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Well clothes are tools right? being a Scotch Yankee I have to get the most wear I can out of anything before throwing it away. This means that a lot of my pants and shirts and sweatshirts have holes in them. I try to keep them in categories of Sunday go to church nice, casual nice, mediocre and OK to go to town in, and just plain old, torn worn but still suitable for getting dirty a few more times. The problem is when I have to shift from say category two over to cat five work but don't want to take the time to change, and something usually takes a beating. Or the opposite where I am in dirty holey clothes and I need to go to town. My wife says I need to throw the rags out and get new ones. How much wear do you get?
 
I wear mine till I am to embarrased to work at home in them. As far as going to town, it just depends on where you're going. If you're going to the implement store, feed store or such, your regular work clothes is okay. I don't think they expect to see you in anything special. Of course they don't want to see you looking like you just got out of manure pit either. Basically, I say just dress appropriately for the situation. Like a fellow I saw at a restaurant one time when we went for supper after work, not dirty, but not the best. I said you always see someone you know when you don't dress up. His response was, your fine, they took your money didn't they.
 
I wear mine ALONG time. Most are used when I get them. Get many at yard sales and Goodwill.
I threw away several pants that ripped all up. I should of tried selling them to the young punks that buy them NEW like that ! LOL
 
my brother used to write down the date when he bought socks,underwear pants etc. he could tell you what clothes and things were the best value as far as longest wear/cost etc.I never was that picky.I generally ruin mine from working on some greasy nasty piece of equipment long before they are worn out,and my wife tosses them.
 
Till my wife throws them out.. Course then I dig them out.. Usually cloths just get comfy when their ready for the burning barral..I have a pear of insulated coveralls that I have duct tape around the legs in places to hold them together. Use them now mainly for when its cold and Im getting really greesy.
 
I buy the cheaper rustler and faded glory jeans... cheap sweatshirts,,, not shy about checking out the thrift shops either... I like to wear "somewhat respectable" but inexpensive clothes that don't leave me sad if I get them dirty or greasy..They go from "new dressy" to "everyday work" to "shop" or "painter" to a "slimer costume" to "floor mop" to the "dumpster" Sometimes the transition is fairly rapid. Anything with a rip or hole goes straight to "shop" as long as it is safe to wear around machinery.. I have coveralls, but I seldom wear them.. I would rather wear an extra layer of oversized thrift store jeans and sweat shirt over my regular clothes.. Dawn dishwashing detergent, combined with tide ultra strength do a respectable job on cleaning my messy clothes, But the "slimer costumes" and the greased up thrift store extra layers usually go straight to "floor mop" or "grease rag" duty..

I dropped off a vanload of donations at a thrift store a while back.. They had a large, well arranged clothing section; so I broused through it and found three pair of fairly new, name brand jeans my size.. I went to pay and the gal asked for five bucks.... Ya, but I am getting all three for only five bucks?? The gal replied "yep" and pointed to a sign that stated a "five buck a bag sale" All the clothes you could stuff in a shopping bag for only five bucks..

Anything that is a little raggy ends up on their free table..

Just noticed that I am wearing a freebee sweatshirt.. I better get to work, as I am dressed in "shop" clothes..
 
I've got some tee shirts that I've had since back in '93 that are finally getting way too holey to wear and I've started retiring and replacing them. Pant's wise I've got about a dozen pair of uniform work pants that I rotate through. Most are still in great shape after about 5 years of use except for the knees, which have started getting a bit thin and developing some holes. The fix I've found for that are the iron on patches that match the blue color of the pants. Cut them to where there are no corners and put one to the inside, and one on the outside, and the pants are as good as new. The only thing is after putting the patches on you have to dry them at a meduim heat or the patches want to come back off in the dryer.
 
as much as SHMBO allows. then I use them as shop rags. Embarassed the wife the other day with my overalls that have the hole in the seat. Can't seem to find them. Guess I misplaced them.
 
An old acquaintance who owes me money runs a store where they sell Carhartt work clothes. Until the balance of his $7500 debt is used up, I'm quite nattily dressed on my way out the door to go to work, thank you very much. I figure that's the only way I'll ever get my money back, so why not, huh?

Once that debt expires, I'll go back to looking like I live under the overpass. ;)
 
I use mine till they are in rough shape. Then cut them up for rags and burn them when they get dirty. The only thing is that about the time you get rid of them they are very comfortable.
 
