Anyone who lives anywhere with a meaningful change of seasons should at least have winter clothes they don’t use the whole year.
Then there’s all the dressing-up-nice clothes that [probably] don’t get regular air time.
And all those that don’t fit quite right because of a “recent” body size change…
Anyone claiming they wear 80+% of their clothes must be successful minimalists in a climate with only one or two seasons.
Or homeless. I shouldn’t rule that one out.
@xobzoo OR they only want to go to the laundromat once a month. To pull that off likely you’d wear most of your clothes and be wearing the ones you liked the least the closer you got to your once a month trip.
I had told her if she cleaned her room one more time by putting her clean clothes in the dirty clothes basket she’d be doing her own laundry. Any parent can predict what happened next. . So I stopped doing her laundry and she refused to learn how to do so. Eventually she was picking the clothes to wear out of the dirty clothes so I took the dirty clothes basket and locked it in the shed. Then she complained she had nothing to wear. I asked her if she was ready to learn how to was her own clothes. She gave me the, only a kid can do that this well, “no way/yeah right” look of disgust/defiant face. I shrugged. There were clothes she didn’t like still clean.
So when she complained she had nothing to wear the next morning I reminded her of the clean clothes she had left. She said she wasn’t going to wear them. I told her to wear her PJ’s to school or go naked. I didn’t care (I did warn her 4th grade teacher that this was coming just in case). She told me she wasn’t going to go to school. I told her then I’ll put her to work and listed all the things I knew she absolutely hated to do as how she would be spending her time (I was a grad student at the time and done with all my coursework and was studying for comps so could afford to stay home to supervise this).
I knew what she hated to do as when she complained that she did all the work in the house I made a list of absolutely every task that needed done (including do homework, pay bills, go to work…) and listed them in daily, several times a week, weekly, etc. on a piece of paper. I then told her to pick X items from each list. What she didn’t pick told me what she didn’t want to do. And when I asked her why she chose cleaning everything in the bathroom but the toilet (listed sink/countertop, floor, toilet, etc. separately), she said that was too gross (so was cat dirt boxes, and a handful of other things). Bingo. I could use that to my advantage, like when I’d have to bring to her school something important that she forgot to take with her that day she owed me twice the time it took me in hard manual labor doing the things she hated. Suddenly she was remembering what she needed to bring with her each day.
Anyway I told her those would be all the things she would be doing that day if she didn’t get dressed and go to school. While scowling at me she dressed and went to school. When I got home that afternoon she asked me to show her how to do laundry.
Actually by the time she was in 9th grade she was good enough at it it was safe to allow her to add some of my stuff when she wanted to only wash 2 or 3 things (rule was full washer only). I once heard her boasting to a friend that she did her own laundry (in contrast to the looks and complaining I occasionally got over this) although I’d sometimes do hers when she was being especially nice or helpful and when I’d give her her clean clothes I’d tell her why.
@Kyeh I have a bin of old intramural sports tees and mismatched socks under my bed. I also feel called out, but their product pitch won’t even work for me since I have bins!
@Kyeh@ryanbruce
Likewise have been some of my bed with the additional benefit that they have rollers on them. It’s for some of the extra canned goods get stored when I end up with a ton of things I canned from the garden that are planned for Christmas presents. Personally all my clothes are hanging in my closet the way I admit they are pretty packed in there. During the summer I wear probably around 5% of my clothes because 90% of the time I’m in the same half dozen swimsuits and sleeveless t-shirts working outside or in the pool.
@NapkinEater So either your wife likes to be nekkid 99.999999999999997 of the time or she owns an entire department store? Talk about living on the extreme ends of the luck in life spectrum.
I have worked from home for over 20 years now. The only time I wear dress shirts are for weddings or funerals. So easily about 80% of my closet is hardly ever use… probably closer to 90%.
I WFH so I rotate the same few items despite having a walk in closet full of dresses, pants, and shirts and drawers full of shorts (I may have more clothes that any one person needs).
I can say that I wear all of my workout clothes at some point throughout the year.
Depends what you mean by regularly. I don’t buy many clothes but the ones I do have last forever… And so I throw away less frequently than I get new clothes. I’ve still got clothes from pre-marriage 26 years ago.
That’s a long way of saying I have too many clothes (but not because I’m a shopper). I wear 80% of my clothes on rotation… But it can take me a month to get through all my shirts.
Since I retired, my wardrobe has changed. Not to jeans and t-shirts (I honestly do not even own a pair of jeans) but to light and breezy stuff.
I have items for other climates but do not travel to those areas in the winter so they sit in the closet with the dressier stuff
This makes me think going through that stack and taking a chunk to the donation bin might be an idea for when I get back from Seattle
(And I run hot, so Sleeveless at 50 is quite fine thank you. I need short sleeves around there if I think about it. Long sleeves needs it to be under 40 and even then it’s likely short sleeves and a jacket outside, since if it’s under 40 inside, i have died and gone to Zandru’s 7th hell)
We have the blessing/curse of a large walk-in master closet. I am allotted ~1/3 of the space, with my wife taking the rest.
OK, I’ll admit to having stuff in there that I haven’t worn for at least 10 years. (And since retiring 4 years ago, my go-to clothes rotation picks have shrunk considerably.)
But my wife has clothes (and shoes! - so many shoes ) in our closet that I have never seen her wear in the 35 years we have been together.
90%. Especially the Meh shirts.
@yakkoTDI ayyy I have 1 Meh t-shirt in maroon!
@narfcake - how would you rate your wearing of cat shirts in this poll? And do you know how many you actually have?
@Kidsandliz It’s disproportionate; some designs I wear often. Others, it’s been a while. And no, I don’t know my current count – or want to know.
