Old T Shirts – just had 'The Conversation '……

I have drawers full of T shirts.

Old favourites that don’t fit or aren’t quite perfect, freebies, unwearable presents, misspelt knock-off band tatt bought outside gigs whilst pissed etc etc…….

But I only tend to wear 3.
The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.

They must go.
Banished to gardening.
Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don’t cut it in Burnley.
Who knew?

She was very nice about it and has offered to buy replacements, but I’ve hidden them in the garage ’till the new ones arrive, just in case.

I’m trialling Bananman, Pele/Moore and Grumpy (the dwaff) as replacements.

First the cat died, now this 😐

Ha I feel your sorrow. I had this chat 3 wks ago

I love purging my wardrobe and giving stuff to charity shops, find it very therapeutic. The wife, on the other hand, is a professional hoarder!

Is it Burnley Fashion Week already?

It comes around quicker every year.

First the cat died, now this.

Three quarter length trousers this season?

Don’t stand for it. I’m still wearing the old skool BT one I got as a freebie back in 98 and it will take a lot to part me from the 2000 JT one I won at a paintball competition.

Is she replacing like for like?

My son’s teacher got very excited about the tatty star-wars t-shirt I was wearing this morning. Something about men not growing up… 😕 😀

Holes in the armpits are my threshold for consigning them to bike rags. Until then – fine to wear anywhere.

the chat comes from within for me.. a couple are getting consigned to bike washing / trainer duties. my first 10 Under the Ben t-shirt from 2007 (I think I went in 2006 too but didn’t get a T). and my SSWC 2007 looks to be about done too 🙁

Crikey, me too. My collection is under scrutiny at present. Mind you 10 Triumph t shirts is probably a bit over the top …..

ahh yes..

I know this chat
i managed to salvage a few by saying that I bought them to commemorate the kid’s birthdays and suchlike

Yeah, she’s replacing like with like.
She actually bought me the Che one, £2.50 from Affleck’s.
Can’t complain really.

I still miss the Danger Mouse T shirt I wore throughout most of the 90’s.

I became reacquainted with people who’d married and had kids since we first met because of that shirt.

All things must pass…

I’ve still got the Haircut 100 t shirt I bought in 1981

But I only tend to wear 3.

Really? Just 3 d different tees out of all that choice?

Is that weird, or just me?

I keep getting “the chat” about all my shit that clogs up the entire house. Then point out it’s the masses of large toys she’s insisted on buying for the kids, and her stuff that she never uses, and none of my stuff is in the places which are stuffed full of crap. Always goes down well.

Don’t throw them. I’ve used lots of old t-shirts and ill fitting pants too come to think of it, as rags for cleaning bikes and other messy things with.

I tend to do this with poorly designed/crap fabric race t-shirts from when I was running.

Really? Just 3 d different tees out of all that choice?

*feels ashamed*
*puts hand up*
I do that too… 😳

Well, I’ve got a nice embroidered Fonzy number I wear for weddings and funerals.

Some of the presents get an airing depending on which niece/stepdaughter/in law is imminent.

It’s only T shirts.
Currently have 8 pairs of Vans on the go and about half a dozen pairs of shorts,, so I’m OK with choice.

Glad I’m not alone.
🙂

I’ve still got the Haircut 100 t shirt I bought in 1981

I’ve still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs. Not had a response to the ransom note and the fecker is costing me a fortune in biscuits and fruit shoots.

Don’t do it!! I cleared out a ton of t-shirts several years ago & now regret it…..

Have got quite a few that I still wear and most importantly still fit

Notable mentions to 80s Tangerine Dream Tour, quite a few Karrimor (when they were Karrimor), Bob Heath Visors and Champion

She’ll go before they do

I’ve still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs

Not having such a fantastic day today, are you Nick?

He’s having a great time stuffing his face with biscuits.

I’m currently wearing a tee from the Newnham 90 8 years ago. It’s lasted well, not quite as bright as it once was..

Point her to the recent police stuff on controlling behaviour 😀

Apparantly, crusty armpits & pinhole burns just don’t cut it in Burnley.

Do you live in a different Burnley to me? I can do you a nice line in vintage Rox t-shirt. 😳

I don’t like tshirts with logos, branding, pictures or designs on. Nice tshirts without these things are really difficult to find

I still have my challenger space shuttle t shirt from ’83 when it landed at stansted . Minivader wore it for a while and I’m sure minimissvader will also wear it. Mrsvader does on occasion have that chat with me too….

Have ‘they’ received a memo or something. I had the very same conversation on Monday. The words vagrant and armpits featured a number of times. Although I’m quite excited about being given authority to raid the wedding fund to replenish my wardrobe.

I’ve had this conversation so many times. Apparently crusty t shirt armpits aren’t sexy. Still the early 90’s Metallica tee lives on though 😈

I love Burnley, it’s ace.

But I’m the only bloke in a ten mile radius who doesn’t spend his entire life, from birth to death in a Burnley shirt.
I’m convinced that locals are tattood with the current first team strip at birth, it’s the only explanation.
🙂

Seriously, they have to go, they’re even starting to offend me.

Even here, time moves slowly on.
Approximately 1967 now, when I last checked.

Have ‘they’ received a memo or something.

This. I’ve been under pressure to tackle a perceived t-shirt glut too.

Consign them to your winter t-shirt pile (as it’s summer now which is why ‘they’ are scrutinising your wardrobe) then you can still wear them under a jumper.

First the cat died,

Yes ours died recently so commiserations 😥

Harry_the_Spider – Member
He’s having a great time stuffing his face with biscuits.

Bet he’d not get all prima Donna over a few fat meme pics

I stayed at a friend’s house not that long ago unexpectedly and he gave me a Monsters of Rock t-shirt to wear from 1988.

Mind you, he does still have a Commodore 64 on top of his wardrobe so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised at his tshirts.

Rachel

My wife usually has a lower threshold to the state of my clothes than I do and will usually make sure my rag pile for the garage is healthy but apparently sentiment also is a part of these decisions. When presented with what I think is a pretty past it, Nirve BMX T-shirt (freebie from working in a shop 13 years ago), she insisted I keep it as a gardening or diy T-shirt. Apparently I used to wear it a lot when we got together and she doesn’t want to see it go.

That’s the Christmas present sorted then – get it framed and we can stick the damn thing on the wall!

Commiserations my friend.

The next step will be the underpants draw mate, I know from bitter experience…

Once the sacred resting place of so many pairs of trusted old stalwarts, underpants that had been amassed over the years, old, faded, worn, elastic showing, holes in some, but oh so comfortable and still perfectly serviceable albeit nearing the end of their natural lives. Until one day there was an enforced clear out, brand new and ‘fashionable’ replacements bought…you’ll look far nicer in these, etc.

And the cycle of underpant life begins again…

Bet he’d not get all prima Donna over a few fat meme pics

Not if I put cling film over the air holes in his box.

I’ve still got Nick Heywood locked in a box under the stairs

It was nice of you to let him phone in to Radio2 this morning.

The Che Guevara, The Half Man Half Biscuit and the Marvel.

😯

Most people still wearing their HMHB tees these days basically represent the band name without any need for the shirt.

I’m still mourning my old Ramones shirt. My missus actually nicked that one to wear in bed, and trashed it completely.

I have a carhartt one with a lovely abstract design on ,my missus like s to remind me it’s 20 year old!

frame them 🙂

i’ve got a few kept back for that.

also, still bitter about my mum binning some without consent when i was much younger.

edit: any other ex-skateboarders might understand more too.