You must exist. You must exist within your means. You’re doing your best to minimize the impact. It’s fine. You’re doing good.

Also, increased demand at thrift stores doesn’t increase the supply of thrift from donations and doesn’t increase the consumption of fast fashion. At most it decreases the amount of things the thrift store throws out. So that’s a win too.

As for appearance? 🤷‍♂️ I stopped caring about stranger’s opinions long ago. Not sure how people survive otherwise. I remember it being stressful and exhausting.