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Sometimes....like old work shirts that I know don't fit him or stuff I know he could care less about (holey underwear included). However, I tried throwing away a stretched out holey waffle shirt from approximately 15 years ago and he had a fit! I bought him some new ones from the gap and then we agreed to throw out the ratty waffle shirt.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we first got married, DH threw out 2 of my mugs. One that my sister gave me for graduation. It was relatively new and had sentimental value. The other was a BRAND NEW beautiful, seasonal, flowery mug set from Starbucks. BRAND NEW.
I said DH and I never fight.. but I WAS SO PISSED when he did this.
I've never been angrier at him. I got over it eventually. (can you tell?) HAHAHA But yeah. after this incident he learned not to throw anything that belongs to me away.

If it weren't for me tossing out old items he could be on an episode of Hoarders. Just yesterday another pair of boxers bit the dust. I don't talk about it/make a big deal about it but I don't hide it either. In the trash it goes!

OMG with the underwear talk!!

But yes, I will throw away holey undies or ones that have lost their elasticity. I have a problem. I like to throw things away. If I think it won't be used or hasn't been used in over a year, I want to throw it away. He ... on the other hand ... thinks there is a muli-purpose use for everything and keeps EVERYTHING. His closet (in his game room (aka the dump) is full of old shirts and pants that he will never fit into again, yet he refuses to get rid of them. And I'm not allowed to get rid of anything in that room. Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh!!!

When we first started living together, I was nice and put everything in bags for him to look over when he had time. I even sorted it all for him, it was so easy ... but it took months, no a year -- he didn't "sort" it out (i.e throw it away) until we moved into our first house!

Even his old, small, holey underwear from high school, I had to convince him about finally letting them go! This man will hold on to everything if I don't put a stop to it! Now we have "underwear evaluation" - basically I have to check his undies for holes every once in awhile before he agrees to buy new pairs -_-

I always ask. When he moved from one apartment to another, I threw out his "Cosby" sweaters he never wore and were hideously ugly. Now as we're married, some of his ancient t-shirts get regulated to the dresser not the closet where his active shirts are. The shirts in the dresser are only for wearing around the house not out in public.

I tried while we were dating, and he rescued it from the trash bin. (It was his old wide-leg khakis from high school... I could fit my whole body into each leg.) Since then I've learned my lesson. We pack away all the old stuff he doesn't wanna throw out. This includes translucent t-shirts from kindergarten ("it was a nightshirt back then! it fits me now!"), boxers so stretched out and with such big holes they don't serve a purpose anymore ("they were my first pair of boxers!"), and BOXES AND BOXES of old receipts (which actually have come in handy for returns before).

I also force him to watch Hoarders with me and that really motivates him to throw out stuff he doesn't need or use. Haha.

We donate OFTEN to our local salvation army. I actually feel bad for them sometimes... we leave STACKS of garbage bags filled with clothes and other random stuff at their back door at random times of night.

um, I love how this thread has basically become the "old underwear" thread. So glad to know I'm not alone.

I don't, but I have to really make a scene for him to throw anything out. It's frustrating. I have no problem getting rid of clothes I haven't worn in a year or more, so I dont understand why he can't do the same! Haha!

He never throws out anything of mine either.