There are shirts in my car. There are shirts in my mom's car. There are shirts in my room, and in our kitchen, and in my locker... basically my life has been overrun by shirts. I'm learning that sharp scissors make a BIG difference in how long it takes me to prep a round of shirts, and they also make a difference in making sure my hand doesn't hurt so much.
On the one hand, I think this is awesome, and I'm so grateful for all the people who are helping this project by donating shirts! On the other hand, it's making me realize just how many extra THINGS we have that we don't care about at all. I can't even count the number of people who've said, "I never wear any of these!" or "I don't even know where I got half of these!" Guys, we just have SO MUCH. It's causing kind of a mental crisis for me, actually, but I've decided to just keep doing what I can do. For now, that's making t-shirts into reusable bags so that we can use them for something important: reducing plastic waste! And it also means just buying fewer clothes, which isn't a consequence I expected from this project. But once you empty out your hundredth bag of unwanted t-shirts onto the floor, you realize that even those "Free" t-shirts aren't really free, and that we need to make some big, big changes if we want to have things like food and oceans and oxygen. Okay, this took a weird turn. Anyway, thanks for all the shirts!!
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