What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?
I have several closets full of dresses and more dresses. A closet full of shoes and more shoes. A closet maxed out in blouses, shirts, and jeans. And, many of these are older than a decade. I just can’t follow that rule that one should get rid of clothes one hasn’t worn in the past two years.
Look, some clothes have sentimental value. Others remind oneself of how we used to be. Other clothes are aspirational.
As such, loaded with a myriad of reasons for why to keep articles of clothing, I keep transporting beyween all my moves boxes upon boxes of my clothes, as well as my son’s. I want there to be a legacy for him and his future family.
Categories: Fashion, identity, mental health, Psychology, society, writing prompt
psychologistmimi 
You don’t have to get rid of stuff that still gives you pleasure.
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As the beneficiary of “legacies” from multiple generations of family, I can say that dealing with all the stuff is a life task in itself. I wish my parents had made more effort to get rid of things that crowded every nook and cranny.
I have old clothes, too, with those I wear until I wear them out, like 30-year-old hospital scrubs, that I’ve re-purposed as yard clothes, that I’ve patched and repaired so many times they are rotten, almost beyond repair.
Making decisions about what to do with the profusion of stuff breeds resentment, not gratitude. Some empty space is sometimes the most valuable inheritance.
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Oh Dear Lord Dear Miriam in my Public Dance Years now Totaling Close to
9 Years And 9 Months Come May 26, All 18,277 Miles i Went Through a New
Pair of Over One Hundred Dollar Nike Shox Athletic Shoes Every Three Months Yet i Didn’t throw Them
Away They Were
Sort of Metrics of
How Much Further
From the Past i Might
Continue to Travel in Public Dance
Particularly When i Got to 40 Months
Oh the Synchronicity as on that Very Day
my Nike GPS Watch Recorded 6,666 Miles
(Still Have the Photographic Evidence to Prove it)
Which Meant An Average of 166.66 Miles A Month
For 40 Months True i Am A Numbers Dude Before Words too hehe
Anyway
When i Rose
Up to 22 Pairs of
Various Colors and Newer
Styles of Nike Athletic Shox Shoes
my Wife was Growing Rather Impatient
Per the Pile of Shoes Gathering in my Home
Gym Room So i Came up With A Solution i Don’t Know
if it Would Work For You i Gathered All the Shoes Together
And Even Some Old Clothes That Reminded me of the Old
Hell Years of Work Uniform Shirts With Symbols of the
Military Station i Worked So i Spread Them out Even
my Old Long Pants i No Longer Fit into As the
Muscles of my Buttocks Were No Longer
Flat Like Before Dance as my Wife
Noted to me After that Fact
With A More Rounded
Rear AS Such
True i Made A Rather
Decorative Display on the
Floor Took Some Artful Pics
And i Do Believe They Are Somewhere
Amongst 130,000 Plus Photos and 11.7 MiLLioN
Words in the 9 Years and 9 Months of my EPiC Longest
Long Form Poem “SonG of mY SoUL” And Honestly it’s Really
No Different Than Them Being in my Closet That’s Enough
i Never Even Think of Looking For them again And Honestly
It’s Like All the Words Highly Unlikely i’ll Ever Visit them
Again and Besides Who Would Wanna Go Back When There
Are More Memories to Create in Even More Creative Ways
Than the Past Indeed i Write a Novel Sized EPiC Long Form
Poem Twice A Month Around 60,000 Words Each Every Month
Yes i Used to Go Back to Proof Read them When Finished
Yet Now the Present Writing Singing Creatively is Just
too Precious to Waste my Hours Minutes
And Seconds of Precious Life Left to
Go Back the Best Advice of
All i Ever Gave myself
to Follow Through
is Write A New Story
Every New Move Holy
Dance Every Word Sacred
Song Make this One Present
Gift A Breath of Inhaling Peace
ExhalinG LoVE Real Heaven STiLL
Ascending Transcending Newly Now
FLoWinG As Days Goes By the Seconds The Hours
The Years The Eternal Now New is Still Evolving For Real
And Finally Eternally Now It’s All Naked Enough Whole Complete…
Yes Other Than That my Last Pair of Athletic Shoes Lasted 11 Months
It’s the Butcher’s Blade of ‘Wu Wei’ Where The Knife Glides Through
The Meat in Effortless Ease Less Dulling of the Blade Same Applies
(So Much Like When You Master A Vehicle For EV Hybrid Mode)
to Soles of
Shoes Indeed
mY FRiEnD
Same Applies
To Souls of Human
Eternally FRiEnDS Newly Now
With Gravity Balancing For All We Do
Ascending Transcending into ‘Electronic
Vehicle’ Mode The Need For the Adrenaline of Gas
Practically Disappears into A Cloud As We Descend
God Yes Above
Becomes Below
Dear Lord You Are
Amazing Dear Miriam
You Just Inspired A Story
For How Humans Go New to
Heaven Now And Staycation Hehe…
Honorable Mention Goes to Nike And Skechers (Newer Shoes) And
Honda And Yes Of Course my Lovely Justifiably ‘Nagging’ Wife HAha..:)
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I am dealing with things in my closet, trying to clear it out, down to what I actually wear and/or use. So many clothes of various sizes as I’ve gone thru a couple of transformations over the last 20 years. I’m currently wearing the larger sizes as my grief tends to have me eating comfort foods. I still have a couple of things of my late brother’s, a shirt I have photos of him wearing, and his beat up measuring tape from work. I also have my late father’s ratty ofd bathrobe that he wore so often when at home. Now I’ve kept a pile of my late son’s clothes, etc and need to make room for it in the closet as well. Many things have been taken to the thrift store to donate, still purposeful for someone. Lots of mixed feelings and decisions I really don’t want to make, but the clutter is getting to me, so it has to be done.
I guess I have in mind that someone (I don’t know who now) will have to go thru my things one day, and I want to make it easier for them. Lots of emotions flooding up as I go. Sending you good thoughts.
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Yes I have so many old clothes and donated these to welfare people. Thanks Anita
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