You might be aware of the t-shirt enigma, but if not, I will do my best to explain it: most of the time, unless I'm about to exercise in an extremely cold environment, I want to wear the lightest, softest, thinnest t-shirt in my drawer—I assume this is the same for most people; I want to wear a light, soft, thin t-shirt when I am working out, when I am lounging around the house, when I am sitting on the porch in the Jersey humidity . . . so when I open my t-shirt drawer, I choose the thinnest, softest t-shirt, which means this t-shirt, soon enough, is going to go through the wash and get EVEN THINNER and EVEN SOFTER . . . thus precluding the wearing of my other t-shirts, which are thicker and stiffer and stifling and so, of course, do not go through the wash repeatedly because I rarely wear them-- so they never attain the status of the venerated thin and soft t-shirts . . . I'm not sure how to remedy this—there is, of course, the inevitable demise of these thin and soft t-shirts, but it takes a while—and I'd like to have more of them, so I occasionally wear a thicker t-shirt for a bit and then toss it in the wash, but unless I make a concerted effort to change this pattern, I'm stuck inside a cycle wrapped in an enigma of a riddle of soft cotton.
do you not wear workout shirts made of wicking tech material? that's a non-negotiable for me. doesn't solve the problem for my hanging out around the house t-shirts, but i helps that i probably have ~75 t-shirts in semi-regular rotation. and that's after i just donated/trashed ~50 more.
ReplyDeletei may have a problem.