The Overflowing Sweatshirt Closet MMP

[swampbear]

Beast stew and corn bread hit the spot. YUM!

sari appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed for the furnace holdin’ on.

[FairyChatMom]

I want beast stew. But I don’t have any. dammit.

I’m hungry and I have no idea what to make for supper. It’s almost too late to eat.

Time to log off. MWAH!

[missred]

flipper, gnocchi is kind of the Italian version of fried mush, which, as a Hoosier, you may be familiar with.

[EmilyG]

It’s been a day when I needed much chocolate. It’s been a hard day.

[2gigch1]

@anyrose

Did that “friendly wave goodbye” involve the extending of only the middle finger in one upward thrust?

Nah, he pulled over immediately, no damage done, obviously unintentional (he wasn’t driving aggressively, just didn’t see me). No need to get worked up.

[swampbear]

'Tis chillified. Thus we shall now retire to the boudoir to snuggle down under the covers and watch teevee until beddy bye.

{{{Midget}}}

Nitey Nite Y’all!

[ekedolphin]

Gnocchi was… okay, I guess. Ribs were awesome.

Now relaxin’ in bed.

[carnivorousplant]

@2gigch1

Nah, he pulled over immediately, no damage done, obviously unintentional (he wasn’t driving aggressively, just didn’t see me). No need to get worked up.

Good man.

[dogbutler]

I bought dog food, then I drove out to The Quay, to help with some Thanksgiving prep. Watching hockey.

[kopek]

@Spiderman

My choices are:
[ul]
[li]Get rid of the oldest ones. However, these give me the most cred - “Wow, you’ve been doing this since ____!”[/li][li]Get rid of the newest ones - but they’re brand new.[/li][li]Get rid of some random ones in the middle - breaking up a good collection[/li][li]Buy a larger house & move - This sounds like the best option to me! :D[/li][/ul]
This week’s pre-hijack question(s): Do any of you do an annual event year over year that you get some parting gift from? What is it? How many years worth?
What overflowing collection would make you think about moving to a larger house? (Swampy doesn’t need to answer this, we already know it’s TP. :p)

The other choice is buy some Rubbermaid tubs and put the excess in storage until something wears out or gets damaged beyond repair. Our sweatshirts fill one closet, a 10 foot steel pipe in the basement, and we have four tubs of “back-ups”. One one rule is any bleach burns or stains and its out to the thrift shop or (if amusement park) to the swap meet. But we still keep getting more than we wear out or damage and the mound of tubs keeps growing. I may e-mail a picture to Sari to post for all of you.

I am orderly about it though – as the closet empties, replacements come from the left side of the pipe and newly cleaned ones go on the far right.

Now – the event thing; the worse for us is Knoebels annual Phoenix Phall Phunfest. Every year we have to get one of each (T, sweat, long-T and sometimes hoodie) in both General Public and Staff and if they offer more than one color -------- well, the prices are so incredibly reasonable that --------- I don’t want to think about it. And we have been doing this since 1996.

As far as events that is the only must but we also attend Kielbasafest in Plymouth a lot and have a habit of snagging a shirt of some kind from any other event we cross paths with like the Tipton (IN) Pork Festival.

[carnivorousplant]

@dogbutler

I bought dog food, then I drove out to The Quay, to help with some Thanksgiving prep. Watching hockey.

Another Good Man, save for that hockey crap.

Why the hell does it matter that I am “First on Two”?

[kopek]

@2gigch1

Got hit by a dumptruck on the way to work today. He merged into my lane and didn’t see me. Fortunately he only folded my passenger mirror in, not even a scratch. He stopped with me but we didn’t even talk; I looked at the mirror, popped it back out and gave him a friendly wave goodbye.

But I was HIT BY A DUMPTRUCK DAMMIT!

I was walking and got clipped by a Ferrari once. For some reason I’ve always had a certain pride in that.

Damn that Plant - bumped me by one. <snaps fingers>

[carnivorousplant]

@kopek

I was walking and got clipped by a Ferrari once. For some reason I’ve always had a certain pride in that.

Damn that Plant - bumped me by one. <snaps fingers>

Wankers.
I was hit on a Honda 50 by a pick up truck, slid fifty feet and have pavement scars through a padded ski jacket.
Wankers.
:dubious:

[dogbutler]

@carnivorousplant

Another Good Man, save for that hockey crap.

HOCKEY CRAP?!?!?!?:eek::mad:

: drops gloves :

[kopek]

@carnivorousplant

Wankers.
I was hit on a Honda 50 by a pick up truck, slid fifty feet and have pavement scars through a padded ski jacket.
Wankers.
:dubious:

I flipped a 501 Maico Enduro on 4 blondes in a Parklane convertible, was almost killed by a drunk in an Impala, and had a drunk in a Chevette run me off the road --------- but a Ferrari? Now that’s frikkin class!!!

@dogbutler

HOCKEY CRAP?!?!?!?:eek::mad:

: drops gloves :

:Blows whistle:
:Sends Plant to the Sin Bin:

[carnivorousplant]

Sin Bin?
Are there cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women?

[dogbutler]

@kopek

I flipped a 501 Maico Enduro on 4 blondes in a Parklane convertible, was almost killed by a drunk in an Impala, and had a drunk in a Chevette run me off the road --------- but a Ferrari? Now that’s frikkin class!!!

:Blows whistle:
:Sends Plant to the Sin Bin:

To feel shame for two minutes

[Sahirrnee]

As requested by Kopek

http://s1277.photobucket.com/user/folwawup/media/kopek/kopek1_zpsudxjtolw.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

http://s1277.photobucket.com/user/folwawup/media/kopek/kopek2_zpschbbaju5.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

[Spiderman]

@swampbear

In addition to TP, I have a collection of caps. I used to wear them a lot more than I do now, so a couple years ago I thinned the herd somewhat.

You wear bottle caps? Ohhhh, you mean baseball hats. I have more baseball hats than my 2½ dozen sweatshirts. I’ve also gotten three new t-shirts since Oct 31st, none of which were “purchased” but came from other events, & if it wasn’t for a date conflict from one of the sweatshirt events getting moved a day it would be five new shirts in the past three weeks. Why doesn’t any event give out pants? I have to purchase pants.

BooFae & Doggio, thanks for offering to help me move; there will be pizza at the end.

@Sahirrnee

You could always cut up your sweat shirts and have them made into a quilt.

I have both an afgan (made by my granmama) that isn’t too long & an extra comforter, that is long, folded up in the corner of the den; they come out maybe once or twice a year. I just don’t see ever using a quilt, otherwise I probably would.

@Channing_Idaho_Banks

Wash and fold them, then put them in a plastic bag and in a box and store them away somewhere.

If you still want them the next time you open the box then you should keep them.

I actually wear them all; not at the same time, though. Washed ones go on the bottom of the pile(s), new ones to wear come off the top. However, the shelves in the top of the closet are [del]running[/del] out of room to put the two newest ones.

@dogbutler

To feel shame for two minutes

Baby, how long, will you keep me in the penalty box?

[Seanette]

Tomorrow evening, I will be a very happy girl. After class lets out ca. 1930, I am a free woman until 1330 Friday. No classes again until Monday, two days (IN A ROW) off work. I have one scheduled visitor on Wednesday, but that isn’t a work or a school issue, so I’m good with that.