Well, didn't get an iron. If there was one available within a few miles of the house,

as things should be.  But stores, somehow, have bu-ku floorspace for all sorts of exceeding earth-HATING junk...  Anyway, if such a for-real adult item was available at the drug, hardware or grocery store... like back in the day, when people actually pressed real - read: grown-up - clothing/fabric, would likely be one of those gets-cloggy qwik steam-irons.  Btw, wasn't so long ago, you could buy small appliances at your local grocer; not any more, the space is being hogged up with cases of beer and wine.  (Yes, i hate booze, with. a. vengence!  And why do they have to have the eggs and butter stocked right next door to that crap?  Hhmmm... )  Anyway, will have to order another regular flat iron.  If i need steam, spritzing the fabric does work...yeah, that dirty word again.  

Good news is ... for now, is, was able to patch the loose connection.  Where the wire goes into the iron, after 10-some years of use, the shoulda-been-made-better wire had worn and broke the proton-thin copper wire.  Well, i have electrical tape.  And btw, when done ironing, the iron (and the coffee-pot) get unplugged.  So, will make do, until the new flat iron arrives in the mail - that will take about a month or so :/  One thing for sure, am so NOT willing to make the 10 mile trip to small-business-destroying big-box world; there's a spirit of confusion in those cavernous places - that's intentional...very!

Yep, am one of those highly annoying oolllldd people, who think things should be made to last and available for sale in the local community.   For one thing, less strain on the planet.  And, by the way, aren't all the lgbqxyz's and the wokes screaming about  carbon footprints?    Anyway, it's said ... and, be warned, you're about to smell wolf poop, that if stuff lasted, we'd all be out of work.  That is a VICIOUS LIE!  If we weren't constantly replacing the same ecology-hostile junk, over and over again, we'd find other things to spend money on, because that's what most humans do; we like to buy stuff.  

So much stuff that, about half the american adult population have to use a credit card to put tires on their vehicle.  So much that, any bank lobby has credit-card ad after credit-card and home-equity ad; it's as if they want to regard savings products like uncle elroy's seedy ... preference.

Anyway, if clothing was decent, and lasted twenty honest washings, and shoes actually kept your feet warm and dry - and still looking nice after years of wear.  What would most of us do?  Oh, that's a no-brainer!  We'd still want another sweater, another pair of jeans, a new blouse, a skirt.  If not clothing, there's twenty other things we humans would like to acquire.  Humans like having things.   If not english bone china, then it would be another vacation or weekend getaway, somewhere.  

The poor among us, would also benefit, in a junk-free economy.  For one thing, because our closets can only hold so much - trust the science :) :)   The second-hand stores would then have plenty of clothing, from small to xxx, that doesn't smell of stale plastic/ground-up bo :(   The people of west africa wouldn't have to lug heavy bales of fake fabric, only to throw away like 90% of it - which ends up clogging their waterways, polluting their air.  The west africans would, instead, be unloading smaller parcels of used clothing, and selling most of it, and making a living wage, and working a few hours less - AND having some extra money to get themselves a few nice things/saving toward their old age.  Oh that's right, i forgot, (silly me) "those people" don't matter, they're just ... 

Need curtains, so need to get busy and make them.  Bye.