#jumble sales

[frimleyblogger]

How Charity Shops Took Over The High Street

The inexorable rise of the #charityshop @CharityRetail

Charity bazaars, elaborate themed events to raise monies for charitable causes, continued to be part of the social scene until the Second World War, although they were increasingly replaced by less elaborate “pop up” charity fundraising events, such as jumble sales, and, later still, bring-and-buy sales. The first recorded jumble sale was held in Wollaston to raise funds for “church…

[mikexx2]

Revisiting a bunch more of my mid ‘10s interiors. I still like all of them!

[doomedtokill]

a james jumper

[elenadoeslife]

Nothing as humbling as putting on old clothes and have one of the buttons popping off 😂

[rosicheeks]

how is the sale going?

🙃🙃🙃🙃

[chaosciara]

new pain meds said “may cause drowsiness”. I took it six minutes ago. I think I’m about to see god through a kaleidoscope

[pea-green]

Plague rat banner in 900-year old church in sandwich

[bobbie-robron]

He’s got shirts his mother must have bought with ration coupons.

It’s been a long time but Robert has finally made an appearance concentrating on scenes of Diane giving away some of Jack’s ‘worn, torn or tattered’ clothes to a jumble sale on the sly. Diane thinks Jack won’t notice his clothes missing but that is so not the case. At the jumble, Jack is not happy Shadrach buys his precious brown jacket for a pittance.

16-Feb-2005

[freakingoutthesquares]

The Safari Suit, 1995.

Pulp - Jarvis, Russell, Candida, Nick & Steve. Photos taken by Neil Cooper for Select Magazine (et al.) I remember seeing these pics and thinking this was the coolest outfit in the world. I still think so.

Russell. Supercool.

[creativecuquilu]

A really strange, really troublesome Black Friday sale as depicted by a lot of my favorite promptable characters and Dalle Mini.

Hope you like them!

Click ALT to see what's going on! (They're mixed and matched times and events by the way...that's what a Black Friday sale is about)

[tatsumi-rin]

Dropped off a load of donations at a local cat rescue's charity shop...found several of them in the window of the Sally Army shop. The one charity I wouldn't support as they would never help someone like me or my friends. I don't think they know it's a problem or why. Still heartbroken and not sure if I can talk to them about it. Not sure if I should even donate anything any more.

[animebltches]

…which means our journey in poverty continues

🤚🏽😭zoro please

[chaosciara]

thank you for this op! this is so scary serious

as someone who suffers from hypermobility (in short ligaments are too stretchy and don’t keep my joint bones in place), I am now at the ripe age of 23 dealing with insane joint pain from my ankle all the way up my leg. when this started I went to the physio because it was bizarre that I was suddenly dying from joints— I’m used to pain when I dislocate something and I’m used to pain when I’ve been hard on my joints for too long in a day and they just. need rest. but this pain was completely different; I could barely walk and I was exhausted by the end of the day

and you know what the physio told me? “you probably sprained your ankle without knowing and now every joint in your leg is trying to make up for the instability in your ankle and failing spectacularly which is why your knee and hip are sore as well as your ankle.”

I had no apparent inflammation and I could not remember a single time in the weeks prior where I may have sprained my ankle– as far as I was concerned this pain came out of nowhere. all of this because my ankle stability is completely fucked.

anyway she strapped my ankle and gave me one (yes just one; I know practically unheard of in the physio space) exercise for ankle stability. within a week I was better. pain completely gone and ankle feeling better (even though I had never known it was feeling bad) than it had in ages.

so in conclusion: ankles are extremely finicky and even when you don’t think you’ve hurt it if you’re experiencing pain up your leg or just don’t like the way your ankle twinges in a certain position (pro tip your ankle should never twinge) then please look into getting your ankle checked out.

