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[CatrionaGrace]

I have clothing made with natural fiber/synthetic fiber mixes that maintain many properties of natural fabrics while imbuing them with non-wrinkle properties as well. The more synthetics in the mixture, the less wearing comfort, but each person's tolerance is different.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I've got some shirts that are a cotton-spandex or a polyester-spandex mixture that are comfortable and come out of the washing machine without a wrinkle. I just hang them to dry.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I’ve just started. Using quality clothes again, there’s a massive different between a £20 shirt and a £60 shirt in terms of fit and material

Unfortunately the expensive onesdo need more ironing. Because they are cotton or linen instead of polyester

I don't miss it after wearing suits/dress clothes every day for several decades. I dress like a homeless person now... and my personal habits demeanor are heading in that direction too. Something to look forward to.

 

[Louanne Learning]

It's not a good thing to shampoo your hair too often. They say about once every 3-6 days is enough.

 

[THUNDAIR]

I wore suits for a few years. In the sixties, I was at Gulf Atomics near San Diego, and a white shirt and tie were required. The management was filled with John Birchers, and everyone there was uptight. I came back a few years later and everyone was dressed like a hippie — bell-bottom pants, flowered shirts and sandals. What was funny was their badges still had their picture in a suit and close-cut hair.

 

[Louanne Learning]

There's this rule that you are never supposed to wear sandals in a science room but sometimes I did.

 

[Homer Potvin]

There's this rule that you are never supposed to wear sandals in a science room but sometimes I did.

Ditto in a kitchen. Already this year, I've burned the top of my foot carrying grill oil and cut the underside of my big toe when a glass rack disintegrated in my hands. Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I don't like wearing socks. As soon as I can get them off and get into crocs, I'm there. This happens in April.

 

[THUNDAIR]

When I was at a company called UTC, they made all the engineers that had business in the machine shop get steel-toed boots. I still have mine in the box. I found a workaround and never had to wear them.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I haven't ironed a piece of clothing in years.

I’ve just started. Using quality clothes again, there’s a massive different between a £20 shirt and a £60 shirt in terms of fit and material

Unfortunately the expensive onesdo need more ironing. Because they are cotton or linen instead of polyester

Moose is right. I work in an office so I own quite a few cotton and linen button-down shirts (cotton for winter/autumn, linen for summer - easier to breathe in), and I always wash and iron my shirts.

I don't mind. My ironing board is in my bedroom by the window, and my bedroom has a ceiling fan (which comes in handy in summer, when it's hard to sleep). So when I iron, I just put on the fan.

It's very peaceful. Gives me time think about plot complications, if I feel up to it, or not think about anything, if I don't.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I don't go through many envelopes these days. One just does not send much snail-mail these days.

When I was a kid, I remember sending a letter to my cousin in Alberta once a week. They spent summers here in Niagara, so we grew close. She actually ended up moving here, and we see each other a lot more often now!

 

[Set2Stun]

Snail mail was fun, especially around birthday time and Christmas. My best snail mail story is that when I was a little kid, I mailed my favourite hockey player his rookie card and a letter introducing myself and asking him if he could sign it for me. And he actually did, and mailed it back to me with his own letter. I was over the moon.

For clothing, ever since I started working from home, I pretty much just wear boxers/pajama shorts and a t-shirt. I refuse to use my camera for meetings, so it's all gravy. Being comfortable is my priority !

 

[Louanne Learning]

When I was about 12, I sent a fan letter to Paul McCartney. I got a reply, but it was a form letter inviting me to join his fan club - and asking for money! My bubble was burst. I never sent another fan letter again.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

It's not a good thing to shampoo your hair too often. They say about once every 3-6 days is enough.

They didn't have my hair experience or they'd have rethought that little bit of information. I washed my hair every day of my life from the time I was around 11 (puberty) until I was around 60 (well past reverse puberty). Had I not done so, I'd have looked like a refugee from an oil spill 2-6 days at a time. Most of my life, I've had between two and three feet of hair, and all that washing never did it a bit of harm.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Snail mail was fun

Gather round kids, look at this email I sent your grandmother 20 years ago.

We've held onto a few snail mails from family history, mostly in the family home. My brother sent one from London in the 1980's, mostly a cartoon depiction of a particularly terse situation that's still hilarious. I have a birthday card from my son for my 40th, when he was about 8, that's similarly drawn in chaotic style.