What did you do with clothes that are now too large for you?

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  • 12Sarah2015
    12Sarah2015 Posts: 1,117 Member
    Keeping in case I get pregnant
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    nowine4me wrote: »
    I actually went into Goodwill at donation time and got a $150 pair of jeans for $8

    I picked up a pair of those "Not Your Daughter's Jeans", which I believe sell for some ridiculous price new, for $2 on clearance in the thrift store! They're my new goal jeans - I can get them done up but they're too tight to actually wear, so it gives me something to work towards now I'm on the last few pounds. :)

    Thrift/charity shops are amazing. Yes there's some junk that people really shouldn't be donating, but there are some fabulous finds too. And it gives me the chance to experiment with looks I'd normally be cautious about, because I'm not wasting a lot of money.

    I'm eternally grateful to the local ladies in my town who donate good clothing and shoes! So if anyone is in doubt, please go ahead and donate your unwanted things and let someone else have the benefit and pleasure of wearing them. :)
  • ata1anta
    ata1anta Posts: 115 Member
    Donate! I keep a sharpie near the laundry and put a small mark on the tag when stuff gets too big. Then when I’m folding the laundry, the marked clothes go into a box. When the box is full, off to goodwill. I have some too big jammies and t shirts for lazing about.
  • shan_reg
    shan_reg Posts: 80 Member
    Goodwill.....no need to keep them. Won’t be needing them....EVER!
  • ejg1010
    ejg1010 Posts: 48 Member
    With the exception of the odd sentimental item I have donated most of the clothes that are too big for me to charity shops. I've enjoyed gradually buying a new wardrobe and (with the best will in the world!) don't intend to go up a size in the near future. I haven't had children yet and so one day I'll need larger clothes for a while, but if I ever put any weight back on my style/fashion may well have changed anyway. If I get through the same season twice and haven't worn something I try to be ruthless and donate it as I'm likely never going to wear it again, even if it fits me!
  • flippy1234
    flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
    Donate them. Don't give yourself an excuse to gain any weight back.
  • nxd10
    nxd10 Posts: 4,570 Member
    The ones I loved I altered myself. The ones I didn't I donated. I looked SO much better in thin clothes. And it's a commitment. Six years and no regrets.
  • Littlerobystar
    Littlerobystar Posts: 14 Member
    I have sadly a lot of smaller dresses that I used to buy for "when I will be slim". Well I grew fatter and fatter from a size 16 to 22 no 18/20 UK size. So I am selling all small dresses on EBAY. When I will have lost 25 kgs, I will buy some new clothes but for now I am not going to keep those dresses in my wardrobe. With larger clothes I bring them to charity tho.
  • jackiedruga
    jackiedruga Posts: 18 Member
    I have given my nicer clothes to my daughter, but my graphic tees, I kept. Plus, there's one pair of jeans, that are so worn and comfortable, now exceptionally big, and I love to wear them. I love baggy clothes and when I had the weight, nothing was ever baggy. I just tighten the belt. Although my son keeps yelling at me to get a new belt because too much of the belt is dangling down because I have to pull it in so far.
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
    I passed on some to my sister in law, who is starting her weight loss from the same size I was, and the rest I donated to a certain size. The clothes that are 1-2 sizes up from where I am now, I am keeping. I tend to have large weight fluctuations. And while I don't plan on that ever happening again, I would rather not have to buy larger clothes if it does.
    I did keep most of my smaller clothes, which was super helpful when I lost all the weight.
  • LeGypsyRov
    LeGypsyRov Posts: 36 Member
    Most I send to my SIL who is larger than I. I do keep one pair of jeans that are too large, and my large t-shirts and sweatshirts. Mostly I tend to wear either workout clothes or palazzo/yoga pants which can go a few sizes. My dresses tend to be loose and flowing by choice.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Hey @teresamwhite do you happen to know if most nursing homes take items, or are you allowed because you work there? I love that idea and want to do the same.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    I went from a 10 to a zero. I let family members and friends go through all of my 8-10 clothes. Some items just have sentimental value, idk why. I still have a couple bags left that no one has "claimed". I just keep them in case my mom loses more weight and can't afford new clothes, or perhaps I gain weight later in life for some reason. It's not hurting me to keep them in storage. I have had to buy a few things up a size (2) since gaining a little and lifting. It's weird that I hardly bought any clothes on the way down because I lost weight so fast. I literally bought one outfit in a size 4-6 before needing to shop for 2s and then 0s.
  • hroderick
    hroderick Posts: 756 Member
    Mine are all donated because I'll never wear them again
  • Evelyn_Gorfram
    Evelyn_Gorfram Posts: 706 Member
    SueSueDio wrote: »
    Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »
    musicfan68 wrote: »
    Howard_M_Burgerz wrote: »
    hah! I've been wondering this myself. Do people keep their clothes that no longer fit just in case?

    Just in case what? I think having that mindset is going to set you up to regain all the weight back. Get rid of everything and it is great motivation to stay at your new lower weight so you don't have to buy a bigger wardrobe again.

    Yeah of course you're right. I never heard of anyone gaining back weight after dieting... rb3y9b9l9pja.jpg


    Well, yeah, it happens. But having nothing that fits you then leaves you with the choice to spend money you may not have on new (or second-hand) larger clothes, or reining in your eating habits and losing the weight again. It might be the difference between only gaining a few pounds before you realise you need to do something, or gaining back the entire 50/80/100/whatever pounds you lost.

    I view it in the same kind of way as I did my emigration to a new country. A lot of people keep their homes in their old country "just in case". It gives them something to fall back on if things don't work out. Guess how many of them don't settle well in the new place and give up easily because they know they have a house waiting for them "back home"? (That's also the reason I never referred to the UK as "back home" after I moved away. It ceased to be "home" the moment I got on that plane.)
    Wow. You are what I call - and it is a gender-neutral term of genuine respect - a serious tough guy.

