So, I’ve spent some time this morning, digging in the closet in the 3rd bedroom. It’s full of boxes and some old clothes. When I went digging this morning after my dentist appointment, I found clothes I’ve not seen in a long, long time.
I had a fairly decent wardrobe when I left Further South back in 2010. I packed them up, thinking I’d have them back and unpacked within a year. That didn’t happen. When I moved here, I’d kinda forgotten them. I had in the back of my head they were size 14 to 16, which is what I was wearing when I moved down there in 2006.
Either or I found them this morning. They are, for the most part, 18’s. (I’m currently in an 18/20) Some of them are quite dated, for lack of a better term. Others are… bad color choices for me. There is a pale pink sweater with a clown color and crocheted roses … dear Jesus, there is a pair of corduroy pull on pants that go with this top… where WAS my fashion sense???
I’m thinking I could:
A) Wash them and put them in my rotation. I don’t NEED to buy new clothes. I’m pretty well set for a wile.
B) Wash them and hang them out with other things at the neighborhood yard sale in 6 weeks. And what I don’t sell, I can send to the Women’s Homeless Shelter.
I know, I know. First World problems.
My vote is for B since you already seemed by the tone of the post to put the kibosh on wearing them. So are you doing research for State of the Closet post???
AHahahaha. There are a few things I WILL keep – mostly a comfy fall pull over long sleeved tee and a velvet medieval trimmed tunic, that to be honest, never looked good on me but that I loved. I have a few pairs of jeans I need to lose about 15 pounds to get into. They’re in good shape and a decent brand. (Lane Bryant.)
I’m thinking I”m going to wash them and put them, among other things, in the neighborhood garage sale. I pulled out the light pink sweater and thought – Oh, PRETT… wait. I’ll probably wash it and try it on with jeans. The matching corduroy are NOT hanging around! NOPE!
I’ve also found a pair of lavender stirrup pants. I have a lavender mock-turtleneck and a lavender fuzzy pull over sweater.
And a pair of kelly green stirup pants. I have a turtle neck for that one too. Wow, I was stylin’!!! (But the were bought back in the late 1990’s. I’m thinking that in itself means it’s time to go to someone who needs them more than me.
Yeah, I’m trying to make closet space for my out of season clothes so I don’t have to go through the hell of packing and unpacking. Such a pain in the ass! So I would think a State of the Closet address won’t be far behind! LOL!
Ahhh great!! Been looking forward to it for AWWHILLLLLEEE now! It sounds like you are keeping quite a few things. I love corduroy pants. I am wearing a pair now(black hahahahaha!!) with a blouse and short boots. I should do the same and go thru my stuff and purge. Not sure when our neighborhood garage sale is. Good point, I don’t have any late 1990s stuff left just early 2000s and mid to late 2000s and now in all various sizes and prints!!!
I had pretty much decided that anything ‘old’ I have will be given away to someone who really needs it. I’m getting ready to look at TWO 10 foot closets that are full of clothes I CAN wear. (And do wear). That’s sinful. It really is.
Oh geesh, not again. Look you deserve these clothes. Clothes make you happy and you work freakin hard so who cares. Sinful is me going back every 15 minutes and looking at his crown jewels from yesterdays #MCM pic. Now that is really sinful especially what I am thinking I want him to do with those CJ to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I look at THOSE all the time!!!!
Hahahaha girlfriend how come you been hogging him for so long???? I could’ve used those CJ to life me up like 2 months ago!!!
What do you think keeps me afloat???
Ja ja!! I hear you. Boy do I hear you sista!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
life me geez I meant LIFT me up sorry!!!
.hehehehehe
Saturday night I had a pre-sickness mania. (I’ve been sick since Sunday.) I left the house after dinner at 8:15, drive quickly to the big shopping centre, and power shopped at my favourite boutique for half an hour. I tried on around a dozen tops and came home with five. It was fun … my closet is overflowing and yet somehow I always “need” new stuff.
Sue good for you!! Love power shopping!! 👍👏👏👏✅❤️❤️❤️❤️😘
We don’t have a ‘big’ shopping center. We have 2 malls that aren’t really all that big. Someone gave me a nice Lane Bryant coupon but I’m thinking the closest Lane Bryant is 30 miles down the road.
