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Do you keep separate clothes for house and garden chores?

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Fernbergien Sat 28-Jan-23 11:36:02

I have always kept old clothes for round the house and garden and good clothes for entertaining and going out. The problem is you can accumulate too many clothes. What do you do? I am trying to reduce stuff in general not only clothes.

paddyann54 Sat 28-Jan-23 14:59:45

I wear whatever I put on when I get up.If we go out for dinner I might change but like a previous poster I dont keep things "for good"
I never did with my children either ,they wore what they wanted to wear even if it was for playing in the muck,they grow out of things too fast to worry about making a mess of them.Enjoy your things while you can.

Callistemon21 Sat 28-Jan-23 15:04:20

I remember years ago reading a true story of a man whose wife complained that he always looked like a tramp when he was gardening, wearing ancient, disreputable clothes full of holes.

One day she looked and saw him up a ladder cutting the hedge at the front, dressed in his dinner suit and bow tie grin

Serendipity22 Sat 28-Jan-23 15:22:17

Hahaha old clothes ! What are they! Its funny this topic because only yesterday I got the notion to wash the porch, ofcourse what follows that notion is what to wear ? ... in my case it was my pyjamas because of everything i wore, it was my pyjamas that didn't matter if they got damaged.

So no i dont have any old clothes.

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Serendipity22 Sat 28-Jan-23 15:24:58

πŸ˜ƒ 😁 🀣 πŸ˜„ 😁
That's funny... up the ladder in his dinner suit and bow tie !!!!! Laugh 🀣 πŸ˜‚

Callistemon21 Sat 28-Jan-23 19:06:29

It was True!! πŸ˜‚

cornergran Sat 28-Jan-23 20:20:03

Not really. I do for decorating and then invariably spill not a drop. If I dare pick up a paintbrush while wearing anything tidy I am immediately covered in paint. I don’t wear older clothes for cleaning or the garden unless it’s particularly muddy out there. No wonder the washing machine is always on.

A friend always, but always changes before she goes out even to the shops and back again when she gets back home, no matter the time. To be truthful I can rarely tell the difference between her home and being out clothes. They all look fine to me.