Re: Piles of clothes! (version two... )

[Kate Dicey]

Laura wrote:


>
> What a great reward waiting for you to reach goal. You will certainly have
> to post pictures some day for us to see.
>
>

I shall do diaries of the best stuff. The Elizabethan things should be
done this year, and I'm doing Margo Anderson's pattern for one set (with
that cotton/silk satin) and a Simplicity one for the other. I will also
do some teaching project stuff with the velour, as I know a lot of folks
are afraid to sew stretch fabrics and they really are easy when you know
what to do. I've had the Jacob Sheep stuff for about 15 years and I'm
still waiting for the perfect pattern to leap out at me for it.
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[Lynne]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:45:33 +0000, Kate Dicey
> wrote:

I had that problem a couple of months ago. It was very difficult for
me to toss perfectly good large sizes - but I did it. The women's
shelter reaped the benefits.

Lynne
Highest Weight - 308
WW Start Weight this time around - 222.4
Weight this week - 217.4
Goal - 150 (Subject to change)
"Change doesn't happen while you're sitting around."


>This one vanished into cyberspace first time I posted it, so forgive me
>if it shows up twice!
>
>Just as a matter of nosiness, how many of the ladies here have more
>clothes than their husbands/partners?
>
>I was trying to find something to wear this morning. OK, so a perennial
>problem for many ladies with more items of clothing than brain cells
>(Ouch! Am I really that mean? Oh, yes! You better believe it!), but a
>little unusual for me. Part of the problem was that once again the
>wardrobe was full of things that are too baggy, and part was the piles
>of waiting-to-be-done laundry decorating the floor in front of the
>wardrobe doors, preventing a full opening... Everything I could reach
>was too big, and I couldn't find the stuff that fits! SO I EMPTIED THE
>DAMNED CUPBOARD! :D
>
>I now have a pile of stuff on my bed that needs rehoming, a small pile
>for the clothing bank, and a smaller pile of rags - bin only! (Stuff
>with yer actual holes in/paint splodges/ex sox & tights.)
>
>There are some nice things in the rehome heap, things with plenty wear
>still in them, things that are almost new! But *I* ain't gonna wear
>them no more!
>
>I kept one suit that I really like as my BIG THING to wear when I reach
>goal, for a giggle. All the rest went in various To Go piles. Looks
>like I need to do a charity shop run... Maybe some of the nicer things
>could be used by fellow losers at my meeting.
>
>Anyway, as I was putting away what's left, and thinking, 'But I *really*
>like these things now much better than the fat clothes!' I noticed a
>strange phenomenon... DH takes up about 2/3 of the wardrobe with his
>stuff, and mine (INCLUDING such oddities as my wedding dress!) occupies
>a measly one third of the available space! Either I have been both very
>ruthless in my clearing and very sparing in my buying/making recently,
>OR I have far too few clothes!
>
>(We e e l l l ... Could be he has too many! Does a bloke who seems to
>work from home more often than the office really need 20 dress shirts
>and 30 ties?)

[Kate Dicey]

Lynne wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:45:33 +0000, Kate Dicey
> > wrote:
>
> I had that problem a couple of months ago. It was very difficult for
> me to toss perfectly good large sizes - but I did it. The women's
> shelter reaped the benefits.

Right now I'm reveling in the Big Empty Space! ;)

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Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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[Kate Dicey]

Lynne wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:45:33 +0000, Kate Dicey
> > wrote:
>
> I had that problem a couple of months ago. It was very difficult for
> me to toss perfectly good large sizes - but I did it. The women's
> shelter reaped the benefits.

Right now I'm reveling in the Big Empty Space! ;)

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
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