Consumer Habits Part III

A small contribution of consumerism in Native America from __Mischief!

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I have experience in silk screen printing by hand (college course supplied), sewing, beading, and upcycling clothes I already own into repaired pieces to continue until I throw them out - delaying the next purchase as far as I can. The designing process for clothes has to be the most enjoyable skill to possess in any creative coot's toolbox. The best recommendations come from the eccentric, eco-sustainable, and versatile products that you must consider before purchasing. 

1. A small battery box operated wire light. This can double into night-running gear, multiple dress designs (use white or light fabric) and can be versatile for almost any other function you need lights for. The battery pack is decent, I am thinking there's going to be a smaller battery pack in the near future, but until then, a AA size for two is the best (and affordable that I can find). String Lights Link Here (Amazon)!

2. Sewing Patterns: Pick the simple pattern you can modify as you sew. The more complex, the more designed by that pattern you must stick with. Besides using funky pattern change-ups and adding embellishments the pattern can be changed based on having this simple template to follow. Adding cut-outs also works. This might be an obvious addition, but let's encourage your designer self first by making a mistake and saving that idea/hack on how you recovered that time well spent. Sewing Pattern SERP

3. Headdress designs. I have been trying to design a headdress that I can wear daily and gaining a collection in something masculine rather feminine. I also tread lightly on ceremonial headdress designs as needing an actual person to develop with. What I can do, I try blending contemporary with futuristic blends to satisfy my lineage but also to establish the artistic measures as an inter-tribal blended person (multiple tribal affiliations). There aren't any guidelines as to how traditional regalia changes, it just does as the person creates something in their background history and affluence to their cultural right. As future continues to greet us, we will be seeing more blended regalia out there. 

Try remaining an original style with any blended versions - they can insult us if not done properly. Try starting at any base and working your way upwards with something small until an accomplishment can be recognized for your designs. 

4. Ribbon Skirts. So fun, affordable, and fast to make. Spring and Summer Seasons and with the right leggings Fall to Winter can provide designs made by you a life to breathe in unity of continuation. I have seen many and continue to enjoy witnessing these designs. I like to bunch the sides of my ribbon dresses and pin them or sew by the knee (for larger women especially) to give a shape to them that hugs and accentuates curves. Above the knee must have a gathered fabric to poof out and over while being cinched. 

5. Consider your region. I enjoy Woodland styles of clothing, which require a sense of "squaw" dress/shirts and the Iroquoian cuts of long-sleeve dress shirts that flutter. Adding wood embellishments, antler buttons, and upcycling velvet with waistlines from jeans or calico holds that offer an optimal fashionable statement. There are other variations to consider, floral medicinal beadwork, satchels, quiver burned wood and leather carry cases, the basket purse, and silver jewelry. Of course - Always keep a pair of moccasins fresh! 

Consumer Habits To Try

Always buy pants first. The season to start fresh is with the pants, then the capris, then the shorts, and finally the waistline for the skirts. Always buy something you are comfortable and secure with in the waist! 

Extra cash means stocking up on extra fabric and supplies for designing clothes with. This does include going to the local thrift store and checking out the largest sizes for fabric purposes. You may not want to wear those big t-shirts but you can upcycle them. (I once remade an uncle's hawaiian shirt into a dress shirt with ribbons on it with pins on the side to form a figure with the fabric and original shirt!)

Scarves and hats with long beads/shells. Stay natural. If you can find a good hat, go for it. Keep it out of the sun (it does fade the material). Scarves can be used for multiple things if you buy it big enough. They can transform into vests, headwear, and trail along the backside if you tuck it in a belt and let it hang like a peahen. 

Wear a jacket with a different style while buttoning them up all the way to not buttoning it at all. Wear the article in all forms to get the maximum style out of its design. 

Last but not least - throw it away. Don't save everything. It is okay if you cannot bear to look at it any further. Letting articles go does relieve space and time to continue using it. Move on!

As I continue to live on a budget during my collegiate battles into a career - I will continue to post what helped my style during this time. When you can - the best advice is to go back to the basic foundations of style and design by creating your own. Learn to sew, thrift, and bargain as young as possible and rely on it as often as possible. 

