I hate it when you wear jeans that have just been washed...so tight and stiff you can barely zip them. You have to do that hop, dance, shake side to side thing just to get them up!!
Then wear them a couple times and it's like you lost 3 pounds. The jeans are all soft and loose. Makes me not want to wash them...ever.
Here's an extra Thought for Thursday...you know you're old when you wear clothes more than once without washing them. Lol !! I vowed when I was younger not to be like my parents and wear things more than once before washing...HELLO, I'm officially my parents!
Happy Thursday,
~Karen~
I grew up without running water. If you want stiff you have to try those line dried jeans from the 80s. Remember how tight we wore them? I always wore them a couple of days and if it rained I might wear them more than that.
ReplyDeleteThis post was particularly funny to me because I have on sz 6 jeans tonight. I am a comfortable size 8. But when I work nights I eat too much. So, I put on my slightly uncomfortable freshly washed size 6 too act as a reminder...... It isn't working!
OH boy do I remember the 'good ol' days' of drying clothes on the clothesline.. You could practically stand the jeans by themselves..We even used pant stretchers for Dads jeans & overalls.
ReplyDeleteNOW I wear the Pajama Jeans..OMGosh they are nice. Soft, comfy and 'adjustable'..lolo
Welcome to the Club! I've been my parents for a while now. I knew for sure when I said - "Nice girl, but not right for my boy" aaaaargghhhh!
ReplyDeleteOMG, I am 60, he is 65. I am ALWAYS telling him to put clean jeans on and he doesn't HAVE to wear an over shirt twice!! Because he only wore it once. But he DOES change his underwear every day so I guess he's not THAT old.
ReplyDeleteLove your Thursday thoughts.
How did you find my deep, dark secret--no dribbles--that blouse can be hung back up---And the jeans thing--too true. I really do hold them and look at them for just a second trying to decide, "are they really dirty enough to wash and have to go back through the whole thing of getting them soft again?" Talk about being your parents---my Aunt who was 19 years older than my Daddy lived with us---I skipped my parents and just turned into Maudie (my sister ever says so--OUCH). Love your blog and your pintrest choices.
ReplyDeletetoo true, jeans w/stretch are the only way too go!
ReplyDeletehave you seen this Birthday card?
Outside:
One day it happens: your driving down the road and you think to yourself "that music is a little too loud"
Inside:
And your ARE FORTY.
haha-cuz it's true!!
Your "Thoughts on Thursday" is right on, the jeans thing is sooooo very true, just hate how they feel when I first put them on and by the end of the day I'm holding them up,aaaarrgghhhh.
ReplyDeleteJust recently I've started thinking my blouses don't need washed after every wear,especially if I didn't eat anything saucy while wearing it,lol.
:) My mom was just the opposite - she could wear something for 10 minutes and would put it in the laundry! We were forever arguing over my practice of, as she put it "worse than a bachelor!" Bless her, she cant wear something more than a day and says she feels all icky, though she has accepted the fact I can wear something for 2 days, and amazingly not stink! haha, love her to pieces :D
ReplyDeleteWonderful...I do love clean jeans (hung on the line..no dryer shrinkage) I like the relaxed fit of two days wear! lol
ReplyDeleteLOL! I love this post and it's comments :) I, too, had to wear jeans dried on the clothesline and they would be so stiff in the winter they could stand up by themselves lol! There was NO stretch jean fabric so I can remember lying down on the floor while my sister pulled up the zipper and helped me to stand. Then I'd do a couple of squats to give them the old stretch so I could continue breathing... OMG!! And I've become very good now at wearing clothes several times without washing...I figure, heh, if they're not dirty, not smelly, and not extremely wrinkled...it's still got another wear....another thing, I find my clothes don't wear out as fast from washing them so frequently...another plus in these days of watching our pennies!
ReplyDeleteMy argument for wearing the same jeans more than once is that I don't do nearly as much physical activity as when I was younger so they don't get as dirty! I'm starting to do the same on shirts now! I also have "house clothes" and "public clothes." Once I get home, I normally change so I don't wear my "public clothes" for more than a few hours sometimes. That's not nearly long enough to get dirty.
ReplyDeleteWish my daughters would learn to not put something in the laundry they had on for an hour!! Yep I'm my mother!
ReplyDeleteIt is soooo true. I spent thousands of dollars on therapy during my training....and I still say and do things my mother and grandmother said...perhaps it is just wisdom ay? LOL
ReplyDeleteSmiles,
Kelly
I'm the same with my jeans, but when it comes to my nightgowns, forget it... these night sweats are the pits. I can go through 3 nightgowns in one night!!!! If I don't have my shoulders covered, I wake up all sore and achy. Yup, I have turned into my mother !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSometimes it seems the jeans with stretch are WORSE because they don't stretch back. I'm with other posters about house clothes and public clothes--I would never go anywhere in sweats or god help us, pajamas and slippers! Many of my clothes only get worn for a few hours so they get put on a peg and worn again but don't go back on the closet rod or in the drawer :)
ReplyDeleteHey, it's 'green' now to dry your clothes on a clothesline! ;)
ReplyDeleteI do try to wear things more than once, because my TEEN makes more than enough laundry with all the outfit changing!
Shar
Love it on the jeans! I'm so with you on that!!
ReplyDeleteI do hang my shirts back up if I only wear for a couple of hours. My jeans, I hang up too. I did discover last week that getting by twice was okay but the third time I wore my new "Not My Daughter's Jeans" around the house without washing was ghastly. I might as well as worn sweats...something I am trying to avoid. I agree though that wearing things in public is different than what I wear around the house!
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny and so true. Most of us become our parents :) Haha
ReplyDeleteI'm with most of your commenters. I have home clothes and public clothes, and my public clothes will definitely out live me. I have favorite jeans that I save for "good" wear and some that need to be sent to the recycle bin -- these are my "home favorites" are what I work in around the house for more than 2 days. Hey, I only have 2 or 3 pairs of those and they need to last a full week!! :)
ReplyDeleteLOL - I know I have skirts that I've NEVER washed!
ReplyDeleteIn the '80s, a friend told me to stick the end of a wire hanger in the hole in the zipper pull. Makes it easier to yank up the zipper in those Gloria Vanderbilts and Calvin Kleins. Breathing? Not important. Now, this is a ridiculous thing to do and I would never do such a thing (maybe). It hurts to think about it...as I sit here with the button unbuttoned. I can wear a pair of jeans for a very long time!
ReplyDeleteI'm waaaay older than you and I don't wash my jeans every time. Or even every other time. I mean really, how dirty do they get when I wear them to sit at my sewing machine all day? :) Would love to know how to put the pin it button on my blog...can you explain? blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteIt's more about who does the laundry...kids don't think about how that stuff gets back in their drawers all folded and neat. I start thinking I need to wear things multiple times after I've folded it one million times...
ReplyDeleteIt's not even the jeans, what about just rinsing your favorite coffee cup that you already used and has been sitting on the counter for tea in the afternoon... My mom would do that and I though that was gross! Now... well, um... We ARE just like our parents! ha, ha... Love this post!
ReplyDeleteYou are spot on my friend! There have been days when I put on newly washed jeans only the remove them immediately thinking "I don't have the emotional energy for this today!" Love your Thoughts on Thursday!
ReplyDeleteOh dear! I am SO guilty of wearing things more than once before I put it in the wash, especially jeans!! And I too remember those stiff-off-the-line clothes. But, most of the time we had to iron everything (and I mean everything!!...even t-shirts and hankies) so that would soften things up a bit. Great post. :))
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