quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

hmm i dunno works for me? xp

why not turn the duvet cover inside-out, align out-turned cover corners to duvet corners, and have a second person pull the cover down, turning it right-side-out in the process?

nb. i do not have a duvet, have never done this.

bonus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWQ5aBjgE

We have to make the bed, or the cats will shed all over the sheets. In fact, we have to make sure there is no bit of sheet showing or the cats will lay on that little bit of sheet and shed all over it.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:54 (23 minutes ago)

yeah this

i love folding fitted sheets tbh

i didn't know people in america had duvets

but maybe i have seen one before and didn't realize it was a duvet

see I have tried a version of that, but the edge between the two corners you stuff into the accordion never seem to get aligned appropriately :(

― quincie, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

7 unfurl the the duvet like you would a flat sheet

i think maybe trying doing this step vigorously - really snap it - so that the comforter unbunches thoroughly

See I can't really snap this big heavy king-sized monstrosity--I would need to be taller and like cutty-powered

"one of the biggest challenges you'll face in life is how to fold a fitted sheet"

if only, lady!

God, I hate hospital corners. First thing I do when I sleep in a hotel bed is untuck those fuckers so my feet can get some goddamn space.

Wow – I've rarely heard you curse!

mookieproof to thread--that man has some very strong opinions on feet-tucked-in vs. feet-flapping-free

oh yeah if i hospital cornered my own bed i would be unable to sleep because i have to like, tuck all the blankets under my feet otherwise i'd be too cold

"one of the biggest challenges you'll face in life is how to fold a fitted sheet"

if only, lady!

― quincie, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha i previewed a few diff vids and thats what really sold me on that one - finally someone acknowledges the gravity of this problem

feet-tucked-in vs. feet-flapping-free

this could be the subject of my marriage-testing memoir

I would like to know how tim harford makes better marriages.

i can't sleep under a flat sheet, tucked or not. makes me go crazy.

who takes longer than 20 seconds to get a duvet into its cover?

turn cover inside out. hands inside, grab far corners, pick up duvet corners through cover, throw without letting go. done.

i didn't know people in america had duvets

- Do you know what a duvet is?
- A comforter.
- It's a blanket.
Just a blanket. Why do guys
like you and I know what a duvet is?
Is this essential to our survival
in the hunter-gatherer sense?
No.
What are we, then?

Inside-out duvet cover application is the key!! That's how I do.

Also prefer good duvet covers with little ties in the corners, keeps the thingy inside from shifting around.

if the cover and the duvet are not the same size (i.e. they are both from ikea or neither of them are), then shifting it not a problem ime.

getting back to Elizabeth Weil and her marriage reconstruction tale (I read as much as I could take), has she perpetrated any comparable doozies before this?

OMG ive been doing japanese tshirt origami magic for the past 5 minutes!!!! <3<3<3

my poo is green

sorry guys but why do beds need to be made again?

that was my question too
i'm a bad homemaker

Nothing has to be made, but if I'm ever in your room and see rumpled sheets and wrinkled pillows I'm not sleeping with you.

duly noted.

sometimes i make my bed if people are coming over but not if they are already my friends

I think I made my bed in a hotel room once when I was living there for a month because I felt bad for making the maid do it every day

i NEVER make my bed because who gives a fuck

I think I made my bed in a hotel room once when I was living there for a month because I felt bad for making the maid do it every day

No, they want you to leave the bed unmade, because they want to know if you've used it so that they know when to change the sheets.

Yes indeed -- a maid told me once. She said she actually got annoyed when she saw unmade beds!

I change my sheets at home like every half a year so hey

and I assume you meant 'made beds' there alfred

gives me an idea for a tv show: 'made beds: the untold stories of hospitality workers in the mafia"

gives me an idea for a tv show: 'made beds: the untold stories of hospitality workers in the mafia"

http://www.frapstr.com/wp-content/gallery/sliders/robert_stack.jpg

fuck folding a sheet

the article is fine, but oh the lede...

For those of us who live here, the expense of New York City is something we’ve long since adjusted to. Designer tank tops for $140, truffled hamburgers for $150, studio apartments renting for upward of $3,000 — even in the midst of recession, these things seem somehow normal, the price of admission to the greatest city in the world.

http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/going-deep-for-the-cheap-in-new-york/

Men Happy to Be Free from Home Ownership

AS a business consultant for start-up ventures, Kirt Greenburg, 41, roams widely from his base in Atlanta. But the frustrations with his 3,300-square-foot colonial revival house, where he lives alone, follow him everywhere.

his 3,300-square-foot home, where he lives alone

EMPHASIS MINE FUCKING A

lulzy headline alert: Young Pianist Thrust Into Elite Group

omg that NYT article makes me want to kill on so many levels - the "woe is all these rich people" whiny privileged lament; the pointless gendering of a phenomenon in a headline when the rest of the article repeatedly states that women have homebuyer's remorse, too; the trite gender stereotypes; the fact that when poor people do something stupid like buy something without thinking it through and end up in a bad place, they don't get to be studied and soft profiled in the NYT but instead just get a lot of high-handed "Well they should have known! Where is the personal responsibility??? Are there no prisons??? Are the union workhouses still in operation???" bullshit.

“I’m in my 30s. If fixing something made me happy, I would have learned how to do it.”

oh wait, no he's not.

lol i didn't make it further than the first paragraph or so of the homeowner article but the playwright's lament about couch moving is on some cheap seats fight club stuff

xpost - yeah you guys said what i was going to say! it's full of lolz!

Alan Berks the renter had spent his evenings with friends at African dance nights and jazz clubs. Alan Berks the homeowner lost an entire day rearranging the living room furniture. “I did find a spot for the couch that made me happy,” he said. “I was proud of myself. But where the couch is — that’s how I’m going to measure my happiness from now on? I remember thinking: ‘This is how people live? Why am I doing this?’

and:

And routine maintenance distracted him from writing. “Why would I have any interest in fixing the bathroom sink?” he said. “I’m in my 30s. If fixing something made me happy, I would have learned how to do it.”

hahaha this guy.

I mean, if someone is so lacking in self awareness that it never occurred to him that being within walking distance of restaurants and bars and shops and people and coffee and art and fun is a quality of life perk that he might miss if he moved out to the suburbs and away from all of his friends, then that person can sit in his 1300 square foot house with its unused pool and fucking rot for all I care.

The only perk of that article is that it validates our decision as white yuppies to be Renterz-4-Lyf.

as a renter i can say that i have also moved a couch around a couple of times, it's not just for rich homeowners

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/07/garden/07menspan-1/articleLarge.jpg

this is some real michael corleone alone in tahoe shit : /

yeah i spent like 3 days fretting over couch placement this fall but i think i might have ocd, so