https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 09 May 2026 12:10:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659856 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:40:51 +0000 harmonica 659856@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Kate and Meredith for your thoughts!</p> <p>I agree with you Kate, both on your reflections on cheating and efficient money tracking. It seems like you have a great system going on and I'm very curious to see how it works, so I'll send you a message </p> <p>The items I thought I could lower the CPW and then remove from the list, is *only* items that already have a very low CPW, i.e $3 or $1,5. That means, clothes that are well worn and that I know I will wear a lot anyway. </p> <p>Items with higher CPW still have to be tracked, both in order to use them more (no superfluous items in the closet, please) and to get the cost down (economy speaks). </p> <p>I too know what I wear more often, but I like to get it down on the paper and it also forces me to wear all my clothes and I get more variation in my daily dressing. </p> <p>Thanks for your thoughts and comments! I will now remove a few items from my CPW list that alerady is down to less than a dollar. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659514 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:45:23 +0000 Meredith1953 659514@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae makes a good point about being more vigilant about cpw with items that are not in heavy rotation. I KNOW which ones I have gotten down to pennies! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659501 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:33:08 +0000 Kate 659501@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I keep a spreadsheet and track everything, so I have the CPW for everything too. This is a rather type-A version of what you're doing, and certainly not for everyone! But if you (or anyone else) are interested in seeing how to set up the spreadsheet, send me a message with your email and I'll send you what I've got. </p> <p>Honestly, it seems like you're only cheating if you're somehow lowering the CPW on items without actually wearing them. Continuing to calculate the CPW on items that have a low CPW isn't cheating, it's just showing you how efficiently your money can be spent on some items. It also may be a waste of your time if it doesn't fit into your big picture reasons for tracking CPW. </p> <p>On the other hand, I find it helpful to know how unevenly I wear my clothing. My average of the CPW for each item is $2.16, but if I add up the total amount of money I've spent on clothes, and divide it by the number of times I've worn all of them (since I started tracking), the CPW is $1.65. I play favorites with my clothes and make investments that don't pay off, so tracking all of their CPWs helps me to recognize that. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659429 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:34:12 +0000 harmonica 659429@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>CocoLion: I agree totally! The items on my list is mostley new or relatively new. I've been purging my closet for several years 3-4 years now and do not have many orphans. Still, I need to edit and edit because I think I have a bit too much. So I keep a maybe-box and try to let go dead weight. I don't actually have a spreadsheet either, but thats just because I don't know how to make it. I have a list and make a little line whenever I've worn something. Very far from advanced. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659422 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:27:23 +0000 harmonica 659422@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae, Mo and Ruth: You are spot on! I actually think I got caught up in doing the numbers, so I forgot about the reason why I started.</p> <p>Thanks for good comments and moving me out of a too strict CPW-web! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659419 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:24:17 +0000 CocoLion 659419@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't track CPW on a spreadsheet but I have introduced the concept to my shopping and dressing brain.</p> <p>I do have things that have high CPW and I still get rid of them even instead of trying to wear those orphans. I try to look at it as a lesson. Usually these are things that are not really my style but I wanted to experiment. The experiment fails. Or, I buy the wrong size. Or, wear something once and then realize, I have almost the exact same thing already. I think being too focused on CPW in the past made me hang on to mistakes too long. Now I am trying to be less attached and just purge the item. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659411 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:14:37 +0000 Anonymous 659411@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Once I've gotten enough wear out of something, the math goes out the window, lol! All I care about is getting my money's worth. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659378 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:26:11 +0000 Mo 659378@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't worry about CPW anymore at around $5 (and with shirts more like $1). I figure I definitely got my money's worth out if it by then. It's the items that are supposed deals that don't get worn that have been the trouble for me. Like Rae, I think it's reasonable to stop tracking that which you know gets tons of wear, unless it's just fun math for you </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659374 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:18:50 +0000 rae 659374@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It seems reasonable to stop tracking items that you know get tons of wear already. It is unlikely that you will forget which ones your favorites are, and then when you look at your list you will be focusing on the stuff that "needs" to get worn to bring down CPW. Is that what you meant about removing them from the list? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659340 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:31:14 +0000 harmonica 659340@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have made a similar upper limit, but I have made 3 levels. First is about $7 per wear and I am happy with any item breaking this one, even my expensive stuff. That is because I expect them to last longer and be worn more often. Second is $3 per wear and that is S U P E R. The third one is $1,5 per wear, and last 0 per wear before I go into earning-per-wear-points. </p> <p>My thought was that I could cut the third level by "filling" up with earning-by-wear-points? I mean, the cost is really down to very little, so in my mind I thought I could be happy and remove the item from the list. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659304 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:25:54 +0000 Mo 659304@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a sort of upper limit I am aiming to break through in my Cost Per Wear list. Big purchases like my Frye boots and MoHop sandals, jackets and premium denim, I want to get under $20 CPW for a start. Most everything else is easily under $5, with some dresses and shoes still falling in between the $20 limit and a more reasonable $5. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659288 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:37:21 +0000 harmonica 659288@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A CPW app is what I need!!! Having all my clothes in rotation is one of my goals, so CPW is one way to deal with it. Happy that you like my math, because I don't want to be cheating </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659257 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:16:55 +0000 merwoman 659257@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love your math Harmonica! I think we need some formulas...or better an app for this!<br /> I am not so diligent, as my key concern is minimizing the orphan purchases or things that I imagine I would like to wear...but end up sitting in my closet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/cpw-math-cheating-and-questions#post-659224 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:26:21 +0000 harmonica 659224@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Inspired by YLF and wearing my whole closet, I started tracking CPW. A fun and enlightening process where I sometimes dress to reduce CPW. </p> <p>The one thing I very quickly discovered is that I am wearing a lot of items that is already "paid off" because I have worn it so many times already or that it was items I got for free (hand-me-downs or heirlooms). When wearing these items, I sort of get points for wearing stuff that already is down to zero. </p> <p>Without knowing what I was going to do with it, I've been counting the items anyway and now I've got the number up to almost 170.</p> <p>My question is related to this number of miscellaneous items worn. What do I do with it? I thought I could subtract on an item when the CPW is very low and then remove that item from the list. I hope this bad explanation makes sense.<br /> Would you consider this kind of "shopping math" as cheating? Or does it make sense? </p>