, then you would choose it really carefully.

I think this is the true attitude when buying clothes because buying the same products over and over again is simply not good for your economy and environment.

If you are reorganising your clothes and if you do not know how to, then my advice would be "Keep only 1 hoodie, less than 3 T-shirts, and less than 3 pairs of trousers."

This looks quite extreme but you still have some patterns that do not look exactly the same every day.

My personal experience buying high-quality clothes is amazing.

Since I examine a lot before buying one clothes, I never think in a way that I want to have more of the same clothes after my purchase.




To say it short, I recommend you have only one really good hoodie so that you are always happy and comfortable wearing that.