As I sit here in a hospital room, no I’m not sick, I watch nurses come and go all day long. They wear blue and green scrubs, some have what it looks like comfortable shoes and other wish they did.

I remember when Adriana worked as a dentist, she used to wear scrubs every day; and then she will come home and change clothes, but some days she was too tire and simply she would stay in her work clothes until bed time.

If you wear scrubs every day how many clothes do you need in your closet?

I was trying to do some calculations, most women have the equivalent of 10 outfits per day for a period of a week, when it comes to shoes it’s not very conclusive, I believe they have a secret compartment in the house most men are not aware where they hide those shoes they purchase the previous years but have not worn yet. With those numbers in hand, if you work on the medical profession you can do some calculations yourself and decide how many outfits you really need daily.

Here is a little bit of help:

1. Count how many days a week you wear scrubs
2. Count how many different shoes you wear to work
3. Take the number of shoes you wear to work, multiply it by the number of days you wear scrubs and divide it by 2.
4. The results is the number of outfits you should own per day.

Lets analyze the results:

If you work five days a week 9 to 5 you probably wear scrubs because as the cleaning lady it’s required by the hospital, then you probably wear the same shoes all week long, therefore, you should have 2.5 outfits per day including your scrubs. No need to have a secret closet, everyone in the house know how many pairs of shoes you own.

If you are on call 24/7 and you change scrubs twice a day, you start your day with your pumps and end your day with high heels in the way to the ball, you are probably a doctor, therefore, you should own no less than 15 outfits per day and your secret closets should be a walking closet.

If your mayor was mathematics and ended up as a nurse, you probably can do more precise calculations, let me know your results so we can publish them as well.