Persephone
05-05-2009, 02:41 PM
Like many here, I had a hard time getting clothes when I was a "little girl."
At first I "borrowed" items from hampers and closets. Then, in a stroke of unbelievable luck, I actually found two items in the street. Both were perfectly my size! One was a bra and the other was a team swimsuit for the girl's swim team at my high school. (Yes, I have often wondered what the girls who originally owned them were doing when they lost them! :))
These and the eventual other items I got - like the first skirt I bought myself - were carefully hidden away, usually inside my stereo speakers.
Cut to the present. Since clothes were so hard to get, like a child of the Great Depression, I horde them. Now I have three closets full.
Dresses, skirts, pants, tops, you name it -- things that fit and things that don't (I've gone down from a size 16 to a size 6 in the past couple of years).
Not to mention a dresser full of bras, panties, slips, lingerie of all types.
And I can't bring myself to get rid of stuff. Even things I will probably never wear again.
Like a GG, sure, I have special items that have memories attached to them. Perfectly understandable.
But I have excuses for everything else:
"I just love this outfit"
"This would be great for a costume party?"
"Well, these are a little big, but I could wear them in guy mode or when I just want some less fitted 'mommy jeans,'"
And "what if I gain back some weight? -- Every woman keeps a few "fat clothes" doesn't she?"
They all sound perfectly reasonable and rational to me. And, obviously, I am "intellectually" aware that I need to get rid of some of these things, but it seems really, really hard.
Has anyone else gone through this? What can I do?
At first I "borrowed" items from hampers and closets. Then, in a stroke of unbelievable luck, I actually found two items in the street. Both were perfectly my size! One was a bra and the other was a team swimsuit for the girl's swim team at my high school. (Yes, I have often wondered what the girls who originally owned them were doing when they lost them! :))
These and the eventual other items I got - like the first skirt I bought myself - were carefully hidden away, usually inside my stereo speakers.
Cut to the present. Since clothes were so hard to get, like a child of the Great Depression, I horde them. Now I have three closets full.
Dresses, skirts, pants, tops, you name it -- things that fit and things that don't (I've gone down from a size 16 to a size 6 in the past couple of years).
Not to mention a dresser full of bras, panties, slips, lingerie of all types.
And I can't bring myself to get rid of stuff. Even things I will probably never wear again.
Like a GG, sure, I have special items that have memories attached to them. Perfectly understandable.
But I have excuses for everything else:
"I just love this outfit"
"This would be great for a costume party?"
"Well, these are a little big, but I could wear them in guy mode or when I just want some less fitted 'mommy jeans,'"
And "what if I gain back some weight? -- Every woman keeps a few "fat clothes" doesn't she?"
They all sound perfectly reasonable and rational to me. And, obviously, I am "intellectually" aware that I need to get rid of some of these things, but it seems really, really hard.
Has anyone else gone through this? What can I do?