Title: A University Teacher and a Reluctant Wife: I have a soft spot for old clothes
I hold the handle in my left hand and the spatula in my right hand.
Lao Liu smiled, and I pinched a sweet potato ball that had just come out of the pot and stuffed it into his mouth.
He opened his mouth half-open, worried that the balls were too hot, and after blowing two breaths, he took a careful bite, quickly turned it in his mouth twice, and said, "Liumao'er, it's delicious."
Fry a little more, I'll take it to work. ”
Xiao Liu also poked his head out of the living room, "Mom, what good things are you two stealing?" I took a colander in my left hand, scooped a spoonful of sweet potato balls, tentatively grabbed one with my right hand, and shouted, "Come here, come here." ”
Xiaoliu took his mobile phone, leaned on the right side of the kitchen door, and squeezed it to the left, "Dad, you're done eating, get out of the way, it's time for my mom to feed me." ”
I fed Xiaoliu two in a row, but Xiaoliu still had his mouth open, leaning against the kitchen door and refusing to leave, "Come again, come again." ”
Look at you two like door gods," I held up the colander as if I were chasing a duck, "shhh, bring this plate out." ”
You hit the two of us like you drove the chickens into the cage at my grandmother's house.
Xiao Liu looked at my old padded jacket and said, "You put on my clothes and go to the kitchen again." ”
I smiled and responded, "It's waste, it's warm and you don't need to change your coat or bring an apron." ”
We don't have any special home clothes at home, everyone changes into old coats when we get home, and we wear them casually, and we are not afraid of eating hot pot and soiling our clothes.
Yesterday, the sixth child repeatedly invited me and the sixth child to go to the wedding banquet together.
I rummaged through the cupboard for a long time, "No, not a single new dress." ”
The sixth smiled and said: "You go to eat a wedding wine, and you are not the protagonist, everyone looks at the bride, who will pay attention to you." ”
I picked up an old padded jacket and gestured, "I know many old colleagues in your school, and it will be embarrassing to meet them."
If someone asks me, 'Liumaoer, why are you still wearing the same dress 20 years ago?' How do I answer? ”
Xiaoliu came over and grabbed my shoulder and said, "You just proudly say that your figure hasn't changed!" I slapped Xiao Liu, "You look good in everything you wear when you're young, go to the Joy Bar with your dad." ”
Xiaoliu grinned: "This padded jacket was bought for me by my aunt 5 years ago, so I won't go." ”
Lao Liu shook his trouser leg, "My thermal pants are still from 10 years ago." ”
Xiaoliu and I laughed at the same time, "You don't need to take off your clothes when you go to eat and drink, and you don't need to take off your clothes, who will know what you're wearing inside." ”
The sixth said to the younger sixth: "Your mother is picking the door more and more, and she is reluctant to throw away her old clothes if she doesn't wear them into tatters."
The day before yesterday, I was playing with my colleagues, and I wore a white vest with two holes, and after sweating, I took off my coat, and my colleagues laughed at me. ”
The sixth shook his warm shirt again, "This one should have been eliminated last year." ”
Xiao Liu leaned over and looked at it, "This dress is not bad." ”
The sixth unbuttoned his shirt and put the collar of his warm shirt up, "You turn it over and look at it." ”
Xiao Liu flipped the collar of Lao Liu's shirt, "Dad, how do you wear this dress?" The outside is broken, but the inside is new. ”
The sixth child glared at me and straightened the collar of his shirt, "You forgot that there is a person in our family named 'Youcai'." ”
The collar of the shirt is torn, and it is removed and turned over, and it is the same as new, and I don't tell him this trick. ”
The sixth child also smiled, "Don't say it, your mother used this method to turn over the collar of several of my shirts, and she can wear them for a few more years." ”
The sixth child's hair looked thick and hard, but the collar of his clothes could not be worn for a year before he pierced it.
I felt that it was a pity to throw it away, and then I came up with a way to remove the collar and turn it over.
The sixth child's feet are also very small, and the toes are all cocked, and even the best shoes will be worn for less than two months, and the toe will be torn.
Every time I buy a new pair of shoes, I buy a lot of insoles, and I make up one piece at the toe of the toe, so that the toe will be two layers thick.
For toe caps that are less visibly damaged, apply the insoles of the same color and wear them for a few more months.
Over the course of a year, the sixth child can save at least three pairs of shoes.
