"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing"
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The intent feels less like a manifesto than an affectionate shrug at urban reality. Lost-and-found boxes are a quiet commons, a shadow welfare system built from other people’s forgetfulness. “Wash them” is doing a lot of work: it’s the ritual that turns something slightly gross into something socially acceptable, a tiny act of care that lets communal resources masquerade as private property. The subtext is that we already practice informal sharing all the time, even if we pretend we don’t.
Context matters. Grenier’s public persona sits at the intersection of celebrity, sustainability talk, and a certain downtown sensibility. Framing winter wear as a circulating resource nudges the listener away from consumerist replacement (“just buy a new one”) toward reuse without preaching. It’s also a sly comment on how community often happens: not through big declarations, but through mundane, slightly embarrassing exchanges we never put on Instagram.
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Grenier, Adrian. (2026, January 16). I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-winter-wear-is-communal-you-get-some-131774/
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Grenier, Adrian. "I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-winter-wear-is-communal-you-get-some-131774/.
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"I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-winter-wear-is-communal-you-get-some-131774/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.








