the autistic paradox of needing to cut all tags off your clothes and needing the tags so you can buy the same item of clothing again for the rest of your life

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Aha! You activated my adhd trap card. Bought 50 pairs of the same shirt, 200 of the same socks and underwear, 20 of the same shorts, threw out everything else. Cya decision fatigue or the spoon robbing experience of ever having to buy clothes again.
- "Bro, do you ever wash your clothes!?"
  
  Yes, and I hardly go through the stack in a week, but having a large reserve safeguards against exactly what OP was talking about. Clothes wear out and get damaged, would be a shame to have to reinvest in a new set if the death of just a few depletes the reserves.
- I do something similar, but not quite as many as you - only as many as is practical. 200 socks seems excessive. I only have a dozen identical pairs. I ball them up and keep them in a dispensing tube so they all get used equally.
This is what smartphones are for. Take picture of clothing item. Take picture of clothing item tag. Save pictures in a "clothes" folder that is synced and/or backed up elsewhere and reference them as needed.
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- Exactly the same. I have one t-shirt with a design from Uniqlo because I thought it was rather cool.
Buy t-shirts without tags, like from Ouky. They are lightly printed.
@MadgePickles You need a dedicated container for those tags, a drawer or a box.
- Hmmm interesting idea
I had not previously thought of doing this. But now I want to.
And needing the tags because you can't throw them away for whatever reason, even though they're trash.

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