Handling Hybrid work etc on Apartment Therapy. DIY.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/block-scheduling-less-overwhelmed-37245848

Many well paid jobs are hybrid or remote now--suits me fine.

As for clothes, handbags--I only use one handbag--a canvas tote, till it falls apart--I only have a couple of summer sandals, I gave away all high heels ages ago--

I have Fall and Spring shoes, 2 pairs--

Some winter shoes and 1 pair of L. L. Bean rain boots--from my full-time work days.

Several wool coats,1 puffy long coat.

The rest are basic T shirts, solid colors and fleece pants or jeans.

I upcyled all my longyis (sarongs) into light jackets--have sold some.

My hobbies use recyled items as much as possible.

I buy cookware like baking trays,loaf pans mostly at yard sales--collectible items like my blue and white milk jug also at yard sales--

Fine tablecloths at yard sales also,I recycle into summer tops and pillow cases.

I buy groceries at "Middling Supermart" and have it all delivered.

I'm conditioned by life in Socialist Burma and cook and eat almost all my meals at home except one or two--in local restaurants on days when doctors' visits conk me out. But I'm not as bad as another friend who grew up during Great Depression and kept walnut sized pieces of food wrapped in aluminum foil in her freezer. Her Burmese husband however threw things out pretty fast--He threw out a bottle of pickled bean sprouts I just made for her.

I have a friend who had second-hand stuff coming out of her ceilings, ditto another friend who was very rich.

There is no one way to live. James Baldwin said,"Live the only life you have, otherwise you will end up living no life at all."

I'm making my Will.

Kyi May Kaung

3-4-2026