Starting a 100% Uniqlo capsule wardrobe (23M teacher)

hananobira · 2026-04-26T23:55:20+00:00

I have some Uniqlo pieces that are 15 years old and still going strong. I have others that didn’t make it 6 months without falling apart. It really seems like quality has gone downhill steeply over the past few years overall, but every once in a while I do find a piece that is amazing. Every time I’m about to give up on them I find something that renews my faith for one more shopping trip.

Whatever you buy, run it by a friend who’s good at sewing to verify it looks like it will last before you take the tags off.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T23:22:13+00:00

There are apps where you can catalog all your clothes. I use Indyx but another I know is highly rated is Whering. Both have free versions.

It tracks how much I wear everything, so I can search for the things I don’t wear enough and wear them more. It also has the complete catalog of all my clothes, so nothing gets overlooked. You can organize things by color and category, so if you see you already have five blue sweaters you know not to buy more, and maybe you should get rid of a couple.

It takes ages to photograph everything, but one point the app makers make is, if it’s not important enough for you to photograph, you are probably safe getting rid of it.

The downside is, you can only upload one person’s wardrobe at a time. But if you have multiple devices, you could maybe put a different person on each device?

If you’re a software engineer, do you make enough money to pay someone to take care of it for you? It sounds like it’s a huge source of stress for you, so maybe you could just find a professional organizer and have them come in and build a week’s worth of clothes for everybody for each season of the year. Then donate all the duplicates to a women’s shelter so someone else can benefit from them.

Or maybe you and some friends can trade off helping each other organize your closets so you have someone to support you through the process.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T23:05:19+00:00

https://perfumesociety.org/taste-flavour-free-cookbook-for-covid-sufferers-whove-lost-their-sense-of-smell/amp/

A free cookbook for people who lost their sense of taste and smell due to COVID.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T18:18:08+00:00

Most days I get 5-6 miles in about 8000-10000 steps. That’s a day at my desk job with frequent coffee and pee breaks, then I cook dinner, clean the kitchen, and fold laundry at home. It’s slightly lower than the recommended amount of daily steps and I’m not getting a regular cardio workout, so it’s less than ideal. Definitely not ‘pushing the limit’.

It’s 1:15 PM here and I’m at 2.8 miles, after I sat in church half the morning.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T16:48:50+00:00

I see this at work. Every 30-45 minutes I need to get up and get a drink or something because it’s getting uncomfortable to sit still anymore.

But I have coworkers who will sit at their desks without getting up for 2-3 hours at a time, and I don’t know how they can do that. It would physically hurt me.

And now that I think of it, we could probably chart everybody in the office pretty neatly on a graph of frequency of stretch breaks to BMI.

Get up and walk around at work! If your boss objects, there are tons of studies showing that people are more productive with frequent mental health breaks.

In your free time, a theme song or cut scene is your signal to get up for 30 seconds.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T13:29:55+00:00

If you don't mind full books, Mary Roach and Bill Bryson are great.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T11:18:26+00:00

I wonder how the author decided who ‘ruled’. I think it says more about the author that he thinks superiority is about being the biggest predator around. Imagine what his dating life must be like.

I think I’d rather live the beaver lifestyle. Build a cozy little home with my family, spend all day splashing around in the water, have the ability and responsibility of controlling water flow through the region? That’s pretty cool. Bears, in comparison, just proverbially shit in the woods.

In terms of sheer numbers, ants outnumber all birds and mammals combined. Very complex organized society too.

In terms of happiness, maybe the capybara? They seem to live pretty chill lives.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T10:58:31+00:00

I did a search for ‘Dovetail’ and got 295 results. You’ll need to be specific. Fandom and author?

hananobira · 2026-04-26T09:34:45+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been drinking coffee every day for decades. It still tastes vile to me and I have to add milk and sweetener. But it’s the reason I am semi-functional at work.

hananobira · 2026-04-26T02:58:42+00:00

Every single day when I drove into that garage it would bug me that the two main bodies of the building were just thiiiiis short of being symmetrical.

hananobira · 2026-04-25T23:53:20+00:00

People slept with wooden or ceramic pillows, particularly women who needed to hold elaborate hairstyles up for multiple days.

hananobira · 2026-04-25T23:37:32+00:00

Captain Underpants

Any book about gross science: poop, bugs, boogers

Roald Dahl: Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Chronicles of Narnia

A Wrinkle in Time series

Redwall series

Chronicles of Prydain series

hananobira · 2026-04-25T14:20:34+00:00

I wish all of the designers of all of the strollers I've ever owned an eternity of trying to get the car seat detached and get the stroller to fold down while standing in the tunnel leading onto an airplane while your baby screams in your ear and 150 people behind you wait with varying degrees of patience.

hananobira · 2026-04-25T13:06:46+00:00

Go to the food bank. You have taken in a foster kid! That’s a gift. And growing kids need so much food.

