RE: Just the essentials or all the bells and whistles?
September 17, 2021 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2021 at 11:55 am by arewethereyet.)
Though not things with lots of bells and whistles, when I took up sewing again last year I found that there are a lot of handy gadgets now that didn't exist when last I was sewing regularly.
Oh my gosh...all the cool things! Like my husband and his tools...he has wrenches and sockets and from tiny to huge (for working on semis), I now have a rather embarassingly large collection. I still have sewing things from when I was in high school and still use some of them but the new stuff out there...yeah, I need to try this out...and I need to try that too. Since my girls and my son's girlfriend have little interest in sewing, there's gonna be a lot of good stuff no one wants or even knows what it's for when I'm gone. Also, like my husband, I take very good care of my 'tools'...that's why I still have things that work just fine from the 70s.
And, I'm with @HappySkeptic on the clothes thing. Since I no longer have to go to an office and follow someone else's dress code, I am in jeans and T-shirts the majority of the time. I'm not hard on shoes or clothes so when I do get something new it lasts a long, long time. I have shoes older than some of the people on this forum.
Oh my gosh...all the cool things! Like my husband and his tools...he has wrenches and sockets and from tiny to huge (for working on semis), I now have a rather embarassingly large collection. I still have sewing things from when I was in high school and still use some of them but the new stuff out there...yeah, I need to try this out...and I need to try that too. Since my girls and my son's girlfriend have little interest in sewing, there's gonna be a lot of good stuff no one wants or even knows what it's for when I'm gone. Also, like my husband, I take very good care of my 'tools'...that's why I still have things that work just fine from the 70s.
And, I'm with @HappySkeptic on the clothes thing. Since I no longer have to go to an office and follow someone else's dress code, I am in jeans and T-shirts the majority of the time. I'm not hard on shoes or clothes so when I do get something new it lasts a long, long time. I have shoes older than some of the people on this forum.
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