Diary of a Poor Person aged 46 1/2

GDB2222

mrscmr wrote: »

ok i have a problem.. need advice.

bought some trainers... perhaps they a little young for me! ok dont say it! they are babycham but i bought them cos they have sparkly hearts on them .. ok so they come with these really long laces... but how do you tie them? clearly i cant tie in a bow.. looks like im a loser when i do....

come on trendies... telll me the secret?

Trendy is not to tie them, but to be really trendy you have somehow or other to avoid falling over. You can get shorter laces you know.

Purpleroses

oh yeah i've seen a few done up very losely so that the laces can't be tied. what i do is tie them the usual way but behind the tongue then tuck the loops down the sides.

mrscmr

well im really not sure about hte laces thing. will google it!

mrscmr

ok its me again... another question for you...

who out there in webland... uses social bookmarking??? i mean like stumbleupon, delicious etc...? what does it mean? i have put it on our webstie and our hits have gone mad. now we seem to be connected all over the place ... but i dont understand it.

GDB2222

Purpleroses wrote: »

oh yeah i've seen a few done up very losely so that the laces can't be tied. what i do is tie them the usual way but behind the tongue then tuck the loops down the sides.

That's what one of my sons does. Me, I just tie a nice bow.

mrscmr

can u put photos in ur posts on here? is that allowed? i want to show all of you my trainers then maybe u can help me?

social booking marking... someone please comment?!

Purpleroses

you can post pics

social bookmarking...no idea sorry

Happytogetdebtfree

I don't know what social bookmarking is, an the trainers have lost me, lol

moo2moo

Could all the hits from the social bookmarking people be from Austen fans? The way I see it social bookmarking is a quick reference so your name being two famous Austen characters from Pride and Prejudice leads people to assume your shop specialises in all things Austen much like The Jane Austen shop

As for the shoe laces I don't think you're supposed to tie them. Either they drag along the ground or you transform them into a chessboard much like these and then wear them like slip ons. If they're the nylon sort you can always cut them to the length you wnat and then melt the end with a fag-lighter to stop them fraying.The cotton sort you havce to bind very tightly with narrow electrical sticky tape which you can get in red.

Theres even a webpage dedicted to extra long laces here

mrscmr

woowowowo moomoo thats fab.

not sure about the book marking thing... yes its funny how our name are characters from a book.. but we didnt choose it for that reason.. each of us has a child with that name.