I'm tempted to go John the Baptist on him and donate all of them except the one he's wearing.
The nuclear option for a pastor's wife!
How about hang the ones you haven't seen him wear much at the front and see if he digs through them for ones further back. Yes or no, it'll inform what to do next!
My decluttering is going the wrong way - I got a record player set up again, and am really enjoying going through lots of the old records. I even bought some more from a record shop who were getting shot for a pound each - ex library jazz albums with really knackered sleeves but the disks don't look too bad. Oh dear.
I've done something like that--and he wears them all indifferently, basically grabbing whatever comes into his field of vision. He doesn't seem to have a favorite at all. Which is really odd, when he wears certain shirts so often that we've begun referring to them as his "skin."
I'm tempted to go John the Baptist on him and donate all of them except the one he's wearing.
The nuclear option for a pastor's wife!
How about hang the ones you haven't seen him wear much at the front and see if he digs through them for ones further back. Yes or no, it'll inform what to do next!
My decluttering is going the wrong way - I got a record player set up again, and am really enjoying going through lots of the old records. I even bought some more from a record shop who were getting shot for a pound each - ex library jazz albums with really knackered sleeves but the disks don't look too bad. Oh dear.
I've done something like that--and he wears them all indifferently, basically grabbing whatever comes into his field of vision. He doesn't seem to have a favorite at all. Which is really odd, when he wears certain shirts so often that we've begun referring to them as his "skin."
I often read myself into other people's situations and as a result get it totally wrong - but I wonder if he feels obliged to give them all a wearing because they were presents - I would. If so, that would make finding 'good homes' for one or two quite a particular and demanding task! Would it work to put the back two in a box somewhere and see what happened?
@Nenya, I know what you mean about old friends. Going through the cassettes now, I found plenty of music I had forgotten about but which 'takes me back', but also rather alarmingly my first day at school (with Mum and Dad, when he got in from work some evening in Sep '75 and we must have got out the new kitchen radio-cassette and the only tape in the house), and also my wife's Dad practicing a speech about his school days. He's been dead for something like 25 years, and my wife's two sisters are staying with us at the moment, so that provided an unforeseen moment this evening.
I still have a few recordings of Mr Puzzler’s voice, but I am not brave enough to listen to them yet. I am starting to play some LPs and CDs again. I was given a high quality record player but it is in the back room which can be chilly, though is lovely on sunny days.
I had guests yesterday so my house is clean and tidy. ( well, some things are stuffed in drawers out of sight). I’m away next week so it should stay that way.
We seem to be in a state of perpetual untidiness here, despite being four weeks post-move . We are not just stuffing things away in an out-of-sight-out-of-mind fashion, which is good - not that there are many places to stuff them as I have vetoed anything going into the loft after seeing what came out of our previous one - but it means that pretty much everywhere I look there is still mess; also deep cleaning to be done, which is something I hadn't anticipated when we moved in.
I have unpacked a lot of my books, downsizing the collection as I go, and there is still a large number of boxes to be dealt with. Pieces of paperwork are everywhere as we haven't organised them properly into a New House File yet. Mr Nen has a new clothes storage system at the top of our built-in wardrobe which I can't reach and don't understand so I left some piles of his clothes on our bed this morning for him to put away and that's currently where they remain.
The weather has been very odd where I live 60F one day and 84F the next, or both in the same day. I have a small closet so I store off season clothing in two boxes under my bed. I wash and change out the clothing each change of season. So now I have my warmer clothing still in the closet and a few summer things sitting on chairs. Does not make for a tidy room. Next week it is calling for rain and cooler temperatures. I am not sure what to do with the summer clothing at this point.
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I've done something like that--and he wears them all indifferently, basically grabbing whatever comes into his field of vision. He doesn't seem to have a favorite at all. Which is really odd, when he wears certain shirts so often that we've begun referring to them as his "skin."
I often read myself into other people's situations and as a result get it totally wrong - but I wonder if he feels obliged to give them all a wearing because they were presents - I would. If so, that would make finding 'good homes' for one or two quite a particular and demanding task! Would it work to put the back two in a box somewhere and see what happened?
@Nenya, I know what you mean about old friends. Going through the cassettes now, I found plenty of music I had forgotten about but which 'takes me back', but also rather alarmingly my first day at school (with Mum and Dad, when he got in from work some evening in Sep '75 and we must have got out the new kitchen radio-cassette and the only tape in the house), and also my wife's Dad practicing a speech about his school days. He's been dead for something like 25 years, and my wife's two sisters are staying with us at the moment, so that provided an unforeseen moment this evening.
I had guests yesterday so my house is clean and tidy. ( well, some things are stuffed in drawers out of sight). I’m away next week so it should stay that way.
I have unpacked a lot of my books, downsizing the collection as I go, and there is still a large number of boxes to be dealt with. Pieces of paperwork are everywhere as we haven't organised them properly into a New House File yet. Mr Nen has a new clothes storage system at the top of our built-in wardrobe which I can't reach and don't understand so I left some piles of his clothes on our bed this morning for him to put away and that's currently where they remain.