“Pleats.”
Helaine was observing as I hauled another pair of pants from the bedroom closet. She was referring to pants about to go to charity.
My read is: “Pleats are out.”
We’ve been in this house twenty years. I very well may have twenty year old ‘closetwear.’ One accumulates over time.
“Isn’t this how trends begin?” I asked Helaine, thinking someone’s got to be first. To summarize her answer: No trend will ever start with me.
Too tight. Too short. Too out-of-style. My closet is full of toos.
More pants fit than I expected. Since I am not currently near the bottom of the weight cycle that was a small surprise. It doesn’t take me off the hook, but it could have been very demoralizing–what I was expecting.
“You’re not wearing that anymore.”
Just five words and Helaine was dispatching pants and shirts to large dark green plastic bags. Next week I’ll drop them off in town where they’ll go to help the less fortunate. Now they too can dress out-of-style!
I haven’t thrown out anything I’ll wear. We’d have to go weeks without a washing machine before any of these finds would be considered. There’s nothing I have in the same quantity Stef has jeans, but I still had way too much of lots of stuff.
Some day we’re going to move. I’d like to be away when that happens.
My wife and I go through that ourselves and with our kids every so often…
We’ve moved 8 times in the last 8 years and each time my wife will “down size” her wardrobe. She now “Only” needs a walk-in plus a full sized wall closet to hold her “STUFF”. I get a small closet and still have room left over and too many clothes.
I find it hardest to part with ties. Yet, I know that even if slightly out of fashion, they are hot items for Goodwill- the stores can’t keep them in stock. So, it helps someone out somewhere.
In my house with my 9 year old daughter, it’s not her closet, but her bedroom! How do little girls accumulate so much stuff?
Little girls, besides being dandelion seed vectors, tend to attract stuff.
Even worse is their choice of room colors–mine is into purple–and her room looks like someone is arc welding in there, the color is so bright.
Let her gather her favorite stuff within reason while she is at home–pretty soon all you have left is her stuff, and an empty spot when she finally moves out.. I’m sure Geoff knows what I’m referring to…