Is there ever nothing left to buy?

[KarinTimour]

Gentlemen:

Need some help with this one?

"But didn't you already have a [fill in uniform piece here]? What happened to it?"

I've got an answer for you.

I'm upgrading my laundress impression. You can help. In the past I've relied on the "kindness of strangers" for stuff to wash. I'll still do that if you've got things you want washed at an event. In the past this has meant that I've often got one shirt and one pair of drawers to wash.

But if I was a regimental laundress, and doing laundry for hundreds of men, I'd be hip deep in dirty clothes.

Blown out pants, dead socks, farby uniform pieces that you want to move out of your closet but don't want to see on someone's back, I'll take them all. Holes and rips don't matter as laundresses also did mending, so that is an added option for down time at an event. And that pair of farby pants will look unrecognizable once I've boiled them a time or two and scrubbed them to a fare-thee-well.

Anyone interested, send me an email at ktimour@aol.com and let's talk.

Sincerely,
Karin Timour
Period Knitting -- Socks, Sleeping Hats, Balaclavas
Atlantic Guard Soldier's Aid Society
Email: Ktimour@aol.com

[Rachal]

If there is such a time, I have not gotten there yet. Or is it realistic to expect to be finished? Perhaps part of the charm is in the steady accumulation of gear? Discuss amongst yourselves.

I figure when my wife buys me that "Approved Vendor" pine box so she can chuck me into an authentic grave, I will stop buying gear. Until then, there is just so many new items coming out, how can I. I would feel bad, but when I meet people like Ross, I realize that my sickness is still relatively minor.

[Bill_Cross]

If there is such a time, I have not gotten there yet. Or is it realistic to expect to be finished? Perhaps part of the charm is in the steady accumulation of gear? Discuss amongst yourselves.

I'm there and on the other side, LOL!

It started when I sold the superb CD jacket Becky Nall had made me in honor of my ancestors in the 5th MO. I knew I was never going to have the time or money to go West and portray them, nor was it likely to attend the Kennesaw Mountain event where my gr-gr-uncle John Adams was killed.

Then I started looking around at other items I never had worn, but had in my kit "just in case."

But recently, I thought how nice it would be to have a Henry for "Bummers." And my wool socks are now getting thin in the heels. So maybe I never will reach that point. But the desire for "stuff" doesn't fade. Just watch George Carlin's bit about "your stuff."