Machandel's Profile

My book collection is quite fluid, so I keep the jackets (of what few hardcovers I have). That way, when I donate to a charity flea market, people there can read the blurb and so on. If I lend a book to a friend, I keep the dust jacket as a reminder. I also use the flaps as a bookmark.

Well, I don't have the space to store seasonal wardrobe items seperately, but I do put extremely seasonal items (thick wooly pullovers and fluttery dresses, mainly) in bags when the season changes.

My tip: If you think "oh, I should wear this", wear it. You'll soon remember why you don't and can donate it with a clean conscience. (Or fall in love with it and wear it all the time, who knows).

I keep a fairly balanced small/fun wardrobe that is regularly culled, but pictures like the one above just annoy me. Who lives a life where you never need regular clothes, like jeans, yoga pants, a jersey sweater? Who gets through life on a handful of carefully coordinated fashionable outfits? Please, AT, show us realistic tidy closets with workout gear and underwear and pyjama bottoms.

I have a long string of fairy lights that I tape along a book shelf as a narrow triangle. Then I put baubles and anything else I have that could hang on a christmas tree along the boards (I use tape but little hooks might work). It looks better than it sounds and is my version of a space-saving christmas tree (but I celebrate with my parents who have a real tree).

Yes, preservasionists should have a say, but also, the buyers should have been notified, and should now have the right to annul the purchase instead of being stuck with a project they never wanted to take on. (Although to be fair I don't understand how you can buy a house like this and think "let's tear that down" but that's neither here nor there.)