Is There An Easier Way to Handle Christmas Cards and Underwear?

[Ivan Seeking]

1). Never bother to fold your underwear. Who cares anyway?

2). Instead of buying Christmas cards, trying to remember who all gets a card, addressing them all, and then paying for stamps, just take all of the cards that you receive, write "Thanks, and a Merry Christmas to you" inside of each card, mark the envelopes "Wrong address, please return to sender", and stick them in the mailbox.

 

[Moonbear]

2). Instead of buying Christmas cards, trying to remember who all gets a card, addressing them all, and then paying for stamps, just take all of the cards that you receive, write "Thanks, and a Merry Christmas to you" inside of each card, mark the envelopes "Wrong address, please return to sender", and stick them in the mailbox.

I gave up on getting Christmas cards out in a timely manner, so instead, just save all the return addresses from the ones I receive, use those to address the cards, and jot inside, "Happy New Year" and they usually get in the mail sometime between Christmas and New Years (on the downside, what if I accidentally start a new tradition of sending New Years cards in addition to Christmas cards?! )

I have one to add to the list:
When preparing a holiday dinner, recruit the early arrivals as additional kitchen staff. If they showed up early, they must have wanted to help prepare the food.

 

[turbo]

I have one to add to the list:
When preparing a holiday dinner, recruit the early arrivals as additional kitchen staff. If they showed up early, they must have wanted to help prepare the food.

My cousin's older daughter always urged her parents to get to our house early on Christmas day (we spent every Christmas with them) so she could help me make my marinaded spicy hickory-smoked beef jerky. I never actually dried out the strips on the smoker, but cooked them until they were medium-rare and tender. She helped me skewer the strips with toothpicks and hang them from the smoker grate, but what she really wanted was to help with the "taste-testing". She and I ate a lot of fairly rare smoked steak that way. We pressed the younger daughter into service making shrimp egg-rolls (her favorite), and they would both help me top the pizzas. Christmas was kind of a "snack celebration" for us. No real meal, just a succession of appetizers and favorite foods all through the day with conversation and music.

 

[Danger]

1). Never bother to fold your underwear. Who cares anyway?

2). Instead of buying Christmas cards, trying to remember who all gets a card, addressing them all, and then paying for stamps, just take all of the cards that you receive, write "Thanks, and a Merry Christmas to you" inside of each card, mark the envelopes "Wrong address, please return to sender", and stick them in the mailbox.

Sorry, Ivan, but my system is far more effective.
1) What underwear?
2) Ignore X-mas.

 

[hypatia]

OMG a cammando scrooge

 

[radou]

1). Never bother to fold your underwear. Who cares anyway?

2). Instead of buying Christmas cards, trying to remember who all gets a card, addressing them all, and then paying for stamps, just take all of the cards that you receive, write "Thanks, and a Merry Christmas to you" inside of each card, mark the envelopes "Wrong address, please return to sender", and stick them in the mailbox.

1.) I absolutely agree. Btw, that holds for socks, too.

2.) A great idea, but it won't work if everyone will do that.

 

[rhuthwaite]

You can't not fold them! Your draw would end up in such a mess and then you can't find that the right underwear that you want to wear that particular day it just would never work. And Socks must always be folded or atleast put neatly with the other pair otherwise you will end up with odd socks! So in the long run you end up spending more time looking for them
As for christmas cards I really do try but I always manage to forget someone

 

[Chi Meson]

You can't not fold them! Your draw would end up in such a mess and then you can't find that the right underwear that you want to wear that particular day it just would never work. And Socks must always be folded or atleast put neatly with the other pair otherwise you will end up with odd socks! So in the long run you end up spending more time looking for them
As for christmas cards I really do try but I always manage to forget someone

Here we have a HUGE difference between men and women:

caring about underwear and socks!

 

[rhuthwaite]

You have to care about underwear and socks - they have to look nice and match! What happens if something goes wrong and you have to go to hospital and the doctor sees your underwear and it doesn't match! And you can't wear black underwear under white and have to wear g's under tight pants utherwise you get undie lines so you have to know where everything in your draw/(s) is/are

 

[radou]

...and the doctor sees your underwear and it doesn't match!

Doesn't match to what?

