I realized this morning that my pink leopard-spotted pyjama bottoms
were bitty clothes.

I don't think I ever told this story here so:

When Dylan first found bitties (lo those 3 long years ago), we made a
nest for them in a cardboard box, as they were only 3 weeks old.  We
filled bottles with warm water to keep them warm (they can't control
their own body heat at that age) but we needed something soft to put on
the water bottles, so we used an old cloth.

WELL.  Little bitties made little bitty milk-poops and that cloth was
super nasty in less than a day.  So nasty that Dylan couldn't imagine
washing it in a machine with our other clothes, and it cost us $1.50
per wash load, which is an awful lot for one cloth that might not even
wash clean.

So we threw it out.  But now what do we do?  I didn't want to use rags,
since those had been used for scrubbing and dusting, and didn't want
bitty to come in contact with any chemical residue.

WELL.  Dylan had hoarded up a TON of T-shirts with rips, holes in them,
stains, etc that I'd been bugging him to throw out (he didn't want to,
and continued to wear them.)  But now, not only were we about to move
in 3 weeks, not only did those clothes look bad, but bitties NEEDED
something to sleep on.  The hunt was on for "bitty clothes."

I contributed 2 pairs of jeans (holes in the butt) an old night shirt,
a stained sweater and some underwear...Dylan's collection of icky
shirts was decimated.  We'd go through 2 or 3 bitty-clothes a day for 2
weeks.  At 5 weeks they were litter trained, and just in time because
we were about to drive them 1,000 miles cross country....

And since then, anything too worn, torn or stained to be presentable
any longer is called...bitty clothes.

--Fil