Christine
DIS Legend
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- Aug 31, 1999
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Do you ever feel this way?
My closet and my kids' closets were just a mess. Now, I'm just talking clothes.
I decided to throw out some stuff and then set aside stuff to donate.
I ended up with two, 55-gallon drum liner plastic backs full of nothing but clothes. It just SHAMES me and shocks me.
For myself, some of this stuff was several years old. I just couldn't part with it (even though I didn't wear it) because I just can't find any other clothes. The clothes they are selling today don't even appeal to me--I don't even know if they would fit or not!! So, I just got rid of it. Most of the stuff is woefully out of style or the sweaters are too short or too wide because they were cheap to begin with.
Then I got to DD's closet.
She is 14. Most of her stuff was just "uncool." The Mudd jeans I bought a few months ago were no longer "right" for high school and she refuses to wear it. Then she found a winter coat she liked but then "no one wears coats."
I decided no more clothes for her. Period. She is just wasting my $$$$.
DS (11) wasn't too bad. Mainly old school uniform pants, shirts, stuff he'd outgrown. What can I say--he's a guy!!
The wastefulness of it all kind of got to me.
My closet and my kids' closets were just a mess. Now, I'm just talking clothes.
I decided to throw out some stuff and then set aside stuff to donate.
I ended up with two, 55-gallon drum liner plastic backs full of nothing but clothes. It just SHAMES me and shocks me.
For myself, some of this stuff was several years old. I just couldn't part with it (even though I didn't wear it) because I just can't find any other clothes. The clothes they are selling today don't even appeal to me--I don't even know if they would fit or not!! So, I just got rid of it. Most of the stuff is woefully out of style or the sweaters are too short or too wide because they were cheap to begin with.
Then I got to DD's closet.

I decided no more clothes for her. Period. She is just wasting my $$$$.
DS (11) wasn't too bad. Mainly old school uniform pants, shirts, stuff he'd outgrown. What can I say--he's a guy!!
The wastefulness of it all kind of got to me.