Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

[Browncoat]

9 hours ago, xls said:

DRAWSTRING PANTS!

I can't find plain black pants without them all having dumb-fk drawstrings! 

WTH started this stupid shit? FK U

I have sudden urge innocence buy the time I untie those r******* strings in the bathroom it'll be too late. 

LL Bean and Land's End have non-drawstring black pants -- the Perfect Fit and the Starfish, respectively.  I haven't purchased either one, but they look nice online.

[Ohiopirate02]

10 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

How easily new clothes get holes in them. I’m wearing a pajama set for the first time, I’ve had it on for not even an hour, and there’s already a hole in the pants! I paid $40 for this set; there is nothing I’ve been doing that would have already made the pants rip. I can’t sew either, and I’m not going to throw out brand new clothes. I’m thinking of getting fabric glue but clothes that are expensive and that new should not already have holes. 

Fabric quality across the industry has declined partly due to climate change. The cotton growing today  is not the same as the cotton that was grown 10 years ago or longer. And when fast-fashion booms like what has been happening with Shein, that trickles down into the factories making clothing for Target, Walmart, Old Navy, and mid-level brands like GAP, J Crew, and Banana Republic. It's very difficult to find well-made inexpensive clothing outside of a thrift store. 

[Mindthinkr]

2 hours ago, Browncoat said:

LL Bean and Land's End have non-drawstring black pants -- the Perfect Fit and the Starfish, respectively.  I haven't purchased either one, but they look nice online.

I’ve bought some, and other than some fading they have kept their shape and are still wear well after 7 years. 

[Absolom]

For the already owned drawstring pants, tie the drawstring in a bow. When you need to go pull both ends at the same time.  It's a quick release move.

I live in black yoga pants or black Land's End pants.  I don't want to think about how old some of the Land's End pants are.

[PRgal]

15 hours ago, xls said:

DRAWSTRING PANTS!

I can't find plain black pants without them all having dumb-fk drawstrings! 

WTH started this stupid shit? FK U

I have sudden urge innocence buy the time I untie those r******* strings in the bathroom it'll be too late. 

What about elastic waist?  Are you looking for men's or women's?  For women's, Pact has drawstring, but the darkest colour is a charcoal colour called "storm."  It's probably not dressy enough for what you're looking for.  Athleta might have some selection as well.

[Calvada]

10 hours ago, Absolom said:

For the already owned drawstring pants, tie the drawstring in a bow. When you need to go pull both ends at the same time.  It's a quick release move.

I live in black yoga pants or black Land's End pants.  I don't want to think about how old some of the Land's End pants are.

 I have got several pairs of Lands' End elastic waist knit pants.  I live in those all winter long.  But I don't just have black, I have gray and navy blue too.  I have multiple pairs of Lands' End yoga pants too.  These are items I always look for when I go to their annual warehouse clearance sale in the summer, held about 40 miles from where I live.  I think a majority of my wardrobe is from Lands' End:  t-shirts both short and long sleeved, polo shirts both short and long sleeved, knit pants, regular pants, fleeces, sweaters, yoga pants, shorts, nightgowns, bathrobes, coats.  Not to mention sheets and towels.  They do regular sales.  Right now it's 50% off site wide with the code KNIT50.  I'm not employed by Lands' End, just a Wisconsinite who has shopped there for decades.  

[Dimity]

Peeve of the day - when someone asks your advice on something you are actually quite knowledgeable about - and every single suggestion won't work because...reasons.  I should know by now that mostly when someone asks for advice all they really want is to vent or else to have you validate the choice they've already made and yet I fall into this trap every single time.

[Anela]

I feel like my brain is melting.  

[Ancaster]

People who think it's cute and okay that their dog jumps up and slobbers over anyone other than them.

[Mindthinkr]

14 minutes ago, Ancaster said:

People who think it's cute and okay that their dog jumps up and slobbers over anyone other than them.

I have a neighbor thinks it’s cute when her dog does this and knocks me to the ground every time 😡

[Mindthinkr]

To be honest I have severe osteoporosis. If a dog is allowed to jump on me, causing me to fall and break a bone, they shouldn’t be surprised if I sue them for the medical costs as they have been warned. I hate to even think this way, but why should I be out thousands of dollars because they have failed to control their dog? 
 

