I wear a work uniform five days a week

That leaves me 126 opportunities a year to wear something other than cargo pants and designated work-issued t-shirts.

when you combine that with the desire to minimize laundry and the fact that I like to work on cars and landscapes on my days off (which i should wear bullshit rags while doing), that doesn't leave me much opportunity to wear anything nice..

every christmas and every birthday (which conveniently falls opposite christmas) I get clothes. I get t-shirts and button-ups and jeans and fedora hats and I never get a chance to wear it all before my closet gets overloaded and I have to get rid of some of it.

I feel bad because I know people that have the opposite problem. I also feel bad because I never remember who got me what and I would like to wear whatever that person got me when I hang out with them because it shows that I care. I really don't care what I wear, but I care that the person knows that I appreciate the gift..

This concludes the most grown-up thought I may have ever had.

 

I have the exact same (problem) i like the lack of laundry i have to do. But i have a closet packed tight full of clothes i may never wear. I just decided last week that from now on if i come across something i know im not gonna wear im gonna either toss it or donate it.

 

the bullshit part for me is the fact that I have like twenty work shirts and ten work pants and if i am careful i can stretch a shirt for two days and pants for a week.. I have like two drawers full of socks and underwear. So if I really wanted I could only do laundry about ten times a year

 

I was considering buying more socks and underwear just for that reason.

 

do it! I can throw a months worth of socks and underwear in one load of wash and dry

 

of course month old laundry has the tendency to smell like, well, month old laundry. so make sure you have a place to put your laundry that won't permeate that smell to your normal hangout spots.

 

Should you tell people that you have enough clothes so they don't buy you more this birthday?

I have sufficient clothes, not in excess (perhaps excess pj pants). Nobody buys me clothes.

 

In what way do you work on the landscape? Just curious! (are you changing the skyline of Dayton?)

 

i have tried this numerous times. i have right out said "do not buy me shirts, if you for some reason feel the irresistible need to buy me clothes then only buy me pants."

take a wild guess what i got for my birthday that year and a couple years after that when i repeated the same thing.....

 

Haha oh that sucks! I don't like presents very much (unless I am in need or the gift is handmade or extra thoughtful). I would really dislike if someone bought me clothes, I'd feel like it would be a waste. I have trained most of those close to me to donate to a charity if they feel the need to "get me something". For too long people would be like "happy birthday!!" and I'd be like "gahh what is this.. a waste of money and time and now, like Death, i have to wear it in your company"

 

Just make sure to wash on hot, to kill whatever has been breeding in there.

 

i don't think hot water has much extra cleaning power over cold. bacteria thrive at 37 degrees C, and i don't think the hot water from your washer gets much hotter than that.

 

just my household lawn.

Hot water breaks up the particles easier

 

It doesn't. My machine has a sanitation setting and a steam fresh setting so it can get really hot if using them buttons but I don't tend to leave stuff long before a wash load goes in.

I used to wear coveralls at work but we had a system at work we could use that would take care of them so my clothes lasted long. I would peel off at work and jump into those prit near naked under and stuff my clothes in my locker. I loved wearing them because I picked the softer cotton polyester type and they felt like wearing PJs at work.
Now I ok at home so I don't have that option but my clothes are all the easy wash type I just chuck in the laundry. For some reason peeps don't buy me clothes either. My mom sends me three hundred a year on my birthday and a card and home made candy at Christmas. That's it!
Friends tend to give me gift cards to restaurants. I sometimes re-gift those because I don't often go out to restaurants.

 

I have to wear a uniform to work as well. I really really really love clothes though so it makes it very hard for me to deal with. Also, Park Service jeans are NOT attractive!

 

im pretty sure this is going get some thumbs down in this forum


i would rather throw clothing away than donate it to a place where welfare people can buy it for a quarter after blowing their government dole on dope.

 

I'm not sure that is worse than having to wear a shirt and tie everyday.

I do like suit Monday's though.

 

i'm not sure where 126 comes from. really, you could wear what you want everyday, just change before and after work. but it kind of seems like you're talking about dressing on days off.

365 days a year minus 126 days off comes to 239 work days. divide that by 5 for the number of days in a work week, and you would be working 47.8 weeks a year. which may be the case, but i personally have never heard of a job that offers four weeks and one day of vacation each year.

i dunno.

 

I wish I had a uniform. I am so unfashiomable.