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Good Use of Life Energy?

Good Use of Life Energy?

Here are some of the very old fixing projects haunting my cupboard:

Children’s Halloween gloves with the seams at the fingertips undone so they fit adult hands opening the door to trick-or-treaters. Need to stop seams from fraying.
Coin baggy, oh no, it’s an earphone baggy, with a metal bendy closure, disintegrating. Is it worth keeping the metal closure? It’s a unique way of keeping a baggy closed.
Failed attempt at making red linen trousers. Can the colorful cloth be repurposed for a hammock pillow?
The failed grey fleece sweater – boring and ugly. Can it be repurposed as a pillow cover?
Holes to be mended … Is it worth it? Will I wear it? At least I know where my brown wool turteneck sweater went!
A surfing wetsuit top bought very cheaply on sale; needs a zipper in the front so I can kayak and sail comfortably in it.
Failed foldable bucket project for personal hygiene while backpacking (in lieu of a hot shower). It just doesn’t hold water though. Waterproofing is hard. And Sea-to-Summit and Stoic make such buckets very well.
Little baggies made of jeans material? What was I thinking? Easy discard.
Little waist bags we made our children wear traveling when they were small
Missing buttons to be attached; skirts and trousers to be hemmed. Would I still wear any of this?
I found 20 bucks in one of the baggies! Bonus!

How to spend it, and my time, wisely… How does spending time mending stuff compare with spending time with family or exercising or doing something meaningful?

P.S. The term “life energy” comes from the book “Your Money or Your Life” by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. A great concept. She blogs about finding meaning in your life and social innovations.

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    mindfullyraspberryadbfa84d8a

    I saw years ago that you can make the cool metal closure with an old tape measure. And the bucket looks like an excellent knitting project bag! -The ARK Lady

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