Reviewing my best purchases of 2024

and looking ahead into 2025

Let me start by coming clean. In one of my early newsletters, I wrote that I planned to buy no more than five new things this year (secondhand and pre-owned items didn’t count). That was before I consigned or recycled about 40% of my wardrobe in Q1. By the time April rolled around, that goal of sticking to just five new items was long gone.

Here’s the th…