A penny a wear

Gingham_Ribbon

I was still wearing a levi denim jacket I bought when I was 15 until about 3 years ago when it was decidedly too small. It served 2 purposes as well as the obvious:

The jacket is 19 years old. I enjoyed having something that I'd worn in so many good times in my life.

I often wore it on the journey to work when I was teaching. If a teenager was being particularly obnoxious, the thought that my jacket was older than him/her made me smile to myself!

I guess around 200 wears per year for about 16 years means that it was practically free AND I'm a total scruff!

The jacket is still in a drawer in the hope that I'll fit into it again!

Rave

The trousers I'm wearing now (and which I wear to work regularly) will be 9 years old in a month or two, I bought them to go to a party when I was in the upper sixth. They cost about £20 but I must have worn them hundreds (most probably thousands) of times. They still look barely worn, although unfortunately all three of the pockets have massive holes in, I really ought to borrow my mum's sewing machine and stitch some new ones in. In fact I have a few items of clothing that I've worn hundreds of times, and loads that I've only put on two or three times:rolleyes:. My wife and MIL keep buying me clothes (like T-Shirts) as presents, this year I'll have to tell them that I've got enough already.

joannasmum

This thread has really made me smile. I've got a jumper that I got from a jumble sale when I was 9 it cost me 10p. I've been wearing ever since, my sister cant beleive it, shes firmly in the camp that you wear for one season and then throw it out. I mainly get my clothes from her so they don't cost me a penny so I'm in profit right from the start:j

Rikki

Savvy_Sue wrote:

My DH still has the Parka (brown anorak, fur trimmed hood) that he was wearing at school in the wardrobe. If I tell you our eldest is off to Uni in a couple of weeks ... and we didn't marry straight from school ...

I thought you were going to say " your eldest was going to take it to uni" my eye sight is getting as bad as my hearing. :rotfl:

culpepper

Those old parkas were good canvas and very hard wearing.I had one for my winter coat when I was 13.
I had an old red cotton anorak that I bought when I was 16(27 years ago).Last year it was DD's favourite coat(she was 14 then) and I had to hunt high and low to find another that she liked as much because the poor old red one was so old,the lining (which I replaced once) was falling to pieces.

Smiley_Mum

I bought a brushed cotton blouse from an Eddie Bauer store in New Mexico about 10 years ago, it only cost me a little over 3 dollars, it was in their clearance section. It is my favourite, favourite daily wear item of clothing and it is still going strong, buttons still on and it is wearing tremendously well. I love it, it's still like new, hardly any wear on it at all. The original price of it was about 20 dollars. Three dollars today would be about what, £1.50. What a buy. I got a nice teeshirt from GAP recently in town that goes very well with it and that only cost me £3 in the sale too. All my jeans were bought around the same time too, have around 10 pairs of GAP jeans that all cost me 15 dollars a pair. Still got a pair that I wear that I bought in Orlando in 95. I have a pair of black leather Italian made boots that I bought 10 years ago and they are still going strong, I just have them resoled and reheeled whenever they need it but I must have walked miles and miles in them.

MATH

What great stories and clothes. There is something really warming about a well loved garment that has lived your life with you that you can shrug on like a second skin. Ohhh every stain a memory:D

Bogof_Babe

Mr B's old polo shirts become nightwear, and I reckon of the three I rotate, two have been worn say three times a week for the last eight or so years. (The third is kept in a drawer for when I don't get around to a second mid-week wash, so is probably a couple of hundred behind).

Given that they cost about £3.99 each originally, I reckon they more than qualify for this challenge!

He has his bath quite early in the evening, and wears them with some cotton "bottoms" (meant for jogging, ha-ha), for the rest of the evening. Then sleeps in the tops. If we broke this down to hours of wear, I'd say .000001p per hour .

Me? Oh I have an old anorak (or perhaps I am an old anorak?)

elisebutt65

I've got a pair of gorgeous knee length black boots that I got 10 years ago in Debenhams for about £70.00

I've had the zips replaced and get the heels and soles redone every winter, but I wear them almost everyday from October to March. Despite the 3inch heel, they are soooo comfortable and warm.

Ticklemouse

I'm not a "clothes" person.

However, many moons ago, when I worked within the dark and terrible walls of a place known as ......local government, my daily 'uniform' was a pair of dark pinstripe wool trousers and a jumper, teamed with a pair of black chelsea boots. The trousers were washed every couple of days and hung over the rad to dry (only needed ironing every 6 weeks or so), had 5 jumpers so clean one each day and the boots were worn 7 days a week, 9 months a year for 8 years and were still polished and lovely the day the soles finally cracked though to the inside and couldn't be repaired anymore.

Given the trousers were an Xmas pressie, as were most of the jumpers and the boots cost around £30, I got my moneys-worth out of that lot.

However, mum just bought me an outfit this week - trousers £95, cami top and cardigan £85. I have to say that whilst I will never get this ensemble down to pennies per wear, I now own a pair of trousers that make my rear look pert again (Ladies, I'm sure most of you will understand how this makes us feel) Therefore, I like this outfit very much indeed