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What's your version of 'THE DRESSING GOWN OF DOOM'?

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LoveWillGetYouThere · 29/03/2023 11:01

I'm sat here feeling sorry for myself with a UTI or maybe a kidney infection. I've an appointment in an hour and I was just thinking about how rare it is that I'm poorly to the point where I just need to sleep for a few hours in the day. Then I realised that whenever I'm ill instead of the 'dressing gown of doom' that my husband (and many other men) default too mine is that I take my contact lenses out and only wear my glasses 🙈😂

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BrioNotBiro · 29/03/2023 23:20

The Heinz Tomato Soup of Doom - the only time I ever drink it.

TheTempest · 29/03/2023 23:33

I have a massive fluffy bright blue jumper from primark that makes me look like the Cookie Monster that’s my go to poorly jumper. And some form of pj pants. I’m ill so often I’m considering a back up outfit. 😬😳

parentallyadept · 30/03/2023 00:07

Cookie Monster PJ bottoms and DH's old tatty Superdry hoodie that's at least 4 sizes too big

PogoThePunk · 30/03/2023 06:04

My bed.
Then when I think I'm not dead enough I migrate to the sofa wearing an old pair of leggings and a baggy t.shirt which has ' if you're close enough to read this, you're close enough to catch my bug ' splashed across the front of it.

TakeMyStrongHand · 30/03/2023 07:00

Fake oodie, tracksuit bottoms but I live in these post covid. Oh no!

Bra comes off when I'm tired or ill but if I'm honest, that's after a certain point of the day too.

I'm a slob!

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/03/2023 08:18

My good to thing is having cosy diluting juice. Usually ribena

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LoveWillGetYouThere · 30/03/2023 08:26

Loving all these. I managed to sleep pretty well so I'm back in my jeans for the school run but I'm still in my glasses. Which made chopping an onion for tea very uncomfortable 🙈

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LarsyC · 30/03/2023 08:42

My sister has what I call "The Trousers of Despair". I know its a bad day when those go on. :)

ssd · 30/03/2023 09:47

I'll really need to up my game.
So many of these are just normal hanging round the house looks for me...

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LoveWillGetYouThere · 30/03/2023 12:14

ssd · 30/03/2023 09:47

I'll really need to up my game.
So many of these are just normal hanging round the house looks for me...

😂that's fine obviously, do you mix it up if you are poorly?

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OnlyFannys · 30/03/2023 12:16

I'm a massive slob so always look like crap around the house in comfy clothes. I do go for heavy carbs when I'm feeling shit though so maybe tuna pasta of doom

ssd · 30/03/2023 12:18

@LoveWillGetYouThere , no, not really Blush

KathieFerrars · 30/03/2023 12:28

@ssd I'm with you. Bra o'clock happens as soon as the last dog walk occurs and I lnow I am not going out.

Sprogonthetyne · 30/03/2023 12:33

I have a special mug I only ever use for lemsip. It's the last surviving one from a set I bought when I left home at 18, and has the prefect volume to make it so it's not to watery.

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LoveWillGetYouThere · 30/03/2023 14:48

KathieFerrars · 30/03/2023 12:28

@ssd I'm with you. Bra o'clock happens as soon as the last dog walk occurs and I lnow I am not going out.

Until your neighbour comes round asking you to help them catch a mouse in their living room and your boobs flail about as much as you do chasing it round 😳

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tatteddear · 30/03/2023 14:58

I've got an old and very Tatty fleece that my mum got me for the school sky trip in 1995. It's now called 'the poorly jumper' and is my go to when under the weather. It's held up surprisingly well. It seems my mum was right about the quality of Maine New England at Debenhams (though I loathed it at the time and wanted Naff Naff everything Grin)

RenoDakota · 30/03/2023 15:03

Light and dark blue striped fleecy onesie that used to be my son's when he was about 12. I look like a cross between a convict, a Teletubby and Wee Willie Winkie in it but I don't care.

LubaLuca · 30/03/2023 15:13

The poncho of pity. It comes out when I need someone to notice I'm not 100%. It's a weird Mexican design, very 'look at me now'.

Mumsnut · 30/03/2023 15:23

The Oodie of Indolence

gogohmm · 30/03/2023 15:29

Old joggers, also used for sleeping in camping

butterfliedtwo · 30/03/2023 15:32

Onesie

Giggorata · 30/03/2023 15:35

I am completely opposite from ColdHandsHotHead, as I usually drink copious amounts of tea and go right off it when I’m ill. The Tea Refusal is the First Sign.

The Second Sign is me going to bed before midnight, the Early Night of Infirmity
If I'm ill or we're having a cold snap, I have Boudicca's Bed, which is a bunch of faux fur throws on top and makes me feel (and look) like an ancient Celt, especially with the ill hair, smudged mascara and droopy bosom.

The Third Sign is the Hooded Black Dressing Gown of Doom but I wear one of them over my clothes throughout the cold weather, as I'm a chilly person on meds, so it would be hard to tell if I'm ill or just cold.
I'm such a sex magnet…

the80sweregreat · 30/03/2023 15:39

An old pair of navy joggers out of Peacocks that I found in my son's wardrobe years ago and he had never worn.
They wash up lovely and v comfy, but the elastic is going a bit now. Must have cost about £4.99
Classy.

JudgeJ · 30/03/2023 19:11

BrioNotBiro · 29/03/2023 23:20

The Heinz Tomato Soup of Doom - the only time I ever drink it.

An old friend who had spent most of his career on board HM ships used to say that in the middle of the night on a rolling stormy sea Heinz tomato soup was the best thing on earth.

JudgeJ · 30/03/2023 19:16

KathieFerrars · 30/03/2023 12:28

@ssd I'm with you. Bra o'clock happens as soon as the last dog walk occurs and I lnow I am not going out.

When I was teaching, in Summer when I got to the traffic lights I prayed for them to be red because I could get my bra off before they changed! A number of times I had to get the other side off at the second set of lights! Such a relief, peeling it off a sweaty body was bliss.