#clothing costs go up

[sparrow-in-boots]

ten times divorced idiots <3

#i'm gonna fix my sleep schedule i say #hyperfocusing all night through the cramps #breaking the depression artblock at all costs #anyway John's face is made of countless hands that he puppets when he speaks #also torn up renainssance and medieval style clothing my beloved #might chip away at my KiY design over time tho #John piggybacking on Arthur's shoulders makes my brain go teehee #malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #john doe malevolent #arthur lester #arthur lester malevolent #john malevolent #pardal does art

[sovonight]

i rly am a lineless celshade artist deep down huh :')

#sovo art #sovo highlights #baldur's gate #something i wanna try more sometime is adding flat elements like flat patterns/flat shapes that aren't molded to form at all #anyway i just ordered these as buttons! fingers crossed they turn out well #i was going to draw imoen too but since it's Joint Ache Week i was like actually.... stopping here is fine #also my plan to draw more was before i realized they were gonna end up this detailed skefjnsefk #the color setup is partly from the fake screenshots & partly from the chibis and what rly cost the most hours was keeping #the dedicated shading layers on their clothing instead of just doing simple lines.... that one will rly get ya #xan x radri

[deadmomjokes]

Idk how me, a broad and chubby woman from a long line of broad and chubby women, and my husband, an average-height man from long lines of very tiny women and very average men, managed to produce a child so exceptionally tall, long, & lean that she can't wear store-bought clothes anymore without alteration. Yet here I am, dusting off a sewing machine I barely know how to operate....

#personal #this kid put on 2 inches in less than 3 months y'all #which is about how much she's supposed to grow in a YEAR at this age #while also somehow gaining no weight #i mean literally NONE #she even dropped an ounce overall #so no it wasn't my imagination that all her pants suddenly became too short #while simultaneously getting looser around the waist #and yes we're on top of the weight thing; she has a whole med team helping us out #it's cuz we finally found one of her EOE triggers so now she's eating more diversely and the inflammation is reducing #so her body is getting excited to go for all that growth it was putting off due to lack of nutrients and calories #same thing happened as an infant when she started PPIs for the first time #on my mama's grave she went from 50th percentile to 90th in less than a month #she also has a documented history of massive growth spurts every time her dosage gets upped to match her current size #the lack of weight gain is a bit worrisome tho so we're working on upping her calories as much as possible #but anyway #if anyone has tutorials on Learning To Make Kids Clothes for complete noobs let me know #cuz clothes cost too much for how much they DON'T fit her

[pillowprincessvarric]

I wanna make a longer post about how much like... how much labor there is taking place in the used clothing market that most people don't think/care about. But I have to sleep.

#idk why im so hot about this today but i truly genuinely am #short version: before claiming that something is overpriced try to take into account the following: #a lot more work. upfront cost. and time goes into reselling than you think. #its actually a skillset. and to get any real payout you have to treat it like a legit part time job #and if its a physical location that takes donations #a LOT of man hours go into sorting said donations. because people will just donate garbage straight up. #and then after the usable stuff is sorted out it's getting laundered (<- pretty much every second had store launders their clothes #you know how all goodwills smell the same? its because they all use the same detergent) #THEN each individual item needs to be organized & priced. #hours of work before its even put up for sale. and that also involves labor. #because you need people to actually put it out on the floor and ring it up and etc etc #lets not even get started on the admin hours involved if its a larger store #and if its a smaller store or an individual reseller there's a non-zero chance that they are also repairing and/or #altering items before they put them up for sale. #like sometimes the price really is about greed (the bastards of goodwill try to pull shit sometimes) #but often that's actually just what the item costs after processing

[the-trans-dragon]

Y'know it was REALLY goddamn evil and nefarious that the oil fields gave my mom (a single mom working 3 jobs to raise 2 kids) a single $5,000 check in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure to never complain about them.

