Minor Holidays

Me, too, .S.! 40 + 2 but with our third, who will be a week old tomorrow–feeling all the feels, too!

Awwww heck yeah! I LOVE The Holiday and just watched it yesterday for the 2022 season :)

That’s my all time favourite! So many problems with that movie. And still. I love it.

Vera, I know! Horrible and cruel and inappropriate, but there’s a dysfunctional love at its core that feels sooooo relatable.

The East Fork Mug! It truly is the perfect mug. I handwash it so I can use it every day.

I just had the same panic shopping experience for my mom, and wound up buying her cashmere slippers from COS stores. They’re insanely decadent! I know she’ll love them, and would never buy them for herself. Bonus- I bought myself a cashmere hat from COS about 10 years ago, and it is still in PERFECT condition (no pills!) even though it’s been through a LOT. It’s been worn almost daily in colder months, slept in, spilled on, stuffed in many a backpack/bag. It even memorably once spent the night on the floor of a pub in Ireland! Anyway, their cashmere is built to last.

What about experiences or consumables?
• gift card to interesting independent restaurant or show
• plants/flowers
• fancier versions of essential soaps
• gift card for luxury services

I’m getting my parents a gift certificate to have all their knives and scissors sharpened. Very practical and a good way to support a local business

I second the east fork mug!! So good!

Katherine of cashmere fame – how do you store these cashmere items? My husband bought me a cashmere scarf for Christmas 2020, and I pulled it out a month ago and it is FULL OF HOLES from…moths, I assume? I don’t know what I did wrong and I’m so so sad. Trying to see if a seamstress can fix them. I know it won’t look perfect but it will be better than hole-y.

@Kati, I put my first cashmere scarf in a bag with a metal tripod (with screws, etc.) before I knew I should be careful with cashmere. It came out with so many holes! But my (now-ex)MIL showed me how to mend it (with wool thread), and I did. It was black so the mending isn’t really noticeable unless you are looking to find the mended hole. So I totally think you could mend it or have it mended! And if it’s a lighter color, it’s possible the mending could be visible, but I actually really love mending my things and continuing to use and love them. I think it’s like a beautiful metaphor…things can be mended after they’ve been hurt. And sometimes the mending makes them even more beautiful, like kintsugi.

For what it’s worth – My take on that has always been 100% sarcasm, which was acknowledging it was not a small thing at all.

Right?? On the rewatch I was so charmed by the setting/aesthetics/Meg Ryan’s character and shop, and hated him and the way he treated people. I take some sympathy in the fact that he almost certainly was bankrupted by Amazon a few years later while indie bookstores made a bit of a comeback.

This!! One of the worst movie endings of ALL TIME. I totally get the love for her shop, all the great outfits, and New York in all its seasonal glory, but omg the storyline, I just can’t.

I second Heather–I think he’s acknowledging it isn’t a small thing at all–and he asks then or at a different point for her to forgive him. Doesn’t mean you have to like what happens, though. :)

Okay, my partner and I just watched You’ve Got Mail for the first time a few months ago.

And, wow, Tom Hanks character is a CREEP. Red flags all over the place.

Guess you gotta expect that, this being a movie from the problematic 90s.

The thing I can’t understand is the enduring love for it still. I mean, watch that scene towards the end where he visits her in her apt. Absolute CRINGE.

Because it’s nostalgic, it’s a movie and not real life, we can use it to appreciate how far we’ve come, and we don’t all have to take everything so seriously all of the time

May we all eat whatever the fuck we want for breakfast, especially it if brings us joy, without anyone asking if it makes us afraid of a potential change to the shape of our body.

I don’t understand your q. you’re not more likely to gain weight eating pie for breakfast than you are if you eat it for dessert. Also, we’re not all on a diet.

Pie and cake for breakfast is absolutely the best part of holidays. With ice cream if I can hide it from my kids.

Thank you Elizabeth!! That’s exactly right, exactly.

Best comment on here!

Mine too! (and THE perfect breakfast!)

Same – I’m saving it for my present wrapping evening. It’s a fall movie, it’s a spring movie, it’s a holiday movie – it can do anything!

Whoever you three are, I want to watch movies with you!
–Wanted to be Lucy M. in 8th grade thanks to “WYWS”