How many clothes does a lady really need? Help

calicocat

Lol.....it does doesn't it !.....I would however like to point out at this point in the discussion that everything is very neatly and orderly put away in a 'non-horder' fashion so at this point am unlikely to be on tv.

There are millions of us out here.a girl I work with has 27 duvet sets!

I do have to say though that since being on this sight my thinking has changed drastically....I no longer buy 'because I can' and to be honest am a vey good bargain hunter so most things are greatly reduced .

But totally get your point about not looking at syuff as this is exactly what happens.....I look ,think,look again,and put it back.

I probably have around 15 pairs of jeans I'll never fit into again. Pairs of biker trousers the same.

Since being on here I haven't bought anything and nearly halved my food budget .

I'm off next week...am going to have a go at de-cluttering some area of my life.....it's not just clothes...I've got 4 xmas trees of different sizes in a cupboard.

BitterAndTwisted

Just because things are put away tidily does not mean that you cannot be a hoarder. A hoarder is someone with only one bed to dress but has 12 duvet sets stashed away regardless of whether they are a keen bargain-hunter or not. Still, if you never buy another set you won't need any more until you're in your dotage or beyond. But I have a feeling you might be bored to tears with them well before that.

I also share your love for sets of lovely bedding: I have separate ones for winter and summer and a rather unhealthy number of lovely bedspreads as well which only get used about once a year each but at least I know it's not sensible. They're all tidily put away out of sight, too. The problem for me is that I can't decide which ones I prefer and which ones I could do without, so they all stay where they are. But at least I've stopped buying them now, I just finger them longingly when I'm at the shops.

calicocat

With you on the bed linen for sure. I also used to make quilts (hense cases of fabric) and the 'this may be usefull' syndrome.

To be honest I may have dramatised the the things I may have to you (do have 73 tights though) , and think that you are thinking if that's the tights what else does she have,like you said but you may be thinking overtime as I do actually get-rid at times,just takes me a while to get there at times as other stuff to do...and I am fully aware of hoarders as I work in mental health . For the (non hoarders) in reolistic terms and certainly for me I think it comes from growing up as a young adult in the 80's consumerism bracket...but I am now digressing from the original theme of the thread.

Still agree with what you said , and this is what stops loads of people chucking out what they don't need,me included.

And like you....I still will be LOOKING at lovely bed linen.......as in my world this makes perfect sense:)

BitterAndTwisted

I was just joshing with you Calicocat. Which was why I disclosed my own fondness for accumulating things which I don't absolutely have a real need of. I suspect we all have a touch of that but I'm a child of the 50's, the days of scarcity and very high prices relative to income so I have a perfect excuse for what must be the 30-odd lovely linen tea-towels lurking in the airing cupboard. You never know when you might need a load of them, do you?

calicocat

Yes !!

I have all my grannies stuff......I also used to buy it.....I love that stuff.......just to .'Look at' as you wud say.....lol

But I love looking at stuff.....I have the first necklace my gt.grandad bought her future wife at the time.......there aren't many my age (46) can do that....I love I have that,it's worth nothing,but I love it......I have history,something of a person.

It took me 6yrs to get rid of my grannies firniture and I hated that but it just didn't fit in the flat....too big...too dark..but did get rid, I actually chucked EVERTHING out and started again..........god you are right maybe I am a horder to an extent.

GreyQueen

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I was just joshing with you Calicocat. Which was why I disclosed my own fondness for accumulating things which I don't absolutely have a real need of. I suspect we all have a touch of that but I'm a child of the 50's, the days of scarcity and very high prices relative to income so I have a perfect excuse for what must be the 30-odd lovely linen tea-towels lurking in the airing cupboard. You never know when you might need a load of them, do you?

I've just demoted a threadbare tea towel to rag-dom and am getting anxious because I only have another 12 in the airing-cupboard......

I have 3 duvets; two identical in superfine cotton with matching pillowslips that some certifiably-insane person discarded at a carboot sale (I wombled) and a brushed cotton quilt cover discarded from my mother's home which has been very snuggly this past winter and will now rest up until the cold weather again. Can't imagine where I'd put any more of them.

All my clothes fit on a 3 foot rail and in a 5 drawer chest-of-drawers and I won't buy any more unless they're absolutely perfect for my needs and well under a fiver in the charity shop (places hand over heart).

VJsmum

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

No-one needs five winters coats, ten jackets for work and half a dozen pairs of scruffy pants for lounging about the house.

Who knew?? :cool::p

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:rotfl: 27 pairs of boxer shorts 19 pairs of sox ,,, 2 odd gloves ...8 jeans 2 trousers ,,,17 t shirts 11 work shirts 6 boiler suits :rotfl: 1 x tubi grip

GreyQueen

eeeeeee wrote: »

:rotfl: 27 pairs of boxer shorts 19 pairs of sox ,,, 2 odd gloves ...8 jeans 2 trousers ,,,17 t shirts 11 work shirts 6 boiler suits :rotfl: 1 x tubi grip

I gotta know, is the tubi-grip a garment?!

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

I gotta know, is the tubi-grip a garment?!

I wonder where he puts it???;)