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Stitch Fix Competitors: Trendsend by Evereve Review

As you've seen from my last post, I've been getting into style subscription boxes lately - think boxes like Stitch Fix and its competitors like Trunk Club, Wantable, and now: Trendsend by Evereve. Here are my thoughts on what I received and the experience.  Average Cost per Item: Trendsend is more expensive by average cost per item than my Stitch Fix, Trunk Club, or Wantable boxes were, with most items valued at $75 or higher. They have a $1 styling fee for your first box, so that's pretty good. Unlike Stitch Fix or Trunk Club there are no big referral credits to stack up, though. You can get 20% off your first box with a referral link and 20% off future boxes by referring to others, but I kind of prefer Stitch Fix and Trunk Club for a fixed dollar credit. The items are also on the pricier side. If you keep 4 or more, you get 10% off.  Shipping: My Trendsend box came really fast, inside of one week.  Item Selection : A key note I read was to make a "wishlist"
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2021 Battle of the Fashion Boxes: Stitch Fix vs. Trunk Club vs. Wantable

The year is 2021 and it has been a year since I bought a piece of clothing in a store. Maybe longer, actually - even in the pre-pandemic days I was doing most of my shopping online, clothing included.  I've seen clothing subscription boxes and felt it was time to give not one, but three, a try. Stitch Fix vs. Wantable vs Trunk Club - which was best? Instead of doing the normal thing and just trying one, in an effort to find the best style box for me and to determine if Stitch Fix's competitors were worthwhile, I decided to fill out profiles with three separate services and pit them in a subscription styling box death match.  Wantable Review Up first, because it arrived first, is Wantable . Of the three services I tried, this was probably the one I'd heard the least about.  The Gist : Wantable sends you 7 items, and if you keep 5 you get a discount of 20% on each item. It has the usual style quiz and then something called a "stream" of live items you can request to

Planes, Trains, and Shrines: A Day in Kyoto

We spent a literal 24 hours just getting here. 2 flights (connecting in Detroit with a heart-stoppingly short 40 minute layover), plus 2 trains (1 hour from airport to Tokyo, 2 hours more to Kyoto). Coupled with the 13 hour time difference, we stumbled from Monday to Wednesday. We checked into our hotel around 8 pm and passed out by 8:30, dead to the world. Guess who was wide awake at 4:30 a.m.? Yeah. We’re still pretty screwed up sleep-wise. We waited for the complimentary hotel breakfast to open at 6:30 and then feasted like animals. We’re staying at one of the swankiest hotels I’ve been to, the Ritz Carlton Kyoto, thanks to Kyle’s Marriott points. It’s beautiful, though if I was paying full rate I’d definitely go for a Ryokan with that kind of budget instead - the place we stayed last time was called Shiraume & was unforgettable.  After our obscene breakfast it was still only 7 a.m. We decided to embrace our early rising Japan selves and go to Fushimi Inari Shrine