__Mischief

Seasonal Collections By Consumer (Part II)

 Habits To Develop

The urge to buy, you say? Seasonal style to document, you wink? Reward systems to use, we both relax on. Well, the time for this isn't guaranteed and does take extra effort to produce. In wanting to produce results I have not been able to feel excited about wanting to save for an item. 

I did find an application for android called "Temu" that is extraordinarily affordable. However, it is imported goods and I would advise to buy wisely, according to environmental protection beliefs. It is cool to have a gadget that can hold your phone different, or a lawn ornament that you can refurbish, or is usually a big price item, but you have to think of the long-term life of the product and if the price is worth it. 

Recognizing what I am doing wrong is the first key indicator of what to change. 

1. Audible cues in a stored mentality refer to the pleasure of eating out, at an affordable price. This is a bad habit because it spends money when not hungry and leaves me unsatisfied nutritiously to feel I did wrong for not being hungry. 

2. Sleep deprivation and breathing studies being done to evaluate the quality of sleep to answer what is being done for mental exhaustion. There are clinical studies you can go through that will determine if you should be on a medical diagnosis. 

3. Organization. Schedule. Priorities. It feels like such a waste of time to not follow through, but, end up needing more flexibility with fast options to pick for results. Planning in this? How can this be handled? The cell phone calendar seems to be the best friend in these conditions. I need a plan and way to invest in type of calendar and reminder system. Switch to the tablet for these encounters to check daily? 

4. Plate portion control. I usually go by calorie intake and it has been consistent for guilt and recoverable during strenuous exercise. However, in injury, it is not the best result to maintain while exerting the appetite of burning at least 500 calories to assist in that digestion process. While building the pantry for a cookbook, slowly, I want to change the portion size I consume. 

5. Saving money. I am able to do a month-by-month with a small savings to help with emergencies. Its not enough! What else can I do to stop spending and save? With this project, and time, I have enough to save for my first internship closet with services with my school that help with those endeavors when that time arrives if I invest in it. How much per paycheck and how to not see it to spend less of it.

Solution Steps

It is not affordable, its seasonal. It's not cheap, its my choice. It is not an opinionated critique unless I design it that way. 

I am currently in the process of minimalizing. Tools of the kitchen, until I can purchase a permanent adobe, gadgets, and small accessories are on hold. I already have enough that can be repaired and maintained. I have developed a new technological responsibility mantra of knowing how to break it and put it back together. As a consumer, I should know how to repair within my means and what I can do to know the parts of it. How it works. What am I buying and where does it come from? I would even go as far as to want the patent country it belongs to and knowing that people develop these new products within the USA. 

When I go out, I am consciously aware of it and weigh the options. I have been particular to listening for when I sub-consciously can weigh based on flavor or urge for flavor, if the outfit can support it. I do not like walking into a new place comfortably. I have been picking based on history feeling, it made me feel good or the public scene was acceptable. I have to keep it moving for the pattern of shopping is a learned skill. 

Have an application that you can peruse while you wait. Reading material, you can absorb. At best, it would be a conversation to steer towards. Have this internally or read aloud. That verbal confirmation allows the companionship to develop without the dependence of people. If you are a people dependent person, be shocked at how imbalanced you are alone and adjust. It takes time, most people in those intense degrees will talk to strangers, even if it puts them in danger. They will discuss personal matters with dangerous people (because they are new) and are bad examples to follow. 

When you read aloud, it is content that is in print. Anyone can pick that up and read aloud. It is approved (mostly, there is explicit content) in any social engagement to hear somebody else read like the news in the background would expel headlines. 

Find something by being less wasteful. I made a dish that I overcooked. I almost threw it out, but have been eating it in a rendition of a breakfast dish because of its texture. The taste of it is amazing and new that I enjoy very much. By not wasting it, I saved a couple of morning fillers and consume the dish in a brand new recipe. Out of all the cookbooks, I have never seen one dedicated to overcooked meals to recover with. Hot buy!

Recover. 

Rediscover. 

Reuse. 

More update and results with the "Seasonal Collections By Consumer (Part III)" where I continuously try to change my consumption habits and behaviors to interpret my waste consumption, purchases, and saving dilemmas. 

__Mischief

Bids Open!

