In 2007 I wrote a post on my personal blog, Sinking the Fat Tub, where I told of a special, large rubber tote in the attic that contained all the clothes I could no longer wear.  I said that by 2008 I would be able to wear them again!  Well, that never happened.

I revisited the Fat Tub last night, and found jeans I used to wear when I was working for Warner Bros.  They still wouldn’t fit, but they are close.  I set them in my closet rather than put them back in the tub.

A few months ago I bought new polo shirts in XXL size.  It horrified me at the time (and still does, frankly) and when getting ready for work on Monday, I noticed the neck of the shirt came way far down on my chest.  I gathered up the color and had about 2 inches  of gathered up material.  They are now too big.

So then I went to my second “fat tub” in another closet where I put “just too small” shirts.  I took out a couple of brand new polos I received for Christmas one year and never wore because they were slightly too small.  They fit.  I then tried on a couple of “real” polos I bought at a Polo outlet store when I visited Joel Comm in Colorado that were always too small.  They fit, too.

And then there are the two pairs of A&E jeans I bought online, not knowing how their cuts were. Two were too small when I bought them and sat in my dresser drawer.  Today I’m wearing one of them to work.

I was talking to someone at work today and they told me to throw away or donate all the clothes that are too big so you never have a “fallback plan” “just if” you happen to gain wait again.  I kind of like that.

But more importantly, this is probably the first, physically measurable success I have seen.  And it makes me want to continue and look forward to making these clothes too big too.

Does anybody else
keep a “fat tub” either of too big or too small clothes?