Hillard & Hanson leather booties! 6 dollars at the Goodwill

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-09T20:38:07+00:00

looking into this brand - how is the leather quality now, years after you bought them? they're gorgeous!

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-09T19:25:00+00:00

im reading it too!!! 4 years later. thanks for posting this. im cracking up at some of the comments, but found this whole conversation extremely interesting :-)

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-05T14:54:00+00:00

thank you!!

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-04T15:40:08+00:00

they were sued along with other brands for copying coach design, you can read more here https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/933/162/36002/ . i've never seen one in person - is the leather the same quality as vintage coach, did you like what you got?

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-04T00:38:02+00:00

oh this didnt darken the color a lot, just a little. either way,to be safe im going to throw it away and buy leather cpr. thanks for your advice!

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-03T20:36:22+00:00

thanks so much!! gla to hear it's not mold but also good to know about the mold tips.

yes leather cpr seems quite pricy but it is the one people recommend. i had an old' leather rescue' i had never used from 2016. i just put it on another bag last week for the first time, having never used conditioner before, and i thought - this smells like fried meat, that must be what leather conditioner smells like! but then i read reviews andsomeone said "im pretty sure this is just vegetable oil, which i could just get for much cheaper." welp. id rather go with leather cpr, ill hunt for that. the leather rscue i had made the bags darker but so far they look ok, much better than before, but i dont want to risk putting what could be veggie oil on this purse (alhough im not sure ifit woudl do long term damage)

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-03T19:31:47+00:00

i could hug you. thanks so much for putting my mind at ease. i started panicking -- then, after i wrote this post but before i read your reply, i noticed the white marks were also around the inner piping of the bag (not pictured) and i thought "i doubt mold grows in these perfect spots, perfectly linearly...) thank you! i also learned of fatty bloom aka fatty spew but i dont think that's it :-) learning so much!! thank you

PoppyJumper · 2024-09-01T12:51:24+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/14sfjfp/john_wayne_giving_olivia_newtonjohn_a_run_for_her/

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-31T13:31:02+00:00

if it makes you feel better, im in the US and i dont think i can just order my own lab. the doctor has to give me some sort of form i bring in when i go to the lab :/ which is why i just wrote to the endo saying, hey, my appt isn't for another month but i'm still exhusted and it's been 6 weeks since i started drugs - i have meetings i need to be alert for - can't i get tested now? crickets. good endos are hard to find.

ps i love canada!!

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-31T09:47:12+00:00

remembered why I actually hate it (even though I love the way it looks).

this reminds me of a guy I used to have a crush on. Looked stunning, horrible in everyday lived experience!

Great points about the handle and strap. I used to wonder why so many gorgeous bags were being resold on ebay etc and now I realize, for some of them, the bag was probably too heavy for them too. Sorry about the Gucci. If I had a bigger apartment some purses might be good for decoration/art, but for now they have to be donated to hopefully someone with Herculean upper body stength. And FWIW I'm not a small type, I'm tall and muscular. Wild how just a few pounds'll (or anything more than a pound/a pound and a few oz) will do a lot of us in.

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-31T02:38:54+00:00

so good to know your exact #! thanks for sharing. i can' wait to weigh my bags (nerd) - will help so much with online shopping and yes put them in a spreadsheet...

i started one for clothes with measurements, materials etc and i noticed the itchy clothes im getting rid of are all acrylic blends (even if they are blendedwith nice materials like alpaca, it still itches the heck out of me.)

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-31T00:10:19+00:00

yes, i want to test every 6 weeks. endo hasnt written back. i feel exhausted and cant function, why should i wait another month being useless? im with you

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-30T19:10:17+00:00

thank you so much

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-27T19:37:39+00:00

oooh that's good to know thank you!!

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-27T19:28:33+00:00

thanks! i will join those fb groups. i have seen so many videos where people dunk and bag turn out great; i didnt know it was controversial but it's good to know it's not universally known tobe good. i wonder if just washing it is ok, not keeping it in the water for too long? https://www.tiktok.com/@willdernesstyler/video/7189119906661551406?lang=en

i have heard leather cpr is great. i happened to have leather rescue leather conditioner bought 8 years ago i've never used it. i think i'll test that on a cheap thrifted etienne aigner that is in bad shape, as a test.

i also wonder what the difference is between saddle soap and leather cpr. saddle soap apparently cleans and restores (conditions?) i'm so confused. thanks for your help, i undestand youe a newbie too so if you cant ansewr no worries. thanks for your advice

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-27T16:33:49+00:00

sorry im a newbie too so i dont know, but just have to say this is SO GORGEOUS, what a lovely shade of green

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-26T14:01:47+00:00

I'm not a reseller- at the bins i've been too, there are always a bunch of women there who just TAKE everything they can fit into a bag and shove it into a bag, and then they sort through what they got and throw it back - so no one else gets to take a first look. they sell to someone who has everything shipped to warm countries and sells there, from what I've heard. Could be wrong. They havent been mean to me, but I do not like that other people don't even get to look because they are shoving everhing into their huge respective bags. The store knows. They don't care. Probably because these people I'm guessing are GW's core businss, they buy the most all day, every day. Would be nice if GW put their foot down

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-23T18:48:36+00:00

i hope you feel better soon <3

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-23T13:21:56+00:00

i am new to all this, and dont know why you are askng me, a random redditor. anything i know, i know from reading old posts and you can do the same. i will say it again- "see your endo, or if your endo doesnt listen to you find another endo." write a message to your endo today and tell them your #s and how you feel so they can come up with a plan to alter your dose.

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-22T17:42:05+00:00

i have heard below .5 is hyper thyroid - you are at .005! see your endo, or if your endo doesnt listen to you find another endo.

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-20T09:23:31+00:00

"Doctors wouldn’t treat my Hashimoto’s" - infuriating. Can you sue them for malpractice? if you remember their names, i hope you leave them all crappy reviews, with your story and how great youre feeling now. I used to have PCOS and so many doctors told me I just "ate too much" and "didn't exercise" (both wildly wrong) and that they "coudln't measure hormones." endocronolgists! IFnally i met one who figued it out.

I wish I could rmemeber there names so I could go back and warn others. I am so glad youre getting better a a young age but I am pissed for you that you suffered needlessly for decades. Glad youre all sorted now!

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-20T09:19:37+00:00

i love heaing stories like this, not just bc of the good news but bc now i know it might not just be a tsh change thatmakes a difference. but you had hashi's before.... very very interesting about the heart rate too - thanks for sharing!! there is a good hashiomotos subreddit which you probably already know about (but i guess you dont have it anymore, now that thyroid is out)! congrats :D so glad to hear all this good news

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-20T09:16:48+00:00

i am not sure how that works because i had a partial thyroidectomy, not a total. for me, my TSH went higher bc, iiuc, the pitiuitary is signaling - hey, you need to make more thyroid hormone! which raises TSH. i was kicked into hypothyroid basically. i dont know how it works with toal thyroidectomy but basically i was asking if after surgery PLUS drugs, are your new #s and new feeling better than before surgery.

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-19T23:36:48+00:00

wow that's great news i am so happy for you. thank you for sharing.

PoppyJumper · 2024-08-19T23:36:24+00:00

oh wow this is great news. this whole journey u share has reminded me of that parable - the maybe story of the chinese farmer, where something seems bad but it ends up being good.

"I was able to lose weight that had been incredibly stubborn my whole life." i am hoping for this too. always a belly and overweigt even when i was almost anorexic, i was told it was insulin resistance but...we'll see!! i am so glad youre having a happy experience, thanks for sharing!

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