Okay ladies, I’m going to let you in on a little secret I like to call Smart Vintage Shopping. This guide will help you be the girl with the awesome ‘80s clutch that everyone gushes over, as opposed to the lady who thought it would be acceptable to wear an orange jumpsuit to the first day of class. I’m not trying to bash orange jumpsuits, I’m just saying. Vintage shopping is one of those things that sounds awesome but can ultimately be pretty intimidating. After reading this guide, though, even your mom will want to raid your closet—and you’d think she would be the one with the awesome wardrobe from 1980!
First things first: why buy vintage? Vintage is technically defined as any piece of clothing that is twenty years or older—which means theoretically, all your t-shirts from 1990 count as vintage now! Danielle Mandel, NYU student and vintage-shopper extraordinaire points out that not only is vintage clothing accessible, but it’s also usually cheaper than stuff you can find in any retail store. Also, it’s durable. Sara Ryer, another NYU student and sales employee at well-known Manhattan vintage boutique Zachary’s Smile , says, “Vintage garments hold up a lot better than contemporary clothing. They’ve remained in good shape for up to thirty years—what’s going to make them fall apart now?”
How do you get started? Sammy Davis, founder of “the H&M of vintage,” Sammy Davis Vintage has a mission: to “help women achieve feel-good fashion through do-good practices.” For the lady who has never shopped vintage before and needs some inspiration, she suggests checking out WhatIWore.com a daily fashion blog created and maintained by Jessica Schroeder, a particularly stylish vintage goddess. She champions the internet at large to find actual stores: “You just have to use Google,” she says. “FIND the Goodwill, the church stores, the Salvation Army—you can go on their site and go to their store locator, just like you would with a supermarket!” Mandel also suggests making lists: “I made lists of all the stores I wanted to explore, and I just went. That way, I got a feel for prices, quality, and styles.”
Many of us believe that we will achieve happiness only through great effort, and we spend a lifetime seeking it. But unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there’s nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away. And the principal way in which we drive happiness away is with “if/then” thinking—believing, “If this happens, then I will be happy.” The truth is, you have everything it takes to be happy right now.
Here are ten tips that will help you change your thinking about happiness and open wellsprings of motivation, resilience, and joy you never knew existed.
* Accept What Is and Learn from It * Life is a university that you never graduate from. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to. It is not so difficult to move on if you focus on learning the lesson, rather than on lamenting your misfortune. It also does not mean you are callous or heartless. On the contrary, you will become much more caring and empathetic when you are not wallowing in your misery.
Recently I received a comment from one of you asking if I could change the theme every now and then of my web site because they are tired of seeing the same thing all the time. I am not bashing this person for he did state that he wasn’t sure if this is a simple task or not, but the answer is it is indeed not just like swapping out your wallpaper on your desktop. My site is completely coded by a computer programmer and I personally do not know how to program sites. So, unless I want to pay a graphic designer and a computer programmer to change the layout of my site on a regular basis it is going to stay like this for a while. I do have some new shoots coming up and always do my best to keep you updated with fresh, new content. ..For those of you who are bored with my site .. my apologies! I can only be me. Love you all anyways!
Before we told stories through novels or sitcoms, we sketched our lives on stone columns and cave walls. For centuries, it was how society taught its truths and delivered its lessons. The pictures we made were extensions of us in an almost magical way.
For over seventy years—most recently with the release of Shrek Forever After—we’ve experienced a bit of that magic through full-length animated films. Whether they’re drawn by hand, crafted by computer, or shaped through stop-action, these movies charm us, inspire us, and teach us lessons in ways that live-action films—limited by the pesky shackles of reality—sometimes struggle to do. From Disney’s beautiful classics of yesteryear to today’s CGI masterpieces, animation in many ways represents cinematic storytelling at its best: Few other art forms can bridge generational differences and inspire young and old with timeless lessons of hope, courage, and love.
Here are eight of our favorite life lessons from animated films.
1. Pinocchio (1940): Listen to Your Conscience People, particularly little wooden people, face a lot of temptation. It’s so very enticing to skip school and find a Pleasure Island all your own, where you can drink and play pool to your heart’s content. It all seems so enticing—until you start to grow longer ears and a tail and hee-haw like a donkey.
