We're wearing the same clothes...
Ok, so it's Day 1. Just got dressed.
Wearing the shirt and the pants.
Lookin' great.
Normally, got this whole plethora of dresses and other assorted ensembles to choose from.
But today I know exactly what I'm going to wear so
I'm closing the closet door
and we're doing good.
Some reflections this morning: Felt pretty good.
It was nice to not have to think about what I was wearing.
I know I'm gonna wear this shirt. It's on. It's mine.
The pants I'm gonna have to be wearing for the rest of the week, which should be interesting.
Definitely cut some time down in my morning— you know 5 or 10 minutes.
I'm not totally a morning person so that helps, you know, it's like
I could brush my teeth 4 or 5 times in that amount of time so...
All good so far.
So it's Day 2 of living the Zuckerberg life.
I can feel my net worth rising already.
I spent a lot less time getting ready for work today.
And how did that make you feel?
Probably 5 minutes because I don't really ever spend
that much time figuring out what I'm going to wear.
The joys of being a man.
But that 5 minutes is nice.
What did you use that 5 minutes for instead?
Wondering about whether I'm going to get sick of this shirt by the end of the week.
I guess right now we're kind of at this weird halfway point.
We have 3 shirts. I did first shirt, second shirt, first shirt again.
I wore one shirt for the first two days and then this is a
fresh one I put on today.
As far as things go hygiene-wise, I mean things seem pretty OK.
Smell pretty good still somehow.
It's a little hot out so maybe we were sweatin' a little bit but, you know,
deodorant works wonders, perfume is pretty great.
I've been showering every day like normal.
About to head to my boyfriend's apartment.
We'll see if he notices that I've been wearing the same clothes.
OK so I have infiltrated the boyfriend's apartment.
I've been here for about an hour.
My girlfriend so far has been the only person who noticed that I'm wearing the same shirt
over and over again.
Didn't notice at all.
Are we surprised? No.
She kind of laughed and said, "It's pretty much what you do anyway."
Which is true.
I have mixed feelings about this, to be honest.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this.
I wish that I had chosen a different uniform
and I definitely would have taken that minor, teeny tiny little bit of
like gender privilege that we have in wearing dresses in the summer.
I only have 3 shirts and so I sweat through one already, which means if I want
to wear that again tomorrow, I'm going to have to do laundry tonight.
That seems kind of troubling.
I feel like this is a really good experiment in concept.
It's day 5.
The final day.
I don't know that it had a huge effect on me.
It definitely saved time in the morning.
Definitely cut some time down in my morning 5 or 10 minutes.
Definitely took less time getting ready.
And I spent a lot less time getting ready for work today.
I definitely would do this again, though.
I like this shirt.
I just like my shirt a lot too.
We have really good style, I think.
If anything, this experiment proved that.
I don't know if I necessarily felt productive just at work.
I had a lot of different stuff thrown at me this week and I feel like I was
better able tackle those things than if I was also running around being like,
"What am I'm gonna wear in the hottest week of the Summer thus far?"
Most people would probably benefit from it a lot more than I do,
because I generally don't put a lot of thought into what I wear.
I've just never have had great style and I have 5 shirts that I wear all the time.
So it's like kind of similar to this.
Yeah.
Do you know what you're gonna wear on Monday for your first day?
I don't actually.
I will be, first of all, not surprised if it ends up being this.
I'll be wearing this with a different plain t-shirt.
You'll be wearing shorts.
Yeah, actually I'll be wearing shorts.
So we'll be wearing not pants.
This would be like a Fall thing — like a back to school Fall thing.
If you're ever planning your outfit for a week, check the weather first.
What a hot tip.