Of course we fucking took the money. Even with her working 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs, she barely made over $1,000 a month. Of course she took the money. We though about moving but we still couldn't afford it. She was so frugal with it, though. It did give us a sliver of financial security for years.

But goddamn. $5,000 is table scraps to them, and they bought her silence with it because she couldn't refuse the chance to slightly lessen the weight of poverty on her family.

#sorenhoots #i remember i was like 11 or something. she didnt know if she should sign it. and its not like we had or knew any lawyers. she had ME read it #over and even i was like “this is a nondisclosure and it means you cant ever talk about anything they do even if they do something terrible” #i recall being very proud of myself for knowing what a NDA was. lord knows where my middle-school self learned that from. she did eventually #have a lawyer of some sort look over it and they said the same thing but.... $5000 #it wasnt an option for her. that was more money than wed ever had or saved. she had two kids who would need cars bc we lived so far in the #country. she knew i wanted to go to college. i dont think i ever saw her buy herself clothes before then either. it was money for emergencys #and necessities and birthday presents and road trips and... i often wondered about the person who offered us that. i wondered where they #lived and wondered how much their clothes costed and wondered if their kids got to have art or piano lessons. i wondered if their home was #over 80 degrees in the summer and under 60 in the winter and if they lived in a house that wasnt filled with dangerous spiders (we had nice #spiders too but we did also have Very Dangerous Spiders) and id picture him in his office in a button up and slacks and it would break my #heart that my mom couldnt have all of that. we just had a $5000 check and a vow to not complain. #she still feels earthquakes from it. less nowdays but still. and sometimee it still smells like a jar of hot petroleum jelly. and the attic #smell is worse than ever and the tap water smells like sulfur and wet mold #goddamn what the fuck? jesus christ. she should move.

[maddy-ferguson]

i think the reframing of girls disliking pink and other stereotypically feminine things as internalized misogyny that you should overcome by the time you're an adult woman is an immense feminist loss

#retrospectively... #and like i say: brf slt #like when you think about it. the needing to overcome it. that's crazy?😭 because in the end what are you ACTUALLY encouraging #do i think a lot of girls reject pink at some point growing up in part because it's associated with girls and girls and by extension things #associated with girls are seen as inferior yes...but i think that's kind of a superficial analysis? like maybe it's not just bc we hate #being girls it might also be because liking pink and whatever else is FORCED upon us. and pink itself isnt a big issue its a harmless color #but when you apply that logic to other big things women are encouraged to do...i dont KNOW but SOMEHOW we've come right back to women being #encouraged to like pink and makeup because if they don't they're antifeminists and 'not a girl's girl'? 😭 #i want you to know that as i'm writing this i'm wearing a skirt and tights with hearts on them i dont even have a vested interest in people #thinking stereotypically feminine things like stereotypically feminine clothes are like bad #but yeah when you think like that about pink it's kind of whatever because yes pink/blue is the simplest most basic gender dichotomy #but its not like theres anything actually wrong with the color pink. but when you extend that to things like say shaving and makeup things #that cost women time and money......if you think any critique of that is misogynistic because a lot of women do it/because its things #only women do (almost)...you just have a problem with not just critical thinking but with thinking in general. it's just...very frustrating #and i've thought like this in the past i think it's kind of a step when you're getting into feminism and going hm...this is kind of fucked #up...but i think it's still very superficial and i guess it makes sense that it has a lot of appeal Because it's superficial? #but it's like if you don't think anything needs to change and if you think women who aren't following gender norms as much and who aren't #interested in ''''''reclaiming''''' femininity (bc it's literally just doing what's asked of us 24/7 from birth) are misogynistic for #it...like it's actually crazy you do realize that at the end of the day you're saying you should promote/praise gender roles #and if you disagree you hate women #like at least acknowledge that liking makeup and shaving your legs isn't just about personal taste and liking how smooth legs feel when #in your bed it drives me crazy when people refuse to acknowledge that i remember in high school i told my sister like if you were on a #deserted island would you like heels and she was like yes i would :) and i was like NO we had this conversation for years then she had #sociology classes in high school and she was like okay i see what you mean...like yeah of course you do because i'm right #of course people who think like that are like its about respecting everyone's choices!!!! but they're also very much saying stereotypically #feminine things is the best choice and i think it's so insidious to be expected to get over your distaste (like that's literally just. #what's expected of girls/women in general. not liking things when you're a kid is frowned upon but you're expected to grow out of it and if #you dont then it becomes a real issue) and not being allowed to CRITIQUE IT from a feminist lens is literally crazy like it makes me unwell #they're like um only women wear dresses/skirts why are you implying that pants are more practical and advocating for women to be able to #wear pants do you perhaps hate women especially women who are brave enough to embrace their inner traditional femininity?