Reminds me of a fellow I knew, named "Rudy", who was a salesman for floor care products.

One summer, he was helping refinish the gym floor in the high school in a nearby Swedish community. He got himself pretty messed up during the course of the morning, then went to a fairly nice restaurant for lunch.

While he was sitting at the counter eating, two locals came in and sat down. The locals began making derogatory comments about him in Swedish, like, "Why would a bum like that come into this nice place?, etc.", assuming he couldn't understand them.

Rudy played it cool, and when there was a break in the conversation asked them to pass the salt--in Swedish. He said the looks on their faces was priceless!
 
I've got pretty much the same 3 categories- nice enough for company, OK to go to town, and working at home only. Found that I spent all my time changing over the suspenders, so now I have 3 pairs of suspenders, one on the current candidate from each category.

Had a Cat 1 pair, almost brand new, and somehow got into battery acid. Heartbreaking, esp. for someone as cheap as me.
 
I wear them till they disappear.
I wear through my clothes very quickly. I tried the fire hose line that Duluth sells and wore through the pants (4 pair) in the thigh area in about a year. I'm going to send the pants back and see if I get a credit on buying 4 more pair.The catalog says lifetime warranty. I try to wear my chainsaw chaps as much as possible to minimize the damage to my clothes.

My wife and daughter police what I wear when I go out with them or meet up in a public place. Sawmills and old equipment does not equal pretty clothes.
I picked up an old Singer machine years back to make repairs to my clothes and gloves years ago. That helps out.
 
I'm in the 3 catagory class.
Nice jeans or slacks for go to meetin's
Decent pairs to do my carpentry work in though they do wear out pretty fast.
Lastly some raggedy old things for working on a greasy old tractor.
I buy all my work clothes from the thrift store.
Have been for 25+ years.
Pair of nice Levi brand jeans run $8-$9 bucks there. 2nd Wednesday of the month is 50% off sale so I bought 6 or 8 pairs of jeans and a couple of flannel shirts.
I bought the the mechanic pants in the picture then. Eddie Bauer brand. I'll bet the original owner paid more than the $4.50 that I did.

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They go from very good to good to work apparel.Just liked you
described your wear pattern.Must be something in the New England
air.The last great use is they are cut up for shop rags.

Vito
 
Mine are so bad the charities won't take them. I say if they are good enough for me, they should be good enough for needy people. I was lucky working for GM got clothes replaced often. Retired 10 years. Still got some left. I have good category. I have working category. Some in between. Waste not want not. I grew up with stuff from Salvation Army. People that look at your dress code, usually want your money anyhow and my money is clean and green. Clothes need to be CLEAN and anybody should accept that. Dave at 68
 
Have to get after wife, she will throw away fav stuff, Tell her they can be cut into shorts and shirts she knows are good rags which she is good at the shirts now.
 
mine start out new/good.. then to casual.. then to home / play.. then to service tractor/work on farm.. then to rags.

soundguy
 
I buy my own clothes, especially at Goodwill, but my wife buys clothes for me, too. Once, a few years ago, she asked me if I'd like for her to buy me some shirts because the ones she always saw me wearing were looking pretty ratty. I told her I thought I had plenty of shirts, I just never had much opportunity to wear a new one. Out of curiosity I started counting the new shirts I had on the shelf above the closet rack, in dresser drawers, and in the big storage drawer under my closet. It turned out that I had more than 40 unworn shirts. I told her I'd try to start dressing a little better since it seemed like I had the wherewithal to do so. But nothing actually changed. Women love new clothes, and guys like familiar clothes---that's the way it seems to me.

One thing I've figured out is that if you want to rotate your clothes so that they will wear out more or less evenly, you have to always choose the ones that are in the best shape. It doesn't work if you choose the ones that are in the worst shape. It took me about 40 years to see the problem---and I still can't quite make myself do it.

Stan
 
My friends wife will stick her finger in a hole in her hubbie's shirt and rip it plumb off of him. I told her to never start sticking her fingers in the holes of my clothes - she'd have me buck nekid if she did.

My wife leaves my old clothes alone, but not without commenting about them. I tell her that the cows wouldn't recognise me if I upgraded my apparel, and to prove my point, after prostate surgery this summer, I wore a bathrobe one day when I went outside for a hobble. The cows took one look at me, spooked, and the whole herd ran to the other end of the pasture. After I hollered at them, they recognised me and came to investigate, but they were still sceptical. They'd never seen me in a "dress".

