I think there are some things other than food that should have expiration dates on them. For example, consider silverware. Silverware takes a beating, especially if you use a dish washer. I would say that the fruitful life of silverware should be like 5 years. After five years, it's dingy, it's lost its silver shininess and it just needs to be thrown out. Now of course, I'm not speaking of real silver silverware. I'm talking about the fake stuff. People keep silverware much longer than they should. Like decades longer. They need to know when to let it go.
Another example would be shoes. Just because they still fit on your feet is not reason enough to keep wearing them. When you've poilshed and polished them and they still look beat up, it's time to say goodbye. Yes, it's hard. You are attached. You feel as though they've been loyal friends to you, protecting your feet from the elements. And remember that time you stepped in a puddle by mistake and your socks didn't even get wet? Yes, they're faithful soldiers and they deserve a proper burial. In the garbage can. Or the backyard. Do whatever you have to do, just make sure they exit your closet.
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My brown shoes better still be there when I get robebe1.
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ha. thats funny because when i first read this your brown shoes is what i immediately thought of.
i wear my shoes until they have holes in them big enough to ruin my socks.
same with my pants. i wear them until they have holes big enough so that i get oil stains on my boxers instead of the jeans.
How about when your youngest son's sunday school teacher asks when your husband is going to get new church shoes as the ones he has been wearing can't even tie anymore? Think maybe it's time to visit Red's Shoe Barn?
Ooooo - I love Red's Shoe Barn! I've only been there once, but I did well!
Let me guess, you would throw your husband's beloved baseball hat away after it gets a little dirty too, wouldn't you? Or even worse, I bet you would try to wash it.
I haven't thrown out any baseball caps. I have however thrown out undershirts. Oh, I mean the "undershirt fairy" comes to our house and new undershirs miraculously appear in his closet and the old ones disappear.
Are you suggesting the "undershirt fairy" is not real?
don't throw them out. Old undershirts really make great oil rags - even while they are still being worn.
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