Why Clothes Fall Apart After 10 Washes Now

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ You pulled a shirt out of the dryer last week and there was a little hole along the seam, in a shirt you bought in the spring. You're not doing anything wrong. I've washed clothes the same way for thirty years, and the clothes I bought in 1998 held up while the ones I bought in 2023 don't. The washer didn't change. The clothes did. Our grandmothers wore a shirt for ten years and then made it into a rag. In this one I'll walk you through the three things they changed and how to check any piece of clothing in the store with your hands in about a minute: 🧵 Thinner cloth, more plastic in the blend, and half the stitches per inch 👕 The window test, turning it inside out, and counting stitches with your thumb 🔍 Stress points, the pull test, hems, buttons and zippers, and what the tag is really telling you 🧺 Why the thrift rack is sorted by survival, and the washing habits that actually matter (cold water, inside out, go easy on the dryer) …and why clothes kept the same price tag while everything else went up: you're getting less shirt. Hold your oldest shirt and your newest one up to the window side by side, and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and things built to last sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's the oldest piece of clothing you still wear? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #fastfashion #clothingquality #thrifting #laundrytips #buyitforlife #homemaking #householdtips