[publicuniversalenemy]

doing laundry but at what a cost

#the cost is getting up early and going before work instead of getting an extra hour and a half of sleep #fucked if true #in unit laundry is a need for whereever i move next #its even more important than a dishwasher. at least u dont have to leave home to wash ur dishes by hand. #im soooo sleepy but i am also out of clothing and my scrubs are all dorty and i wouldnt have another chance to do a wash until the weekend #and i Hate going to the laundromat on thr weekend #im braver than the us marines for this #whatever the fuck

[aeide-thea]

me like 'what if i, idk, went to a museum in boston or something. wait why are all these museums so expensive, wtf. i feel like museums in nyc didn't cost this much!!'

turns out, museums in nyc do cost that much but the met and the amnh are pay-what-you-want for ny residents without even having to demonstrate need so i got spoiled, lol sigh

#like. *fully* get that museums have to get funding from somewhere dgmw #but like. when the museums cost thirty bucks to get into and the mall is free… no wonder ppl go shopping instead #(obviously the *clothes* are not free but like. then you *have* them. as opposed to like. the misty memory of an experience) #(which‚ yeah‚ is potentially really valuable!! but it's like. you're paying up front for a mystery box.) #(might really linger and change you! might be totally forgettable! you have no idea… but you gotta pay a significant sum to find out) #just like. you gotta have money coming in to feel comfortable potentially setting some of it on fire for no guaranteed return #and of course like. fundamentally being closed off to uncertainty has its own huge costs!! it's not good! #but. idk. just like. i lived one kind of childhood and i'm now living a pretty different kind of adulthood and like. it's bad‚ lol #anyway it's not like i've got a museum buddy so probably the whole notion was silly from the get-go really. miss having buddies… :(

[queeriboh]

holy shit I did so much laundry today lol

#I get rly paranoid abt Smell #and lately everything has just seemed #idk #extra stinky no matter what I do #but I managed to wash a set of sheets all my towels every single one of them 50% of my wardrobe my shower curtain and my couch pillow cases #and I used hot water instead of cold for a change #and the heavy soil option (which costs 50 cents more) #and I used this downy rinse that's supposed to help get the built up residue off #bc I noticed last time a bunch of my stuff came out literally felt disgusting right out of the dryer #and I'm 90% sure it helped SO SO SO MUCH #everything at least FELT really clean while I was folding it #somebody was eating something in the laundromat tho and i smelled onions while I was folding and almost started crying #bc I got so scared that was my clothes lol #it's hard for me to tell bc I go nose blind rly super fast #but I THINK everything smelled really nice and fresh #except the 2 silk Blankies I sleep w under my head /: #I even soaked them in hot water oxiclean and baking soda for an hour and then just hot water water and baking soda for another 30 minutes #before I washed them #and they FEEL significantlyyyyyyyyyy cleaner and softer and nice #but they still stink /: #but I also can't sleep without them bc I can't stand the feeling or Sound of my pillow #they're my most embarrassing autistic quirk ever lol but I need them to sleep #I have 3 so I can cycle them during the night if I wake up and the one I have wrapped around my face is too warm lol #anyway I'm still not done yet tho!!! I gotta sort out the remaining laundry for my next big haul #(the other half of my closet my activewear and Whites and my other 3 sets of sheets) #and strip / change my bed #and vacuum my bedroom rly well #before I can put away the laundry I did today

