Gadget Magnet

I’m starting this challenge courtesy of Collective Bias.  When I’ve finished documenting over the next couple of  weeks, I’ll have a big Whrrl story that I’ve started but won’t publish until the end.  So, sit back and relax and watch was happens….

I did the shopping trip alone on Friday night.  Even though my wife thought she was going to follow me around and tell me how to do it, I bribed her with a pedicure and I went shopping with my 5 year old.  What woman will turn down a pedicure?  I know how to work the bribery on this woman.

Dusk is setting in and I’m going shopping…sans the woman.

I am going after a package of Hanes White T-Shirts which come with a sample of Stain Guard Deodorant.  I use Degree normally, but for two weeks, I’m giving this new stuff a try.

Once in the store, I went to the men’s department and found exactly what I was in search of…

If you look really close on the left-hand side, you can see the sample of the deodorant attached.  And, you can also see that I”m getting 6 t-shirts, not 5.

From there, here’s where my story is going to take you…

I’m starting with, a look at how I wear t-shirts.  First of all, I wear one every day.  I work in them.  They get really nasty and it makes my wife really crazy.  I also wear a white t-shirt under dress shirts no matter the season.

With that in mind, here are a few photos for perspective…

I do have to say that my wife has intervened to help with this project, I don’t have that much creativity in me.

The following photos are labeled according to my wife’s description…*rolls eyes*

My wife also mentioned that I needed to put in a disclaimer here that this is a cumulative photo of all of my t-shirts and hers.  Except, she wants to make sure you know, these are only the ones that I either work in and I get really dirty, or the ones she sleeps in and refuses to leave home wearing.  We do actually have a plethora of nice T-shirts hanging in the closet.  So, by all means, this is about 1/3 of the t-shirts we own.

The first photo here is what my t-shirt drawer looked like when I started making photos…

Please note:  That is an empty drawer.  Here’s why………

Our laundry resides in the floor, unwashed or in baskets, clean but unfolded a majority of the time *she is going to kill me*

Anyway, she was kind enough to wash up all the laundry yesterday and today AND fold it for me, all the more reason not to let her know how I’m telling you her secrets.

Here’s the whole shebang..

Please note, the shirts are stacked and my very organized wife (what you don’t think I’m going to get in more trouble than I’m already in over the dirty laundry comment do you?) put them in stacks depending on what they are worn for, where they came from and if they are going to even make it back into the work-related and/or sleep-related rotation.

So, here goes..again….

That photo is a variety of colored shirts that she sleeps in.  Her excuse is that she works from home and why bother putting on real people clothes when she can wear her pj’s all the time.  Those will return to her chest of drawers.

That’s two keepsake t-shirts that my wife has.  One is from the Disney conference that was provided by…….(hang on, had to ask) My Shimmer and various bloggers including Mickey and Mini Mouse signed it.  The other one has the ad that she used on the back of a t-shirt when we owned the daycare….those t-shirts are retired to the “special drawer”…where ever that is…

That’s my 2, yes only 2, white undershirts for wearing under dress shirts and just to be cute, there’s one of each that the boys have.  Notice we aren’t big on dress clothes with undershirts…we like our t-shirts to be the primary piece of clothing.

That is an array of t-shirts that I have ruined from working on them and she has officially declared these shirts “rags”.  And to further prove her point, she takes the scissors and immediately cuts them into pieces so I don’t wear one of the…even in an emergency.

That is an example of a work t-shirt in white that didn’t even make the “rag bag”, she tossed it in the trash all together.

Another white work shirt that hit the trash, she declared these too disgusting to even clean the toilet with.  I’ll spare you here but there were about 5 more like this thatwhich managed to go into the trash.

This group of t-shirts were moved to the bag of rags but were saved from the scissors in case of an emergency.  Most of them are gray and or white or were at least gray or white at one time.

With that, let’s get this challenge underway…

I’ve restocked with new shirts and the few I was allowed able to keep.

Stay continued for an update in a day or so, I wore one of the dress shirts today and will have baseball games to go to this week and will wear them under my good shirts.

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……..stay tuned..

Tags: deodeerant, Hanes, Stain Guard, T-shirts