Keep the Clothes or Ditch the Clothes?

Hmmm, interesting discussion. My husband and I are both on MFP and being successful at dropping weight and clothing sizes. I'm giving/selling/donating my bigger clothes as I shrink out of them. He's boxing his up and storing them. I feel it's a safety fallback to keep the bigger clothes, but he lost weight before (on diet supplements) and gained it back plus some. This happened over 10 years of no diet supplements for him, and he had gotten rid of the bigger clothes. This time, it's changes in eating and activity, no magic pills. I say there's no going back!!!

Sell them, donate them or do what I did.. give them to my friends which made me feel good for many reasons. If you keep them you will be more tempted to go back to them....I did keep a pair of pants just so i could see where I had been....

I got rid of mine which forced me to stay on track because I don't have the $$ to shop. Difficult enough to buy the new stuff for the new size... I sure don't want to spend money I don't have on clothes in a bigger size again DONATE, DONATE, DONATE
Or alter what you can alter such as waist's for work pants, etc.

My too-big, knit clothes (t-shirts, yoga pants, hoodies, etc.) go into our travel trailer for camping. My good jeans go into a box. The rest of my too-big clothes go to my work's semi-annual clothing swap: when the ladies get together for wine, food, and we dig through each other's castoff clothing to find new treasures.

I would purchase new "basics" (jeans, black pants, work shirts,etc.) but if you have a favorite blouse/pant from your bigger size that you LOVE then take them to a seamstress and see if she can alter these for not a lot of $$... otherwise buy new!

I'm very thrifty and I sew, so I don't get rid of clothes unless I have to take in a ridiculous amount of fabric. Even that's up for debate, depending on how much I like said item. I still have and wear a pair of skinny jeans that used to be a size 14, but over the past year I've cropped them down to a 2!

I must admit it was hard at first to let go of my old clothes but afterwhile of still putting them on I felt really uncomfortable because it was slouchy like.... I just donate.... Get rid of the old stuff and start anew! I buy I couple items that are a bit tight which is my motivation to keep going! You are on the right track, shed that access!

My guidance - get rid of the larger size items.

Wishing you success.

With my clothes that are too big, if I really like them I just take them down a size, or I donate them to my local charity shops if they are in good condition and not something I want to keep.
It depends on how many sizes you have gone down to whether you can resize a dress, though. I've only gone down a size so just took a little off at the waist.
I got rid of the old jeans that were too big though, and some tops I have that are oversized now I'm taking on holiday to wear over my bikini when I need a quick cover-up. Wearing a bikini is going to be a brand new experience for me and using my old too-big tops to put on when I need to get out of the sun is kinda awesome.

I have kept 1 item from each size I have gone down just to keep me motivated... the rest I donate

Get rid of them, they are a safety net for you and if you plan on pushing fwd and continue to lose you won't need them anymore and they will be too big and baggy on you! Getting rid of them will feel good b/c you'll be saying BYE BYE to those big clothes that you will never have to put on again!! Congrats on the loss BTW!

I never know what the right answer is! I have had weight changes in the past and got rid of the clothes and regretted it, particularly throwing out my smaller clothes! People will say that you can buy lots of lovely new clothes at goal weight, but selfishly don't give you the money to do so :laugh: . And it would be nice if not having bigger clothes actually stopped you from getting bigger, but obviously that didn't work for me or I wouldn't have got bigger in the first place :laugh: .

This time round, I HAVE been getting rid of clothes, purely on the grounds of not having space. I have looked in sales and charity shops, so haven't spent an awful lot. But it's still quite expensive. You forget that you're going to have to buy new underwear and even shoes! I have kept a couple of dresses that I really liked and I'm going to see if I can have them altered. And I've also kept some things where the size isn't so crucial (nightwear, etc.).

Best of luck!

I like my jeans tight to remind me to keep going! Haven't dropped enough this round to shed clothes but am buying new ones in smaller sizes. When I get enough in the new size I dump the old ones.

I donate all of them. Last year I went so far as together rid of the 'skinny' clothes I kept...could use them now...but they went to charity also. Less stuff to have around, less 'permission' to gain it back!