Why I will never be a housewife.

[icepixie]

*shakes hand around* My fingers are all numb and tingly after hemming a pair of jeans. Getting a tiny needle through denim is hard work. (And constant work, at least for me. Would it kill people to sell "short" lengths of any kind of pants? Would it? I could totally keep them in business!)

On a similar home ec. topic, I always forget exactly how much I hate baking cookies until I do it again, at roughly six-months-to-one-year intervals. They sound like such a good idea, but very few things are worth that amount of effort and frustration. But at least I have a box full of chocolate chip cookies now. That's nice. (...Even if store-bought ones actually taste better. Sigh.)

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Would it kill people to sell "short" lengths of any kind of pants?

Do you know anybody with a sewing machine? Because if you stick a heavy-duty needle on it, it'll hem jeans in like three minutes. *Love* technology.

They sound like such a good idea, but very few things are worth that amount of effort and frustration.

Um... you aren't making them from scratch are you? Because there's just no call for that. In fact, there's really no good reason to cook the packaged-dough-in-a-roll at all before consumption...

Greetings from Salmonella Land!

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Would it kill people to sell "short" lengths of any kind of pants? Would it?

Would it kill them to make tall ones, either? There should be a store called
"We Recognize That Not All Females Are Exactly 5'6" And 120#." I'd shop there.