How long to wait before you got rid of your "fat" clothes

"Just in case" is a crutch to fall back on to if you fail. if your plan is to fail, then keep your crutch. if your plan is to succeed, donate then ASAP. I think getting rid of them will actually help motivate you even more. Do you know the story of Hernán Cortés? If not, it's worth "Googling" because it's very apropos.

OMG this is a big issue for me.

Last night i was wearing a tube dress that i bought last summer. It kept falling off! It's in size S and apparently I'm extra small right now.

I just lost like 8 pounds so it's not a big difference but 80% of my old clothes don't fit me anymore.

Gonna spend all my money on clothes

I don't buy the "fail" concept. I keep my bigger jeans and t-shirts and wear them around the house (home clothes), or if I'm working on the house or something. They are great for painting projects too. It's nice to have an entire wardrobe that I can thrash and not waste my nicer newer clothes.

I'm keeping mine to alter/do crafts with. They're far too cute to give away or throw away.

My situation is a little different. I usually only wear dresses/skirts and a lot of my dresses are not of a style most people would desire. So there isn't many folks who would want my things.

The best condition things I have a few friends online who dress similar, I may offer to them. But the bulk of my things I wouldn't feel good about offering because either I have worn them to death or I have them so customized to my body it isn't practical. I sew most of my clothing so I have my patterns tweaked to fit my body shape.

So my plan in to alter them where practical. Skirts are fairly easy to do especially. But at some point altering isn't practical either. I may just re-use the fabric for some other project. Dresses/pinafores for my little one or various household sewing projects. They won't go to waste so it doesn't bother me.

In the past I would always hang onto them "just in case", but I am not going to this time.

In fact I need to finally start doing this. Most of my skirts won't stay up on my at this point and I need some time at the sewing machine pretty badly. The skirt I have on now, a few months ago I couldn't wear AT ALL. Now there is so much room in it, it kinda looks silly. I am more annoyed that I had gotten rid of all of my smaller clothing as I could really use them now.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could have a clothing swap on here? I wonder how that would work...

Ought to start a MFP clothing recycle center when you donate yours, someone who just dropped out of your size donates to you,,,etc etc etc,, the MFP circle of clothes LOL

About a month ago, I donated 8 large bags of too big clothing to a charity that needed larger sized woman's clothing. I have since filled another bag (although I do still have one pair of size 26 pants).

Nothing feels better than opening my closet and knowing that everything in it fits, looks great, is comfortable and will be passed on in the future to someone who needs it.

I am buying new clothing a bit on the small side and that does not feel risky at all.

As each item got bigger and I got smaller I packed them in bags and boxes and donated them to the Epilepsy Foundation. I also started buying clothes there - at first - just to make do until I reached my goal. Now I shop there all the time - I have found some wonderful (make that a Lot) of clothes, great name brands! You can't beat the prices and I figure I'm recycling at the same time. I made the decision when I started this journey never to go back and I feel keeping more than, say a couple of pair of jeans for those "I feel heavier today" times is just setting myself up for failure - too easy to keep slipping on the bigger stuff while denying that I'm gaining again!

As soon as they are loose, they're gone! I kept one pair of my biggest ever jeans just to have as a weird little trophy.