Closet Culling

I went through my clothes closet yesterday. If you've been reading this blog long, you may remember that, by switching from long-time junk food vegetarian to vegan, I lost a lot of weight last year - about 70 pounds, or so. I'm still working on it, but I'm darn close to where I want to be.

Thursday, hubby and I cleaned out the garage. Lo and behold, it has a floor! As surprising as that discovery was, the two boxes of old clothing I stumbled upon were even more so. One box had several t-shirts and dresses from when I was a teenager. And, by golly, they fit! The next box was filled with maternity clothes and nursing bras from when I was pregnant with K. Goody! We've been thinking of trying to conceive again, and these will be a huge help! So, yesterday, I washed everything up and took it to my closet, but (oh, you could see this coming, couldn't you?) there wasn't really any room to hang it.

Standing there, dumbfounded, I realized I'll probably never again wear half of what was hanging on the rods. Really, 95% of it was too big (yay!), but without money for a new wardrobe, I've got to make do with giant shirts until ... I don't know ... some point in the future when we've got money to spend, I guess. So, I culled ruthlessly, keeping the things that didn't make me look like a baggy, saggy clown and piling the rest into a laundry basket.

Now, I've got to figure out what to do with them. Decent plus-sized clothing is difficult to come by. Believe me, I know. Unless you love shirts with cute little kitty cats or Pooh Bear, or you just adore animal prints, plus sized clothing is a joke. So, I know someone out there will appreciate these.

When I was 13, I volunteered for a place called "County Welfare" that gave free clothing to people in need. Not surprisingly, it's defunct now, and unfortunately, I can't find anything like it around here.... I could take them to the local Goodwill, but they charge so much for clothing, the people who need clothes can't afford to buy them ($8 for a pair of jeans when they have row upon row upon row of jeans... really?). Instead, I was thinking about offering them on Freecycle or Craigslist.

So, that's one of my projects for today. Unless someone has a better idea....