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lol, I'm planning on making a vulgar quilt eventually. I've mentioned it before on hatrack. The playboy rabbit and the mudflap girl will be incorporated into the pattern. I'm just deciding how subtle or obvious I want it to be and we have to get our bedroom painted first so that I don't pick clashing colors.
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If the playboy bunny and the mudflap girl are vulgar then one of my old dorm t-shirts would be better described as "completely obscene and disgusting."
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and i'd like to just mention that i love my life. i love that my big dilemas are on the order of what gifts to buy people and my needs for advice are on the order of culling material possessions.
that is fiction designed to make you feel better about the competence of law inforcement. and even if it's not, i always wear my special tick gloves, which have your fingerprints.
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There are several factors to consider when you are cleaning out your closets. Celia, do you have just the 1 clothes closet? What size is it? Do you have drawers? How many? What do you wear to work? Do you ever have to attend business meetings? What do you wear around the house? Do you attend religious services on a regular basis?
The general rule of thumb is that you should get rid of anything that you haven't worn in the past 2 years. However, that rule goes out the window if you buy classic clothes. For example, NEVER get rid of cashmere sweaters - they will always be in style.
The sock thing I can tackle without any further information. Unless you wear white sneakers to go to the gym every day and only do laundary every 3 weeks, 21 pairs of white socks is too many. Throw out any that are mismatched, faded or gray, or torn. Do you actually wear toe socks? I always like the idea, but my toes are so gnarled from being put en pointe too soon that they are hideously uncomfortable. I'm always happy to wear uncomfortable shoes, but not socks. I doubt you need 10 pairs. Do you have any trouser socks?
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not decatur, decanter. crystal decanter because it's the best way to show off how the light plays off of them. i believe hobbes has seen said decanter and had it shaken at him.
quote: Celia, do you have just the 1 clothes closet? What size is it?
Yes, and I share it with my husband. That works out to a 56" long hanger run with a shelf on top of that. The shelf is storage for all of my t-shirts as well as sweatshirts and fleece pullovers and anything else in that family of tops.
quote:Do you have drawers? How many?
Yes.
(5) 30x16x5" drawers. 2 are socks/swimwear/undergarments, 1 is strictly pajamas (for all seasons and levels of company), and 2 jeans/pajama pants/pants of a casual variety.
I also have a smaller plastic set that I keep sweat pants and shorts in the top drawers and purses and scarves in the bottom drawer. and a certain disturbing birthday gift on top of.
quote:What do you wear to work? Do you ever have to attend business meetings? What do you wear around the house? Do you attend religious services on a regular basis?
it really depends on what i'm doing that day. when i'm spending a lot of time in the lab, i tend towards pajama pants and t-shirts since i'm just going to destroy them. heavy class days or days i'll be doing more computer work i tend towards casual pants or jeans and slightly nicer tops, sometimes with collars. very occasionally, i will be attending something that requires business casual(conference attendance) or business dress (conference presentation). i would also like to believe that i'm not that far away from having to find a real job and might need to go on a few interviews starting next semester.
i tend to wear whatever i'm wearing that day around the house, unless i get soaked walking to the car or covered in grime in the lab. my weekend wear is the same as my school casual wear.
no. i only attend weddings, funerals and other misc. services.
we do occasionally go out to a nice dinner or attend semi-formal parties.
quote:Do you actually wear toe socks? I always like the idea, but my toes are so gnarled from being put en pointe too soon that they are hideously uncomfortable. I'm always happy to wear uncomfortable shoes, but not socks. I doubt you need 10 pairs. Do you have any trouser socks?
i love my toe socks in the winter. they keep my feet really warm. i might own one pair of pointy shoes, but even those are only sort of pointy. i can't wear them with all my shoes, but my standard winter weather shoe is a black leather boot with a rounded toe. the boots keep my feet from getting wet and are high enough that i can generally keep the cuffs of my pants dry as well. i take them off in the building and put on my nice fleece slippers, which are also big enough to accomodate the toe socks. it may not be the most fashion forward look, but it keeps me from mucking snow and mud all over the building (especially the sterile areas), and keeps my feet warm and dry.
edit: right, trouser socks. i do have some and i recently purchased new ones because mine are getting rather old and frayed.
After attending a Thanksgiving dinner once, a friend made the following comment:
"It's not that your family doesn't have any skeletons in the closet. It's that you don't have any closets."
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I'm not sure I'm OK with the thought of Sara having even one trouser snake, let alone several.
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I think they are the dressy thin ones like my mom wears with nice pants and shoes. Instead of wearing white socks.
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"That dress makes you look like an illustration by that Edward something guy."
"Edward Gorey?"
"Yeah, that guy."
So I got rid of it. Along with a ton of other things that don't fit, don't get worn or aren't flattering.
I kept a bunch of baggy sweaters. Odd thing is, they were fitted last winter. I guess I'll be phasing them out slowly as I purchase new ones. This is not a place to be without sweaters in winter. And I didn't touch the t-shirt collection, I still have enough space to keep them for sentimental value even if I only actually wear a few of them.
The book that AJ brought was really helpful. Not just for getting rid of clothes, but for dressing room tips and style suggestions by body type. It was fun to take the illustrations and apply the concepts to both our bodies. Amazing that two women who're the same size look so different in the same clothes.
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It was funeral wear. It was also too big. I have another black dress, but I think it's too flashy for somber events, so I'm now in the market for a new one. Which seems like a very Gorey type of quest, finding funeral wear when nobody's died recently.
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*grin* I remember shopping the first time I had to officiate at a funeral. The man who died was a member of the church I served, but had been out of state since I’d started, so I’d never met him. I was trying to find a blouse to wear with my black suit, and the salesladies kept trying to talk me into hot pink and/or low cut lacy things, so I explained that it was for a funeral. Then they got all solicitous and kept saying how sorry they were. They were scandalized when I pretty much shrugged off their condolences. So I explained that I didn’t even know the person in question. Then they tried to explain that I didn’t need to wear a black suit if the funeral was for someone I wasn’t close to. So I told them I was officiating. They pretty much gave up on me after that, but I found an appropriate shirt on my own.
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You have a non-skanky black skirt that you could wear with a dark colored blouse no problem to a funeral. But I don't think the black dress you have with the Mandarin collar is too dressy for a funeral. Funerals don't necessitate dowdiness.
Should have gotten a picture of the Edward Gorey dress for posterity though.
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