I’ve come across some great new blogs in the last week, and I’d like to share. Teecycle.org sells great vintage T-shirts. These are real classic, used tees, not something faux-distressed to look "vintage". Kadi over at Simply Thrifty posts about how hard it is for her to pare down her shoe wardrobe. I completely sympathize. …
T-shirt Purge
This past weekend, I cleared 7 old shirts out of my closet. What’s momentous about getting rid of these particular shirts is that they fall into two categories which I have a hard time purging: newish/practical, and old/sentimental. (“Newish” means “purchased within the last 3-4 years.”) You know how putting on your favorite shirt makes …
Kindred Spirit
Author Craig Johnson complains about having to get dressed up for his book tour, and goes on to describe the clothes he feels most comfortable in: My favorite shirts are threadbare at the elbows, collar, and cuffs-and after ten years of wear, are just about right. My favorite jeans all have unidentified stains and holes …
Barefoot Shoes
Today, Babyslime linked to this article about why shoes are bad for our feet. On the last page of the article, there’s a picture of the various kinds of “almost barefoot” shoes which have been developed recently. I thought to myself that these shoes might be comfortable, but they sure are ugly. Also, I’ll bet …
Chadwick’s Haul
We’re going to have a spending moratorium starting in May, so I’m stocking up on practical warm-weather clothes before then. I had a bunch of Chadwick’s coupons, and shopping online is so much faster for me than going to the store, so I bought quite a few things from their site. Chadwick’s is kind of …