Customized Celebratory Challenges

The family has gathered in your honor, it is your birthday! You are a ripened age and your birthday meal has all of your favorite dishes. One that reminds you of certain highlights of your life, that we feel are important to share in. A dish when you were in very poor conditions, noodles, tomatoes, and salt. A dish when you were in very rich conditions; corn harvested from your garden, ham without scraps used, and herbs from all over the world in importation. A dish when you met a friend from another culture; lamb stew with herbs and a story that you can share from its origins and why it's on your birthday menu.

American customs establish personal travels in and out of the country. We love our country for providing us these opportunities. 

Familial Archives - What is an American?

Enjoyment in competition to declare a definitive successor is the type of challenge that one can declare is for them. The recipes we leave with our families often are carried through with approval. However, the duration to withstand why they are left behind often meet a lack of concern in traditional settings and resources to establish preference in a modern setting. 

What we need is a customized celebratory challenge, and not the legacy to carry through beyond our own life and tasks to succeed. Without a title, many people feel less inclined to uphold, but will gladly pick through it like a rummage sale to be adorned as valuable. Many new age Americans carry this preference of selection in peace earned by actual cultures who still uphold their customs by rummaging through their efforts as if able to purchase, without currency. As serious as this is, there are so many that indulge, it is easily able to let go of upon confrontation. 

Bids Open Challenge

The Bids Open Challenge is an attempt to resolve this, within families, as something to archive and uphold in their characters of interaction as preference setting. We are able to introduce our next generations to choose what they believe is within their preferential range, to decide a birthday menu. This beginning resolution has goals of building an acceptable range for children to remain within their original customs while integrating acceptable social introductions into their character as a favorite time to enjoy. By establishing these social ranges, the entire family can relish in that one time of occurrence and stay within their own respects for that new generational inclusion, to remain responsible for their inclusions and representation within their family and in their community. 

The community changing with diversity is upholding those cultural values to remain within themselves. Too often, other cultural mothering or parenting, feel inclined to discipline outside of their domain. America is not built on enforcing other beliefs upon one another. However, it is difficult to respond to these types, when they have been unable to commit a relationship of professionalism for community by being unable to resolve their presence in media. We learn of each other, first, through news, media, internet and it is often times met with harsh critics of safety, governance, and law-abiding citizenships that promote American heritage in permanence. Nobody in America has forced people to stay in America to remain responsible for their actions. 

Birthday Menu Reasons - At A Learning Age

Creating safe learning environments and wanting children to arrive in peace by learning together should have agreements made within the diverse community that they will allow their children to engage in public activities such as birthdays, school events, and business relations for consumerism and networking. It is unethical to relate personally with another background history without being one of them, so in respect, it would be wise to create an American identity while upholding Rights, with customs that engage in preference and not guarantee the same perspectives that the government withstands during terms of office. We need the government to perceive Americans, but, without respect in each other for being unprepared to encounter a new, different person, with different ideals and preferences, at a citizen level - it creates havoc. Freedoms are thinned. Liberty and Justice are absent. America would fail. The world would respond in our failure and that is restricting opportunity to succeed in America's Constitutional purpose. Not to mention, the American spirit, for declaring its Independence.

It is important to talk to our younger generations about what they think and their experiences in an undefined time. What they are going through, are not the same as twenty years past. They do not know their options but providing the idea of preference, creates an American identity, we all respect. 

Staying Strong in Family

America is not about picking and choosing our beliefs. Church organizations, Religious Affiliations, Cultures are an earned facet of lifestyle, language, provisional service to identity that require membership to associate those beliefs and customs in accountable statuses of an approved delegation outside of their community. 

America is able to believe, but legally, it states with an established faith. 

Withstand the further harassment in freedom by teaching it the right way. 

__Mischief

Seasonal Collections by Consumer (Part I)

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Seasonal Collections by Consumer (Part I)

I look into my closet and find too many random articles, not enough of something or too much of another item. I look into my refrigerator and find food I am bored of. I need to change it but I cannot do it altogether and very quickly. It took me years to collect the things I have now and for the dishes I can make - it took me years to develop a sense of timing and budget saving skills that I rely on. I cannot get rid of most of them, but what I can do is invest in future purchases to reinvent what I can until I slowly see a new change in my boredom. 

