Forget food funeral! I had a clothes funeral :)

[Kami63 215]

I am having surgery Tuesday and was packing. I looked at my closet today and saw all of the clothes that are already falling off me bc of my weightloss thus far. I have lost 45 pounds over the last year or so. My coworkers were telling me Friday that I need new clothes (great feeling) Anyway, I gathered up all of my expensive now oversized work clothes to give to my sister. She is bigger but on her way down hopefully as well I couldn't believe how many clothes I could get rid of!

Of course I am going to milk the ones that are just a little big so I get my money out of them lol.

Any others have a clothes funeral? It s really liberating!!!

[TES 858]

congrats! Funny you should bring this up. I was just thinking today about the best thing to do with my old clothes. I could of course give them to charity, but wondering the best place to take them. Would like to get receipts as a tax write-off if possible (budget is tight right now). Thinking of Dress for Success. Could also go the consignment route, but that seems like a bit of a hassle? I think they donate anything that doesn't sell to charity if you don't come pick it up, which is what I would do. I have a lot of really nice business clothes and I just want to make sure that someone who can really use them gets them.

[SerendipityHappens 1,594]

GREAT JOB! And perfect timing for your sister to be able to have a wardrobe for her to shrink into. I JUST got rid of my first batch of clothes.. I'm a 22 going into a 20 and some of the clothes I got rid of were 28s and I was STILL WEARING THEM up until last week. I had a hard time parting with them because they were expensive and I liked them.. and more importantly I have only ONE pair of size 22 pants in my wardrobe.... I've found several size 20s at the thrift store but I'm not quite there yet so I'll be going the next month or so with ONE pair of jeans and I guess the rest of the time I'll be wearing stretch pants!

I also have two shirts in size 18/20 that bought when I was a size 24 and they fit me now perfectly so I'm wearing them ALL THE TIME to get all my wear out of them. Ordinarily I don't wear my favorite clothes a lot because I don't want to wear them out but now I totally want to get all the wear I can out of them!

[Kami63 215]

congrats! Funny you should bring this up. I was just thinking today about the best thing to do with my old clothes. I could of course give them to charity, but wondering the best place to take them. Would like to get receipts as a tax write-off if possible (budget is tight right now). Thinking of Dress for Success. Could also go the consignment route, but that seems like a bit of a hassle? I think they donate anything that doesn't sell to charity if you don't come pick it up, which is what I would do. I have a lot of really nice business clothes and I just want to make sure that someone who can really use them gets them.

Yeah dress for success would be good. If I didn't have my sister to give them to, I might take them to a WLS clothes swap. At first I was thinking that there would be no one bigger than me at one of thos then I realized hello! There are people starting from all sizes. I think it is a self esteem thing. Still hard to believe. Started at a tight 28...

[takingbackcontrol 137]

Try donating to the women's domestic assault shelter. Their goal is to help theses women become self sufficient and get a job-- they love to receive nice business clothes that will work on interviews... Shoes too!

[marfar7 1,528]

congrats! Funny you should bring this up. I was just thinking today about the best thing to do with my old clothes. I could of course give them to charity, but wondering the best place to take them. Would like to get receipts as a tax write-off if possible (budget is tight right now). Thinking of Dress for Success. Could also go the consignment route, but that seems like a bit of a hassle? I think they donate anything that doesn't sell to charity if you don't come pick it up, which is what I would do. I have a lot of really nice business clothes and I just want to make sure that someone who can really use them gets them.

It's also nice to give them (or sell for really cheap) to someone on this site. I gave away boxes and boxes of clothing for shipping only to people on lapbandtalk.com. They could truly use them and appreciated them (much more than overpriced Goodwill, who's owner makes over a billion $ a yr). I just went to UPS and got a price for shipping and the people either gave their credit card info straight to UPS or paypal-ed me.

I wish there were people willing to give their size 6 and 8's away! Not too many people here that can do that, however.

There's a clothing exchange forum on this board. Check it out!