Paint Clothes

Over my time as a painter, I went through four t-shirts and four pairs of pants.  I only brought one pair of pants home as I knew I'd use them and they were still in good shape.  

There was a day when I first began working in the paint department that Elder Fred Mensel told me that I was finally officially part of the crew as my name tag had paint on it.  I had cleaned it and rubbed some of the words off.  After that I just left it.

When it got cold, I knew I had a coat at home that could be used for winter.  

I wore it for many years and recently just used it when I was shoveling snow.  Now it has found it's way to the dumpster.  A lot of years in that coat.  It served me well.