What do you do with clothes that don't fit you anymore?

Well, previously, in losing weight I have hung on to all my clothes! I grew back into them. So, this time I am donating everything to a women's shelter. I would love to have them altered, but as I get smaller the clothes themselves just remind me of what i used to have to wear to "cover everything up". I just gave away my last size of clothes. I am in the last size I own and when I lose more weight, I'm going to have to shop! I will probably shop thrift stores to save some money on all the transition clothes. I'm saving up for the real shopping trip when I am at goal.

This probably didn't answer your question. Altering them is a wonderful way to save money. Especially if you have work clothes. They are usually expensive! Good luck!

You're probably better off buying some new bras. I would think that if they are super loose, they may have lost their ability to support you anyway so you'd want something that works better. I know I've bought stretchy exercise bras that work under my work clothing at Target. Basically, I'm going to buy new ones as I shrink.

For regular clothing (jeans and stuff), that can be easy to fix. You can look in the phone book for a seamstress or tailor. You can also contact some higher end stores and ask them if they know of anyone they send people to for modifications. If not, the phone book will most likely have some. They can take them in for you. I'm going to probably do that as I drop weight. Jeans aren't too hard to take in at the waist (hard for you and I thought).

i alter anything i can - bra backs - i cut off the catch and and carefully re sew int onto the band - the metal catches will shatter a sewing machine needle - learn from my mistake. tou can also shorten the straps

pants i alter a little at he side seam or a lot at the back crotch seam

(careful here of side and back pockets) and take the waistband of first then alter it to fit the new size pants

skirts: i normally just take of the waist band - sew in a dart and then replace waist band ( slightly shorter) or if it is a pencil skirt i follow the original shape and just reduce a bit on both sides. ( taking off zippers is a pain so sometimes i dart and then adjust the seem lower down)

Edit - i even turned and old massive t-shirt into a pair of hot pants for pole dancing in!

Cut them up and use them as rags for the car and house

I've been giving most of my old clothes away to whomever wants them or to Goodwill and getting what I can for cheap at the thrift store. I'll go for real clothes shopping once I get to my goal weight.

I keep a couple of small piece to see how far I've come but I mostly either donate my old clothes or wait for a clothing swap and swap out for clothes that fit me.

I got rid of my old bras and invested in the Genie bra. I have quite a few pairs and I love them!

I keep a few items that i was wearing in my before pictures ready for my after pictures so i can do the typical "look how massive my clothes were" pictures

I still wear some of my biggest shirts for exercising in, i use them daily as a constant reminder how much i have changed to my size now

The rest i donate or recycle

I donate it as soon as it gets too big. I don't want to grow back into them.

I donate them.

For ages I didn't have enough money to buy clothes as I got smaller and was in the in between stage, even from second hand stores so I put darts in EVERYTHING, I mostly went down the original seam and just made it smaller. Some t-shirts I added darts to make them look a little more flattering at the waist and shirts I followed the original dart and just made it bigger (to make the shirt smaller)

It wasn't fancy and it wasn't the best sowing job but it worked and I felt good about it. After a while somethings were not fixable, but have fun with it, shorten some sleeves to make an old blouse, new