  • Evelyn_Gorfram
    Evelyn_Gorfram Posts: 706 Member
    I'm just starting a long weight-loss journey, and was/sort of still am so obese that most of my clothes are pretty baggy anyway ("body-con" in a 28W is not something anybody needs to see me in). I went through a few weeks ago and sorted out all of my too-big clothes. I'm keeping the nicer coats and sweaters until spring: they're too much of an investment to replace as long as they're still wearable, if a bit loose. And there are some gardening/messy-work clothes I'm hanging onto, and a couple "yep, this is how big I was" items. Everything else that was too big for me went, except -
    - my small trove of really nice linen hot-weather clothing. It took me a while to accumulate those pieces, and I couldn't bear the idea of just letting them go. But this thread is giving me the courage and inspiration I may need to finally give them the old heave-ho.
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    Wow. You are what I call - and it is a gender-neutral term of genuine respect - a serious tough guy.

    I have to admit, I'm not completely sure what you mean by that! :) I certainly wasn't unemotional about the whole thing (it was an extremely emotional experience, especially once I had to start getting rid of things in preparation for the move... I spent many days in tears!), and it's not like I've never missed anything or any people from the UK. I just felt that, to have the best chance of settling in a new country, it was important to see that country as "home" as soon as we landed rather than dwelling on what we left behind.

    In the same way, to have the best chance at maintaining my lower weight I need to see this new me as "normal me" now rather than thinking about the bigger person I used to be. And that's very difficult at times, because I often feel fat even though I'm several sizes smaller than when I was obese!

    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    Everything else that was too big for me went, except -
    - my small trove of really nice linen hot-weather clothing. It took me a while to accumulate those pieces, and I couldn't bear the idea of just letting them go. But this thread is giving me the courage and inspiration I may need to finally give them the old heave-ho.

    Would you be able to have any of your favourite things altered to fit? I guess it might become expensive if there were a lot of items, but it might be worth looking into if you really love them?
  • Evelyn_Gorfram
    Evelyn_Gorfram Posts: 706 Member
    edited October 2018
    SueSueDio wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    Wow. You are what I call - and it is a gender-neutral term of genuine respect - a serious tough guy.

    I have to admit, I'm not completely sure what you mean by that! :) I certainly wasn't unemotional about the whole thing (it was an extremely emotional experience, especially once I had to start getting rid of things in preparation for the move... I spent many days in tears!), and it's not like I've never missed anything or any people from the UK. I just felt that, to have the best chance of settling in a new country, it was important to see that country as "home" as soon as we landed rather than dwelling on what we left behind.
    I just meant that, in those many moments when you were carrying through the choice to leave - putting your house up for sale, quitting your job, stepping onto the airplane, etc. - it would take an awful of resolution bravery and "true grit" to put pen to paper and make your hand sign the relevant document, or to put foot to cabin deck and then let them close the cabin door. To be able to make yourself do that - to grasp the metaphorical nettle so firmly - takes a "toughness" that I respect and admire.
    SueSueDio wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    Everything else that was too big for me went, except -
    - my small trove of really nice linen hot-weather clothing. It took me a while to accumulate those pieces, and I couldn't bear the idea of just letting them go. But this thread is giving me the courage and inspiration I may need to finally give them the old heave-ho.

    Would you be able to have any of your favourite* things altered to fit? I guess it might become expensive if there were a lot of items, but it might be worth looking into if you really love them?
    Thanks; but, sadly, I don't shop so high on the hog that the cost of alterations wouldn't exceed what the items cost new. I bought them all in thrift shops and second-hand; so it's the "shop-equity," as it were, that I'm reluctant to let go of. I've kept those that I can alter myself, by taking in the waistband of a full skirt or something, but the trousers and structured shirts need more skilled alteration than I can do myself or justify paying someone else for.

    (*ETA: I'm glad to see that you brought plenty of extra 'o's with you for words like "favourite." Spelling would be so boring if we all did it the same. ;) )

  • Bobarchibald
    Bobarchibald Posts: 1 Member
    sunshine84841 wrote: »
    Keep or donate? If you are keeping them, why?

    Put a simle and fell the pride and get ride of them. Keep an arta I held on to some pants
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    Thanks; but, sadly, I don't shop so high on the hog that the cost of alterations wouldn't exceed what the items cost new. I bought them all in thrift shops and second-hand; so it's the "shop-equity," as it were, that I'm reluctant to let go of. I've kept those that I can alter myself, by taking in the waistband of a full skirt or something, but the trousers and structured shirts need more skilled alteration than I can do myself or justify paying someone else for.

    "Trousers" - not "pants"? ;) I think there are videos on YouTube explaining how to do alterations if you were up for having a go, and I believe it was @Madwife2009 who posted some information a long while back on how to figure out how much to take them in. (I have to admit I never followed said excellent advice because I still don't own a sewing machine and didn't want to tackle it by hand!)

    (*ETA: I'm glad to see that you brought plenty of extra 'o's with you for words like "favourite." Spelling would be so boring if we all did it the same. ;) )

    I refused to leave my spelling and pronunciations behind! :tongue: (And thank you for the kind words too. :) )
  • reneew62
    reneew62 Posts: 13 Member
    I gave everything away except some sweatshirts. When I finally decided to lose the 100lbs AGAIN I swear I had macy's in my closet clothes from size 10-26. I have decided I am NOT gaining it back again and I am NOT buying new clothes so one of my motivators is if my skinny jeans get tight I have to reduce calories and lose whether that be 1 lb or 5 I am never just putting on those bigger pants and saying tomorrow.
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