Comments on: Things to Purchase for Young People Entering the Real World

By: KathleenD@twitter

KathleenD@twitter — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:27:31 +0000

@Rachel Goldfarb@twitter It is the saddest thing to me to see short women on the subway dragging their Brooks Brothers pant hems on the ground. Also doubly tragic since hemming pants is a very doable sewing project people who don’t sew.

By: KathleenD@twitter

KathleenD@twitter — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:24:54 +0000

@pfunkem Just because you think someone shouldn’t be judged for something, doesn’t mean they won’t be. Women are judged harshly for everything they do in some types of workplaces.

By: laloca03@twitter

laloca03@twitter — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:42:25 +0000

@MuffyStJohn in my 20+ years in the workforce, i don’t think i’ve seen anyone blink at a VS bag in the office, *or* seen one used as a lunch bag (lunchtime shopping, sure). and that’s in “conservative” DC.

the long and short of it: no one really cares what you bring your lunch to work in. although the zojirushi bento boxes are a good choice if your office doesn’t have a fridge.

By: selenana

selenana — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:30:32 +0000

@cryptolect Right, the givee gives the giver a penny. I don’t do the knives as gifts thing either. Seriously taboo in some cultures.

By: Caitlin Young@twitter

Caitlin Young@twitter — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:41:29 +0000

@Charismatic Megafauna I prefer gift cards because it means I have to spend them at a certain place, which because of the way my brain works makes me really think about what I want to buy with them so I feel like I’ve made the best choice. I only recently spent the last of the gift cards I got this past Christmas, and if that money had been cash it would have disappeared into coffee and snacks months ago (but hey, maybe what some people want most is just coffee-and-snack money that didn’t have to come out of their own budget! YMMV).

By: Maladydee

Maladydee — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:12:48 +0000

@Charismatic Megafauna for me, gift cards force me to not just spend the money on boring essentials out of misplaced guilt. I mean, if I'm legit struggling putting food on my table, hells yeah, cash all the way. But growing up poor saddled me with a mindset that I should feel bad about spending money on frivolous things for fun. (I do it anyway, I just feel bad.) So I guess it depends on the personality of the recipient. I have a hierarchy of gifts: Something I've been wanting but wouldn't get for myself (price is really irrelevant here > taking me out someplace = something handmade, doesn't really matter what > bookstore gift certificates (they are higher than all other gift certs because it is very hard to buy me books, so this is actually way more thoughtful than buying me a book) > something expensive that I haven't really been longing for (oh god the guilt of the expensive present!) > cash folded into pretty origami shapes > cash >walmart gift certificates (generic like cash, but more restrictive) > a book that is already on my shelf/ not my chosen genre/ terrible >>>>>>>> no gift. Now I am curious about other peoples' gift hierarchies! (I assume in their heart of hearts, everyone has them to some extent.)

By: bibliostitute

bibliostitute — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:10:27 +0000

@cherrispryte YES! And also if he is intent on moving halfway around the world within the next six months. It is dumb. He will not transfer the address. Or something. It’s unclear.

By: bibliostitute

bibliostitute — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:09:34 +0000

@Rachel Goldfarb@twitter a) I have to represent and let you know that Babeland is from seattle! 1993! I love them! whoops! NYCers, not to know. (and in Seattle our babeland bags are just brown, with no branding, i don’t think)

b) I guess I too am probably what might be considered unprofessional, but I feel like Victoria’s Secret, especially, has been so mainstreamed that it’s not even provocative to admit to having the bag? I am a boy, and I do not shop and VS, but I have taken lunch to school and work in a VS bag because it was available, courtesy of my sister or my mom getting my sister something? I find it hard not to read some sexy classism into this complaint about the lack of professionalism inherent in admitting to purchasing bras and panties. Sorry if I am being a throat jumper downer, but this sort of sentiment makes me sad! But I am a poet and can feel this way.

By: cherrispryte

cherrispryte — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:11:53 +0000

Note: If your recent graduate has any hoarding tendencies whatsoever, DO NOT GIVE THEM A MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION. My, um, friend told me to tell you this.

By: angry little raincloud

angry little raincloud — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:21:32 +0000

@stuffisthings I have a lot of sheets. BUT I recently bought new sheets that have changed my life. Well, not really. I never wanted to get out of bed before, anyway, but they are life changing in the sense that I am even less inclined now.

Anyway. OH MY GOD Lands’ End Oxford Cloth sheets. They are magnificent. (Ignore the negative reviews on the LE web site.) Yes, oxford cloth, like men’s shirts. The pillow cases even have cute little buttons. My god these sheets are comfy. They wash like a dream. They stay nice longer (my other ones: I’d want to change after 3 or 4 days; now I can easily go 7 nights… maybe longer. I”m not gross. Promise. Hide me from ACP.)

They are a little pricy, but if you bide your time, LE always has sales. I got mine 30% & free shipping, so in the $100 range for a queen-size set. They were worth every penny.

Ramble ramble, anyway (can you tell I suck at twitter?): Perfect sheets. All men should have these sheets, because it would make me want to spend much more time in your bed. (Listen up, current man friend: your sheets suck.)