More things I don't need...

[rivka]

Socks with holes in them.
A pair of big fluffy polartec socks in a weird garish print, received as a gift years ago and never taken out of the package.
Ugly free promotional T-shirts.
A lipstick, still in an unopened package, from before I met Michael.
A sweater I got in high school, which is still in good shape only because I haven't worn it in years.

I got rid of all but three of the T-shirts I've had since college. Since college. I graduated in 1994.

...It's kind of pathetic that I'm still holding onto three, isn't it?


Edited to add: OMG. Condoms that expired in 1998. (Don't worry - no one's been using them.)

Comments

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Not pathetic at all, IMO. :) Especially if they have great sentimental value or you still wear them a lot.

You've inspired me to look at my closet and do a cull... I have tons of t-shirts, and since I work in an office now, I hardly wear them. (I also have not much closet space.) I could send a whackload to the Diabetes or Cystic Fibrosis foundation.

<goes off to ponder>

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

...It's kind of pathetic that I'm still holding onto three, isn't it?

No. Everyone has a few favorites. I have one from my stepfather that was 15 years old when I got it 10 years ago. And another that is from highschool. My freshman year in HS. I'm 35 BTW.

That is OK. I got rid of all the OTHER ones though. A couple of keepsakes is fine. A horde is totally different :)

N.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's at all pathetic that you're holding onto three, and it's also clear you're doing a great job on the decluttering!

That actually was my favorite part about moving. After 20 years at Toad Hall, well, this accumulator had accumulated...a lot. I was paying for the move out of my own pocket, which added to the motivation to lighten the load. If I really, really wanted to keep it, I did. But I also enjoyed revisiting memories and saying a fond farewell to lots of neat stuff that I just didn't emotionally have to bring with me.

Even after discarding a few tons of stuff, I still managed to fill a 1,900 square foot home and 2-car garage by myself. Scary, that. Four years later, and it's time for another decluttering.

[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

One of the best decisions I've ever made was to start ruthlessly rejecting socks with holes. There's no reason to put up with it, especially since I only wear one sock at a time.

All that stuff goes in a rag pile, though, so I don't get the pleasure of actually having less stuff cluttering my life.

[timill]

I still have one T-shirt from college, and I graduated in 1976...

T-shirts

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I've been slowly getting rid of old t-shirts. You'd think it would be easy; I never wear t-shirts.

B

[melebeth]

Isn't throwing stuff out awesome?

I finally went through _my_ college t-shirts collection about two years ago and threw out the vast majority of them. I kept more than three, though, because I use them to work out/sleep in, but it was still terribly therapeutic.

[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

Ahem. We're in a a similar de-cluttering phase at the moment, not because we're moving, but because we failed to de-clutter enough when we last moved. (U-hauls hold a lot of stuff!) I just found a shirt which I suspect may even date from high school. It's definitely from the big shirt era, late '80's maybe? I can't believe I ever wore it, let alone kept it so long. *hangs head in shame*

So yeah, no judgment from this quarter :)

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Condoms that expired in 1998
Don't pitch those yet - they're great OWL training aids, especially if they've noticeably deteriorated. After you show the youth a nice fresh condom, and talk about the importance of checking the expiration date, you can pull out one of those long-expired ones and demonstrate just what can go wrong.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Last time I cleaned out my T-shirt stash, I found SO MANY that I couldn't bear to part with, so I ended up making a T-shirt quilt. A freakin' huge king-sized (at least) T-shirt quilt. It was a nightmare to make - but it's got so much cool stuff there!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Actually, rivka - I am Teh Expert at breaking condoms with vaseline. I used to do it as part of the what-kind-of-lube-should-you-use discussion. I'd put the condom (a new one) over one hand, whip out some Vaseline and smear some on and start rubbing my hands together. I could break a condom - often quite *dramatically* - in less than 30 seconds, usually. It always made a big impression. :)

(If you decide to do this, definitely do practice at home a few times first to get the hang of it.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Didn't I sleep under that quilt?

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Yes you did - it's on our guest bed, along with a vintage quilt of indeterminate origin (via my mother-in-law).

[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

Is there a photo? Sounds cool!

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

I intend to do something like this with all my fencing t-shirts. I cut the logos out and store them. Eventually I will hem them all and quilt them together.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have a Sunbonnet Girl quilt on my workroom wall that was made by my grandmother and all the Girl fabric is from my mother's clothes as a child. When I was a little girl, it was on my bed and my mother would tell me a story about a piece of clothing every night. A few months ago I gave my brother and his family the Scripture Verse quilt that our great-grandmother made -- I'll never have room to put it up here and I wouldn't want it on a bed with the cats -- because they've finally settled down and want family things.

[echosupernova.livejournal.com]

Save them! It would be great to have an expired condom or two for our OWL class!