To not want a jacket from the 1990s? Who's BU?

[Notinterested19]

Just that really. MIL is a hoarder and has still kept most of DHs stuff from his childhood. She bought round a leather jacket that he wore in 1999 when he was 9 years old, we're both 28 and have a DS who's 6, DH and MIL insist we keep it til DS can fit it. She's also a smoker, and smokes in her house so anything she brings round reeks of smoke. I don't want it, AIBU? I don't mind toys, but clothes really? From the 90s?

Actually the jacket looks decent.
My eldest is 22 and I forgot we had all his ski stuff in a cupboard hidden away from when he was 5 to 11, so some of it is 17 years old. The brands are still making the same stuff and it diesnt look any different really. Obviously advances in material have been made but still solid stuff. Our friend couldn't take it from us fast enough for her lads. Somethings don't date badly and we dont smoke so there isn't that lingering smell.

It's a good quality jacket, in very decent condition. I don't see why ypu're so against holding onto it. If it was a few raggy tshirts or something hideously ugly fair enough.

If its not your thing either tell her to take it back or pass it on to someone else/charity shop/ whatever.

Don't bin something perfectly useful just because you don't want to store it.

If that's real leather, OP then definitely keep it. Particularly as your dp wants to.

Unless this is just a "aren't old women/MILs horrible and bonkers" thread. In which case, carry on.

Okay, I've seen the picture. Would be fine for Year 4 Danny Zuko.

Anything after that would obviously need the lapels.

Just go at it with some Febreze and hang it in the shed. Until Year 4.

It looks in really good condition - I wouldn't get rid of it. Just clean it/air it and store it for when your DS is old enough. If he doesn't want it, you could make a fair amount selling it, I would imagine.

Is your dh The Fonz??

No idea if it's real leather or not, it's a Ben Sherman jacket 🤷‍♀️

My boys would fight over that jacket!

If you can't get the smell out though (and I do sympathise with you there, I wouldn't be able to put up with that either!) then at least take it to the charity shop where someone else can benefit.

Doesn't it have care labels inside somewhere to tell you what its made of? Or have they been cut out?

Apparently it's real leather. Does that serial number mean it's from 1985? 😂

I remember when my neighbour handed me down some of her shoes from the 1930's I smiled thanked her and then donated them to a vintage shop. I don't know why she thought I would want them I was 16 at the time and it was the 90s!

Tighnabruaich - I would love my old school reports, wish my mother had kept mine!

Does it matter if it does? Leather jackets last decades if looked after properly!

Definitely an "old people are generally shit" thread. Depressing.

I wouldn't be bothered about the age of the jacket but I damn sure wouldn't want something that reeks of cigarettes in my house, much less on my child.

hmm, it seems a lot of people on here have no idea how valuable vintage clothes can be, just because it's not your thing does not mean it's crazy, but of course up to you if you keep it or not

To all those saying "bin it" - why does the OP get the final say over what does and doesn't come in to the house? Her DH wants to keep it to hand on to his DS, so why does she get to overrule this?

Can you imagine the outcry on here if someone said her DM had come round with some items she fondly remembered from her childhood and which she wanted to pass on to her DD and then the DH threw it out.

@BertrandRussell no ones saying that! If you want the jacket, come and collect it. I'm in London.

It's a lovely jacket. My 9 yr old would love it!

tighna please please please take the old school reports. Great for kids , grandkids, great grandkids to read later, for you to produce at significant birthdays, to go into family archives. If you scan them they won't take up any room, but I would want the originals.

Wouldn't you like to have your grannies old school reports? I know I would.

A couple of years ago my Mil proudly passed on my husband's certificate confirming his graduation from kindergarten. My husband was over 50 at the time.

cranky 17 I do have a jacket from my mum from the fifties. It's an open weave embroidered thing that she bought in Norway . I wore it every summer up until a few years ago when it began to look very frail.

Wouldn't part with it for hard cash, not that anyone is likely to offer it. Waves to Victoria and Albert Museum textile conservationists......

I actually think its worth keeping if only in the hope it may become fashionable again. At worst you can ebay or charity shop it.

The smoke is a problem though. Hang it in the garage for a few weeks then dry clean it maybe?

Yeah I'd say thanks it's lovely then send it to a charity shop.

Viques
Don't be silly. A MIL had asked if Tighna wanted the reports therefore she must be batty andinconsiderate and wanting to dump her rubbish on a poor DIL!
That's the way it generally rolls with a MIL thread!!

OP, I know you said the jacket was DH's when he was 9 and to you that will seem like ages and ages ago but I will bet to your MIL it doesnt seem that long ago and therefore to her it is still a trendy little jacket.
Time goes in a blink of an eye.
You'll see!!

"then send it to a charity shop."

But Op's husband wants to keep it for his son.

Op-tell your husband to get rid of the smell & store it.