I'd rather wear old raggedy clothes around the place. Then I'm free to dive into anything without worrying about a little grease or what have you.

I can stand an old work coat with holes all over it, but when the pockets start tearing off, I'm done with it. Just burned one in the furnace the other day.
 

I have been ware'n rentals for 40 years,,, I am not comfortable in any other ware,,, I am miserable in anything else and will ware my rentals anywhere. It would be rare to seen me wearing anything else...

I can wrench on almost anything all day long and not get a drop of oil/grease on me but when I paint it gets all over me....
 
PJH,

Did you have TURP surgery by any chance? I need to schedule that for around the end of March. If that's what you had, would you mind if I asked you a few questions about it?

Stan
 
Stan - I had a radical prostatectomy. PSA levels had slowly climbed past the dreaded 4.0 level. Had it removed, open cut method, on Aug 29. Fully recovered now, and glad I had it done. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. I've learned that it affects everyone a little differently. I would be glad to answer anyone's questions based on my experience, but I think the TURP procedure is probably something that would not parallel with what I had done. Nevertheless - let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them.

Best wishes,
Paul
 
Thanks Paul, that's very generous of you. I think you're right that the procedures are too different. My questions are specific to the kind of surgery I have to have. It was a long shot in any case.

I'm glad that yours went so well and that you're fully recovered now. It's pretty amazing, isn't it? This O.R. stuff used to kill people regularly, and not so long ago. My wife's father died during gall bladder surgery in 1955. Forty years later my wife had that surgery and she was out of the hospital the same afternoon. They did it through an incision less than an inch long. Some things do improve.

Stan
 
Holes in pants can be trouble.Read about a fellow who was splitting kindling and cut off his thumb when the end of the axe got caught in a hole in his pant leg.The holes always catch on something that can trip you up.Welding will get you burnt, sparks always find the holes.I use iron on patches to get more use out of my overalls.I wish I could find double knee pants now.Double knee Carhartts will always wear a hole just above the double layer.
 
You're right Stan - they have it all figured out now. One suggestion I can give you that is universal - pick a surgeon who has a load of experience. I think they say - 200 surgeries under the belt is considered adequate (who submits to the first 200?), and the big hospitals can easily provide a surgeon with that type of history. The guy who worked on me does 200 per year, and he's been at it for a long time.

Another suggestion - if you are required to have a prostate biopsy - be aware that they can be done while you are under anesthetic. It is a very unpleasant experience if you are awake during a prostate biopsy.

I wish you the best,
Paul
 
Just remember you can wear your clothes until they get ragged, splattered with paint, holes in the knees, then you will be in fashion. It cheaper than buying new worn out clothes.
 
I have t-shirts, jeans, and sweat shirts that I am wearing in photos taken 15 years ago. I don't throw it out until it rips when I put it on.
Socks are a different story - ONE little hole, and they get cut for rags, and I get another pair. Buy 10 pair a year.

My neighbor gave me a dozen printed t-shirts 6 years ago. His were cut up for rags after about 6 months - and still looked new. I still have 8 of mine - the others got too ripped up to wear.
 
(quoted from post at 23:05:49 02/11/12) I have t-shirts, jeans, and sweat shirts that I am wearing in photos taken 15 years ago. I don't throw it out until it rips when I put it on.
Socks are a different story - ONE little hole, and they get cut for rags, and I get another pair. Buy 10 pair a year.

My neighbor gave me a dozen printed t-shirts 6 years ago. His were cut up for rags after about 6 months - and still looked new. I still have 8 of mine - the others got too ripped up to wear.
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ell, it all depends, Bubba. My sittin on my arse watching tv/playin on the 'puter clothes last a lot longer than my welding clothes. :roll:
 
My mom still patches my work jeans when they get holey, though that's ussualy from haying for them so it just one of those things. I can get a good 2 years or better out of a pair of cheap jeans from Fleet Farm.

Mom also makes rag rugs on a loom, so when people donate to her she'll have me go through it first. Got a few good pairs of jeans that way, including the wranglers I'm in now. Nothing wrong with them, just showing a little fuzz on the legs. Still will wear a while before breaking through.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
A lot of mine are holy...not holey. Some of them have multiple patches, I'm not afraid to wear them to town on a parts run. I also have nice clothes that I wear to town if we go out to eat or for Sunday wear. When they get a little faded and worn they become work clothes and the ratty stuff gets retired.
 
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