#cheap plastic

[snowysoul-squrirel]

Well fuck. These croissants are gonna go stale in a bit. The reason being?

Cheap plastic for the container that split the top half and made the little fasteners break a bit as well

[attemptatachildhood]

Candy Pop Series 1

[ruubesz-draws]

How to carry a baby; Kaiju edition:

Bonus:

I guess using a plastic bag wasn't a good idea

[post-it-notes7]

I think they're going to get up to mischief

[atalienart]

If I hear "live action" once more I'll lose my mind

[clementine-thedestroyer]

I imagine Price and Simon as both having shower benches, but Price has one of the nice ones you can buy at a home improvement store and Simon has one of the kinda crappy plastic and metal ones you pick up for 50 bucks at CVS.

Like Price’s was one that came with the house when he bought it, but he never took it out because it’s the kind that screws into the wall and folds up when you’re not using it, so it’s not like it’s much of an eye sore or in the way. Plus, taking it out would mean patching the shower tile and dealing with all that mess- and as much as he didn’t like to admit it, he was getting older. No one needed to know if he begrudgingly used it whenever the pain in his knee became too much to bear.

But Simon bought his. With his job, major injuries were more of an eventuality rather than possibility. Maybe he bought it after some injury that made it difficult for him to walk or stand for a while and just never took the thing out afterwards, or maybe he just bought it because he wanted it. But Simon is the definition of function over fashion. The sparse personal additions he made to his flat could most easily be described as utilitarian. Practicality trumps all in his mind, so if he wants to sit down while he takes a shower, he’s going sit down while he takes a damn shower.

[urbestestwindgod]

i broke my scale :(

OZZY.

Yes?

[tethered-heartstrings]

maybe if you had a bath with a "dirt" scented bath bomb and listened to over an hour of "underground cave sounds" you'd feel better

[tophatandboots]

Working with flimsy materials and just going "you know what, for the sake of my sanity I'm going to sew this by hand"

[24hrsoda]

i want a nightwing hoodie but not a cheap heat pressed logo/design on a hoodie

i may just buy a black hoodie and a blue hoodie from walmart and frankenstein them together with my sewing machine

[sunsetosirias]

Honestly, I'm not fond of the Alliance Rings in Miraculous Ladybug Saeson 5 being glorified phones on a cheap looking minimalistic ring without any of the privacy. I for one wouldn't want everyone to see a hologram of my phone screen or have my phone calls audible to an entire room of people. It would be a nightmare trying to have a private conversation whether it's through texting or a call.

Every time I see a character wear an Alliance Ring, it looks like it could fly off their finger with a sudden movement. Why is it so far up their fingers? Why not have it at the base of the finger when not in use then slide it further up when they activate it? Would that have been too troublesome to animate?

I've come up with an alternative use for the Alliance Rings which still aids Hawkmoth without being obvious to the characters in the show, or being a gimmicky phone replacement.

The Tsurugi and Agreste brand collaborate and release the Alliance Rings which has a singular purpose, to alleviate the user of any negative emotions they're experiencing by holding down a button on the ring until they're calm again. Gabriel makes a speech about making sure Hawkmoth/Shadowmoth/Monarch has less opportunities to make akumas or something along those lines.

But how does that help Hawkmoth? Simple. The negative emotions aren't gone, but stored in his lair to guarantee his next target becomes an akuma by flooding their Alliance Ring with the negative emotions collected from many different people over time all at once. How are the negative emotions collected and stored? Flux Capacitor - it just works.

Also, by overloading the victim's ring with the negative emotions of other people, it can open up anyone to being akumatized, raising the stakes as there'd be less obvious signs that someone might be the next target. One minute they're bright and happy, the next, they're an akuma. Plus it would cut the monologue screen time and lend it somewhere else.

[not-decided-star]

WHY IS

FOLLOWING ME?

I feel threatened in my shadow realm

[57sfinest]

kim is such a funny little guy like he emphasizes how little the rcm salary is when you ask about it (5500 reál annually- 460/mo) but here he is with his nice electronic sports watch and his little instant camera and his fancy revolutionary cosplay for plainclothes and he's living in the GRIH which can't be cheap and he's got his fancy little mnemotechnique notebooks which are like the moleskine of elysium i guess and his fancy little ballpoints that he does NOT want to share with you which i bet is because they cost him like a week of salary. and this is the rcm he's not getting stipends for supplies or watches or housing or probably even the gas for the kineema. poor as fuck but he is going to buy himself his little treats god damn it. if he lived in our world you know he'd be out getting himself a $9 vanilla soy milk half caf dirty chai iced latte every morning on the way to the station and eating instant noodles every night to claw out room in the budget for it

[setmeatopthepyre]

gonna have a dramatic dutch moment for a sec but not having a working bike is. the worst. what do you mean I have to think ahead about how I'm gonna get somewhere. gross.

[pianokantzart]

I say Super Nintendo World needs a Luigi's Mansion attraction

Nintendo I would give you all my money

One thing they really ought to do is make something similar to that 4D DC coaster at Sixflags, but Luigi's Mansion themed. I would lose my mind.

[strawberrum]

thinking about how I had a few folks at my last market suggest to me (kindly and with good intentions) that I make and sell some versions of the hand knit cardigan I was wearing because people would "totally pay $300 for that!"

I appreciated the sentiment, but people don't understand what goes into handmade clothes! I don't use a knitting machine. Every stitch in that garment is created by hand on needles, and the sleeves were brioche. Even using inexpensive acrylic yarn for the whole project, and accounting for the HUGE sleeve stitches (saving me time making the sleeves)—the material cost was $55 and the labor was well beyond that.

Let's conservatively estimate the cardigan took me 30 hours to create. Currently, when pressed to put a dollar amount to my time, I use the living wage as a baseline and then go up from there $1/hour for every year I have been actively practicing that particular skill. In the case of knitting that would be 11 years, and the current living wage in my area is approximately $23/hour. Setting aside the fact that this is calculated based on a 40 hour work week and I don't believe that is ethical or sustainable, we'll just leave it at $34/hour. That would make labor alone $1,020.

This brings the "production cost" to $1,075.

Items are not sold at production cost because that would leave your profit margin at 0%. This is not sustainable because it costs money to run a business (think things like paying for computer repairs, buying tools, the tablecloth you use at markets, paying for a website, etc.). Realistically to cover business costs and still come out with a 7% "net" profit margin, which is just a number pulled from averages in the clothing retail business...

... I'd have to sell that cardigan for $1,350.

So yeah! Something to think about when you see the price of clothes that are handmade. :o)