 

[rhuthwaite]

Remeber a lot of girls wear two set underwear: bra and whatever undies you chose - g's, t's, v's, cheekies, hipseters, boyleg etc...
Its best if you wear a matching set bra matching with undies

 

[Quaoar]

My solution is to not wear underwear at all!

 

[radou]

Remeber a lot of girls wear two set underwear: bra and whatever undies you chose - g's, t's, v's, cheekies, hipseters, boyleg etc...
Its best if you wear a matching set bra matching with undies

Yeah, but...I'm like...not a girl, you know.

 

[cristo]

Remeber a lot of girls wear two set underwear: bra and whatever undies you chose - g's, t's, v's, cheekies, hipseters, boyleg etc...
Its best if you wear a matching set bra matching with undies

What are "cheekies"? Sound a lot like Quaoar's suggestion to me!

 

[rhuthwaite]

cheekies are umm... trying to think of the best way to describe them... they kind of in between normal undies and a g in a way

 

[radou]

cheekies are umm... trying to think of the best way to describe them... they kind of in between normal undies and a g in a way

And what are g's?

 

[rhuthwaite]

My solution is to not wear underwear at all!

Haha I do that sometimes

 

[verty]

Look on images.google, you'll find a pic. (for cheekies)

 

[SticksandStones]

For some reason I think the doctor is going to have more important thing on his mind than whether or not your underwear matches.

 

[rhuthwaite]

And what are g's?

g-strings, then t's are t-strings, v's are s-string and they are all variations of each other but most people call them all g-string which is incorrect

 

[verty]

For some reason I think the doctor is going to have more important thing on his mind than whether or not your underwear matches.

... like how rich you are making him.

 

[radou]

Look on images.google, you'll find a pic. (for cheekies)

Just did so. Blah, I don't like them.

 

[rhuthwaite]

For some reason I think the doctor is going to have more important thing on his mind than whether or not your underwear matches.

what about the nurse or any random person around...

 

[radou]

g-strings, then t's are t-strings, v's are s-string and they are all variations of each other but most people call them all g-string which is incorrect

So...they're pants made out of strings? Interesting.

 

[rhuthwaite]

Just did so. Blah, I don't like them.

They aren't my favourite I don't think they are as comfortable as other types of underwear

 

[cristo]

g-strings, then t's are t-strings, v's are s-string and they are all variations of each other but most people call them all g-string which is incorrect

Thanks for the lesson.. I'll be sure to show off my new found knowledge sometime! The chicks will love it!

 

[SticksandStones]

what about the nurse or any random person around...

You don't think that they may have more important things to do? Like keep you alive and stuff?

 

[rhuthwaite]

... like how rich you are making him.

Being a doctors daughter I generally get free medicals

 

[rhuthwaite]

You don't think that they may have more important things to do? Like keep you alive and stuff?

Na they'll be looking at my underwear

 

[rhuthwaite]

So...they're pants made out of strings? Interesting.

They are great, very comfortable and don't show underwear lines. Just don't try and play sport in them! Had to do that once after a dance class it was not fun

 

[radou]

Na they'll be looking at my underwear

Wow. That's risky. If something happens to you and a doctor's intervention is required... You better wear some lame underwear.

 

[physics girl phd]

1). Never bother to fold your underwear. Who cares anyway?

Your wife perhaps?

Although doctors/nurses could care less about what underwear you wear or if you are wearing any. All medical personnel I know say they feel that way... the years of training (and hence "seeing it all" ) zaps all interest out of them.

 

[rhuthwaite]

I don't think I could, you always feel good and heaps more confident in good underwear

 

[Danger]

g-strings, then t's are t-strings, v's are s-string and they are all variations of each other but most people call them all g-string which is incorrect

All collectively known, in my area, as 'butt floss'.

 

[turbo]

All collectively known, in my area, as 'butt floss'.

Which raises the question "why fold underwear that are no bigger than a surgical mask - elastic included". Heck! you could stash 100 of those rascals in a sandwich bag.

My wife and I have a friend who buys all her undies at Victoria's Secret. She can spend $70 buying a bra and matching panties. I can buy a pair of LL Bean flannel-lined jeans and a few shirts for that price. Victoria's Secret must have one hell of a profit margin!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This thread sure hit bottom...

