4 Single Gloves

[Beekissed]

Gloves and socks~ make a break for it when they have a chance~ yes~ they escape~ they can operate on their own~ like they do when we're wearing them``` It's how we treat them~ if a sock gets a hole~ I throw it in the stove~ when they feel a hole coming on~ it's AWOL```

I've got three pair of favorite woolen socks that used to be my Dad's hunting socks. I wear them each winter but a few winters back they developed thin spots you could read through, so I darned them and am still using them today...wearing a pair right now, in fact.

I think I will continue darning them until they are more darn than sock, then I'll likely take the top of the feet out of the worst pair and resole the feet of another pair, then the shanks of the sacrificial pair to resole the feet of the other. That's how much I love these socks!

I'm not one to give up on a trusty old garment.

 

[valley ranch]

When I was little~ Papa showed me how to darn socks~ I use to do that~ put a light bulb in the sock and darn the hole closed~ been thinking about that```

 

[flowerbug]

@Nyboy, perhaps Thing has escaped from the Addams Family and is keeping warm...

@Beekissed i'm the same way with comfy clothes, wear them until they're more holes than not and can see through the thin spots. my best t-shirts eventually turn into garden t-shirts and then get used as rags before being tossed.

 

[ducks4you]

Great to know that somebody else wears rags to work outside! It is pointless to wear nice things and catch them on fenceposts or somehow rip them in another way.
I am thrilled bc I am on the great sock match up!! DH has this 3' x 6', 40yo aluminum w/synthetic top table and we have replaced the legs 2x on it and yesterday I moved it upstairs into my sewing room, all 50+ pounds of it. In October I had moved about 12 bins of clothes into this room, but now I have been able to start sorting them on the table. I still have 5 bins in my bedroom closet to move there, too, but one bin under the table has only mismatched socks in it. I am about to start washload #2, which has several matched socks in it. I figure to match them up and then wash, and then put away in my sock drawer.
THIS is ONE great start!!
I was desperate! I knew that I had lots of warm outside clothes, but I didn't know exactly where they were. I found a 2nd army surplus green wool sweater, a down vest, 2 leather jackets and a hoody with "Trogdor" on it.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/c5/70/37c570227aaf99e59644eecc2c7f56bb.jpg
I saw some Fox News guest with advice about clothes, that one bin is keep, one bin is give away and one bin is trash, but everything that I don't want is too worn out to give away, so it's just keep or throw. The garbage bag is 1/2 full, after 30 minutes work.
I hope I don't break my arm patting myself on my back after I am done THIS exercise.

 

[Carol Dee]

Great to know that somebody else wears rags to work outside! It is pointless to wear nice things and catch them on fenceposts or somehow rip them in another way.
I am thrilled bc I am on the great sock match up!! DH has this 3' x 6', 40yo aluminum w/synthetic top table and we have replaced the legs 2x on it and yesterday I moved it upstairs into my sewing room, all 50+ pounds of it. In October I had moved about 12 bins of clothes into this room, but now I have been able to start sorting them on the table. I still have 5 bins in my bedroom closet to move there, too, but one bin under the table has only mismatched socks in it. I am about to start washload #2, which has several matched socks in it. I figure to match them up and then wash, and then put away in my sock drawer.
THIS is ONE great start!!
I was desperate! I knew that I had lots of warm outside clothes, but I didn't know exactly where they were. I found a 2nd army surplus green wool sweater, a down vest, 2 leather jackets and a hoody with "Trogdor" on it.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/c5/70/37c570227aaf99e59644eecc2c7f56bb.jpg
I saw some Fox News guest with advice about clothes, that one bin is keep, one bin is give away and one bin is trash, but everything that I don't want is too worn out to give away, so it's just keep or throw. The garbage bag is 1/2 full, after 30 minutes work.
I hope I don't break my arm patting myself on my back after I am done THIS exercise.

Way to go Ducks! That is something I really need to do again. Also need desperately to clean out my crafting room. I just keep hording and not using. time to sort and give away what I am not really ever going to use!

 

[ducks4you]

Good luck on your quest to organize!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Ducks, you sound like me on the clothing! I have some work shirts that are just...for lack of a better word...despicable to look upon. They have paint, grease, bleach and blood stains from years of working, but I can't seem to give them up...they are just the right fit and weight for me and, until I find suitable replacements, I can't give them up. My family keep on about them and I keep promising I'll toss them if I can find good replacements but thus far I've not found any.

So, I continue to look worse than the worst dressed homeless person as I chore around the place. My granddaughter pokes a little finger in the holes and says, "Ganny, your shirt is bwoken." I just grin and tell her, "Not yet, it isn't...".

 

[flowerbug]

...
So, I continue to look worse than the worst dressed homeless person as I chore around the place. My granddaughter pokes a little finger in the holes and says, "Ganny, your shirt is bwoken." I just grin and tell her, "Not yet, it isn't...".

we call that air conditioning!

i was lucky to snag pairs of work pants from a friend who's company was renamed so all of the workers gave us their old work clothes. Mom was going to use them to make quilts, but decided it was too much work so we had to throw them out (the condition of them being given to us was that they could not be donated because they had a logo on them). anyways, the deal with Mom was that i could get all these pairs of work pants if i threw out the ones i had been wearing. they are much heavier and more sturdy fabric and they have a bigger waist (ahem ) so that is nice, but times they are falling down a bit too much... i have to get a piece of rope like Jethro or an old belt (i've got one around here somewhere that i've glued back together). so for garden work clothes i am very set now (perhaps the rest of my life at the rate i go through them). i also have old bleach spotted and stain marked clothes from when we built this place 20yrs ago. just threw out the worst one because the last time we washed it, it finally fell apart. now i have to come up with a new painting/staining rig...

 

[canesisters]

Turn one glove inside out and keep on going.

 

[ducks4you]

@Beekissed , SISTER!!!!!!!!