Six Items or Less

It began as a tweet. Followed by an email. Now, a week later one person's idea has exploded (in a good way, of course).

Green Thing caught up with Heidi from Six items or less to find out just how she and her friend Tamsin have managed to mobilise an active community of people volunteering to wear the same six items or less over the course of a month. It doesn't sound revolutionary, and Heidi admits that it began as just a way of not fussing about what to wear day to day. With six items or less, you don't have many decisions to make.

After Heidi tweeted something along the lines of 'people need to stop making stuff and just wear all black' and an email exchange with a friend across the pond in London, Tamsin, 6 items or less was born as their social experiment in using less.

People soon began contacting them asking if they could take part and their community started to grow. In less that a week, 100 people have signed up to take part. For some it's a purge of their closets, homes and offices. For others its a movement based on values of anti-consumerism. You can have a look at their roster and see how each person participating is managing, what ideas they have and what cues they're taking from other people, like the uniform project. There are some items that are excluded from the six items, like under garments and shoes.

The coolest thing about this project is it's just the beginning. This has all happened in the span of one week. Maybe in a year we'll see a global six items or less movement?

PS- This post is part of 'An All-Consuming Summer' at Green Thing. To find out more, just click on the anallconsumingsummer tag below. 

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