<p>I’m one of those daughters here… I have to say that my mom and me are similar sizes and I steal her clothes ALL the time… often she thinks a skirt or something is in the wash but really its hiding in my closest… its like you only pay half but you have double the wardrobe. Plus some of the older stuff she has looks really awesome and retro I think. Funny thing is some of the clothes I steal aren’t even hers, they were my grandmothers! talk about three generations!</p>
<p>D1 (a college freshman now) and I do share some of the clothes since she was in high school. She is slightly taller thinner. Since she is not with us on the regular base anymore, when I do cloth shopping, if something I like, I sometime buy two same sets, one for me and one for her. I would really hope to have enough motivation to organize the closets at home. It is a daunting task.</p>
<p>One guess why I cleaned out my closet…I need more room for all the new spring clothes I just bought. My husband won’t give up his closet. I am thinking about converting one of our kids’ bedrooms into a closet. When kids leave,some people want an office, a sewing room, I want a custom built walk in closet room, with shoe racks on one side, a handbag storage area, double hung closet…By the time my kids are gone, hopefully I will have enough money to do all of that.</p>
<p>DH has one closet. I have two. I have the previous owners to thank – they took two small bedrooms and knocked out the walls. </p>
<p>I cull my closets once a year, but they are still crammed with stuff I haven’t worn in ages but still hope to get back into, or clothes with sentimental value. Just can’t bear to face reality, I guess. </p>
<p>Got the sewing room, though when S1 comes home he gets a corner of the room (he’s lucky he still has a bed rather than having to sleep on a cutting table!). When S2 leaves in Fall 2010, hehehe – that closet is MINE!!!</p>
<p>I’m the anomoly I guess – husband has the big, walk-in closet, while I’ve got the smaller one. Just now it’s starting to get full (buying work stuff, plus a few older things). He’s also got the bigger dresser. </p>
<p>I never really cared, because I don’t have a super lot of stuff. Today, though, it did cross my mind that maybe I should annex part of his for the newer work items, lol.</p>
<p>I did this last summer and donated all the stuff to the local “dog shelter” shop. They sell the clothes and recycle them. I bet some go to make beds for the dogs. 
Anyway, I still have shirts and skirts that stay on hangars and don’t get used. I have a few things that were my mom’s and I use them. She was really into clothes, the classic mode. I have also saved a retro burberry trenchcoat that was my dad’s for my son.</p>
<p>I still have my Burberry I bought when I was 20. I got it out for my D, because she is all about the high fashion and apparently Burberry is a big name.
It still fits me- ( but believe me- there was about 20 years when it didn’t fit)
But other than that- I have cleaned closets years ago, not a lot of storage space for what I use, let alone what I don’t.
( since H keeps stuff for ever & ever)</p>
<p>My second H moved into the house I had shared with my first H. #2 took over the entire walk in closet I had originally shared with #1. I had to make do with 2 tiny closets. Fortunately I retired and donated my entire lawyer’s wardrobe to Dress For Success.</p>
<p>^Could you have a talk with my DW? Her stuff fills >90% of closet space, and all I ever hear is how my stuff “is in the way … can’t you thin it out?”</p>
<p>I only get inspired every 15 years, whereas my husband will clean out his closet once a year. He feels if he buys something new, he must throw something out, if he can’t then he doesn’t need anything new.</p>
<p>He feels if he buys something new, he must throw something out, if he can’t then he doesn’t need anything new.</p>
<p>Does he have a brother?
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<p>Hubby and I share a fairly good sized walk-in closet with double racks. The top rack is his, the bottom is mine. I am constantly going through my clothes and I don’t really have a lot to begin with. I’d rather drive dull pencils through both eyes than shop, so I tend to wear the same things over and over again. Hubby, on the other hand, enjoys shopping and has more clothes than he needs. Occasionally, he will try and hang his overflow on my farily sparse rack which doesn’t go over well with me. I tell him that means it’s time to get rid of some things.</p>
<p>I’ve been consistently dowdy for about the last 20 years, and do actually wear most of the stuff in my closet, except for old pants and jeans, which I woud HAPPILY wear if I fit in them again (my project for the spring).</p>
<p>I was trying on some old clothes the other day from maybe 10 years ago. Everything looked really baggy on me, and I haven’t lost weight. (if anything…) Can’t believe I thought the stuff looked good.</p>
<p>H & I still fit clothes that are decades old–fortunately they are mostly classics and still stylish. D doesn’t fit ANY of my stuff but will use a shawl or accessory if I press it on her. We don’t fit the same size shoes & neither of us wears much jewelry.</p>
<p>S fits H’s old suit that he got around college time back decades ago. It’s amazing it still looks quite nice. H rarely wore it as HI doesn’t have much need for suits.</p>