Closet: Theme, Location, Key Pieces

Location is in a four seasonal temperate climate with evergreen, deciduous, and vegetation that are typically sandy brown, brown, and green. The grass can be colorful in stem. The birds are camouflaged, mostly, with slight accents of color. A bad weather day consists of typically grey thunderstorms, snowstorms, and as of lately, windy days. 

Themes are important to me, in my occupation, I am in the presence of teenagers and need to appeal to professionalism and safety. I am also a student in a younger generational career-oriented pace in IT fields. I am beyond the care and attention of priming a youth for adulthood. My mother did not encourage make-up and I withstood it in my 20's to preserve the youthfulness and damage that makeup can have on skin. I am in my late 30's now and still have days that I prime (primer, light powder foundation, slight eye shadow, conditioner mascara). I was also heavier to condition my muscles as an athlete regardless of daily activity, this would go up and down, depending on the occupational role. I recommend taking this route if you plan on coasting in your later years - don't fret on being fat, take advantage of the shape to contort style, user-friendly product research for age, technique in grooming, and the ability to recover! Youth is recovery from trial and error, use it before you realize it. 

I was a sweater and jeans with Nike shoes and stayed in the athletic department much too long to admire. I became a liar in style, but the mentality remained. Key pieces during this time range on the type of lifestyle you lead. I recommend transitioning into professionalism and staying in college (no breaks)! You will be busy, so the relax look usually works here. 

What I want now, going into my 40's is a career-oriented appeal that is layered for two different looks throughout the day without going home. I still enjoy working out and find gym spaces in my search through big buildings, employment, and leisurely pleasure. If I could get rid of a sweater and put on a spare set of walking shoes to enjoy it, that would be all I need in my trunk space. Yes, I recommend packing extra clothes, emergency kits, and cash in the vehicle for those moments - especially when you do it frequently. 

Key Pieces: 

1. A Sweater that can transition into a wrap or tucked shoulder look in a shrug style wrap. 

2. A hat that won't fall off in windy days. 

3. Leggings that pull higher up, mid waistline with a secure knit spandex. Transitional color, not black.

4. Jewelry I can wear differently per ensemble. A thin necklace into a wrapped bracelet or a cross-shoulder/cross-body accent. 

5. Booties for shoes. I can walk in these any day, as long as they are comfortable enough. 

6. An extra long t-shirt or a dress shirt. Not cotton. Solid color. I pin these in different places to contort the shape of it for a different look. It works on skirts too. 

Diet: 

I recommend purchasing an e-book or a hard copy book of recipes. The current cookbook I am going through is from Chef Ramsay. He did a book on his stunts with marathon prepping, conditioning, race day and after. I could relate and have bad muscle cramps and habits that develop during these. He has pointers on dishes that are surprising, affordable, and new. It is called "Gordon Ramsay's Healthy, Lean & Fit." I have been slowly building the pantry for the dishes in ingredients. Dry first and then when ready, plan for the meat to be fresh. **It is a difficult thing to keep meat in the freezer, if I could recommend this to my younger self - stay away from putting meat in the freezer and eat it fresh with purchases day of or near cooking time.**

As for outside purchases, keep it minimal. For those that struggle with that, pick out 2 places and stick with them. There are so many diners, cafes, walk-in dining options that are just as fast with their service. If I could recommend a couple: 

1. Bona Fide Juicery - for a young male, perhaps away from home, try the Bone Broth for your cup of coffee in the morning. It also helps seal your stomach in, according to recent studies on gas, bloating, stomach cramping in both male and females. Average budget here if you like to spend is one item per visit. The quality is very good, vegan shop products (grass-fed, organic, etc.) so limit what you can do so you can support more days of the week. [Time management can be an issue to, so if you find very little time to seal the gut, go big on one day.]

2. Put in the search queries "Herbalife Shake Near Me" to check out the flavors and coffee options they provide. It is a filling purchase; you can buy a shake with Herbalife product and be satisfied for 4-6 hours typically. Energy from tea is surprisingly alert without an after effect of grogginess. These can put you in a budget constraint if you don't plan wise. I would suggest 2 to 3 times a week (average is about $10-$13 a visit) if you aren't an Herbalife proactive user. This means, you buy the shakes for home (which can also save you money) and follow a routine with product for actual weight loss results. 