[running-in-the-dark]

over the past few days I've switched from watching lots of cleaning videos (which was good because they made me want to clean - though that effect is still there for now) to sewing videos (which is very very bad because now I want to sew more and get a sewing machine that actually works right (I got mine used for like 50€ and it's very basic and a lot of things just keep breaking/not working (which is probably at least in part because I don't know enough about using it correctly)))

#I'm not good at sewing #I don't know what I'm doing at all #but it's sooo much fun (until my stupid sewing machine breaks and I have to spend the rest of the day figuring that out) #I really want to learn how to make clothes and stuff but I won't even try with this sewing machine #now to be clear it's an alright sewing machine and it mostly works fine if you just want to sew a straight line on thin non-stretchy #fabric and never change the yarn. #*thread (I keep mixing those up because they're the same word in German so it's very confusing) #but anything even slightly more complicated or anything with thicker fabric does not work. I've tried so many needles and settings and #solutions I found online #and it just never works consistently #I'm not spending money to get it fixed professionally. no matter how little it would cost it's not worth it #unfortunately I've already found a beginner computer sewing machine and it's expensive (though much less expensive than I would have #thought) and I don't know if I'll be able to get it anytime soon but I really want it 😔😔😔 #but ugh the thought of not having to thread the needle anymore and not putting the bobbin in in the front and fixing all the problems that #come with that is sooo nice #oh yeah my machine also refuses to work with thicker/stronger thread. I've figured out that it does work most of the time if it's just the #bobbin thread. #but like. I don't want to spend hours learning how to fix this stupid machine all the time! I want to learn how to use it to sew! #so yeah this isn't going to work long term. #ugh my dad's ex (the most awful person I've ever met) was a trained seamstress. damn I should have made her teach me 😔 then she would've #been good for something at least instead of just giving me a bunch of additional trauma 🙃 #(but yay at least it seems like I finally don't associate sewing with her and feel terrified just thinking about it anymore!) #personal

[scalpelsister]

being out of the closet as a lesbian but not as masc sure is. a cool experience to have. around family.

#i finally found a dress to wear to a wedding this weekend that i dont hate #fingers crossed it arrives on time. its supposed to get here a day or two before the wedding so #picked out bc its very modest and all black. no cleavage allowed lmao absolutely not #like sure ill look attractive in a nice dress with a full face of make up on (I have to practice makeup again its been like three years) #but at what cost (my dignity and comfort) #this is going to be extra funny bc even when i wore make up it was just like. grungey alt emo kid shit skfjhkfjhskjf idk how to do #classy high femme at ALL lmaoooo #anyways im going to make the best of it but. oh to be able to wear masculine clothing without judgment <3 #my post #eta: for the record if i do end up looking hot. im going to share photos anyways lmao vanity wins fskjhfksjhfksjh #if i cant be my masc self around my family. at least ill pretend to be a hot femme :)

[the-busy-ghost]

Not me genuinely considering trying to wrangle tickets for rugby internationals because at least then I would have an excuse to wear my new skirt

