The Six Item Experiment, Continued

Honestly, we’re going to call it the two-item experiment, because that’s all we’ve worn thus far, but—eh, we work at home. This week, we’re working from our parents’ home, because of various rural entertainment activities, and a new puppy(!!!!!!). Which means that even though we see friends every day (everyone moves back home, we’re thinking, eventually) we mostly see them on the way to hiking. Which means we’re wearing workout clothes.

We did, however, go to lunch with our mom yesterday, and we decided it might be embarrassing to her (and, you know, ourselves) if we went in our Adidas running shorts. So we wore this tank top above, which we have discussed previously, and which is notable because the straps are literally fixed to the rest of the shirt by two rubber bands. We mentioned this to a friend, who did not believe us, and so we offer this proof. (One rubber band is purple, and the other is … rubber-band colored.)

Anyway, because our mom is a mom, she took us to Michael’s and bought us these things, which are called split rings:

There are many, but we only need two. (It was from the jewelry-making aisle, for the record.) We are going to operate on our shirt today, and hopefully we will be done with the rubber bands.

What is interesting to us in this is that—well, we would never have thrown away a shirt we like because of a problem like this, but we might have thrown it to the back of the closet and forgotten about it until we move, at some date very far in the future. (Actually, in this case, we would probably have kept wearing it, but been annoyed about it.) But we wouldn’t  have fixed it. We haven’t fixed, for example, this dress we love from Vietnam, that has a broken zipper. It just sits there and irritates us. There’s more, like, positive feng shui in this than we ever would have expected.

The real test is coming next week, when we go back to Brooklyn, and encounter social visits somewhere other than the forest.