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Topic: Ideas for former wedding dress?
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Helen of Troy
♀ 26419
Member # 26419 |  Posted: 1:08 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 |     |
20+ years ago cost me $800. It's been sealed. I want to do something with it this month anti-versary that is theraputic for me to mark the occaision, my benefit. Giving it to kids not an option I want to consider.
Ideas?
Donate?
Shred?
Thanks in advance, I'm so not a creative person.
Posts: 4755 | Registered: Dec 2009 |
Phoenix1
♀ 38928
Member # 38928 |  Posted: 1:09 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
Bonfire... 
BS - Me
XPOS - too many OW/OCs over 20+yrs
Kids - DDs 23,18 -DS20 Deceased
M Dissolved 2013
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man ~ Shakespeare, Hamlet
Posts: 1375 | Registered: Apr 2013 | From: Rising out of Hell's ashes! |
Helen of Troy
♀ 26419
Member # 26419 | | Posted: 1:12 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
Excellent, Phoenix I even have a bonfire pit.
Posts: 4755 | Registered: Dec 2009 |
ButterflyGirl
♀ 38377
Member # 38377 | | Posted: 2:37 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
Hmm, I hadn't thought about this yet.. Maybe I'll go with cutting it up into rags and cleaning the toilets and THEN put it in the fire pit..
xBW~ 35
Two DS~ 7-Eleven
Posts: 2805 | Registered: Feb 2013 | From: Florida |
CallMeRed1
♀ 36870
Member # 36870 | | Posted: 3:31 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I'd sell it (if possible) and buy something you really want with the money. Like a weekend away or something.
Mine is still in my attic, not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, for some reason I don't want to get rid of it just yet...
D-Day 19 July 2012
Me - BS - 42
Status: Divorced
Posts: 187 | Registered: Sep 2012 | From: England |
Rebreather
♀ 30817
Member # 30817 | | Posted: 3:32 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
http://myexwifesweddingdress.com/
A suggestion!
Me BS
Him WH
2 ddays in '07
Rec'd.
"The cure for the pain, is the pain." -Rumi
Posts: 6831 | Registered: Jan 2011 |
numbandnauseous
♀ 34525
Member # 34525 | | Posted: 3:33 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
Thanks for the link, Rebreather!
BS (me) - 41
WH - 48, EA with HS GF x 2
M: 10 years, T: 20
2 small children
DDay#1 - Christmas 2011 (OW#1)
Confronted - 4/6/12
DDay#2 - July 9, 2012 (OW#2)
He is an SA (Oct 2012)
Divorcing
Posts: 827 | Registered: Jan 2012 | From: the other side |
gma56
♀ 19595
Member # 19595 |  Posted: 3:40 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I trashed it and burned some wedding stuff. I did give the wedding photo album to FT when I was throwing crap in a box for him. 
Thought he needed a reminder of what he threw away. There were pictures with our friends, family, kids, and late Moms. I have no idea if he looked at it.
Gma
BW-Divorced
It's my life now, my choices, my mistakes to make and my victories to celebrate. His choices made me free of liars and betrayers in my life. That is priceless.
Posts: 20395 | Registered: May 2008 | From: Closer to where I want to be.. |
nutmegkitty
♀ 33882
Member # 33882 | | Posted: 3:42 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I stuffed mine into a Salvation Army bin. 
me (BS)
him (NPD Ex)
2 dds
DDay 10/7/11
OW
OC
Divorced 1/17/2013
"Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend, freedom is."
Posts: 2641 | Registered: Nov 2011 | From: MA |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 3:48 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I wore my Mother's dress. It's in my garage, sealed up in a box. I can't bring myself to get rid of or destroy HER dress. My parents have been married 56 years as of next Saturday. Surely hat outweighs any potential tarnish from my marriage.
You can call me NIK
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön
Posts: 28224 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
hoya96
♀ 28851
Member # 28851 | | Posted: 5:36 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I donated mine to brides against breast cancer (http://www.bridesabc.org/).
Me: 40 and fabulous!
3 children ages 10, 12 and 14
Ex said he wanted separation 2/14/10
DDay #1: 5/23/10 18 month affair with his 22 yr old paralegal
DDay #2 9/22/10 my best friend, now his wife
Divorced: 12/10/10
Re-married a wonderful man.
Posts: 330 | Registered: Jun 2010 |
Pippy
♀ 16482
Member # 16482 | | Posted: 10:49 PM, June 2nd (Sunday), 2013 | |
I've seen ideas like making fancy pillows to decorate your bed, or christening gowns for your grandchildren, but I just said 'nah' and burned it. It was a relief not to have to store it and drag it with me when I moved. Glad it's gone. It was too out of style to donate BTW.
I divorced him because I didn't like his girlfriend.
Posts: 9588 | Registered: Oct 2007 | From: East of the Rockies |
sunshine226
♀ 38851
Member # 38851 | | Posted: 6:18 AM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
a friend of mine used hers as a Halloween costume, teared it up a bit and put fake blood all over it, her theme was "killer bride". She found it very refreshing to pretend to be a wife who killed her wh and ow, if only for a night
Me-BS (44)
Him-WS (47)
DDay 1/1/2012, common law for 22 1/2 years when he began A in September 2011
Status: moving on without him
Posts: 234 | Registered: Mar 2013 |
Mack9512
♀ 38619
Member # 38619 | | Posted: 6:33 AM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
The disaster relief organizations for Hurricane Sandy and the Oklahoma tornadoes would LOVE to get a wedding dress.
"If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." - Paulo Coehlo
Posts: 425 | Registered: Mar 2013 | From: East Coast |
Bluebird26
♀ 36445
Member # 36445 | | Posted: 6:34 AM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
Burn it.
Donate it.
If you google trash the dress images, you may get some other ideas.
Give it to a child care centre for dress ups?
Recycle it.
Me: BW
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
Posts: 1451 | Registered: Aug 2012 | From: Australia |
GreenMom
♀ 36385
Member # 36385 | | Posted: 8:59 AM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
I donated mine. Just wanted it out of the house quickly.
DD#1 6/14/12
DD#2 7/29/12
Reconcilation attempt didn't last long...WH moved out 8/10/12
Divorcing... hoping to be done soon
Making a fantastic NB for myself and my family!
Posts: 535 | Registered: Aug 2012 |
Helen of Troy
♀ 26419
Member # 26419 | | Posted: 11:01 AM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
FYI
http://www.bridesabc.org/
At this time, we are in need of contemporary gown styles, slips and veils dating from 2009 until the present day.
Posts: 4755 | Registered: Dec 2009 |
Gr8Lady
♀ 36307
Member # 36307 | | Posted: 12:35 PM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
My first thought was put a match to it...... Voila burn baby burn.
Then I thought donate or sell depending on your financial situation.
You are the better person , but that doesn't mean we don't each have those thoughts.
Take the high road . Always
BS: Me (63yo)
FWH: HIM (65yo) serial infidelities over past 35 years
OW: Many, most recent 1/2 his age
DD: Multiple unconfirmed until 2012 when I presented evidence, plus LTA with his friends wife lasting 10 years. TT over past year
So done,
Posts: 636 | Registered: Jul 2012 |
ruinedandbroken
♀ 29250
Member # 29250 | | Posted: 7:34 PM, June 3rd (Monday), 2013 | |
I sold mine at a garage sale. 
“People who cheat feel that life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever have my soul surgically removed."
Me: BS 42. Him: WH 41 2 Kids 6&9
Married 14 yrs Together 21
Posts: 1583 | Registered: Aug 2010 |
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