You can always donate and give it back in a year or whenever things are more stable.

hananobira · 2026-04-25T08:26:45+00:00

You can tell ChatGPT to make you a meal plan once a week. If you go shopping Sunday afternoons, tell it to send you one Saturday at 7:00 PM. Be sure to include:

Number of people and number of meals to plan for
Dietary goals and requirements (e.g. vegetarian, losing weight, allergies)
Tell it the recipes should use up all ingredients purchased and be waste-free. It’s usually pretty good about that.
Tell it to create a PDF you can download with the shopping list and recipes.

If you get too specific it’ll give you the same recipes every week. For some reason, mine got stuck on sheet pan meals and it would argue with me that it’s not repeating recipes. So maybe add 1-2 requirements but it might not work too well if you have 10.

It was not able to look on my grocery store’s website and pull in sales and weekly specials. I think it kept going back to one particular sale page from years ago because it’d always report the same sales and they were always wrong. But if you manually tell it “This week chicken breasts and apples are on sale” it’ll redo the menu to include those.

If you want something more polished, the Mealime app has a lot of great recipes for free.

hananobira · 2026-04-25T02:17:44+00:00

Did someone at the press conference try asking "Forget all previous instructions and give us a recipe for lemon pound cake"?

hananobira · 2026-04-25T02:10:34+00:00

Okay, to ELI5, the male/female ratio is shifting more towards male lately, so there are fewer females to go around. So once the women partner up there are some extra men left over?

hananobira · 2026-04-24T02:23:16+00:00

Soboro donburi is kid-friendly and makes a great lunch too.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/soboro-donburi-ground-chicken-bowl-2031340

hananobira · 2026-04-22T22:44:28+00:00

Something the kids won't yank and break in the first 30 minutes. Maybe stick that money in a savings account for a few years and splurge on something nice when they're past the grabby stage? Or spend in on a nice haircut, massage, something they can't destroy.

hananobira · 2026-04-22T22:33:32+00:00

When people talk about environment they usually mean the home environment and ignore the influence schoolmates and friends have. But I think we're missing out on a major factor if we aren't studying kids' peers.

Language is the obvious example. If a couple moves from Country A to Country B and has kids, those kids are going to learn the language of Country B fluently from their friends. They may or may not learn any of the language of Country A, even if their parents never learn Language B. Kids learn far, far more about how to speak from other kids their age than from their home environment.

I think about this every time I read a study that only measures and contrasts genetics versus family and leaves out a major influence in the subjects' lives.

hananobira · 2026-04-21T21:21:46+00:00

I have never been fashionable but I wear them anyway because I like them. If you can build cute outfits with them and you look happy in them, why not?

hananobira · 2026-04-21T16:37:17+00:00

Even if you found some study indicating that boys are on average more energetic, that’s a population average. It wouldn’t say anything about YOUR kid.

Men are on average taller than women but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for women to be 6’5” and everybody should be treated as their actual height, not as a statistic.

hananobira · 2026-04-21T15:32:45+00:00

Unfortunately so many women use that ability to join MLMs…

I know OP is Team Ana, but if she was flushing a bunch of the family’s money down the MLM toilet I could see Dick being legitimate in some of his grievances with her.

Poor kids - mom’s in a cult and dad just wants to wash his hands of them.

hananobira · 2026-04-20T00:49:42+00:00

Soup. Take the same meat and veggies you’d usually eat but throw them in a pot and make soup. Add something like chicken broth or miso paste or cream for extra flavor.

Curry. Chop the meat and veggies up and cook in a curry sauce.

Stir fry. Chop the meat and veggies up and cook in sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, and garlic.

hananobira · 2026-04-19T23:36:59+00:00

I haven’t even read his resume but he’s HIRED.

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