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06 January 2006

I have nothing to wear!

I'm finding myself uttering these words less and less, but if I'm honest with myself, I still own way too many clothes that I haven't worn in years. Unfortunately, I'm not alone. A recent survey found that, women in the UK have blown more than 7 billion pounds (over 12 billion US dollars) on clothes they don't wear.
Women have 14 items of clothing, on average, lurking in the back of their wardrobes that they have not worn in the last year, the survey by home insurer Churchill found.

Each unwanted item cost an average 21.82 pounds, which meant the country's 24 million women spent 7.3 billion pounds last year on clothes they did not wear, the insurer said.
While the study focuses solely on the UK, I'll bet that a similar epidemic lurks in the U.S. This is absolutely ridiculous.

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