I can’t be the only person on the interwebs who can’t see the point behind The Uniform Project. It’s raising money for charity, which is always a good thing, but the premise just seems a bit… off.
This site fell into my browser window while I was looking for one-bag travel tips – I wanted to see how to get the most wear out of as few items as possible.
“OK,” I thought. “There’s an idea here. But…”
She’s pledged to wear one dress for a year for sustainability reasons. Except she’s not wearing one dress. She’s wearing seven copies of the same dress. Why not just buy seven different dresses at the same price point?
The proper way to do it would have been to buy just one of the dress. Let us know how it holds up to all that washing. What to wear on laundry day?
Have I missed the point?
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Money, not love, is what makes the world go round, for the most part. Before money was invented, I could probably have offered a bunch of old clothes in exchange for a new pair of jeans, or turned over my old computer equipment and got myself an iPod Touch.
How can someone figure out which money-making path is right for them? There are a number of tracks available, and from where I’m sitting, it looks like most people believe it’s a trade-off between earning lots of money and not having to answer when Work shows up on your Caller ID at all hours of the day and night. I refuse to believe this, with all the young-person stubbornness I can muster.
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Well, it’s certainly been a long time since I dusted down WordPress and actually blogged something. Several WP revisions, actually – I’m loving the new admin area!
This highly gorgeous theme is FREEmium, courtesy of FreebiesDock.com. It won’t stay looking like this forever… I have plans to customise it, as soon as I can find my designer hat. For now, the default look is more than pretty enough to hang around for a while.
In Other News
Everyone in the UK is now aware that there is a heatwave going on. Ubiquity tells me that it is 25 degrees C where I am right now, but no thanks to the humidity, it feels much hotter.
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