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.