Money Monday: 18 Tips to Dress for Less

1. Single best way to save on clothes: Sell what you’re not wearing at a consignment shop. Before you buy your next article of clothing, go into your closet and remove everything in there that you haven’t touched for a year. Take it to a consignment shop. Take the stuff they don’t want to a thrift store so someone else can benefit.

2. Buy out of season: shorts and bikinis in January, coats and sweaters in July.

3. Don’t ever buy anything without checking a coupon search engine first. Think of it as a instant savings dispenser attached to your computer.

4. If you’re a woman shopping in a department store for something unisex like a t-shirt or sweatshirt, you might find it cheaper in the boy’s or men’s department. Apparently the sexist pigs who price clothing believe women will pay more for comparable clothes than men.

5. Don’t over-wash your clothes. It wears them out faster. Avoid dry-cleaning if possible, and when you do wash your clothes, avoid dryers. That lint in your dryer screen is made of little pieces of your clothes that get rubbed off. Hanging them on a rack or clothesline is better for them and your electric bill.

6. Develop a hangup: How many times have you had to wash otherwise unsoiled clothing just because you threw it in a wad on the floor?

7. Learn to sew

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