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And I forgot to connect the dots. Being a house cleaner caused me to touch a lot of blankets while making beds. Possibly worth noting that I get eczema on my hands, especially when cleansers plus wet to dry to wet happen a lot. Micro-plush blankets were the ones that my hands liked to touch, even when flaired up. Also worth noting that I one at our house does that whole top sheet thing.

Oh man. We have so much in common. I do have lots of blankets and I had to pare them back recently as well. Some end up being for the dog, or the cats, or downstairs, or upstairs, or the car, but eventually they have to say goodbye.

My problem is that all my bed linens are old. I love them and they're totally cosy, but I want to redecorate my bedroom and change the colours. That means I can't even paint or buy accessories unless I know what colour the new bedding will be. I can't find new bedding that I like, which also has a colour I'm willing to work with. This has been an eight year ordeal during which I've had to put off my bedroom renewal. I agree that shopping online for bedding is absolutely impossible. My texture sensitivities aren't just for the fabric, but I can't deal with certain edge trim on pillowcases, or any type of ruffle, knit, lace, etc. I can't do flannel. The bedsheets of course should go with my weighted blanket and my duvet, or else I have to deal with buying those new as well.

I only use a bottom sheet and the pillow cases but I'm nearing a decade of indecision.

It's funny we think the same way on things! PhD level research, with a fellowship.

I send the top sheets to charity, or the local animal shelter, when I buy a set that contains them.

Maybe they'd work for making forts, but I have enough trouble folding and organising excess bedding as it is.

Yes! That PhD level shopping research exposed me to you guys. It is what makes up for all the things I can't think of. I don't know what I'd do without the internet. Specifically youtube. I learned very thing that made plot points for the scissor discovery to show me the hidden fact from Australian medical lectures. Through them I oud The Body Keeps The Score and figured out I had C-PTSD. I thought I had all these abused kid repressed memories because one repressed memory got remembered. I don't think that anymore. I think the not being figured out and exposed to elementary school bullying and unrealistic pressure to perform was all that was needs if I am also autistic. That's nice actually. I was afraid I'd suddenly remember something really scary at any given moment as I attempted to chase the healing somatic medical treatments in that book.

But I digress. Research is all that will save me because no one where I live (USA) is talking about what the medical community in Australia seems to feel like are established facts. The same applied to autism. Lots of Australian (and seemingly accurate) medical lectures.

I take it you're not using the MMA mats for their intended purpose

Yaaay micro plush blankets !

My sister bought me a blanket made from alpaca in Peru. It's very comfortable

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Not using the MMA mats for their intended purpose YET. There is a master plan. Within the budget is the nearly foreseeable future will be a punching bag. I recently got the skills and tools to hang a bike from the ceiling. Why not a punching bag? I found a punching bag that is supposed to be better for joints and is intended to be filled with water! This meets my cut and run needs and ability to put it somewhere if I don't want dojo living room for a day or something. I imagine if my daughter has autism that I will attempt to follow some advice from my reading and get her into some sort of martial arts. She will have plenty of room to practice.

Not dojo related, I wanted hammocks. I see other people also prefer to swing and I am not alone in that. The mats are good for helping me deal with the "why bother, we'd just fall and be in the ER with CPS on my back" paranoia. I wouldn't even research the hammock/swig idea if the floor hadn't proven we'd survive a fall from 4 feet up.

For now, the floor is the foundation of a new life because a different rule eliminated most of my interest in furniture. All objects repetitively argued about or that irritate me repetitively must go. I'm just done with fighting with my family about objects. Now we have all this space and it inspires me to think differently about filling the space. Not being irritated while we think and brainstorm the solutions we want to choose is really nice. I'm so glad I'm single. No man I have ever lived with would have rolled this deep into weirdness with me.

I love alpacas!

Someone I know has them and they have a railway.

Their own railway... Hmmm, I gotta remember that it's a choice to have your own railway... My son would think he'd died and gone to heaven.

Mildly related, I did a deep dive while highly upset several months ago of Russian history while I couldn't sleep and cleaned stuff. It was a youtube audio of Russia from the birth of it's first bug on the planet to modern times. It was something like 8 hours. Super fun and this stuff was not taught at any school I attended.

Fun fact takeaways:

At one point men had to pay an equivalent of modern times' American Dollars $5000 (maybe per year, I don't recall) for their beards. Lol?!?

The other more relevant one is ha Russia decided to do this really simple thing that was amazing forecasting. They chose to lay their railway tracks 9 inches (or whatever, 9 units of the video) wider than Europe so that if the trains were used in the advancement of war that the enemies couldn't use their tracks to ship supplies and other war related activities. It was very helpful for them in the log run. Makes me wonder if this applies to having your own train in modern times...