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Whether you are passionate about the environment, whether you want to fight capitalism, looking for unique outfits or simply try to save money - savings purchases is the best thing you can do.

Did you know that Americans only have an average clothing item 7 times before throwing it? They also throw between 30 and 40 kilograms of clothes each year. It is a lot of clothes that are found in the discharges, and most are made of synthetic fibers and does not really biodegrade, so it pollutes and harms the environment with microplastics.

And just in case you did not know, making clothes uses a lot of resources and the fashion industry is in fact one of the largest contributors to global pollution.

Savings can really have an impact on the environment, because by buying less, you create less waste, and you give new life to an already used clothing, which guarantees that it is not found in a discharge. But if you want to go to a whole new level, you have to see what this mother of three children does.

Sarah Tyau first thought of energy as a way to save money on children's clothing. Children grow up so quickly and they need so much clothes, and it's not at all cheap.

It's not exactly easy to find beautiful children's clothes when buying used, but Sarah found a very good solution. She just buys adult clothes that she knows she can turn into a pretty outfit for her child.

She is by no means a professional seamstress, she simply uses the skills she has acquired in a domestic economy course at school. She says it all depends on small modifications first. How to make things shorter or tighten the size.

But she has since become very passionate about her philosophy of life "look good, feel good, do good" and has taken sewing lessons to improve her skills and learn to sew complicated designs.

However, most of the clothes she sewn and what made her nearly 300,000 subscribersInstagram is only basic skills and a little creativity. Sarah says that when she is looking for clothes in a thrift store, she pays attention to the fabric and the pattern. Once she sees something that attracts her attention, it generally does not take her more than a minute to touch him and swirl him to see how the fabric moves, to understand what it can do with this economical article .

She looks at the elements she would like to keep, or those she would like to withdraw from saved clothes, imagine the finished product in her head, then it's just a process to make it a reality.

How does Sarah manage to be a blogger, a refresh designer, a seamstress and a mother of three children, we will never know. She must have superpowers. But she does not intend to stop. Sarah has a YouTube channel, and there she has a series "Come Thrift Shopping With Me" where she popularized the idea of ​​saving and making your own clothes.

In the series, she goes to a thrift store and chooses some articles that draw her attention and shared the ideas she has for them. Then, her audience votes for what idea they like the most and she films the process of transforming her purchases saved into redesigned and improved clothing items.

She made a lot of dresses and combinations for herself and her children from shirts and oversized pants that she found used. But we can't wait to see what she has in store for us, because it seems that with all recycled clothes, she becomes better and more creative with her overhaul.