#Look I love clothes but I don't buy them often because shopping in this hellish age of global capitalism is a nightmare #And honestly I don't usually need them but having been inside for most of the last three years I only really own dungarees now #And both because I haven't had other new clothes for a long time and because I'm getting older and trying to raise my clothing game a bit #I've been trying to buy a few comfortable but also loosely smart things so that I don't feel like I'm ten years old all the time #So bit by bit I'm trying to get a few things that I can wear but it's a piecemeal process and women's clothing is a minefield #So the only shirt I own that *might* be able to be worn with my skirt happens to be my Scotland top #(1970s vintage style of course not like a modern rugby top) #This is getting ridiculous but I refuse to let a skirt languish in a cupboard #And bizarrely rugby tickets sometimes cost less than a good white shirt #What a world we live in #Thing is it was hammered into us at school and at home that it was bad manners to wear football tops in public/official spaces #Unless actively attending a match or sporting event #And even though nobody really meant that to extend to rugby tops it sort of stuck in my head and I'm not sure that I'd be comfortable #Wandering around in a Scotland top unless it was either a laundry day or there was an international match on #Also I end up looking vaguely 1980s which was not really the vibe I was going for but oh well

[liesonthefloordramatically]

hello, it should be illegal for sports bras to cost as much as they do

#I'd appreciate it if people didn't reblog this; thanks #guess who is finally checking things off the checklist and updating the wardrobe #I am crying and weeping and sobbing and not rending my clothes because that would be counterproductive #my sense of what clothes should cost is so skewed because I was clothed out of thrift stores for most of my childhood #but every time I have to buy an article of clothing I can feel a part of my soul shriveling up and dying #Queenie actually says something on this blog #wardrobe items remaining: pants (will get in Japan) + shoes + new glasses (this is going to be...expensive)

[queer-crusader]

Nothing brings me closer to the edge of "huh maybe I do have a touch of the autism" than shopping

#anne speaks #as in i fucking DESPISE it unless it's specifically catered to me #i need to be warned about it in advance. i need to know what time we're going. ideally i need to know what time we're done #i have to mentally prepare myself and dedicate a specific amount of energy for the act in advance #and so help me gods if i bring my mum i will full on rage quit within two hours #she's one for 'oh this piece of clothing might be good for you' then holds up the least me thing in the world #or goes all 'uhh i dont know...' concerned if it either shows too much cleavage or is not neat and feminine enough #and then on top of that is like #okay but that costs money so how about we go to an extra store that you werent prepared for to see if they have the same thing but cheaper #you CANNOT add to my mental list of what im expecting im running FAST out of my prepped energy and i WILL start snapping at u #she asked what i would like for my bday and i was like 'well okay i do wanna refresh my wardrobe a little' #she asked what im thinking of style wise but like a) how do i say mum you cant buy me clothes without me feeling like a silicon valley wife #and b) how do i say 'i want butch i want gender i want playful i miss my theatre days i want artist i want boho' #anyway. i have now been convinced to go shopping with my sister who is a lot more tolerable bc she's young and hip and less scared to play #but im still like 'okay what time? okay give me a second to think if i want to go? i need to mentally adjust' #and my mum kept saying 'oh you can go then and after youll come back together' THATS NOT A TIME MOTHER #i need to know! when im going!! so i know how much time i have to mentally prepare #anyway. this is my essay on why shopping makes me autistic #there is Very Little that does this to me. usually i embrace chaos #but oh man. yeah no thanks #anyway fingers crossed everyone that i come back from town looking artsy and gender

[feralattentionwhore]

Anyway the world has like a month to fix all my problems before my brain decides to off itself

