For those of you who get your nails done at a salon, why not buy the equipment and do it yourself? You can learn anything online. Give yourself a weekly pedicure and a biweekly manicure, all for a fraction of the cost. You could even do this with friends and buy the equipment together to reduce the costs even more. Plastic and tin containers are great to store screws, nails and small garage stuff too. One reader said she bakes a lot, and usually always has something frozen.
Since the pandemic she has found herself rinsing and reusing them often. Make your own pet toys — buy cat nip and sew it into a fabric mini-pillow made out of old clothing. Macrame a giant dog bone out of colourful old clothing cut up into strips or macrame toys for birds. Buy baby blankets at the thrift stores for your pets to sleep on — they are always in great condition and really cheap!
Use the internet to learn new hobbies, how to repair broken appliances, how to build things you would normally buy, or how to service your car, tools and toys. The advice is all free and you have a play-by-play demo of how to do really anything when using the internet. Try doing your own personal projects instead of hiring people to do small jobs and take care of the things that you have instead of always buying new.
I tried something new this year: I had so many black flies biting me in my garden, so I put small plastic containers in my garden filled with apple cider vinegar and a couple of squirts of dish soap.
I left them there for three weeks and they continued to fill up — I was quite proud of myself with this little trick. You made me smile, made me laugh, and for the odd one, made me truly realize what some of you are dealing with due to COVID.
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GM to launch 10 EVs in S. Unfortunately, you are the lady or man who doth protest too much, and you may instead have some deep insecurity about reading that led you to this book-flavorless existence. Pick up a book—a short one, say, start small—and open it, and let your eyes just rest on it for a few quiet moments. You may find yourself changed, because a life without reading is a sad one indeed.
Suggested anti-reader books: To get you started, try pop-up books, graphic novels, and comics as well as something on topics you'd normally enjoy watching on TV. The Cross-Under. You are a grown-up who reads Y. Your existence acknowledged after so many years, you no longer have to feel shame at your questionable reading habits but can instead bask in the admiration of book blogs and feel a part of the vanguard.
You are not ruled by categories; you are a free thinker. When you were in elementary school a librarian told you a book was "Too old for you. The Multi-Tasker. This is the nice way of saying you are a promiscuous reader, but it's not that you don't finish reads. Instead, you just have a sort of hippie reading way about you, free love or some such.
You might start the day out with a few pages from one novelist, then read something entirely different on the subway, and when you come home from work, another work as well. Your bedtime read, too, might be different, and all in all, when you count up the books, you've got quite a lot of irons in the fire all at the same time. Do you confuse characters or plots? Do you give more attention to some books than to others?
The point is, you're not ready for a book commitment just yet, and you're doing a brilliant job dating them all in the meantime.
Suggested multi-tasking reads: Short story and essay collections, novellas. Update: We listed more book-reader types, here. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. This article is from the archive of our partner. The Chronological Reader. Slow and steady wins the race, dear reader. You are the tortoise to the promiscuous reader's distracted-at-any-turn hare. You buy a book, you read it.
You buy another, you read it. Perhaps you borrow a book at the library. What the two properties share, he said, is the same philosophy on writing, reporting, and editorial integrity. But the audiences are distinct, he said. The company wants each title to be ambitious, resourceful, and free to develop its own audience and money-making possibilities.
News consumers wield even more power over the way their news is delivered and how they read it. Cite this article Hide citations. Ellis, Justin. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Nov. Ellis, J. The Atlantic Wire gets a new shorter name and a new look. Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 19, Accessed November 11, The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age.
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