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  1. sheeplady

    The wonder of wedding bands

    When my husband's grandmother was alive, she told my husband and I that we could have anything we wanted from her house, as long as she was not using it. My husband asked her for a drawing that had been made of their house. They had won a fundraising auction to have a high school student create...
  2. sheeplady

    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    If I had to buy clothes every season (or every year) I don't think I'd survive the stress. And I don't particularly *mind* shopping, but I have four people to clothe in this house and I'm not making it any more complicated than it needs to be. As far as the pants and butt question, I short...
  3. sheeplady

    The House is a Museum ...

    I think the one thing with de-hoarding is to take it easy on yourself. It's ok to make a little mental progress at a time. My parents, for a significant period of time, were using my house as a hoarding space. They'd show up with a pickup truck full of junk... almost every month to stuff into...
  4. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have APPEARED In Your Lifetime

    So I finally got my hands on some real buttermilk (not the cultured stuff in the store). I was all keen to try it, to have my first ever real sip of buttermilk. Oh, I was so excited. Imagine my astonishment when I took a swig from the big glass I poured and it's the same damned delicious...
  5. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So my family and I moved halfway across the country for my job. Does it really kill people to look at my husband and I and say, "did one of you move here for your job?" Or "is one of you a professor at the college?" Or better, "why did you move here?" Is it really that hard? Apparently. It...
  7. sheeplady

    The House is a Museum ...

    That vase story reminds me of how my mother and grandmother had a decades long fight over which way the toilet paper faced, which involved turning the roll on each other's bathrooms when visiting. Repeatedly, as the host would turn the roll back to the hosts way throughout the visit. It was not...
  8. sheeplady

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Years ago lived in a city that managed to both rip out it's downtown canal, poison it's lake, and rip up it's major elevated railroad in favor of the shiny automobile. Both the canal and the elevated railroad became roads; the lake was poisoned by oil refineries and once earned the title "the...
  9. sheeplady

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    The answer to that is always YES.
  10. sheeplady

    You know you are getting old when:

    I only grew up with one living set of grandparents. My grandmother was very much a modern woman until the day she died. She watched the current television shows, she wore the modern fashions, and she listened to modern pop. (She died in 1994.) She basically had the position of "why look...
  11. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    I got you one better: since being established by "white settlers" the town has had two official names. While the Second name has replaced the First, the most prominent street in the village still has the First name. As does the Mayor. Yup, that's right, our mayor is a direct descendant of one...
  13. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    As far as I've been told, (by both my insurance and various healthcare organizations) that if you sign a statement that you are reponsible for your bills when you enter treatment, the organization can bill you for anything they want... even fraud. If they are unwilling to remove a fraudulent...
  14. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I use checks regularly for paying for daycare. When my daughter started, it was a scramble to find the checkbook (which was where we thought it was)... up until that point we used them mainly for the deposit slips in the back.
  15. sheeplady

    Is your significant other fond of the Golden Era?

    Yes. Complete overlap on some things (vintage appliances being significant) and some overlap on other things. I wish my husband would dress more vintage, but the kids are hard on his clothes and he works from home. He rarely wears a t-shirt (preferring button downs with jeans). When we both...
  16. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    This happens here... with trees. You get a serious little crowd standing around watching the tree come down at one point or another. Then later, as some unofficial yet commonly known time after the workers are finished, a group of neighbors gathers around the stump and they debrief the process...
  17. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    I think there is a sincere disconnect from the people who actually work for said organization and those that the company contracts with to do their billing. My contact is with the actual company, but it took over 15 calls to find her. I finally received a bill for my responsibility on the one...
  19. sheeplady

    Agony column?

    Oooh... fun! I have one: I went to the ER last year with a reaction to the medicine I was taking. I got several imaging tests done. Later in the year I got a standard imaging test. All three are billing from the same imaging company. All three bills had mistakes, one was billed as inpatient (I...
  20. sheeplady

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    I think that's the problem with a lot of people who try to go vegetarian and fail, honestly: they try to replace meat with meat substitutes and have the mindset that a meal is a vegetable, a meat, and a starch. The great vegetarian food I've had is not just copies of "meat dishes" but actually...
  21. sheeplady

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    The other thing I hate about all this packaging is the waste. First, the wasted space in the truck/ railroad/ boat that required more fuel because it held fewer packages, and the wasted space a store needs to display these items. Second, the wasted space in your shopping bag, so you likely need...
  22. sheeplady

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    This is entirely weird, but I still do things like this as well. We could likely afford the high end chocolate (and we'd eat less), but there's a nostalgia in Hershey's bars and M&Ms... instead the high end chocolate remains a treat, one we rarely buy. Just like I don't buy a Cadbury's bar or...
  23. sheeplady

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Like the Russell Stover candies in the heart box. I felt so cheated this valentines day when I opened the box; make the price more because, darn it, I want my candy *filling* the box. (My husband buys Russell Stover as this is what I always got as a kid from my father; my mother got a big box...

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