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What do you do with your old clothes? Chuck them away? Recycle them? Give them to Oxfam? Store them in cupboards for eternity?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 14 November 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

...tell me what becomes of yr discarded garments!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 14 November 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

wear them

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 14 November 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Throw them away. I keep my clothes about four or five years. Until I am either fed up with'em or... they fall apart.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 14 November 2002 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Well usually I take them to the clothes recycling bin thingie but in my move I discovered some truly hideous fashion disasters I've never worn more than like once that are made out of really nice fabrics, so I'm gonna make cushions with them, eventually.

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 14 November 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I give them away to my friends who've been kicked out of home and are living in hostels wearing the same grimey Foo Fighters t-shirt all week. It's always odd seeing them come out in clothes I used to wear a couple of years ago.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Thursday, 14 November 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have any female friends as tall as I am, so I generally end up giving old clothes to the good will. Skirts & tops I offer to my friends and sisters first.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

If they're nice material I turn them into cushions, toys, blankets etc. The rest are offered to friends, then what is left goes to the charity shops (usually Scope).

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

me too i wear them, but clothes i get rid of usually head to goodwill

― ron (ron), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep 'em until they have fallen apart or when i outgrow 'em becuz I am a growing boy after all.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto jel's answer. My clothes are old, but never are they dirty.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Some I give to a homeless shelter.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Give to Goodwill, unless they're in unwearable condition.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i wear them til they fall apart or they go in the goodwill bag.
some have become cushions, isnt it great what fancy cushions can be made from old clothes!

― donna (donna), Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I've sold some of my more desireable stuff to vintage shops; otherwise I just toss 'em out!

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 14 November 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

save them, coz u never know if u will want them again, fashions always come back round and vintage/old clothes can go really well with new items!!!!

― Jamie A, Friday, 15 November 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

Keep them at my parents' house until they come back into fashion. I am wearing a shirt from college today. I wish I had saved more.

Sometimes I trade old stuff with my mom. I got a nice raincoat and pink cardigan sweater from her recently and she wears some of my old jeans and slacks to do her gardening. We also pass shoes back and forth.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

i unburied this jacket from deep within my closet today that i bought when i was a freshman - 24 years ago - because my wife was telling me recently how much she missed it. it still fits, sorta, a little short in the sleeves but otherwise good to go. it was a new jacket when i bought it but with a definite 50s/60s styling (that was big in the vintage style of the day). i found a lottery ticket from 1995 in one of the pockets!

― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:33 (sixteen years ago)

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