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A penny a wear

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  • r.mac_2
    r.mac_2 Posts: 4,746 Forumite
    I love this thread!

    I have a pair of trousers that are 8 years old. I do have to admit that they are slightly on the worn side now - but I still wear them all the time. They were originally dry clean only :eek: but the washing machine mistake was a blessing in disguise. :rotfl:

    I have several shirts that are a similar age. I get bored of them after a while so fold them up and store them away for a couple of months. When I 'rediscover' them I feel like I've bought something new!
    aless02 wrote: »
    r.mac, you are so wise and wonderful, that post was lovely and so insightful!
    I can't promise that all my replies will illicit this response :p
  • My dad was wearing a blue wool cardigan I had never seen before the other day when I was visiting them. I asked him was it new, and he said he had unearthed it from the back of the wardrobe. He said he bought it the year before I was born. Considering I am 32 this year, that cardigan has not done too badly, seeing as I mistook it for a brand new item of clothing!!
  • That made me laugh, Chocolateleaf!
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • Great thread! Got me thinking what is the oldest thing I still wear regularly. Then I remembered it is my WELLIES!!!! (23 years)
    Love living in a village in the country side
  • MATH wrote:
    I wouldn't want to go out in the street looking like Adam Ant anymore;)

    Why on earth not?! :rotfl:
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,325 Forumite
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    Rikki wrote:
    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:
    :rotfl:That thought is just TOO scary! The two eldest boys have inherited their father's sartorial elegance and don't care what they wear, fortunately they both have decent jackets from when they went ski-ing. So the Parka can stay hidden in the wardrobe - aha! have just remembered the scouts are collecting jumble on Friday afternoon when DH is at work, I SWEAR he doesn't know we still have the Parka (because I'd certainly forgotten!)
    MATH wrote:
    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
    MATH, I KNOW you're not my OH because he is definitely out at work all day, but you sound scarily like him! :rotfl:I cannot let him see this thread or the Parka will be out of the wardrobe and onto his back before the Scouts arrive ...
    Signature removed for peace of mind
  • :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Savvy sue, I hear you!

    My husband is so tall he finds it difficult to get trousers to fit. Particularly because he likes to shop in charity shops and the choice in trouser length (especially in skinny as a rake sizes) is not vast! So he wears jeans and cords that I swear he must have had for 10 years or more. There is not one pair without holes. His work trousers are almost as bad. Not quite, since I took him shopping and forced him to get 3 pairs a couple of years ago, but the stitching is coming undone at the bottom and the knees are shiny...

    And he did have a terribly unsexy anorak when we first met... Now if it had been a parka that'd have been different. Very attractive. No, really!
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • MATH
    MATH Posts: 2,941 Forumite
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    My dad was wearing a blue wool cardigan I had never seen before the other day when I was visiting them. I asked him was it new, and he said he had unearthed it from the back of the wardrobe. He said he bought it the year before I was born. Considering I am 32 this year, that cardigan has not done too badly, seeing as I mistook it for a brand new item of clothing!!

    I've just spent the last few mins PMSL cos this reminded me of my FIL - only he is never as lucky with his resurected clothes.
    The other year he called round and was bragging about how he had dug the shoes he was wearing out of his cupboard, bought about 20yrs ago he had only worn them once. I dutifully ooohed and aaahed about how smashing they were and we moved on to other topics. When it was time for him to go he got up and walked to the door with only the uppers ballanced on his feet, the soles were where he had been sitting. Over the 20yrs they had been 'resting' in the cupboard the soles had perrished, parting company with the uppers. The shock of being worn again was all too much. Seeing a very propper 70yrs old major type walking down my drive in bear feet was also too much:rotfl:

    He didn't learn his lesson tho. A few months later we were at a function and there he was crowing about another pair of rediscovered slip-ons. Half way though the meal the waiter bobbed down and then handed my FIL the heal of his left shoe - "I think you may have dropped this sir":rotfl: I know it is rude to snort soup out of your nose in public but sometimes you just can't help yourself.
    Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.
  • 16011996
    16011996 Posts: 8,313 Forumite
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    although not one of my own clothes, i've got a couple of babygrows that i paid 50p for the 2 of and all my kids got wear out of them, must have been worn hundreds of times and they now live on my daughters dolls so there still going strong.
    as for me, i have a couple of jumpers i've had since i was a teenager, which came from charity shops, maybe £2 each, and they are still going strong too.
  • Thanks Math, I have tears in my eyes from laughing at that one!
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
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