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On T-Shirts
We all have too many T-shirts. Yes, you too. Admitting the problem is the first step in the solution.
So since clearing out little-opened drawers was so useful last weekend, this week's task was going through the T-shirts. Goal: To halve the amount that I own, or at least put them into more useful circulation.
In my case, there were two bulging drawers, one for t-shirts that I can wear anywhere, and one for fannish T-shirts. I was very successful in halving the "regular" shirt count, and I practically emptied the fannish drawer, although that was in part by reclassifing many of the contents. It emptied half... I mean they're being... look, I got rid of more than seven things, okay? It counts.
Da Rules:
1) Do I remember owning this shirt? If I pulled it out and went "I didn't remember owning this!" then out it went. If it's been buried that long, then I won't remember it enough to regret losing it.
2) Does it still fit well enough to be seen in public? (Remember last week's rant about getting rid of "I'll diet back into that" clothing.) No second chances - into the box.
3) Do I already have a lot of stuff with that theme? Short of Media*West, there's nowhere I go that I need more than two t-shirts with the same theme. For instance, three Shakespeare Festival shirts were at least one too many. Ditto shirts for old fandoms; even at Media*West I like a little variety.
4) Do I have *anywhere* wear it? ("To bed" and "Painting the house" counts) If not - out it goes.
End result: The fandom drawer is 2/3 empty. The "regular" drawer is only slightly less full, but that's because things like the mystery shirts were reclassified - there's no reason I can't wear the ReviewingtheEvidence.com polo to work, or the one with "It was a dark and stormy night" on it. They're not rude, crude, political, or offensive in any way.
Sleepwear is overflowing; in about a month or two I'll know which ones I'm pulling out all the time and which ones I'm avoiding and can purge accordingly. (And why *did* I have *three* of the Shaolin Hockey shirts in the first place?)
The Team Wench one, which bears the logo I designed, is far too tight. It has been set aside to be turned into a sofa pillow (an excellent second life for T-shirts and sweatshirts. You're not able to admire them inside the drawer, now are you?)
Based on the success of getting rid of books and briefcases at Media*West this year, I have started a box for next year. It takes fans to appreciate some of those - like the too-tight one that says "Hester Prynne deserved an A+!"
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So since clearing out little-opened drawers was so useful last weekend, this week's task was going through the T-shirts. Goal: To halve the amount that I own, or at least put them into more useful circulation.
In my case, there were two bulging drawers, one for t-shirts that I can wear anywhere, and one for fannish T-shirts. I was very successful in halving the "regular" shirt count, and I practically emptied the fannish drawer, although that was in part by reclassifing many of the contents. It emptied half... I mean they're being... look, I got rid of more than seven things, okay? It counts.
Da Rules:
1) Do I remember owning this shirt? If I pulled it out and went "I didn't remember owning this!" then out it went. If it's been buried that long, then I won't remember it enough to regret losing it.
2) Does it still fit well enough to be seen in public? (Remember last week's rant about getting rid of "I'll diet back into that" clothing.) No second chances - into the box.
3) Do I already have a lot of stuff with that theme? Short of Media*West, there's nowhere I go that I need more than two t-shirts with the same theme. For instance, three Shakespeare Festival shirts were at least one too many. Ditto shirts for old fandoms; even at Media*West I like a little variety.
4) Do I have *anywhere* wear it? ("To bed" and "Painting the house" counts) If not - out it goes.
End result: The fandom drawer is 2/3 empty. The "regular" drawer is only slightly less full, but that's because things like the mystery shirts were reclassified - there's no reason I can't wear the ReviewingtheEvidence.com polo to work, or the one with "It was a dark and stormy night" on it. They're not rude, crude, political, or offensive in any way.
Sleepwear is overflowing; in about a month or two I'll know which ones I'm pulling out all the time and which ones I'm avoiding and can purge accordingly. (And why *did* I have *three* of the Shaolin Hockey shirts in the first place?)
The Team Wench one, which bears the logo I designed, is far too tight. It has been set aside to be turned into a sofa pillow (an excellent second life for T-shirts and sweatshirts. You're not able to admire them inside the drawer, now are you?)
Based on the success of getting rid of books and briefcases at Media*West this year, I have started a box for next year. It takes fans to appreciate some of those - like the too-tight one that says "Hester Prynne deserved an A+!"
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Overall - and I still haven't tackled the morass that is the library - I think I've gotten rid of a sixth or fifth of my stuff. That's encouraging!
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RomanadvoratrelundarFred" that I got in time to wear at D*C.)And a few years back I had to clear the closet due to a broken hanger-pole and wound up sticking stuff into garbage bags and from there into a large box (had a computer monitor originally been packaged in it?) in the storage shed out back. I think I had to do another clear out a year or two back and stuck a bunch of shirts I couldn't bear to trash but didn't wear any more into it. A few months back Mom decided to go spelunking in my old T-shirts (with my permission) and now she wears quite a few of them. I really should nudge her about the T-shirt quilt thing, since I do have a lot I never get around to wearing but couldn't bring myself to toss entirely. A few sofa pillows wouldn't go amiss, either.
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I've got three Who shirts, two from cafepress - the logo of the new show, Tara's version of the Bad Wolf shirt - and one from a pseudo-club thing, a leftover "Member, Innuendo Squad" T. Major fandoms tend to get about 5-6 shirts out of me... I'm very tempted to pick up the one from cafepress that lists the name of every single companion from the show and the BF audios.
Oddly, the only Who shirt that I talked myself out of buying was one of the official ones, with a picture of Tennant.
This does, of course, leave wreckage at the other end of the fandom. I'm keeping one of the Buffys, one of the Beauty and the Beasts, two of the 10th Kingdoms, and everything else has been downgraded to "sleep."
I need to do the quilt thing. I have a lot of BatB shirts that are just works of art - handpainted Ts were quite the thing, this coinciding with the airbrushed art fad.
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And you could do a whole quilt of just BatB. I could theoretically get Mom to do one of some of my favorite shirts I no longer wear but couldn't make myself throw out, but I'd hate to have something I liked on my bed without having something else on top of it to protect it from muddy paws and spills and whatever, and that kind of defeats the purpose of having a quilt that's meant to be seen and appreciated.
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>And you could do a whole quilt of just BatB
Yes. Yes, I could. :> Since most of the shirts were spilled on when I wore them and they're all washable, I'm not too worried about anything that might happen to the quilt.
No, I lie - the cats like to claw a bit. That would be a problem.
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