Is 30 miles too far? When I lived in Toronto, that was my one-way commute to work each day! I’m much closer now, though.
Yes and No. The Lane Bryant is right in the middle of mall and shopping city. Awful traffic, people who can’t drive, including me. And when it’s warm and sunny out??? Forget it!
Can you buy online Lane Bryant? The one here near me closed. I avoid shopping malls now too.
Zee: you’re an excellent driver!!!
Yes I can but I buy enough clothes online and everywhere is offering me credit cards – including JessicaLondon, FullBeauty, and WomanWithin – who are all sister or the umbrella company for many. I have the Roamans Card, which I can use at about 5 places and I only have 41.00 ceiling space – which I don’t understand as I have 53.00 ceiling, I made a 50.00 payment and then I only have 41.00??? I’m thinking interest and that lovely ‘In case you lose your job or there is an emergency’ insurance I have… It’s killing me, I tell you. It’s killing me.
And seeing how i start my next dental project the week of Memorial Day, i’m thinking I want to pay more on my Care Credit to bring it down. (Although, they’ve given me a higher credit limit. I had deep cleanings done this January that were QUITE expensive and I didn’t put them on my insurance to keep more often. I’m thinking this root canal is going to cost more than I anticipated, thanks to the Crown Lengthening.
Zee, your dental insurance should cover certain percentage of the RCT right and the crown lengthening which is periodontal.
Speaking of dental how is your mouth feeling today?
OH my dental will cover quite a bit. 100% of the first 300.00, 80% up to 3000.00 and 50% of to 5000.00. After that I’m on my own. This whole bridge monster cost me about 800. Of course that included the removal of one tooth, and then the ‘refining of the two, several temporaries, and the final bridge – WHICH I GET IN MID APRIL! YAY!!!
My mouth is feeling better today than yesterday. The dental hygienist made the same suggestion my former dentist made and that I actually did when I was taking care of my teeth on a regular basis – and that was get cleanings 3 times a year instead of 2. I get plaque build up REALLY fast on the back of my lower front teeth and I’m using a plaque remover. I’m going to invest in a water pick or a Sonic electric toothbrush to help with that.
You’ve not seen my wrecks, have you???
Er um and I was being facetious but you know what happened to me on Sunday morning!! Look as long as you get from point A to point B in 1 piece that’s the higher goal is..
Ah yes…. and you cried your way out of it! That used to work for me. Hasn’t in a while.
Believe it or not it isn’t posted yet on the website with the corresponding number b/c he warned me not to forget. I tried to pay the $30 (failure to obey traffic sign) yesterday and I am not in the system yet. Hmmmm I was really upset on Sunday about a lot of stuff and that was no act believe me. I think b/c I instantly felt remorse and reacted the way I did he took pity on me.
Well I”m irked over the no brake light ticket because I’ll have to go to court! Sucks!
well if it is any consolation I had my 12 month state inspection yesterday and remember that fateful rainy Sat night when I was texting you waiting on Roadside repair after the flat tire. The same side brand new tire apparently had a defect and I needed another new tire to pass inspection yesterday.
That brand new tire that has a defect should be under warranty and they should replace it!
Yeah but I went to my local auto repair shop right down the street from my office yesterday b.c I can get the state inspection done dropping the car off. I will contact Toyota dealership who replaced the first tire and see what I can do about a refund or some kind of reimbursement. I was at the mercy yesterday b.c bad tire=no pass state inspection. Friday is the last day!!!
Happy I don’t have to do an inspection anymore. I pay a 21.00 tag fee yearly and that’s it.
Well they waived the inspection fee yesterday and I had a coupon for $8 off the inspection too. I mean that’s some consolation and I just threw my hands up and didn’t get upset like on Sunday so I’m improving somewhat… Are you home today?
Yes I’m home today. I return to work tomorrow.
Dare I ask how HP is behaving? Are LT and GG happy now?
Well she is still peeing all over the floor, and the computer is behaving beautifully!
