I know it's not spring, but I thought it was a good time for a clean out. In fact, not being spring is the reason for the clean out. It's gotten cold over the last few days, especially out walking the dog in the evenings.
So I thought I'd look for a hat.
And I found one. In fact, I found 32 of them!
Two of us live in this house, that's a sum total of 2 heads. How on earth did we end up with, and why on earth do we need 32 hats?
I decided to put some (most) of them into a bag for the charity shop. But it was kinda hard to decide which ones to throw away!
This one I have had for 20 years!
I probably haven't worn it for 15 years! It was my rallying hat. It's leather so it was great for keeping out the wind and rain, much better than the baseball cap that the rally team supplied. My colleagues loved it. They used it as target practice. Because it had a rim, they could throw things (usually food) into it and they would collect there. I didn't mind, you could be a long time waiting around in a ditch for a car to go by on a rally, so having food stored in your hat could be quite useful...
This one, I bought at a Bon Jovi concert.
I know, don't ask. And I wasn't even smoking anything funny! My only excuse is that I might (!) have had a drink, and it was a very hot day, and I wasn't the only one that bought one...
This one, I wore every day when I worked in the Dungeon.
I had to pass the guy with the Metro paper every day, and he always had a newspaper a smile and a good morning greeting for the girl in the pink hat. At least he was happy with his job...
This one I wore on my trip round Ireland on the back of the Harley.
OK, I know it's not really a hat, but it did the same job! It kept my head warm under my helmet and it was pink! There wasn't much pink to be seen among all the black leather that the other bikers wore on that trip! It was easy to spot me...
This one Kevin bought for me.
He went on a trip and this was the present he brought back for me. If you look closely you can see the Manchester United badge on the front! No prize for guessing where he went on the trip, but it was nice that he thought of me...
OK, I wont go through all the hats, but I suppose I have answered the question of how we have managed to accumulate 32 hats.
It's hard to throw out a memory!
I should really put them all in that bag for the charity shop. If I do that, I won't have the hats anymore, but I'll still have the memories! (And a de-cluttered press!)
Now where's that bag of scarves... And that drawer full of gloves...
PS... the KORN hat is not mine!
