"Stuff" Taylor Tillage

     Stuff pretty much consumes my room; I have a lot of everything. Like a typical girl I have a lot of make-up, clothes and shoes. Half of my make-up has never been open, and most of my clothes and shoes I don’t wear. But out of all my stuff I would have to say I have the most clothes. My clothes are important to me and hold sentimental value, although I don’t wear them I can’t part from them. I have costumes from elementary school days when my mother and I would make my costumes; I have tons of t-shirts that my field hockey team and I have made for games, pep rallies and other things. T-shirts I will never wear again that are written in marker and have paint all over them but they remind me of high school and team bonding which I’ll never forget. My favorite pair of pants is the one I wore my junior year of hockey season and my team won regionals. I could not play in the game because I had torn my ACL, but to me they were my "good-luck jeans". I have worn them so many times I can not wear them any more cause they are so torn and a little short now. Every single piece of clothing I have has a meaning to me except the ones I actually wear. I’ve always been a t-shirt, jeans or hoodie kind of girl. I have tons of sweats and t-shirts and im constantly buying more. Sometimes I'll even buy clothes that dont fit me just cause they are on sale. I wear the clothes I wear because they are comfy and I keep the others because they are all memories for me that I am afraid to get rid of.
     Clothes are obviously made from natural resources and man-made materials which are taken from the earth or produced in factories and then put together in another factory shipped around the country. Clothes themselves are a necessity but we as the world have way too many clothes. There are so many different brands of clothing out there and most places make the same exact clothes but with different labels for example, Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch are owned by the same company make the same exact clothes, but with different symbols on the clothes. It is unfortunate that people in third world countries can’t even afford clothes, are still making their own clothes by hand with little materials they can find yet we as a nation have thousands of stores and millions of brands to shop for clothing every day. Clothes are easy to obtain here in the U.S. but not very easy in other parts of the world due to poverty. Too many clothes are made; like Graham Hill said we have three times the amount of space than we had years ago but we don’t utilize it. Making less clothes would let factories and the drivers/ships who make and distribute the clothes have a smaller carbon foot print which is good for our environment. Making less clothes and having less options would give consumers less opportunities to but clothes that they don’t need saving them money, making them happier.
     If I gave my clothes that I no longer wear to a homeless shelter, or a good will or even passing them down to people in my family would help my carbon footprint because the damage for the making of my clothes has been done no more factories will be polluting the air when I give away my pajamas from fifth grade and people would be getting my clothes for free which helps those whom don’t have anything it also makes them happier because they don’t need to spend money and now have a necessity they never had and in turn makes me happy for doing a good dead. After thinking of those in need and how much I contribute to our bad environment by buying clothes I don’t need I can most certainly do with less of my favorite stuff!