some tips from the physio (and my gp) that saved my sorry ass:

alternate between hot and cold packs (twenty minutes of one or the other three times a day < I did it once a day because I don’t have energy or attention to do it more but “anything worth doing is worth doing badly”)

kinaesthetic tape is your best friend > after I took the physio’s tape off I taped myself and I literally just googled “ankle stability kinaesthetic tape” and it came up with like seventeen different tutorials in picture and YouTube format > I chose one that looked easy enough and it works great.

ankle guards > one with tightening belts (not a slip on) preferably (my gp is kissing out on the forehead if you can get one you can adjust)

if your ankle is feeling wobbly try wear high-top sneakers like converse cause they give ankle support

google ankle stability physio exercises and chose one that you can do while you brush your teeth or wait for the kettle to boil. and then do it. get it out of the way but watch how your life changes from the small adjustment.

stay safe out there :) and take care of your joints because they’re real bitchy and aren’t always interested in taking care of you

If I could give one piece of life advice to my fellow humans, it would be this highly specific little chestnut: "If you ever sprain your ankle, get medical care."

One of the most common things I've heard from older people than myself is, "Oh yeah, I twisted my ankle in (insert grade of school here) and it's never been the same." Or, "I have a bad ankle. I can't tell you how many times I've sprained it." And one of the most common things I've heard from younger people is some variation on, "Yeah, I think I just twisted my ankle. I think I have some old crutches from high school at my parents' house. I'll just use those for a few days."

I didn't learn this until after I sprained my ankle last year, but 20% of ankle sprains lead to chronic ankle instability, which was grimly defined by my doctor as, "an unending cycle of ankle sprains."

Another thing I didn't fully understand is that "sprain" is an umbrella term for any of those ligament injuries. Yeah, you could simply stretch the ligament-- twist it. Or you could tear it. Or you could completely sever it, and those are all sprains. If you're not a doctor, it's likely hard to tell what degree of sprain you have. The worse the sprain, the higher the chance of it healing weird and becoming unstable. If you are having trouble putting weight on your ankle and it's not feeling better the next day, please get it checked out!

I know medical care is expensive and many of us don't have health insurance, but it might cost you more in the long run if you don't get care for a hurt ankle. Otherwise you might spend a lifetime of having to get MORE ankle injuries checked out, missing work or social opportunities due to ankle injury, having to limit exercise, surgeries later in life, and more.

When I hurt my ankle and foot last year, I assumed the broken foot bone would be the bigger concern, but my treatment plan was almost entirely centered around the ankle ligament tear. My doctor said that was the more serious injury and the more finicky bit to heal. I worry when I hear a friend mention they sprained their ankle and were just treating it at home, 'trying to stay off it as much as I can.' That usually means a few days, but I had to stay completely off mine for 4 weeks, followed by a walking boot, a brace, and months of physical therapy. It was intense!

Ankles are annoying because they support your entire darn body and you don't realize how much you need them until you hurt one. So that is the one nugget of wisdom I hope to leave all of you with!

[waiterwaiterpercolator]

Saw some absolutely inscrutable swimming shorts in Stroud today

[chaosciara]

people who don’t know what it’s like to have fucked up joints will offer you every solution on earth to fix your fucked up joints and then get mad at you when you tune out 😩 bruh you think if the solution was to simply consistently cycle or swim or exercise or do water aerobics or whatever other bullshit you can come up with to keep my muscles strong I would be in this position? you really think we would be here? do you think my muscles are not strong right now? I’m going to throw the whole world in an active volcano. stop giving me solutions. I don’t want them. I want to say “ugh my body hurts today” and you say “I’m so sorry :(“ and then you let me rot in my bed for a few days while I recover and then I get to have my slew of good low pain days before we repeat the cycle again. stop telling me what to do to fix it and then say I’m giving you excuses when I dismiss you. because one day I might literally just say fuck off and walk out. one day I might.

[whoreofbabylonofficial]

im so silly i dont recognize when im physically exhausted ill just be like shit i have got to be dying