I don't know why Hamlet had to fuss so much about a bodkin I don't think you could manage to stab yourself at all effectively with one of these. You might do more damage with a toothpick, frankly. #bodkin #sewing

From Hamlet..,

"... To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,..."

#bodkin

Anyway, Hamlet could stab himself all day with my bodkin and not do any damage. Here's my quick and dirty bag for clothespins. (Ps. This is technically a "tactical" clothespin bag, as it uses milspec 440 paracord 🤪) #sewing

Ha, just looked it up, for so many years have known that verse and didn't know what a "fardel" was.

(apparently a "traveler's bundle"... my little bag would be a very small "fardel", I guess.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fardel

Fardel - Wikipedia

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And then there's fard, meaning makeup and nard, meaning perfume...

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So, if you put blush and mascara in your fardel, it would be a fard fardel.

@FiddleSix So you're saying somewhere in the world, there is probably a Nard Nerd who knows everything about perfumes and talks about nothing else? 🤪

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(and who may even have invented a nardel for carrying perfumes in...)

@ai6yr And to think I’ve been bearing fardels all this time and never knew it.
@ai6yr "Tactical clothespin bag" sounds like it came from a Tactical Every Thing bot, I love it
@beandreams @ai6yr I have a pair of “tactical “ sunglasses. They’re just regular sunglasses but without any aesthetic or philsophic value whatsoever. I think “tactical” is maybe synonymous with “fugly”. Which the clothespin bag is not. That thing is cute af.
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I like the print on that!
@LibraryFinch Thanks! Leftover bit of fleece I got extremely cheap on JoAnn's closeout, which I used to cover a sewing bench, and this is the little bit left over.

@ai6yr every day carry

(depending on how much laundry you have to do)

@ai6yr “but that the dread of something after death,
that undiscover'd country from whose bourne no traveler returns, puzzles the will,
and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
and thus the native hue of resolution
is sicklied o'er with a pale cast of thought
and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard
their current turn awry, and lose the name of action.”
(from memory. Also, 2 sorta Star Trek refs)
@ai6yr “the undiscovered country” + enterprises, LOL
@Archergal Ha! I had no idea those were Shakespeare references.
@ai6yr “the undiscovered country” resonated for me immediately when the movie came out. Enterprise is a stretch, though, LOL.
@ai6yr Also, that bit “makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of" have helped to stay my hand a few times when I was really depressed.
@Archergal @ai6yr 👏👏👏 God bless you for bringing the Bard into this so deftly.
@chrisnelder @Archergal From memory, no less!
@ai6yr @chrisnelder Learned it for fun 50 years ago, there may be errors and inadvertent omissions