Comments on: so nice, i bought it twice

By: calm mama

calm mama — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:22:13 +0000

My mom is a clothing genius, yes. I love the idea of being attached to a badger shirt, in general how they get so attached to stuff — I guess I’m weird!

(I don’t recall wearing jeans and a giant sweatshirt because I LOVED them but rather because they made a good flack suit for the battle that was my teenage years.)

By: leanne

leanne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:55 +0000

My son definitely went through a phase like this (it does get better… eventually). He had a t-shirt with a badger on it (local university mascot). He would have worn it every day, but somehow I managed to convince him that it needed to be washed and he could wear it again as soon as it was clean (don’t recall him being as obsessive as Jonah, but it’s been a few years so my memory may just be poor). I think it was about this time that I started giving him options of what to wear (“Oh, honey, the badger shirt isn’t clean, but you can wear either this shirt with a moose on it or this shirt with a truck on it.”). (Oh, and these days I just pick a shirt — he’s been okay with that again for some time.) I also had occasions where I had bought a shirt I thought he would love only for him to avoid it.

Oh, and I’m like Nana — I buy the same shirt in different colors, too I hadn’t thought about buying 2 in black though. Hmmm…

By: Nana

Nana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:16:37 +0000

I still haven’t outgrown that stage and I am 65. If I find a tee shirt I like I buy it in different colors and if it is black I buy 2 so each will be washed less and the the fading will take longer. When I was young I would wear the same things so often that my mother would call whatever it was my “Uniform”. He comes by this neurosis honestly. I think it is genetic. When his mother was 12 she wore the same sweatshirt and jeans every day for 2 years!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:28:19 +0000

I’ve done that more times that I can count. Good luck!