Wardrobe dilemma

I tidied my wardrobe the other week - I had to do it, I couldn't get the door shut - and came up against the usual dilemma. Not just what to get rid of, but how to decide what to get rid of? There are two sets of criteria - what fits and what doesn't fit; and what I like and what I don't like.

Clothes that I like and that fit - of course, I keep them.
Clothes that I don't like and that don't fit - of course, I get rid of them.

That leaves (by far the majority) - clothes that I like but don't fit; and clothes that fit that I don't like.

Of the clothes that fit but that I don't like - I can hardly ever justify getting rid of them, unless they really are so absolutely horrific that I wouldn't be seen out in them, and even then they get used for gardening. And if they really really are horrific, I wouldn't have bought them in the first place. So there is a big pile of things that fit but that for some reason or another I have taken against, and as they get no use they aren't going to wear out, and are going to hang in the wardrobe for ever more. Occasionally I try to give them away to Daughter but her face assumes such an expression of disgust! The very idea!

And then there are the clothes that I love but which don't fit, and I am always trying to persuade myself that one day they will fit. Whether I keep them or not depends upon how much I like them, how much wear I have had out of them (though I admit to keeping things that not only don't fit any more but are in tatters, just because I love them so much) and how much they cost in the first place. So there are quite a lot of "posh" clothes that would be a criminal waste to get rid of and they go on hanging sadly at the back of the wardrobe waiting for a miracle in the weight loss department.

Losing weight would solve a lot of problems - I could wear all those nice expensive clothes that are currently a size (or two) too small - AND the clothes that fit now but that I don't like, wouldn't fit any more, because they'd be too big, and I could get rid of them with a clear conscience.

But then, I wouldn't be able to wear any of my current favourites for the same reason.

In the end, almost everything went back in the wardrobe, albeit sharing hangers to save space.

Boasting about the garden

I'm always going on about my garden, so here, for all you faithful readers, are some pictures - carefully framed to miss most of the mess.