Do you have “at home” clothes and “going out” clothes? or is that just me.
23 years on a smallholding with animals, gardening and wood fires wouldn’t have worked well for ‘good clothes’ and I still wear old stuff at home and do a quick change for going out for shopping etc. Going out clothes don’t get washed every time, if they’ve only been worn for a couple of hours – they get hung at one end of the wardrobe for next time I need something tidy for just a while.
Some of the older things I wear at home are from charity shops, especially tee-shirts and tunic tops although it gets harder to find things when the economic situation is tight as people tend not to buy so many new things and therefore have less to donate.
I’ve got a couple of really thick high neck jumpers/sweaters or whatever they are called where you live but rarely wear them now – just too hot. I won’t get rid of them because the moment I do will be the winter of a big freeze.
I bought a couple of hoodies a few years back but they’re cotton/polyester, and quite thin and not very warm and I needed something between too warm and not warm enough and really prefer cardigans that can be slipped on and off, buttoned up and un buttoned BUT do you know how difficult it is to find something warm with buttons. They are all what are called edge to edge or if they do have buttons they’ve got a V neck, are very short or a strange old-persons colour (beige!)! I eventually found something at Cotton Traders but I’m sure I had to pay extra for the buttons!
Coats are another problem – too thick for shopping or too thin for a day out in winter. I bought a new zip up warm coat with a hood last year after looking for something warmer than a thin jacket for several years and that has been perfect for many things but still a bit too hot in shops.
The problem is really that I don’t like shopping for clothes or spending too much money or travelling miles to find something.
I should really live somewhere where shorts and tee-shirts would be OK all year round.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
PS Apologies to people whose comments went into spam again and I forgot to look again- I’m hopeless!
Heavy rain again and the flood water at the bottom of my road was even worse yesterday than the week before. Most drivers turned round and went back, thankfully. No way in or out of the village in a normal car again for the second time in two weeks, something I was told had never happened before. I didn’t go out – glad to be at home safe.
