How many clothes do you own?Are any unworn and unlikely to be?
By pandaeyes
@pandaeyes (2065)
February 15, 2010 4:10am CST
I have often been amazed to hear people say they have things hanging in their cupboards that have never been worn.
Years ago people would have their good outfit and their every day things. My mother said her mum's rule was 3 of everything, one to wear,one in the wash bag and one for emergency.
But now clothing is bought on a whim and then the owner cannot think when it will be appropriate.
People often say they must sell their unworn clothes or even give them to charity.
I cannot imagine having any clothes that I would buy and never wear. For one thing,we don't have money to do that with but mostly I don't think like that, I buy clothes when they are needed and they get worn until they are not really wearable anymore.
In my cupboards are 2 swim suits,about 5 or 6 pairs of jeans,3 pairs of summer shorts,some running clothes that get worn every week and of course underwear.
Then there are sweaters that get put away in the warm weather and taken out again each year when it gets cold,Some tee shirts that are okay for wearing under things, and 4 tops that are newer and worn in the warmer weather.One of my pairs of jeans is black cotton and doubles for formal trousers.
3 pairs of pajamas worn until they get too thin and then they become cleaning cloths.
IT sounds like a lot of clothes when I list them like that but not enough to fill a room ,they all fit in 5 cardboard box drawers .
How many clothes do you own and are any unworn and unlikely to be ?
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@Ingkingderders (3831)
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
I have no idea how many clothes that i have. It's a lot, I know, though I share everything (except underwear of course!) with my sister, since we like the same type of clothes, and we're almost the same size, when we buy clothes we both know that it's for the two of us. hehehe. I haven't bought anything that I have not worn. I may have clothes though that I will never wear, and all of them are just gifts which is really not my kind of 
style.
style. 
@Ingkingderders (3831)
• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Hehehehehe. I'm lucky that my mum buys things that I really can wear and it really fits my style. with my aunt and uncles though, it's a totally different story. hehehe. they would buy things that I would usually make fun of if I see it on store. hehehe. i just don't really know what to do with them.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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16 Feb 10
My husband is the same,he will say oh look that's nice and i will say it doesn't suit you and he will say ,no for you.
Its usually something either a man would wear or some very thin skimpy thing that my daughter wouldn't fit into.
Luckily he has learned not to buy me clothing as it usually ends up unworn and given away.
My son has a couple of sweaters that were bough for me long ago. They are thick woolen Arran type knitwear but far too large for me. Good thing he grew into them.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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15 Feb 10
I forgot about gift clothes,that's true ,sometimes people will buy things you wouldn't wear if you chose them.
My mum used to choose our clothes as kids and sometimes they were so not me that I felt uncomfortable to dress in them.
A friend also had that problem, her mother would buy green and brown things an they really didnt suit her, she was a bright colour kind of girl but green and brown were what she wore.
I imagine she is brightly coloured now she is able to choose for herself.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
17 Feb 10
I admittedly have a lot of clothes, but I don't have anything that I've bought and never worn. I will wear my clothes for years and years on end. When they are no longer fit to wear then I will use them for cleaning cloths. However, it occasionally happens that I get tired of wearing some of the clothes that I have and at that point I will donate them to charity. However, most of the clothes that I donate to charity are things that my children have outgrown before the clothes are worn out.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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17 Feb 10
I do that too.
We still have one or two toweling nappies(diapers) from our kids that i use for cleaning.
There is a cushion downstairs that is made of a jumper I knitted my husband.
It got distorted in the wash and eventually he couldn't wear it anymore.
@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
15 Feb 10
That doesn't sound like a lot of clothes at all. I have way more than that. I need down clothes, casual clothes, semi-dress clothes, and dressy clothes. I have also been fluctuating in weight the last couple of years so some are different sizes and don't fit me right now (some too big, most too small :( ). I can't even begin to count but I do give clothes away from charity when we do a clean out.
It is true, though. I find my kids have a lot more clothes than I did when I was a kid (they are teenagers). My 16yo wears a uniform to school but they have a lot of casual/dress-down days. This is her third year in high school and they have at least one dress-down day a month. In her mind, she cannot be seen wearing the same outfit twice. There have been times where a dress-down day has come along and she has gone out to buy something to wear, or borrowed something of mine. I think she's going to have a closet like Oprah's when she grows up. 
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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16 Feb 10
She sounds very conscious about how she is thought of.
I remember how stressful it was if we had a school trip and were allowed to come in home clothes instead of uniform.
My uniform was probably my best clothes so home clothes were quite scruffy.
Girls especially can be very mean if they think you don't fit their idea of fashionable.
Most boys don't care how you are dressed,they seem to hardly notice.
I don't go to work now but even when I did it wasn't worth being smart.
We wore white lab coats over our clothes and it wasn't unusual to go home with a stain from the dyes that we used having soaked right through the lab-coat.
@jb78000 (15139)
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15 Feb 10
i have a few things that i wore a lot when much younger but wear very rarely if at all now. not quite sure why i keep them, i am not usually very sentimental about things. i am fairly good at charityshopifying clothes i hardly ever wear, and don't buy things on a whim. i don't want tons of things i don't need and don't use.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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15 Feb 10
same here.
I have one or two things that are quite old.
They only end up taking up room after all if we have so many clothes.
We don't have anywhere to hang things so it must all be folded flat and put in boxes or drawers.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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16 Feb 10
Do you keep them just in case?
I have a pair of jeans that I bought about 12 years ago.
They were always a bit snug.
Then about 18 months ago my weight was at its highest ever and I found I couldn't get them on,not even past my 'seat'.
I stuffed them to the back of the drawer.
Last year I took up running as I really needed to get fit and it was about 6 months later that I found my hidden jeans and tried them and they went of fine.
Good thing I didn't give them away.
@Nirishasol (879)
• India
15 Feb 10
I do have so many clothes and i do have numberless clothes and i love to wear them again. And if i do have my favorite one then i used to wear them again and again.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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15 Feb 10
my youngest niece likes to buy clothes but she is very fashion conscious and wont wear anything she thinks is last season, to me that is very wasteful as everything is last season almost as soon as it is worn.
However they do send a lot to charity shops an so other people get to wear them while they are still quite new looking .
We used to do that with the children s clothes, not because they went out of fashion, just because they outgrew things.
