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Sorrynotsorry22 · 2023-06-04T16:03:14+00:00

I was involved in a prang( daughter driving). Now the whole outfit including a lovely green cardigan, sits forlorn in my wardrobe because its cursed. Same with new jeans, lovely clarkes shoes and a jolly t-shirt Twisted my ankle in the outfit so it's all cursed. White holiday trousers from 20 years ago , cursed !( don't ask) There's more but AIBU?

emsie12345 · 19/06/2023 14:29

Yes it's a witchy thing, supposed to be cleansing. Wish I knew about the sage before I did that though! I did look so cute in it 🤣

egowise · 09/06/2023 12:19

WarmSausageTea · 04/06/2023 17:51

It could be worse, she could be insulting people on the internet.

Right!?

What a bunch of miseries!

Op I find it rather endearing. I don't have anything similar, for me cursed just means too small haha

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 09/06/2023 12:00

I have a friend who no longer drives red cars. She kept having people t-bone/pull out on her when she had her two red cars. No accidents before them and no accidents (touch wood) since them. She is convinced red cars are (For her) a bit cursed.

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Sorrynotsorry22 · 09/06/2023 11:20

If decided that lm not BU, my feeling are valid.
I've found this and l intend to sprinkle my clothes with sage on a night of the full moon
Say these words over the clothes in moonlight and keep the clothes because well l like them !

So now l'm a witch 🧙‍♀️

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Sorrynotsorry22 · 06/06/2023 21:39

I'd like to know about the onion too!
If its some sort of Wicca thing, is there one to uncursed clothes? Something with sage maybe?

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RagingWoke · 06/06/2023 09:56

emsie12345 · 04/06/2023 21:48

I had a cursed top from H&M in the early naughties. I looked so cute in it. The first time I wore it my flat caught on fire. The second time I was mugged. The third a bee sting. Threw it in the Tyne with an onion after that.

I need to know more about the onion. Is that a thing?

Toomanysquishmallows · 06/06/2023 06:01

I got rid of a dress I was wearing when dd2 had a horrendous sickness bug! On a happier note , I’ve kept the top I was wearing when I met dp.

CabbageKale · 05/06/2023 14:32

emsie12345 · 04/06/2023 21:48

I had a cursed top from H&M in the early naughties. I looked so cute in it. The first time I wore it my flat caught on fire. The second time I was mugged. The third a bee sting. Threw it in the Tyne with an onion after that.

People have written books with less of a plot than that ! I’m still laughing at the onion!

sayanythingelse · 05/06/2023 14:25

I lost a baby at 20 weeks a couple of years ago and I sold the majority of the non maternity clothes that I wore whilst I was pregnant. They just reminded me of the baby too much. I kind of shot myself in the foot though because I got pregnant again quickly and after I'd had DS, I had no clothes to wear cos I'd sold them all on Vinted.

Those clothes weren't cursed but I'm pretty sure I used to have a haunted clock.

RampantIvy · 05/06/2023 14:20

I initially thought this was a lighthearted post until I read your update.

Are you really this superstitious? Seriously?

Jagoda · 05/06/2023 14:14

Who are all these weirdos saying OP is BU?

CLEARLY the clothes are cursed!

I had to get rid of a thick Starsky and Hutch style cardigan I wore by my aunts bed as she was dying.

Good excuse to buy uncurled replacements OP.

Zarataralara · 05/06/2023 14:11

monicagellerbing · 04/06/2023 17:09

I gave away the top I wore when I sat with my dad while he died, no way could I have worn it again without being reminded of that morning

I can totally understand that.
I would never have worn the outfit I wore to my dh’s funeral again.
But our clothes weren’t cursed in any way, we just hated the events they were related to.

SisterAgatha · 05/06/2023 13:47

I do remember very small details about bad and good days generally. I know that I will remember too so if I have a job interview or important appointment in the morning or something, I’ll do something memorable in the afternoon so it goes down in my head as “the day I saw xyz” instead of the day I didn’t get a job.

clothes wise, I could tell you what I was wearing most days, but I am not good at recalling what was said, so maybe it’s just more of a visual memory thing.

Wishawisha · 05/06/2023 13:19

LindorDoubleChoc · 04/06/2023 19:19

Reading back - I don't know what I was wearing on the day my father died. Aibu?

Yes this is what stands out to me too. I think I am missing the clothes gene.. they just don’t mean much to me.

I know what I wore to my wedding and I wore the same t shirt to give birth in both times (just for practical reasons) but I don’t know what I was wearing when, say, I miscarried both times, or what I was wearing when I went for my D&C, or what DC or I was wearing when they broke bones or had other A&E trips. I couldn’t even vaguely tell you. Almost certainly the clothes I was wearing on bad days just went into the wash and then right back into circulation without a thought.

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Sorrynotsorry22 · 05/06/2023 00:21

I'm so glad l'm not the only one. Love all these answers especially those that have serious reasons for associating clothing with bad experiences.

I think l keep mine because of the cost and because l chose and liked them
I don't think l have lucky clothing but will look just incase
As for my own cursed clothing? It's time to let go, into the next charity bag they go! To be appreciated by someone else .

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dishyrishi · 04/06/2023 22:32

Yes, wore my favourite top (at the time) to my mothers funeral, couldn't wear it again after that

SmellsLikeTeenSpirits · 04/06/2023 22:30

Could you have them exorcised?

OnMyWayToSenility · 04/06/2023 22:19

Ooh weird I didn't know there was such a thing as in my clothing, but I refuse to wear other peoples clothes!

Years ago bought my son a set of pjs from a charity shop ttey we're almost brand new and from John Lewis, and he was so sick that night, awful.

Washed the pjs and he wore them again and was as sick as the previous night.. random feeling unwell so sick like he'd been possessed.. threw them away after that as I didn't want the energy anywhere near me. Very odd, my kid now an adult still remembers the cursed pjs

ISeeMisledPeople · 04/06/2023 22:06

emsie12345 · 04/06/2023 21:48

I had a cursed top from H&M in the early naughties. I looked so cute in it. The first time I wore it my flat caught on fire. The second time I was mugged. The third a bee sting. Threw it in the Tyne with an onion after that.

Why the onion?

Pigstrotter · 04/06/2023 21:58

Years ago I was wearing a boob tube & some stilettos, as I went over on the shoe I fell off the pavement & into the road & my boob tube slipped down. Were these cursed?

emsie12345 · 04/06/2023 21:48

I had a cursed top from H&M in the early naughties. I looked so cute in it. The first time I wore it my flat caught on fire. The second time I was mugged. The third a bee sting. Threw it in the Tyne with an onion after that.

2gorgeousboys · 04/06/2023 21:29

I know what you mean. My wedding dress was delayed coming from America because of 911, had red wine spilt on it during our wedding day and a week after we got married it went up in flames when we had a house fire. Thankfully the marriage has lasted longer 🤣

wouldthatbeworse · 04/06/2023 21:09

I couldn’t rewear the clothes I was in when diagnosed with a miscarriage. Not because they were cursed but because they made me too sad. A prang and a twisted ankle I think I could re-wear the stuff

SisterAgatha · 04/06/2023 21:02

YANBU. In the same vein, I have a lucky dress!

Idlechitchat · 04/06/2023 21:00

I get where you’re coming from OP! My DC had a serious accident years ago and I had to throw away both of our outfits even though he made a full recovery. I also couldn’t wear the clothes again that I was wearing when I had a MC. I wouldn’t say that I thought the clothes were cursed but they just had too much negativity associated with them.