What are everyone's favorite used book buying sites? Other than the usual eBay/Etsy/Abe Books? There's a vintage gothic romance paperback I'm desperate to track down, and I'm having no luck.
Atropa, this is the kind of question you might pose to TWoP co-founder Sars (Sarah Bunting). You can find her on Twitter at @TomatoNation or at [link]
To be clear, I wouldn't ask Sars for a store rec, I'd ask her to help you locate a copy of the book. This came to mind because, she's asked her readers to help other readers identify a book title they'd forgotten, working on just a description.
This suggestion is brought to you by my avoidance of all the terrible things going on in the world. The sheet conversation isn't helpful in my case, because I also started a linen closet re-org and injured my back during the pull-apart phase, so I have a full laundry basket of clean sheets (for a household of five) which need rewashing, or repurposing as rags, and it's judging me. Hard.
I bought two sets of new sheets for my new full-sized bed. They're both the same color, because choice sometimes confuses me.
My favorite thing about our bedsheets is that they're vertically striped, so I always know which way to put the sheets on. (It's just annoying when I get the short side of the sheet on the long side of the mattress. Stripes always mean I know which side is short and which side is long.) (That's not why we bought them, but it's a bonus.)
Cindy, an injured back is a super-legit reason to put off sheet wrangling. Your sheets can just keep their judginess to themselves!
All of my sheets are some shade/pattern of blue, 'cuz I like blue. Most of them are navy blue because there are still the occasional "monthly" issues.
11 am is a perfectly cromulent time for lunch
Somewhere I read that you should have three sets of bed sheets, which means that one set on the bed, one set on the shelf, and one set waiting for laundry.
Also that the interval for laundering depends on a) how many on the bed b) what you do on the bed (think food if you don't have a dirty mind) and c) whether you usually wear pajamas, which makes a surprising amount of difference, because pajamas soak up a lot of sweat and skin oil.
Wow, so much more complicated than I would have guessed!
A lot of the time I just wash the sheets I've pulled off the bed to force myself to actually put the laundry away. I will neither confirm nor deny the number of times the bottom sheet is the only laundry that gets dealt with and I just burrow under a convenient pile of blankets.
Hee hee! We just got some t-shirts delivered, and they are cracking me up. Our friends who are getting married in May are having a pre-wedding party next weekend, and they requested that, if people feel so inclined, we wear Star Wars-themed shirts. (The wedding themes are, incongruously, peacocks and Star Wars. For real, we have a friend who's involved with the 501st Garrison that does stormtrooper and other cosplay and goes to children's hospitals and other events. He's a stormtrooper, and is going to wear his outfit for the reception.) (No idea if there will be peacocks, but I really really hope so, for maximum incongruity.)
ANYWAY. Back to the party and the t-shirts. We like Star Wars just fine, but not in a we-own-tshirts way (my t-shirt drawer can hold only so many shirts, and MCU movies and Wonder Woman exist, ya know?), so we ordered t-shirts for the party. But because we are fundamentally gigantic dorks, the t-shirts are a twist on Star Wars.
Mine (so obvious to anyone who knows me): [link] and
Tim's: [link]