My life would have been far better had I never learned that Danger doesn't wear underwear.

 

[Danger]

Considering that at your age, your underwear is probably 'Depends', I'm not terribly concerned about your quality of life.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

My socks get thrown into a box (not a cardboard box, but still a box). It kinda wakes me up in the morning, it's like a little puzzle to find two that match.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

I had a better system going a few years ago, just buy all the same socks and throw em in the box and you don't have to worry about it, but then people had to buy me socks and it got screwed up.

Just keep a couple of blacks to the side in case of special events.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Considering that at your age, your underwear is probably 'Depends', I'm not terribly concerned about your quality of life.

Ah, but you can't keep track of my age because you don't have that many fingers.

Of course Danger has found the easy way to land on the sun. No need for all of that expensive heat shielding, instead he plans to go at night.

 

[Moonbear]

I have to be pretty bored to bother folding underwear. I crudely sort it though, so that all the black sets are in one part of the drawer, and the white in another part, and various colors sort of land close to each other, so I only have to dig through half the drawer to find bras and panties that match. Not much point in worrying about your undies if you're in an accident though. Best to wear your worst ones with the worn elastic and holes, because if it's that bad of an accident, they'll be cut off you anyway, and are bound to be soiled by then.

Socks, I'm not so sure about. I think it's faster to sort them when they come out of the dryer so they go into my drawer in pairs (or stacks of all the same kind of sock...I finally made life easier by getting rid of a lot of old socks and buying a whole bunch of white socks of the exact same kind so I don't have to spend time matching, just grabbing any two white socks will guarantee a match, and then I did the same for black socks for wearing with slacks, a whole bunch of the same style. The brown socks still get me in trouble, because those are in various shades of brown and with patterns. Those are the only colors I deal with though, so no fussing with blue and green and whatever other colors...with the exception of two pairs of Christmas pattern socks that I didn't buy for myself but that are kind of fun, but those only get used a few days a year when I go to Christmas parties. I only have a small drawer for socks though, so I have to at least lay them out flat rather than toss them in all bunched up just to get them to fit in the drawer.

The easiest way to deal with socks and underwear, though, is to just leave them in the laundry basket. Then all you need are two laundry baskets, one for clean and one for dirty. When the clean basket is empty, wash the contents of the dirty basket and start over.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I fold. But for ease of folding, I don't fold the one I am wearing.

 

[Danger]

Ah, but you can't keep track of my age because you don't have that many fingers.

The glove section of a Wal-Mart warehouse doesn't have that many fingers.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The glove section of a Wal-Mart warehouse doesn't have that many fingers.

The glove section? How would you know? You never leave the ladies underwear section.

 

[turbo]

Still working through that mannequin fetish, eh, Danger?

 

[Chi Meson]

My socks get thrown into a box (not a cardboard box, but still a box). It kinda wakes me up in the morning, it's like a little puzzle to find two that match.

My sock are:

white, white, white, black, white, white, blue.

They are made of

cotton, cotton, cotton, cotton, cotton, cotton, and the blue ones are my Thor-lo hiking socks.

Lesson: if they are the same color, they match.

 

[rhuthwaite]

Which raises the question "why fold underwear that are no bigger than a surgical mask - elastic included". Heck! you could stash 100 of those rascals in a sandwich bag.

My wife and I have a friend who buys all her undies at Victoria's Secret. She can spend $70 buying a bra and matching panties. I can buy a pair of LL Bean flannel-lined jeans and a few shirts for that price. Victoria's Secret must have one hell of a profit margin!

$70 for a matching set! that's a good price. Over here you will pay $70-100 on the bra alone then another 40 - 70 on the matching panties or g's plus there is the little camisole top that you never wear but have to get so that's another $90-120.

 

[SticksandStones]

I don't think I've spent $70 article of clothing in my lifetime. I have some nice jeans that were $50ish, but I wouldn't spend more than that.

 

[rhuthwaite]

Awww I want to go to america or where ever you guys get cheap clothing, my clothing bills are massive. Yesterday got 2 t-shirts $60 each, jeans $180 and a couple of days ago new bag $145 on special, top $225 I really need to cut down

 

[verty]

Just shop in cheaper stores, people.