We have to clear the barn before we can move, so I’m tackling some of my mum’s boxes.
I found one good-sized shoe box (I think in may have help a pair of my dad’s shoes) marked GLOVES. There are ten gloves in there – three for the right hand and seven for the left. One of the right hand gloves is a long formal item in a sort of pinky-orange shade. Most of the other gloves are for driving – leather palm and so forth – and few seem to be real leather. None of them fit me, and none of them match any of the others. If there had been a left and a right driving glove, I could wear them; who cares if they match? But no such luck.
Beats me.
thisendoftheswamp 
Send all that stuff to Goodwill. Halloween is coming and many go there for stuff to make costumes. That orange/pink one could make a good cock’s comb.
That’s a great idea!
It’s always interesting what we keep isn’t it?🤣
Mum was almost a hoarder. Growing up during the Depression and then living through the shortages of WWII made her save just about everything.
Yes we found that when we cleaned out my grandma’s house who lived through the same time period.
Well, non-matching they may be, but at least having all of one thing in a box is organised – sort of! If they were thin gloves you could turn one of the same-side inside out and have a pair….
One of the right hand gloves is a driving glove, so I can put one of the left hand gloves and have a “pair”. As long as I don’t let anybody see them it’s OK.
I think she was expecting to find the other gloves eventually and then would know where these were to finally match them up. Speaking as a mom with a bag of single mittens and gloves–every year when going through the winter things I find several to match them with. 🙂