3. Authentic Mexican cuisine. The places that offer street tacos, cilantro and meat for tacos type of venues. The health scores here are good but the only thing I find disappointing are the to-go packages. Styrofoam. Eat there when you do dine.

I am still looking for reasonable prices for sample platters that can have a variety of what they serve. I haven't found many and I have been actively looking for a regional place to go to when I feel hungry or buying. 

Goals: Find key pieces, keep searching for sample platters, and build pantry to cook dishes from Chef Ramsay. 

Spring 2023

I have watched a couple of runway clips from YouTube on the fashion industries latest entries for this upcoming year. It appears to be shape and texture. I was a little disappointed on the shape entrances from a designer who used an insulated support for shape that had a backstory I wouldn't be too fond of. It appeared to be misled. I would have liked to see the inflation occur on the runway. I had a dream that if a model had gracefully fell, purposefully, and the smashed grass/rose bed on a front dress popped open into colorful or pumped-up petals as if to catch grace and grow its poise - draping open and letting the legs be seen while its pumped petals expelled outwards even more so in an activation that aroused the imagination. I would have been impressed then. 

Another thing I noticed were strap bags, high steps, and a navy appeal. The location was amazing, atop this maze-like emptied pool that spectators/models sat around. It looked like a gauntlet they would each attempt to see who made it in and out. Amazing description of task for the weather, which appeared to be cold and windy, matching their ensembled threads. 

One of the best one's I seen coordinated their model walks, personalities, appearance with their style of dress. It was like custom made suits for each of them with a similar pattern, color, that coordinated the entire show. I enjoyed the walking and models in this event. They could have gone for vintage furniture on the runway, sat down, and continued after some time, randomly. It would have been noteworthy on the emphasis of their personalities being highlighted for show. I could see the rhythmic movements and color guide style on this runway and watched for where it would have been better. 

Researching fashion is enjoyable. I get these clips every so often when I am searching for dance routines from ballroom dancers. So elegant. Real dancing is tango in the wild, but ballroom dancing is skillful artists of body and light to attract an audience's emotion to be involved by each seat. I cannot wait to start dancing again. All sizes enjoy it, but we have to remain seated when it is not our turn to steal the show! They have a great opportunity to wear fashionable items that stress many features of a body. 

Before you learn more....

Make sure to talk to your religious/spiritual leader on your participation. What you can or cannot do. This may be too intimate. It is still taboo to traditionalists. I would also encourage you to try traditional first before expanding into modern acceptance in public settings. There are cultural differences and normal things to you that may not be normal to them. Dancing is one of these intimate partnerships, even in learning, that need to have lines drawn clearly before you can involve yourself to learn in those environments. I enjoy my style and disregard many external features by being prepared in my own force of nature. Find yours before you research and change. Note the change and come back to it. 

Examples of this are: I liked my style of dancing but after watching all of those videos of salsa, I got insecure of my tradition and over-exerted myself into somebody that was rejected or disapproved of. I was not welcome in certain places, and I ended up feeling like a loner in other places, unsafe. 

Invent it, find it in your own natural right and region (climate, conditions, environment inspiration) before you learn another. If you came to it before you watched it, were inspired by another, then it is a natural dance you own already. If you learned from a relative, it must be traditional or family customs, that give you that identity. I am referring to your own style, movement, and acceptance of identity with what you can already do. 

Do it without listening to music. Do it without watching the video for it. Do it when you are alone. Do it when you want to. 

The beautiful components of femininity or masculinity are defined by those who just do what they feel is perfect in those moments. Your mind breaks so many barriers and holds when you search for these new mold-breaking movements. Go into a cleansing of media and perform for your adulthood. 

Those that understand what no makeup, no pretty things in youth, no fun, no compliments, no attention, and not enough experience is in life - the more prepared you are to begin these studies. It is also the first claim in a subject undefined currently - in America. That is going beyond diversity (since that means the encounter of another cultural background and custom) into an American definition of modern (not mainstream) person. What would you call this? Try it first. 

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Since this is an A/B Test for marketing strategies on types of consumers - This will have an updated post with results and modified summarization of statements in these sections of "Seasonal Collections by Consumer (Part I)" in "Seasonal Collections by Consumer (Part II)." 

__Mischief