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April 24, 2005
bring outcher dead
We're having spring cleaning at Chez Christ today. I'm taking a coffee break.
As I'm posting this, I'm wearing my old red cableknit Gap sweater. I thought I'd put it on one last time before I tossed it. I used to wear it all the time. One day I was coming downstairs (this is when I lived in The House of Comfortable Shoes) with a bowl of nice hot oatmeal and I tripped on the stairs and went tumbling down, oatmeal and all. I learned two things about nice hot oatmeal that day. The first is that it causes serious pain when it makes contact with your skin. The second is that it is very, very difficult to get out of thick cableknit sweaters.
There's a bunch of stuff that's going in the garbage pile, namely my entire wardrobe from 1990-1998. There is no good reason to keep hanging onto this stuff, but it hurts to throw it out. Like the little size six (size six! I can't believe I was ever that small) cream-colored eyelet dress that I wore to my bridal shower (the one with my family at the Four Seasons, not the one with my girlfriends at the Queen Mary Teahouse where Britta and I got into a scone fight). And the black taffeta skirt I bought to wear on my very first blindish internet date (on which I wound up having good fantastic sex for the first time). And my denim Minnie Mouse jumper which I used to wear constantly until I was mistaken for a pregnant woman in it - twice.
Okay, coffee's done, back to disposing of my 20's.
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I've done that purge. It was hard to give up on my super-skinny jeans from my 20s, but sometime we just have to let go! Especially since my jeans would have been horribly out of style if I could have actually fit into them. Plus, it leaves so much room in the closet for shopping!
Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2005 10:41 PM