how often do you throw out clothes

badabing106 · 30-12-2016 08:59PM

Whenever I see a cotton bobble, I know it's time to replace

pauliebdub · 30-12-2016 09:03PM

Twice a year spring and autumn. Anything that I haven't worn in the past year will never be worn and I give them to the charity shop. Rugby Jerseys etc get passed on to mates who will wear them at training. Socks jocks and t shirts go in the bin.

Satts · 30-12-2016 11:40PM

I throw away my underwear when one of the holes gets big enough for a ball to slip through, that gets a tad uncomfortable. :eek:

Goya · 30-12-2016 11:57PM

Thought "throw out" just meant "bin" - I would do that extremely rarely, they'd have to be no use even as rags.

Charity shop/recycle - as I need to do so in bits and pieces rather than waiting to fill a black bag.

Baxterly13 · 31-12-2016 12:16AM

Underwear twice a year! Regular clothes I usually will wear and keep for as long as possible.

Nesser · 31-12-2016 12:24AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Twice a year, usually.

I still operate on the 2 sets of clothes system I grew up with - one set is winter clothes, one set is summer clothes. The set that's not in season gets packed away under the bed, in a big vacuum bag, the other one is in the wardrobe to be worn. So when I switch over in spring and autumn, I bring the things I haven't worn once that year to charity.

Sounds fierce complicated. I have no realdifferentation between winter and summer clothes. Jeans are just jeans. Shirts are shirts

meeeeh · 31-12-2016 12:41AM

pickarooney wrote: »

That must be a bit more complicated in Ireland, no? When it's 11 degrees and pissing rain in August which bag are the right clothes going to be in?

I'm the opposite, I kept the Irish habit of just 'clothes' and adjusting the number of layers as appropriate.

To answer the main question, once they have worn completely out.

I actually operate similar system to Shenshen. I have some all season clothing like shirts and blouses. Clothes with wool in them and heavy coats are put away in summer, light clothing and thin cotton jumpers are moved to hot press in winter. Also certain patterns and colors are worn only in summer or winter.

Anyway I buy a bit but in last two years there is only one pair of work trousers I bought and don't wear because they are too small. They were part of an extra sale on top of a sale in Gap and too cheep to go through the hassle of returning them. So I keep telling myself they will fit me some day. But mostly I look for quality materials and good tailoring and get a good wear out of clothes.

I clear out stuff when it doesn't fit me or it is shabby looking. I drop shoes to cobbler to be repaired, I mend what can be mended but for example coat with frayed sleeves or shiny material around stitches will never look right and has to go. An area where I am very wasteful is kids clothing. I don't bother if stuff gets stained or torn and it usually goes into recycling bin. Few items that are still presentable after kids are done with them are passed on.

Btw I don't bother shopping in Penny's. Shop where clothing is just pilled and thrown around, often thorn and stained and threated like it's nothing doesn't deserve my money. Someone had to work damn hard and earn very little to make that and it deserves better. Top Shop used to have very similar attitude and I stopped shopping there too. I think they might have improved but I am too old for their stuff now anyway.

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 09:08AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Do you know what, both my mom and my grandmother used to do that. I don't know why I never did (well, yes, Id do, it's because at one point my mom got too lazy to cut things up before using them for rags, and I found myself being asked to wash the dishes with an old pair of undies from one of my brothers - I refused to use it and it freaked me out for quite a while), but I will start cutting up old T-Shirts to use as rags in the bathroom from now on.

Thanks for that!

As children way back in the days before tissues, if we got a cold we were issued with a rag from the kitchen drawer that gathered such things. Always a very soft piece of old cotton sheeting.... When it was manky it went on the back of the fire.... Most of our jerseys had over stretched sleeves from shoving big rags etc up them...

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 09:13AM

I buy clothes at charity shops, Walking through the clothes dept in Dunnes I am horrified at the cost of the simplest of clothes and wonder how anyone with eg a job that means you have to look smart manages.

Even nightclothes.. and as for children's wear !

Do none of you make your own? My generation always did.a "fent" of a yard and a quarter from the market made a dress and matching knickers for us. With a huge hem to be let down

Galwayguy35 · 01-01-2017 09:51AM

Never.

Have a good suit that realistically will do me the rest of my life unless the moths eat it and when the other clothes like t shirts and jeans get too worn I use them for jobs like painting etc.

Old clothes are handy for cleaning the windows also.

how often do you throw out clothes

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