What do you do...

.....with the clothes that you have "shrunk" out of???? And how long do you leave it before you buy new clothes?

Typically the clothes I grow out of I take the to charity shop BUT I thought how cool would it be to have a group where you could pass the clothes up or on. I know from my experience that over the last 10 months I have gone down 4 dress sizes, and it is costing me a fortune at a time when I really don't have a budget for buying new clothes. I knew as I was buying a size 22 or size 20 that I needed to have them, however I was also confident that I wouldn't need them for long, they were kind of "transitional phase I was passing through".... I shopped carefully and didn't spend much money, but I thought what a great idea it would be to pass on my size 20 work trousers or jeans that have been worn for a couple of months down to someone that is also "passing through" a size 20.

As far as buying new clothes, I leave it as long as I can, all of my work trousers I have taken in and I'm now getting to a point where I have to roll over the tops to keep them up, I think they are probably 2 sizes too big, but I just can't bring myself to buy more "transitional" trousers. I have 3 pairs of jeans that are all held up with belts, and the thing with jeans is that I LOVE the ones I have and I don't want to get rid of them

That said I'm not really complaining, I am proud of my progress, but its becoming an expensive progress too I'm just curious to know how everyone else deals with this???