Besides, I only wear catshirts on days that end in ‘y’.
Anyone who lives anywhere with a meaningful change of seasons should at least have winter clothes they don’t use the whole year.
Then there’s all the dressing-up-nice clothes that [probably] don’t get regular air time.
And all those that don’t fit quite right because of a “recent” body size change…
Anyone claiming they wear 80+% of their clothes must be successful minimalists in a climate with only one or two seasons.
Or homeless. I shouldn’t rule that one out.
@xobzoo OR they only want to go to the laundromat once a month. To pull that off likely you’d wear most of your clothes and be wearing the ones you liked the least the closer you got to your once a month trip.
@Kidsandliz
…been there done that
@chienfou So has my kid.
I had told her if she cleaned her room one more time by putting her clean clothes in the dirty clothes basket she’d be doing her own laundry. Any parent can predict what happened next.
. So I stopped doing her laundry and she refused to learn how to do so. Eventually she was picking the clothes to wear out of the dirty clothes so I took the dirty clothes basket and locked it in the shed. Then she complained she had nothing to wear. I asked her if she was ready to learn how to was her own clothes. She gave me the, only a kid can do that this well, “no way/yeah right” look of disgust/defiant face. I shrugged. There were clothes she didn’t like still clean.
So when she complained she had nothing to wear the next morning I reminded her of the clean clothes she had left. She said she wasn’t going to wear them. I told her to wear her PJ’s to school or go naked. I didn’t care (I did warn her 4th grade teacher that this was coming just in case). She told me she wasn’t going to go to school. I told her then I’ll put her to work and listed all the things I knew she absolutely hated to do as how she would be spending her time (I was a grad student at the time and done with all my coursework and was studying for comps so could afford to stay home to supervise this).
I knew what she hated to do as when she complained that she did all the work in the house I made a list of absolutely every task that needed done (including do homework, pay bills, go to work…) and listed them in daily, several times a week, weekly, etc. on a piece of paper. I then told her to pick X items from each list. What she didn’t pick told me what she didn’t want to do. And when I asked her why she chose cleaning everything in the bathroom but the toilet (listed sink/countertop, floor, toilet, etc. separately), she said that was too gross (so was cat dirt boxes, and a handful of other things). Bingo. I could use that to my advantage, like when I’d have to bring to her school something important that she forgot to take with her that day she owed me twice the time it took me in hard manual labor doing the things she hated. Suddenly she was remembering what she needed to bring with her each day.
Anyway I told her those would be all the things she would be doing that day if she didn’t get dressed and go to school. While scowling at me she dressed and went to school. When I got home that afternoon she asked me to show her how to do laundry.
Actually by the time she was in 9th grade she was good enough at it it was safe to allow her to add some of my stuff when she wanted to only wash 2 or 3 things (rule was full washer only). I once heard her boasting to a friend that she did her own laundry (in contrast to the looks and complaining I occasionally got over this) although I’d sometimes do hers when she was being especially nice or helpful and when I’d give her her clean clothes I’d tell her why.
I feel called out by today’s write-up.
@Kyeh I have a bin of old intramural sports tees and mismatched socks under my bed. I also feel called out, but their product pitch won’t even work for me since I have bins!
@ryanbruce Same here … and I need to go through them and give bunches of stuff away, but …
@Kyeh @ryanbruce
Likewise have been some of my bed with the additional benefit that they have rollers on them. It’s for some of the extra canned goods get stored when I end up with a ton of things I canned from the garden that are planned for Christmas presents. Personally all my clothes are hanging in my closet the way I admit they are pretty packed in there. During the summer I wear probably around 5% of my clothes because 90% of the time I’m in the same half dozen swimsuits and sleeveless t-shirts working outside or in the pool.
Me: 60%
My wife: 0.000000000000003%
@NapkinEater So either your wife likes to be nekkid 99.999999999999997 of the time or she owns an entire department store? Talk about living on the extreme ends of the luck in life spectrum.
KuoH
I have worked from home for over 20 years now. The only time I wear dress shirts are for weddings or funerals. So easily about 80% of my closet is hardly ever use… probably closer to 90%.
I WFH so I rotate the same few items despite having a walk in closet full of dresses, pants, and shirts and drawers full of shorts (I may have more clothes that any one person needs).
I can say that I wear all of my workout clothes at some point throughout the year.
Depends what you mean by regularly. I don’t buy many clothes but the ones I do have last forever… And so I throw away less frequently than I get new clothes. I’ve still got clothes from pre-marriage 26 years ago.
That’s a long way of saying I have too many clothes (but not because I’m a shopper). I wear 80% of my clothes on rotation… But it can take me a month to get through all my shirts.
@OnionSoup Buy more underwear. Then you need to do laundry only once a month.
Since I retired, my wardrobe has changed. Not to jeans and t-shirts (I honestly do not even own a pair of jeans) but to light and breezy stuff.
I have items for other climates but do not travel to those areas in the winter so they sit in the closet with the dressier stuff
This makes me think going through that stack and taking a chunk to the donation bin might be an idea for when I get back from Seattle
(And I run hot, so Sleeveless at 50 is quite fine thank you. I need short sleeves around there if I think about it. Long sleeves needs it to be under 40 and even then it’s likely short sleeves and a jacket outside, since if it’s under 40 inside, i have died and gone to Zandru’s 7th hell)
We have the blessing/curse of a large walk-in master closet. I am allotted ~1/3 of the space, with my wife taking the rest.
) in our closet that I have never seen her wear in the 35 years we have been together. 
OK, I’ll admit to having stuff in there that I haven’t worn for at least 10 years. (And since retiring 4 years ago, my go-to clothes rotation picks have shrunk considerably.)
But my wife has clothes (and shoes! - so many shoes