No New Clothes Update: The Fish Oil Adventure

In No New Clothes I wrote about not buying any new clothes for the year. There have been interesting developments:

1. I lost my small gloves. I have big thick huge ones, but it's too hard to use my keys, get out the stroller etc. with those. So I caved and bought a double-pair for $1.49. I probably could have gotten some from Freecycle, but I was RIGHT THERE at Target.

2. And this one is embarrassing... Fish oil. I have discovered that Fish Oil is a wonderful thing. I take it medicinally to help with mood swings. About a week and a half ago, I bought a nice big jar of it. $50 worth, in fact. While getting it out of the car I dropped the jar and it burst on the street. Just like that. I was pretty upset about it, but I also realized there's no point in crying over spilled fish oil. So I was ready to let it go.

However, there was a shirt of Naomi's in the bag with the oil. And a really cute one too. It was green with a v-top and a little white undershirt sewn in. I realized that since it was soaked in fish oil I should probably throw it away, but it was a really cute shirt.

On top of that, my sense of smell has been shot for the past two weeks since I had this cold from which I have not completely recovered yet. So I didn't realize it reeked and tossed it into the wash... with everything else. Two loads worth.

We've washed it over half a dozen times, with soap, vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, Pine Sol etc. So far, not much improvement.

Last summer when we had some major water damage I was actually relieved to get rid of some stuff even though I was upset about some of the loss. Same thing applies here. We've thrown out a lot, including that cute green shirt.

But some of U's best shirts, and my favorite skirt, and a bunch of ND's gDiapers are in there too! I still can't smell a thing, but U' says they still stink and we're not ready to toss them. Think we'll take them to a cleaners next.

I'll let you know if I have to buy any new stuff as a result. So far I'm still resisting. Besides for my pledge, we both HATE shopping.