Ok well maybe one for the other is better then two negatives and if HP lets you write than GG will calm down
as well
Oh I see. You do drive though, no? You mean not well?
I do drive. I used to love to drive. Not anymore.
I never realized how many clothes I did have until now when I am moving to VA. I gave away 3 full bags of Jeans and leggins , two bags of shoes and boots, some never worn and now 4 bags of tops today. And I still have tons to move. it is truly amazing what we accumulate, but we do and I am sure I will continue to buy off and on, however, I find it amazing that we all tend to stick to the clothes we really like and wear them over and over 🙂
Gosh you both are inspiring me to do a purge soon. 👏👍
I can’t keep buying coat hangers, lol!
Oh geez I have a ton at home coat hangers no problemo!! I would have put more in the V Day package but needed room for the other items!
Nah, it’s good.
I”m really leaning towards giving away or garage selling everything I owned before I moved here. I’m remembering, I left the vast majority of my clothes in storage in 2010 – I had gained weight and couldn’t get into most of it, and I knew my room didn’t have a closet for me. It was my mom’s closet and there was no room, so I had a 4 foot expanding (meaning it expanded to 4 feet) rolling clothing rack and I bought a 3 drawer plastic chest for under neath for my underwear and such. So I didn’t bring that much home with me. I’m going through this closet and I know I have boxes of clothes in the garage and I’m thinking – you know, I’ve BOUGHT new clothes over the last… 2 years. Really. Okay. Three years! I started with a piece every paycheck and it snowballed 2 years ago. So i’m going to wash all these clothes, line dry them, iron them if necessary and then either sell them, among other things, at the neighborhood yard sale and then send them to the Women’s shelter. Spawn has clothes he can’t wear and I have stuff in my garage I just need to get rid of! If I can make 75-100.00, I’ll be happy. I”ll put that money on one of the credit cards. Or Spawn and I will do something special with it.
Oh gosh if you have that much and you have great taste in clothes you’ll get more than 75-100 bucks
Good idea!! When I did a great purge 8 years ago I gave it all to Goodwill in one if there drive by dumpsters
I saw Cmas wrapping paper which looked good n great shape and since it was like 6:30 am when I put out my
boxes of clothes I swiped the wrapping paper! 😱😉🤣
Punish me now!
I used to date a guy who would drive by the Goodwill and Salvation Army dumpsters and take what he wanted/needed. Said he figured he saved them a haul. I think what he did was disgusting, but I think the wrapping paper was okay! LOL!
Well I mean it was just laying there and I gave empty storage bins but maybe I’m a little too honest here 😱🤔😬
Nah Lots of people have done it! I was dropping off some junk and found a really great lamp!! i still have the lamp, come to think of it…
And the stuff I have is mostly Walmart stuff when I was broke. Or when I worked at Walmart and got a discount on cheap clothes lol!
Should be their not there and one if not if
Sorry I am more literate than that! 🤦♀️😉😻
Damn you, autocorrect!
Very frustrating indeed!!
Geez of not if ugh!!!!!!!
Reg. hangers, I know I couldn’t keep up and Michele I like some of Walmart clothes and styles they sell Nicki Manage??? clothing and you can get some really good deals. NY and Co. my sister and I would by Jeans when they had them buy one get one free or 1/2 price. I definitely love to bargain shop. I think I am done. I still have too many. I hate the thought of unpacking when I finally get into my apt.
Irish, I shop Walmart. They used to sell Norma Kamali who was a big time designer in the 1980’s she always designed modern, edgy clothes. I also have a ton of Target clothes always on sale and dirt cheap. I’m like a bloodhound when it comes to clearance shopping. Yeah I need to stop now too. It becomes a fixation, a temporary assuage for feeling rotten about things but I get it. When you get to your new pad, take your time. Nobody’s got a stop watch and who cares anyway. My 2nd bedroom has stuff I need to sort through for over a year. I procrastinate b/c I just don’t feel like doing it.
I’ve been in my house since November 2015 and I STILL have half my 2 car garage full!!!
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Geesh, I guess it won’t be so bad if it takes me awhile. 🙂