Jaycey
Post-Menopausal Maniac!
Yes, I started this yesterday. I'd already got a charity shop box going, but it wasn't full so I decided to fill it! I started off being choosy (thinking, "ooh, I like that, I can alter it to fit") but you really can't be - or shouldn't be. I ended up looking at everything sized 18-20 (or even bigger in some cases ) and just being hard with myself and chucking out the lot.
THEN ... I sat down and had a good cry. :cry: Stupid isn't it? (The OH thought I was barmy! He said, "it's only clothes!" which did bring me down to earth.) I felt like a tortoise who'd just lost its shell. I'd spent so many years hiding behind those big clothes, thinking that because the clothes were nice then I would look nice in them. But all they were really doing was protecting me from the world! :sigh:
So there I was, newly naked (I nearly was - I was in my underwear, from trying things on) and needing a new 'shell'! This might sound really OTT, but it was a bit like a rebirth. I've GOT to go shopping now (virtually nothing left!) and I've got to learn how to dress the new me (the one with the waist!) and kind of start all over again. (At my age - jeez!) Fun and scarey all at the same time.....
Sorry if this sounds like something I should be trotting out in front of a therapist instead of you lot, but I just wanted to know if anyone else found their clothes-dumping a kind of tragi-comedy? You thought it was going to be amazing and it ended up kicking you up the bum? Please tell me I'm not alone!!
THEN ... I sat down and had a good cry. :cry: Stupid isn't it? (The OH thought I was barmy! He said, "it's only clothes!" which did bring me down to earth.) I felt like a tortoise who'd just lost its shell. I'd spent so many years hiding behind those big clothes, thinking that because the clothes were nice then I would look nice in them. But all they were really doing was protecting me from the world! :sigh:
So there I was, newly naked (I nearly was - I was in my underwear, from trying things on) and needing a new 'shell'! This might sound really OTT, but it was a bit like a rebirth. I've GOT to go shopping now (virtually nothing left!) and I've got to learn how to dress the new me (the one with the waist!) and kind of start all over again. (At my age - jeez!) Fun and scarey all at the same time.....
Sorry if this sounds like something I should be trotting out in front of a therapist instead of you lot, but I just wanted to know if anyone else found their clothes-dumping a kind of tragi-comedy? You thought it was going to be amazing and it ended up kicking you up the bum? Please tell me I'm not alone!!