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lighter:
Ack, I thought I responded to your OP, Hops.

I wrote that you're smart to utilize resources around you...... people with sound advice, and information to help resolve the situation.

If I had to choose between a newbie grad and someone with years of experience in my industry......

I'd choose the person who could teach me things.  Not the person I had to train.

Honestly, if feels like you'll land on your feet, Hops. 

::Sending you energy, luck, and prayers::

Lighter

sKePTiKal:
Hang in there Hops. You're doing what you have to for you.
Someone once said, courage is being afraid, and doing it anyway. Well, this time around it would be scarier if you WEREN'T still trying.

The energy thing is something that's really real. But see if there aren't some places where you have energy leaks into emotional pools... (for wont of a better image/word)... where you use up your energy treading water & just dealing with the emotions.

Maybe talking out those emotions would help?

Hopalong:
Thanks for reminding me how nice air-dried laundry is, Grits! I love that. I have space for an outside rack or line, and could certainly do indoor drying too.

I do make my own laundry detergent! That's been my favorite frugality so far. Partly because it's ridiculously easy. AND sustainable, because you use something like a 3-gal. plastic kitty litter container (got one from a cat-lady friend) over and over...no repeated plastic awful jugs being trucked to you across the country and even better, no lugging them home from a store. It costs about 3 cents a load and works perfectly. Only and very minor downside is that without the (toxic) surfactants, it will gradually create a soap ring at the top of the washer. Solution is simple--couple times a year I simply scrub that off lightly with baking soda. Which takes about 15 seconds. I mean, sheesh.

To make 3 gallons (a gel) takes less than 10 minutes. Here's the recipe:
--Grate one bar of soap (like Ivory or a cheap deodorant soap) into 4 c. simmering water, stir until dissolved
--Dump 1 gal. hot tap water into your container
--Mix the soap solution into the hot water
--Add 2 more gal. hot tap water (I never carry the whole thing, just take pitchers of the hot water around to the laundry area and pour it in there)
--Add 1 1/2 cups washing soda (Arm & Hammer, in detergent aisle, usually bottom shelf--NOT baking soda)
--Add 1 cup borax powder (same aisle)
--Stir them in with a long spoon
--Put on lid and leave overnight to gel

Use one cup per load.

I agree that frugality is fun, I love the simple ways we can cut back not only on $ but on consumerism generally.

Hugs,
Hops

Hopalong:
I get that kind of nostalgia, Grits...
My father's family was very well-off but my mother's was dirt-poor.
She grew up in a family of 10 on the plains during the Dust Bowl and Depression, so even though after she married her life was upper-middle middle class and secure, she retained a lot of household habits that conveyed intuitive sustainability. She didn't know about the third "R" (recycling) but she did Reduce (not much of a consumer) and did Re-use.

Some of the "antiques" I like best are the old, simple things. My nightstand is my maternal grandmother's sewing machine stool (lift off the top to see the spool pegs), stuff like that. My kitchen bookshelf was built by my grandfather...it has a protective glass door. Because books were precious and on the plains, dust was everywhere.

Things like cotton cloths used to clean, and reused and reused (rather than discarded sponges)...clothing repaired rather than discarded, her darning egg and sewing kit...and the beautiful clothing she made.

These are good memories of Nmom. Without the "N", just being a woman who brought a legacy of value from her resourceful family's dignity.

:)

Twoapenny:

--- Quote from: Hopalong on August 11, 2016, 01:25:07 AM ---I get that kind of nostalgia, Grits...
My father's family was very well-off but my mother's was dirt-poor.
She grew up in a family of 10 on the plains during the Dust Bowl and Depression, so even though after she married her life was upper-middle middle class and secure, she retained a lot of household habits that conveyed intuitive sustainability. She didn't know about the third "R" (recycling) but she did Reduce (not much of a consumer) and did Re-use.

Some of the "antiques" I like best are the old, simple things. My nightstand is my maternal grandmother's sewing machine stool (lift off the top to see the spool pegs), stuff like that. My kitchen bookshelf was built by my grandfather...it has a protective glass door. Because books were precious and on the plains, dust was everywhere.

Things like cotton cloths used to clean, and reused and reused (rather than discarded sponges)...clothing repaired rather than discarded, her darning egg and sewing kit...and the beautiful clothing she made.

These are good memories of Nmom. Without the "N", just being a woman who brought a legacy of value from her resourceful family's dignity.

:)

--- End quote ---

It's nice that there are some good memories in there, Hops.  My mum was very thrifty and again, it came from growing up in a time when you repaired things instead of buying new ones and things were made to last, not to be replaced in two years' time.  We've become a very throw away society and it's not a good thing, in my opinion.

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