how much time do you actually spend maintaining a wardrobe that reads as put-together

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Not asking about money, asking about time. Between researching what to buy, actually shopping, returning what doesn't work, and the mental overhead of deciding what to wear each morning, has anyone actually tallied this up.

I ask because I think most people wildly underestimate it, then wonder why they default to the same five things on rotation. Curious if anyone here has actually tracked it, or found a system that got the number down without just giving up and wearing the same outfit daily.

Good luck with it, and worth checking back on it in a day or two, even a flat reply worth responding to yourself, still with nothing to sell, is where the actual value in doing this comes from.