Set a fixed budget for buying clothes

Pre-reading questions:

  1. Do you like shopping for new clothes? Why or why not?
  2. When do you usually buy new clothes?

Most people enjoy shopping. It is nice to have new clothes, especially when they are affordable. However, the fun in buying clothes stops when you spend too much and own too many. Marc Bain, a fashion reporter, said that there should be a limit in the amount of money one should spend on clothes. If you set a limit to your budget for clothes, you can save more. Additionally, if you don’t have that many clothes, you can lessen your trash and help save the environment.

Vocabulary:
shopping [noun] – the activity of buying goods from stores
low-cost [adjective] – not expensive ; cheap
fashion [noun] – a popular or latest style in clothes, hair, etc
reporter [noun] – a person whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or magazine or for radio or television
limit [noun] – the amount of something that is enough and not too much
trash [noun] – things that are no longer wanted or needed

True or False:

  1. The article says that most people enjoy shopping.
  2. It is not nice to have new clothes, especially when they are affordable.
  3. The fun in buying clothes never stops.
  4. Marc Bain is a travel reporter.
  5. There should be a limit in the amount of money one should spend on clothes.