If your Dh owned this coat, would you make it mysteriously ‘Disappear’

[Cantbearsedwiththosepeskyelves]

I hate it!

He has lots of lovely clothes, new coat this winter, but always pulls this horror out. A hillbilly, scruffy, donkey jacket.
I realise it’s up to him what he wants to wear and he’s a grown man and it would be wrong for it to mysteriously‘Disappear’

But…would you make this coat mysteriously disappear?

Goodness gracious me! There are some very uptight & dramatic people on here with absolutely no idea how to sense a bit of lightheartedness. I’m exhausted reading it with the usual gasps of ‘abusive!’

Op, I would want it to disappear too🤣 but I feel there are other ways for the the coats demise. Could you get him to wear it to the pub, let him get drunk & suggest a kebab with chilli sauce maybe? He’s bound to drop some. Red sauces stain & it would be entirely his fault that his lovely coat has to be binned?

🤣 made me laugh!

My dh has a similar one, except it's very old as it was his grandfathers. I just let it live in his garden office with him. Thankfully he doesn't wear it

I once met back up with a holiday romance we went back to the location we met for a weekend as we were both from different countries. He was so different to what I remembered and wore an absolutely awful grubby looking hat like awful! I lobbed it off the hotel balcony, unfortunately it got stuck in a tree he noticed and went and retrieved it 🤣
I do realise this was actually wrong of me but the hat was truly embarrassing.

I agree! There are still some funny replies here (del boy, mullets, dog beds!) but you have to sift through all the absolute pearl clutchers!

MN used to have me in stitches.

🤣👏👏 brilliant!

I’d take the piss massively but if he likes it and it made him happy then he can wear it

i might walk 10 paces in front of him

It's not a donkey jacket, it's a dead sheep coat, very Del boy. Be thankful it's not an actual donkey jacket, as worn by Stan Ogden from Corrie, worn with a lovely brown nylon poloneck sweater IIRC.

I’m wheezing - that’s hilarious 😂😂

In the kindest way, it depends what your DH is like.

I can vaguely remember 2 men wearing similar coats and it looked really good on them but they were able to pull it off.
So it depends whether he can or not.

I’m sure there are lots of clothes of yours that he would like to disappear too though and so I say each to their own and wear what you like.

'Exhausted' FFS. 😆

I threw away a pair of my husband’s tightie-whitie boxer shorts last week.

So old they had tuned grey, and had a hole in the crotch so big his balls hung down.

Was this controlling or have I saved his testicles from certain strangulation?

I do sympathise with the coat situation, OP. My husband has worn - and adored - an ugly red fleece for 15 years. I wish he’d lose it!

Did he ever say "I've got a suit just like that"?

I threw away a pair of my husband’s tightie-whitie boxer shorts last week.
So old they had tuned grey, and had a hole in the crotch so big his balls hung down.

🤮

Bit daft to compare a totally knackered pair of boxer shorts, and a perfectly decent, still-wearable coat. 🙄

I like it. I'm all for creative dressers.

Depending on the gullibility (or not) of your DH you could simply bung it in the bin and next time he asks for it, say something like ‘but we talked about this darling, don’t you remember, you said it was getting a bit tatty and should go out’. This has worked for me many times over the course of 30 years of marriage, but admittedly, yours might be a bit more on the ball than mine x

A perfectly wearable shit coat.

My DH moved in with a denim jacket with sheepskin collar which he wore with denim jeans. It was all very Shakin Stevens. After a while I suggested it went in the charity bag and he agreed. No bullying.

When I was younger my Dad got into weight training and bought a pair of speedo trunks. My Mum chucked them away when they came back off holiday as she didn't like them.

There is no abuse in either of the two relationships.

My dh is an absolute scruff. He has sensory issues, hates wearing new clothes and tends to wear things until they actually disintegrate.
Some items become so dreadfully threadbare I have flung them out.
He'll say, "Have you seen my blue jumper?" and I'll look regretfully nonplussed and reply, "No...when did you last see it?".
Rinse and repeat until he forgets about existence of said blue jumper which is long gone.
No remorse, no regrets.

Am I the worst?

I actually quite like it 😳 but it could use a good wash.

As long as you would be happy for him to chuck your old clothes out then that's fair enough.

No, it’s his coat and he obviously likes it. I think that ‘making it disappear’ would be really nasty and actually quite disrespectful.

Bless him, it’d be alright for going down the dog track, but you wouldn’t wear it if you were visiting royalty.

Tbh, it happened more when we were younger. He has actually got a little more discerning in his old age and will toss things out of his own accord.
I have never worn clothes into that state. I can't imagine holding on to them.