Joel is a wonderful person and I wouldn’t trade him for anything. One thing about him that baffles me is how hard he is on clothes. I have clothes that I’ve owned since 1997… not that I should be especially proud of that. And also not that I actually wear those clothes (ahem) often. But I still own them and they’re still in decent shape.
As far as the clothes that I haven’t kept for their sentimental value, they generally last me a long time. They either go out of style or I grow tired of them. Some of them that I wear really often get that pilled up look after awhile. (Which makes otherwise perfectly good clothes look rather ratty by the way. If anyone has a solution to this me and my wardrobe would be eternally grateful.) I have one pair of jeans that I got from a friend who bought them at a thrift store. After wearing those jeans for seriously years they finally just got a hole in the knee. That is the only pair of jeans that has ever gotten a hole in them without already coming home from the store that way.
Joel is a completely different story. I swear the man goes through clothes like you wouldn’t believe. It’s been about a year and half since the last time we bought him jeans and he just informed me that of a dozen different pairs he has one pair left that doesn’t have holes in the knees.
What. the. heck. people?!
He isn’t a five year old rough and tumble boy who crawls around. In fact, I can’t think of the last time I saw him crawl. He doesn’t play sports. He has a desk job for heavens sake. How does sitting at a desk 40 hours a week wear holes in your knees?!
It’s the same with shoes. Today he was complaining that his feet hurt after walking around all day. After taking a look at what he was walking around in it wasn’t hard to see why.
These shoes are about a year old. One year old!
Holding them up to the light. You can see through them completely!
How does this happen? Just, how?!
I realize that I own easily twice as many clothes and shoes as he does so it makes sense that his clothes would wear out a bit faster. But this seems really excessive. Do other men destroy their clothes in record time like this? Or am I seriously married to the clothing assassin? Is there a way to prevent the massacre? I’m pretty sure I see pants and shoes alike shudder in terror as Joel walks by. Send help people. Future clothes depend on it.
Katrina
It's not just him. My husband is the exact same way. it drives me nuts. I'm more like you in that my clothes ttend to last a good long time.
(PS, hi, lurker here).
Bobbi Janay
I know lots of rough and tumble guys and they still don’t do this to their clothes. Heck on of my friends is an AG teacher and his clothes last forever.
@beth_ismyname
My husband is hard on shoes, but he wears the same pair at least 5 days a week. He is more known for loosing clothes on occasion, not so much since we've moved into our house, but before when we was at his parents and back and forth, shirts would go missing. We've still never found some of them.
Alexandra
I LOVE that you caught her excellent face when she saw the inside of the cake.
HOW COOL.