Wearing Them Down to the Bone
If you've been a reader of our blog since the very beginning, you remember all our quandaries about what to bring and what not to bring to Israel. For instance, Matt and I had gone through all our clothes, picked our favorites and stuffed four bags with as much as we could possibly cram in there.
However, we are now so sick of our clothes! We wear the same five or six things over and over and over again. Then we wash them, hang them up, and wear them again. Ah, how glorious a new shirt or pants or skirt or anything would be!
We've shared our consternation with our attire with friends here. It seems we're not the only ones who feel this way about the few belongings we brought. Everyone has the same plan: wear all our clothes down to shreds this year and then throw them all away right before the trip back home. With that in mind, I don't think we are going to look very fashionable that last month here...lol.
We have additional fashion woes. First, I only brought four fancy (for Israeli standards) outfits for Shabbat. I thought that would be enough but when we got here, I realized that we would be going to both Friday night and Saturday morning services. In the States, I usually lived so far away from our synagogue that we usually spent Friday night having a Shabbat meal with friends and/or family and then went to services only on Saturday. So, I am completely embarrassed to wear the same thing to services every other week. Ick!
One friend of ours says that his clothing all seems a size too big for him now because he's used to having a dryer that shrinks his jeans, shirts, etc. Dang, and I was hoping it was because I was losing weight!
On another note, there are no closets here in Israel (we're not sure why). So, you have to put your clothes in the single, small wardrobe found in your bedroom and then find other nooks and crannies throughout the apartment to hide your unmentionables and winter clothes. This week, one of our friends was very excited because she happened upon a stash of clothing she had placed in a cabinet in her living room. New shirts equals gold mine!
Since Matt and I are already sick of our clothes, how sick of them are we going to be by next summer?!
However, we are now so sick of our clothes! We wear the same five or six things over and over and over again. Then we wash them, hang them up, and wear them again. Ah, how glorious a new shirt or pants or skirt or anything would be!
We've shared our consternation with our attire with friends here. It seems we're not the only ones who feel this way about the few belongings we brought. Everyone has the same plan: wear all our clothes down to shreds this year and then throw them all away right before the trip back home. With that in mind, I don't think we are going to look very fashionable that last month here...lol.
We have additional fashion woes. First, I only brought four fancy (for Israeli standards) outfits for Shabbat. I thought that would be enough but when we got here, I realized that we would be going to both Friday night and Saturday morning services. In the States, I usually lived so far away from our synagogue that we usually spent Friday night having a Shabbat meal with friends and/or family and then went to services only on Saturday. So, I am completely embarrassed to wear the same thing to services every other week. Ick!
One friend of ours says that his clothing all seems a size too big for him now because he's used to having a dryer that shrinks his jeans, shirts, etc. Dang, and I was hoping it was because I was losing weight!
On another note, there are no closets here in Israel (we're not sure why). So, you have to put your clothes in the single, small wardrobe found in your bedroom and then find other nooks and crannies throughout the apartment to hide your unmentionables and winter clothes. This week, one of our friends was very excited because she happened upon a stash of clothing she had placed in a cabinet in her living room. New shirts equals gold mine!
Since Matt and I are already sick of our clothes, how sick of them are we going to be by next summer?!
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