Two conclusions from your initial post:

1. You are a gifted writer.
2. I am not the only CP member with OCD. :)

btw, some women's naughty knickers will make whatever you choose more special

I purposely buy 4 sets of the exact same clothes for work. Navy blue short sleeve shirt, Navy blue shorts, tank top under the shirt. I only buy one type of black sock, and I buy them in large quantities so that any two of my socks make a pair. For about six weeks out of the year it is cold enough to wear pants and a coat to work. I choose to wear my Snoopy vs. the Red Baron fleece pajama pants to work with my shorts underneath for those six weeks. I remove them in the break room and leave them folded on top of my work bag. Recently I added a hat that I purchased from a street vendor during our local Christmas celebration. It is styled somewhat like this:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-4552126...2080_100359067



I tend to post joke threads and fake responses on the Planet a lot, but believe me that every word of this is true. During the weekends I will wear only pajamas unless I have outside errands to do, in which case I will wear a pair of blue jeans and a Jonny Cash t-shirt. If I have to go outside on Mondays I wear blue jeans and a different t-shirt, most likely one of five.

I think goatse just voted.

Is your real name 'John Warnock Hinckley, Jr.'?

It sounds like your system is simple but effective, since you have no indecent exposure arrests (I assume).

I adopted the opposite model, and I think in the long run it's probably only marginally more costly, albeit with a little more risk. I've been buying clothes pretty regularly over the past several years and have built up a relatively large stock. Because of this, shirts come up in the rotation perhaps once every 8 to 10 weeks (guessing), and pants maybe once every 5 or 6 weeks. This keeps their wear down, so I can wear them for a long time. I've got a couple of summer shirts that are probably pushing 20 years old now, but still look good (I think). And that's not counting my t-shirts, which are voluminous but only rarely worn during the week.

So at some point, I think I'll have a big enough stock that I can stop buying clothes altogether and coast until death.

Compared to your model, then, my model has the upside of increased fashion (assuming quantity = quality in that regard). The downside is a risk of my clothing going out of fashion (which I mitigate by buying timeless styles), weight gain/loss, and probably a little inflationary effect since I've been buying in earlier-year dollars.

The bottom line is that your model is probably the more savvy financial decision, but since I have to meet clients and win work frequently, I think I probably have a greater need for fashion than you do. And of course I'm rationalizing too, because I can't resist fine clothing.

That's the thing, I could dress a whole lot nicer (variety wise) at the identical steady state spending rate. The differential cost is all in the transition from one steady state to another. Clothes do make a difference. If I'm looking at a 16 hour day due to some work-related evening function and have to wear a pair of uncomfortable dress slacks (too much synthetic fiber) and the same shirt-tie-blazer combo that people have seen me in 20 times before that can be a pretty rough way to start the day. In contrast, if I'm wearing a nicer pair of slacks and a snazzy new shirt and tie, I'm going to leave the house feeling a bit more optimistic. I'm not a clothes horse, but I'm not completely indifferent to clothes either.

Turning into that prof that wears the same pants every day scares the hell out of me,

Oh, I know that guy. He was my Calc III professor in undergrad school.

Of course, he was more or less blind, so I figured fashion wasn't his strong suit. (And on an unrelated note, it's pretty impressive to be nearly blind and teaching Calc III.)

Hey, this might really be the same guy! He was my Diff EQ prof and he was half blind. When he was handing the papers back he used to have to take off his glasses and squint really hard at the name. Maybe he went from the Columbia campus to the Rolla campus.

Joiner?

Wouldn't that be hilarious? What are the odds?

I don't remember his name. He was younger, kind of a tall thin build and came from MIT or Harvard?

Hmm, don't know my guy's pedigree, but I bet he was late 40s/early 50s in the early 1980s. Tall and thin, though. Maybe there were two nearly blind advanced mathematicians operating at that time. Mine was a pretty good teacher, very good at explaining concepts.

Exact same mannerisms as your guy. Mine would have to get his face about an inch from the page to read, but with some squinting he was able to get by on a chalkboard.

(Yes, younger people, they were still using chalkboards in the early 80s.)

I buy the packs of 3 shirts that come at wal mart, blue white and blue-er. grab whichever and whichever jeans, now afterwards, which concert/royals/chiefs gear should I wear, and which stocking cap

I just lay around in my underwear all day.

The neighbors get a kick out of me going out to pick the newspaper off the driveway.