This time Xiaoliu came back from winter vacation, did not bring a change of clothes, yesterday he wanted to change autumn clothes and pants, I rummaged in his cabinet for a long time, and actually found two sets of old clothes he wore in high school.
Xiaoliu looked at them and said, "Mom, the legs of these autumn pants are longer than mine, how can you wear them?" ”
Before I could finish speaking, the sixth child interrupted, "Little Liu, quickly find your mother a pair of scissors, she has worked as a tailor." ”
I smiled and said, "Change your face today." ”
Then I went to pull the old six's closet, "Little six, come and see, your father has hidden a lot of private goods." ”
Xiaoliu wore slippers and happily ran to my bedroom, "Mom, have you found my father's private money?" The sixth child ate melon seeds in the living room, "If your mother can find some private money, I don't have to worry about the New Year." ”
I found three pairs of old autumn pants and two autumn coats with tattered collars on the top floor of Lao Liu's wardrobe, "Little Liu, let's compare, you are taller than your father, and it is just right to wear his old clothes." ”
Xiaoliu looked at the clothes in my hand, "Mom, it's almost the New Year, and the other children are wearing new clothes, and you let me wear the old autumn clothes that my dad eliminated." ”
I gestured and put the autumn coat on Xiaoliu's body, "Three years of new and three years of old, and another three years of wearing it backwards." ”
Xiao Liu didn't have any requirements for clothes, so he took the old underwear I just found and threw it into the bedroom.
I quickly took it, "I'll soak it in boiling water and wear it tomorrow in the sun." ”
Xiaoliu has two sets of large cabinets, and when he went to college, he took almost all the clothes he could wear, even socks and shoes.
Xiaoliu said: "Mom, I can't wear a lot of clothes in this cabinet, let's tidy up and dispose of them tomorrow." ”
I shook it open and looked at it, "These clothes are fine, I'll tidy them up tomorrow and see if I can reuse them." ”
The sixth said: "These old padded jackets are also small, why do you keep them?" "Xiaoliu can't wear it, I can wear it." ”
I took one and put it on my body, "wear it in the kitchen, and throw it away when it's dirty." ”
I tidied up the cupboards in the two rooms, and although there were a lot of old clothes that I couldn't wear, I was reluctant to throw them away.
I cut the cotton and absorbent clothes into rags, and every night when I watched TV, I walked back and forth with two old rags on my feet, both exercising and mopping the floor.
Except for the bathroom where there is an absorbent mop, everything else is wiped with modified old clothes as rags.
Last week, when the temperature suddenly dropped, and I was about to take Xiaoliu to buy lint shoes, I actually found two pairs of almost brand new big-scalp cotton shoes in the locker on the balcony.
In the first two years, I didn't have the opportunity to wear them because of the hot weather, and these two shoes were almost forgotten.
We each wore a pair, and we saved hundreds of dollars.
In November, I sprained my foot, couldn't exercise for more than a month, gained seven or eight pounds, and couldn't wear four pairs of jeans.
I actually rummaged through my closet to a pair of wide, large fleece jeans that I bought when I first went online 8 years ago.
This winter with this pair of pants is enough.
In the past few years, I knitted a lot of sweaters, wool pants and wool vests for Xiao Liu and Lao Liu.
Now handmade sweaters are no longer popular, it's a pity to throw them away, it just so happens that this winter vacation is okay at home, let Xiaoliu help me unwrap the wool.
After washing, I knitted a large blanket that I could cover my feet at night, and he praised me for my good craftsmanship.
I don't like to throw away old clothes at home, and I don't give them to others, and I think carefully about whether each piece of clothing is of use before it is disposed of, even if it can be made into a rag, I will not throw it away easily.
Sometimes you find that old clothes from years ago are trending again a few years later.
For example, I used to have a pair of wide-legged pants, which I put away for several years, but this year I took them out and wore them out of style.
The old down jackets and clothes in the closet, I don't need to buy them again for the rest of my life.
The shoes in the shoe closet are still intact after ten years of wear.
This year, I didn't spend more than 200 yuan on clothes, mainly for underwear and socks.
For example, the suit worn by the sixth child on his wedding day still hangs at home today.
Although the pants are a bit small, the jacket can still be worn.
Occasionally, when a suit needs to be worn on a formal occasion, the sixth child will wear it again.
Xiao Liu's old clothes from school are also brought back every year during the holidays.
Over the years, the most I have saved are scarves.
Yesterday I sorted out more than twenty of them, repairing some of the obsolete ones and pairing them with the new **, which is both beautiful and durable.
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