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Dressing gown pockets

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60sbird · 10/10/2020 10:26

Am I the only one with magpie tendencies when wearing my dressing gown, I just went to wash mine and cannot believe the junk I’ve e picked up and put in there

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BashfulClam · 10/10/2020 10:31

Mine is fullof kit Kat wrappers. Sorry, not sorry.

FindMeInTheSunshine · 10/10/2020 10:36

Not at all. If I can't find something small my dressing gown pocket is the place to check! Don't tell the fashion industry otherwise they'll start adding pockets until it looks like a safari jacket, then I'll never find anything again.

FallonsTeaRoom · 10/10/2020 10:40

Mine has a random assortment of things that I've popped in them while doing bits and bobs in the morning ”oh that doesn't live there, I'll move that” so is a child's treasure trove of elastic bands, pen tops, screw-top lids, used envelopes, lip salve, nail file, hair bobbles etc...

Paranoidmarvin · 10/10/2020 10:50

I’m a house keeper in a huge house. My apron is my dressing gown pocket. I get home and sort through what is in there Grin

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60sbird · 10/10/2020 11:03

Mines got, quality street wrappers, hair band, a wrist sweat band, twist tie and coins

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TheQueef · 10/10/2020 11:08

I wear a day robe (dressing gown) every day so have a few.
The pockets on each one are bulging with shite and reams of mucky kitchen roll.
They're shameful Blush

Mumof3almost4 · 10/10/2020 11:11

I have a bad habit of biting my false nails off when I'm due a new set and put them in my dressing gown pocket. I know I am disgusting GrinBlush

FallonsTeaRoom · 10/10/2020 11:12

Oh and the coins! Where do they come from? We haven't been to a shop in months. We only used cards to pay in shops and bars anyway, no one has been in the house since February yet I keep finding a 10p or 20p coin in odd places around the house. I move them to the desk drawer yet I will then find another one later! 👀

TheQueef · 10/10/2020 11:37

Two old style pound coins doing the rounds since 2018 and odd socks.
I seem to hide odd socks in my pockets with odd used screws.
We have many other socks and screws but I save the outliers in my pocket.

ReeseWitherfork · 10/10/2020 11:39

I’m quality street wrapper free at the moment but over the festive period it’s quite impressive.

It’s when I find things like a spoon in there that amazes me.

Itstheprinciple · 10/10/2020 11:53

I love this thread! I have found my people! Hair bobbles, tweezers and yes, yes, yes to the quality street wrappers over Christmas!

TheQueef · 10/10/2020 11:55

Always tweezers.
ALWAYS.
Got a tweezerman slant in every robe, I like to pick.

FairFriday · 10/10/2020 11:56

I thought it was just me - chocolate biscuit wrappers, labels off packages, dust bunnies, random bits of thread locked up off the floor... and (has a ferret) a pair of knickers....(I have just got out the shower).

exexpat · 10/10/2020 11:59

I was once given a dressing gown with no pockets. Totally useless, had to go. Where are you meant to put the phone, tissues, hair clips and so on? The pocketless one was from M&S - they should really know better. I have a fluffy Asda one now with useful-sized pockets.

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60sbird · 10/10/2020 16:11

ReeseWitherfork
I very stupidly picked up a couple of tubs the other week in case we get trick or treaters knocking and have almost finished a tub, my partner doesn’t know I’ve opened them so I’ve hidden them so he does eat any

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TheLastStarfighter · 10/10/2020 16:16

😂😂😂 you are all disgusting! 😁

I don’t keep anything in my dressing gown pockets. It would spoil the line.

StanfordPines · 10/10/2020 16:19

Not my dressing gown pocket but playground duty coat. (I keep a coat at school for all eventualities).
Every time I put it on I find random bits of tat in the pockets that are presented to me by children. Small dinosaurs, hair clips, hair ties, coins, random plastic toys, buttons, counters...

bigpurplefuryknickers · 10/10/2020 22:15

Tweezers, hand cream, hair band, empty Maltesers share bag (didn't even offer them one) & a stegosaurus!

stardance · 10/10/2020 22:16

Me too. Currently I have a newspaper cutting, DS's phone, a nit comb, two hair ties.

Thelnebriati · 10/10/2020 22:30

Apparently I carry tissues, biscuits and crisps in mine, going by the fluff & crumbs.

Itstheprinciple · 11/10/2020 20:17

@StanfordPines

Not my dressing gown pocket but playground duty coat. (I keep a coat at school for all eventualities). Every time I put it on I find random bits of tat in the pockets that are presented to me by children. Small dinosaurs, hair clips, hair ties, coins, random plastic toys, buttons, counters...
Oh yes! My school coat always has an assortment of crap in the pocket!
DazzlingDee · 11/10/2020 20:30

I found my lost debit card in mine this morning!

FairFriday · 11/10/2020 21:17

Why do so many people have tweezers? What are you all doing with them?

ReeseWitherfork · 11/10/2020 21:19

Why do so many people have tweezers? What are you all doing with them?

Got to have them to hand for when I notice that evil solo chin hair come back again.

Redcrayons · 11/10/2020 21:24

Always tissues.
Hair things.

The spare key that I told ds off for losing, good job I found it before I followed through on my threat to make him pay to get the locks changed.

A peg which I found still attached to some washing and is on its way to the peg box in the garden