I have an empty lot between a nice neighbor and me. She got into a rather loud argument with her neighbor on the other side about not picking up her dog’s logs. So many think that lot is no scoop zone. It isn’t. It’s the law to keep them leashed and bag up any droppings. 

[Cloud9Shopper]

The fact that a local radio station started playing Christmas music 24 hours a day today. I may be one of a few Christmas traditionalists left (I don’t do any shopping or decorating until after Black Friday and I still listen to regular music in December if I get tired of hearing Santa Claus is Coming to Town for the 800th time), but I wish they would wait until Black Friday or maybe December 1 to start. Pretty soon they may as well start on November 1. 

 

[Browncoat]

1 minute ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

The fact that a local radio station started playing Christmas music 24 hours a day today. I may be one of a few Christmas traditionalists left (I don’t do any shopping or decorating until after Black Friday and I still listen to regular music in December if I get tired of hearing Santa Claus is Coming to Town for the 800th time), but I wish they would wait until Black Friday or maybe December 1 to start. Pretty soon they may as well start on November 1. 

 

Our local radio station that plays 24/7 Christmas music started this past Monday.

[Dimity]

No Christmas music on our radio stations yet but they started playing it in some of the stores here November 1.  Of course we  also noticed a few trees going up inside houses nearby as well then too.  If it makes someone happy it's not a big deal to me but I honestly wonder how anyone can stand All Things Christmas for, basically, two months.  It seems...a lot.

[Absolom]

Compressor guy took down the Halloween lights and decor on November 1 and put up Christmas trees and lights. Christmas and Thanksgiving both were put out November 1 at the stores I visited early Nov 2.  I have so far not heard Christmas music, but I haven't been out much.

[PRgal]

3 hours ago, Dimity said:

No Christmas music on our radio stations yet but they started playing it in some of the stores here November 1.  Of course we  also noticed a few trees going up inside houses nearby as well then too.  If it makes someone happy it's not a big deal to me but I honestly wonder how anyone can stand All Things Christmas for, basically, two months.  It seems...a lot.

November 1 is the earliest day I'll ever play Christmas music (save for when I was in high school and in the school's choir.  Rehearsals for the Nativity begin in October) and I won't put up a tree before Remembrance Day (November 11).  Most years, it goes up after December 1.

[oliviabenson]

I saw Xmas stuff with Halloween stuff in stores. 

 

I'm not in a good mood for holidays so I don't care.

[PRgal]

16 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

I saw Xmas stuff with Halloween stuff in stores. 

 

I'm not in a good mood for holidays so I don't care.

Stores start selling Christmas stuff so early that you might as well give out candy canes or gingerbread people for Halloween!

[JustHereForFood]

We were supposed to get snow yesterday, but I knew better and didn't get my hopes up. Guess who was right? It seems that it snowed everywhere else though, so now I get to look at everyone posting their first snow photos and feel jealous.

[ginger90]

1 hour ago, JustHereForFood said:

We were supposed to get snow yesterday, but I knew better and didn't get my hopes up. Guess who was right? It seems that it snowed everywhere else though, so now I get to look at everyone posting their first snow photos and feel jealous.

Same here, it snowed pretty good but nothing stuck. Not too far away, north of us, there were places that got between 8-26”. We did get some rain before and after but not enough. We’re in a drought with fire warnings every day for weeks now.

[Browncoat]

We got a slight dusting of snow Thursday night -- just enough stuck so that I could see the footprints of whatever small mammal visited my deck that night.  Probably a skunk.  

Now it's just cold and windy.

[Mrsmaul2021]

8 hours ago, JustHereForFood said:

We were supposed to get snow yesterday, but I knew better and didn't get my hopes up. Guess who was right? It seems that it snowed everywhere else though, so now I get to look at everyone posting their first snow photos and feel jealous.

 We got it here. It was so pretty. It snowed overnight(Thurs/Fri) but it had all but melted by Friday afternoon(temps rose) 

[Annber03]

It snowed here the other night as well. Didn't get a ton of snow or anything, but it was enough to make the grass and roads white for a few hours. It's all melted now, though.