> we’re checking in around pants !! (maybe) >> >> 3 of my pants are so ripped they’re indecent. >> >> i used to repair my own pants, but now my hands don’t obey me, it’s not >> easy to do, from the influence. i don’t think i’ve sewn pants since before >> 2014. >> > looks like at least one mistake here. i think i would lose the needle and > thread (common with dissociative conflict) rather than have the opportunity > to control my hands. hand control was more with electronics (although > starting to find coping strategies! still very triggering) > > >> it’s confusing, now, to have ripped pants, i don’t understand that i’m >> not sewing them, or why. >> >> i wanted to look more decent (yesterday i saw a guy on the bus who also >> had indecent pants), so i’m visiting tailors to have them repaired since i >> seem to have stopped sewing. >> >> this tailor told me i should instead buy new pants, that i could get new >> pants like mine for $30 at t.j.maxx. i said it was hard to find wool pants, >> but she said it would make more sense to get new ones. >> > ok, the next tailor took the pants for about the same price :) i think you need to - mention the word “patch” if there’s a big hole - offer one garment as material for the other if the fabric is rare pants expected patched and mended on September 4th at Jc Tailor :D
>> we were thinking, i don’t think i’ve ever bought pants a5 t.j.maxx or >> thrown out an old pair of pants in my whole life. not something i’m used >> to, or think of. >> >> i would instead use one pair of pants as material to repair another. >> >> most recently i’ve bought pants at goodwill, but that’s gotten hard for >> me too, the inhibition against thoroughly reviewing many things makes it >> hard to go through their unsorted offerings. so these pants were bought >> online for a lot of money! >> >> i told her these were expensive pants but she still told me to buy new >> ones. >> >> i wear wool pants, because they are warm when wet. i usually try to only >> wear wool where reasonable. i was excited to find wool cargo pants online. >> i don’t think i’d find that at t.j.maxx but i’m wondering now. >> >> this is of course a small confusion compared to other inhibitions and >> issues (like brushing my teeth, or cooking food in my pot). >> >> these pants cost a lot of money, i would have been happy to pay her to >> repair them, but instead she didn’t get my business. i would be happier of >> course to repair them myself. >> >> we’ll find a path forward :) >> >>>
