I don't collect physical items as such, but I do collect crafting hobbies which sort of comes with an ever-growing, if sometimes accidental, stash of tools and supplies. It's not just the yarn and the embroidery floss and the clay and the felting wool, it's all the damn specialist tools and then the storage solutions you have to buy for it all. And then your other half decides you're both going to get into dicemaking as the next thing, so you end up with an expensive 3d printer as well meaning your joint collection now not only takes up a whole craft room and half the living room, but now also the garage.
We used to collect retro video game stuff and still have a pretty good collection taking up space in my craft room but in the age of emulators and ridiculously cool handhelds I can't even remember the last time we fired up a real Game Boy.
I unfortunately had to stop going to our local board gaming meetup because of this.
Most people were fine but there was this one creep who kept making weird comments if I did something like, you know, be a woman and dare to bend over to get something from a bag. And then a guy who smelled like pretty much the worst thing I've ever smelled and always wanted to be in the same games as me.
I was so excited to find the group but I did not last long there.
Not the person you're talking to but I'm in the UK and went back to uni as an adult in 2018. Literally had to install Messenger because it was the only thing the kids used, for the entire duration of our degree. Completely blew my mind!
I actually do this with a few crafting communities that rarely get new posts, makes it easy to see when something pops up in one of them.
It's not ideal obviously and I do hope we get these sorts of features eventually, but in the meantime it's a decent workaround for a very specific situation.
Clearly I need to work this word into more conversations with people and listen closely! That said I only just found out recently that most of the country pronounces the middle weekday as "Wensday" so contrary to stereotypes I think we might be the ones talking properly up here 😉
(schools around me were generally an even split between French and German for GCSE, dunno how that affects your theory, also I had no idea languages were going away from school and this makes me sad to learn)
Boobs are all different, is the issue. We may have the same bra size but if Im full on top and you're full on bottom we'd need a completely different cup shape. And of course that's just one variable. Maybe we also need a totally different length underwire, maybe I'm projected and you're shallow, etc etc.
The trick is to order a load of bras at once from various brands and in various styles, do a marathon try-on session recording each one against the various fit criteria, and take note of the exact measurements and features of the best fitting ones. Then if none of them were perfect, send them all back and repeat the process.
Eventually you end up knowing which brand(s) and style(s) work for your very specific body shape as well as what measurements of everything you actually need. Which is a separate thing to your "bra size" although even then it's best to do regular re-measuring to make sure your basic size hasn't changed.
It's a faff but it's worth it. The perfect bra is out there!
Not saying you're wrong at all, it's not exactly a common word to hear said out loud. But I've never heard anyone do this and the very idea of it blows my mind.
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If I see one more article about knitting where the photos are clearly crochet, or vice versa, I swear to god...