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dragonlady7Via sara, this article on Making Do was interesting.
(Prince Charles has his tailor mend his suits; they keep extra fabric handy for doing so, and have done for 30 years.)
I'd seen a reference to one of the statistics in this story, before-- something about how many new items of clothing people buy in a year? It was interesting to contemplate, but I, along with the people commenting on it, certainly don't buy that much every year, unless you're counting individual pairs of socks and such? Which makes me wonder what it is that other people do with themselves all of the time. Anyway I know the article's been making the rounds, but here's me linking to it too.
I do a fair amount of mending, which is one of the things the article mentions. I enjoy mending more than I enjoy making new items; it's lower-stakes, it's easier to see what to do, it's more hand-work. I really enjoy hand-sewing, but it's such an extravagance of time, to be not worth doing at all, if you're trying to construct a new garment. So I reserve it for embroidering or for mending, and I do a lot more mending nowadays. A lot of that is executive function-- I'm much more able to do something if I'm asked to do it, and my sister always has mending to do. So most of the sewing I've done in the last, mm, like four or five years has been my sister's mending.
And meanwhile I wear holey shirts all the time. In my defense, she's got me mending work trousers mostly, and those are easy to do. Mine, it's old jersey-knit t-shirts that have gone too thin and opened into holes; it's nearly impossible to mend that, you'd have to patch it, and good luck finding a way to do that without just causing the rest of the shirt to dissolve. So I'll probably just wear them to shreds and then use them to patch the last surviving one, taking far more effort than they deserve...
Relatedly, I saw this on Tumblr-- did you know, that if you use Gmail, there's a page within your account where you can go to see a record of everything you've ever purchased that they emailed you a receipt for??
I mean, I knew they analyzed the contents of your email, but this does make it really transparent.
There's apparently a page like this for reservation confirmations, too-- everything you've ever had email you a reservation confirmation is in that panel. It's not transparent to navigate to, but if you're logged in and click the URL, there it is:
https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
Everything you've ever bought.
There's no way to clear this, really, without deleting the emails. They already analyzed the data, so whatever.
Think about it, though-- they still can't target ads to you for shit, not even with the huge leg-up of knowing everything you've ever bought! It's amazing.
sara, this article on Making Do was interesting. (Prince Charles has his tailor mend his suits; they keep extra fabric handy for doing so, and have done for 30 years.)
I'd seen a reference to one of the statistics in this story, before-- something about how many new items of clothing people buy in a year? It was interesting to contemplate, but I, along with the people commenting on it, certainly don't buy that much every year, unless you're counting individual pairs of socks and such? Which makes me wonder what it is that other people do with themselves all of the time. Anyway I know the article's been making the rounds, but here's me linking to it too.
I do a fair amount of mending, which is one of the things the article mentions. I enjoy mending more than I enjoy making new items; it's lower-stakes, it's easier to see what to do, it's more hand-work. I really enjoy hand-sewing, but it's such an extravagance of time, to be not worth doing at all, if you're trying to construct a new garment. So I reserve it for embroidering or for mending, and I do a lot more mending nowadays. A lot of that is executive function-- I'm much more able to do something if I'm asked to do it, and my sister always has mending to do. So most of the sewing I've done in the last, mm, like four or five years has been my sister's mending.
And meanwhile I wear holey shirts all the time. In my defense, she's got me mending work trousers mostly, and those are easy to do. Mine, it's old jersey-knit t-shirts that have gone too thin and opened into holes; it's nearly impossible to mend that, you'd have to patch it, and good luck finding a way to do that without just causing the rest of the shirt to dissolve. So I'll probably just wear them to shreds and then use them to patch the last surviving one, taking far more effort than they deserve...
Relatedly, I saw this on Tumblr-- did you know, that if you use Gmail, there's a page within your account where you can go to see a record of everything you've ever purchased that they emailed you a receipt for??
I mean, I knew they analyzed the contents of your email, but this does make it really transparent.
There's apparently a page like this for reservation confirmations, too-- everything you've ever had email you a reservation confirmation is in that panel. It's not transparent to navigate to, but if you're logged in and click the URL, there it is:
https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
Everything you've ever bought.
There's no way to clear this, really, without deleting the emails. They already analyzed the data, so whatever.
Think about it, though-- they still can't target ads to you for shit, not even with the huge leg-up of knowing everything you've ever bought! It's amazing.
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Date: 2019-07-21 11:31 pm (UTC)I can't tell if *they* are counting individual pairs of socks, though, because as far as I can find out, that information is behind a paywall.