#i don't know if this is funny #but having to leave them hurts so bad and uts not even getting better #cant exist without thinking about what it was like ehen they were here #and now im alone and it was such an insane shock to go from feeling so happy and safe to remembering that one mistake fucks me up here #and my future is the opposite of safe here #and all i want to do is just say fuck it and move to be with them but i cant and its just killing me #because i should its the only way ill ever get to be with them but im too selfish to do that and i don't think ive hated myself more #but i have all my animals that i cant legally bring over because some arent really mine and others arent traditional pets and it would #make them so so stressed with the trip and all my plants cant come and ive had some for over a decade now and i cant replace them #not to mention all my clothes and sentimental things that i wouldn't be able to bring over #my meds would cost so much over there and i absolutely hate the actual lifestyle in America and all the people #all the laws are fucked and getting worse so its likely id get fucked over one way or another and id probably #lose my citizenship to obe of my countries if i tried to move there #the food sucks and so much of my favourite stuff isnt sold there abd i cant import ut in #and noje of my plants or animals can survive in the climate anyway #so id have to give up absolutely everything #and i cant do it but i hate myself for not being able to #and i miss everything here when im with them and i miss them when im here #and ill resent whatever i side i don't pick and resent myself more #because both options suck and i don't know if i can do this #even going away now means i miss out on the last bits of my animals lives but i cant even cherish it #all i want is them but i cant have it #i don't know how to fix it #i don't think i can #even just the time difference kills me now #cant see them when they wake up cant see them when they get back from work #can't enjoy it when im always leaving something behind #make a shitty choice either way and hope i don't hate myself enough to kill me for it

[kennexara]

like i can appreciate what they’re going for with the mexico roadtrip looking to be just johnny and robby.

however i still think it would be hilarious if sam also went to mexico with miguel so daniel invites himself to what was going to be johnny’s lone wolf expedition. and johnny goes along with it because it means daniel gives him yet another car. and then robby asks if he can come and johnny says yes because he gets that it’s a test of if he actually cares or not, but also because they all quickly realize robby knows more spanish than johnny and daniel combined. 

except. like. they haven’t even left reseda yet and robby’s already debating jumping out of the car into incoming traffic because of johnny and daniel doing that thing where they flip between being scarily in sync to trying to karate kick the other in a moving vehicle.

so robby decides he gets to invite a friend and they agree because, like, they know most of his friends, right? probably? it’s not like he’d invite kyler or something. so they pull up and daniel and johnny are doing the daniel and johnny thing and so don’t notice tory getting in the backseat until she makes some snide comment about them flirting. 

it shuts them up for like 30 seconds but it’s the quietest 30 seconds robby’s had since he agreed to this trip. it might’ve been longer but then daniel’s phone rings. it’s the dealership, they got a call from the local jail for him. well, for johnny, since johnny still hasn’t replaced his phone. it’s kreese asking for bail money. johnny and daniel are like hell no on principle. except tory leverages what she knows about terry rigging the tournament to get them to pay bail. 

and like, kreese has nothing better going on, he might as well tag along. in fact, it becomes part of his plan. if he can convince johnny and daniel he’s their ally by helping out with this, they can all work together to take down terry. 

so it’s a roadtrip of the 5 people with the weirdest relationships to each other. 6 actually, nobody thought to pack luggage which means nobody checked the trunk. an few hours into the trip when they’ve stopped for gas anthony pops out of the trunk because his nintendo switch died and he’s also hungry. 

at some point everyone’s phones get lost and they spend the entire trip convinced everything is falling apart back in LA, when in fact chozen is teaching the kids how to do karate without becoming unhinged. one week in and he’s already everyone’s favorite sensei. also amanda has signed up all of the kids for therapy. 

#ignore me #thinking about the karate soap opera #tory introducing the group to people like #that's my karate grandpa #and that's his estranged champion johnny #and that's johnny's estranged biological son robby #side note we're here looking for johnny's not estranged not son miguel #that's robby's former sensei daniel #and that's daniel's pain in the ass kid #side side note johnny and daniel were karate nemeses #now they're friends or enemies depending on what's funnier in the moment #also one time they almost killed my karate grandpa kreese together #it's a good thing they didn't #they'd like disagree on where to hide the body and then get into a karate fight #they'd be arrested for fighting and only then would the police notice the dead body next to them #side side side note karate grandpa kreese's former co-sensei who set him up to go to jail and also idk psychologically tortured daniel #or something also sent me and robby to prom in clothes that cost more than a years rent #it was great there was another karate riot basically #random gas station worker who did not ask to hear any of this: uhh cool? please don't kill me. also the middle aged men are fighting again.