How Many Jeans Does One Mom Need?
While helping a friend “biff through” her clothes last week, I had the opportunity to test-drive my original formula for figuring out how many of one type of garment a person needs. Watching her pull jean after jean out of the drawer, I think I said out loud, “How many pairs of jeans do you need?”
“Well, I was going to ask you that.”
And then I realized I knew how to figure it out:
- “How many times a day do you have to change …?” (She actually finished my sentence for me, “… because of spit-up?”). Her answer: 3 times per day. A normal number for a mother of a six-month-old.
- “And how long could something be in the laundry?” Her answer: She does laundry twice a week. Translation: 4 days.
- The math: 3 x 4 = 12. If she doesn’t have 12 pairs of jeans, she’ll be wearing something else when she’s doing laundry that last day.
- Oh. And this assumes she wants to wear jeans everyday. She does.
The fabulous Clinton Kelly and Stacy London recommend when you find a pair of jeans you like buying two and hemming one to wear with heels and one to wear with flats.
Me? I have four pairs. Dark straight, for with my Converse, long dark “bootcut”, for with heels, and a longer and a shorter pair of these, for my most leisurely days.
Seems like alot to me.
12 pairs of jeans? Really? Sheesh. I am under-jeaned.
Hey, I just read Clinton and Stacy’s book this weekend - it was a lot of fun and very helpful! I was amused to see that all of the male visitors to my house immidiately grabbed it and tried to find their body types…
Hehee, that’s funny (about the guys).
About the jeans: are you beyond the spit-up stage? Need for changes of clothes seriously decreases after, don’t you think?
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