An odd phenomenon

Lona I have about 60 or 70 pendants necklaces - could be more!

Bought 2 yesterday for £1.25 each and they are fab.

The earth spins at 1,036 mph (at the equator); no wonder they get in a tangle! I just broke a silver chain trying to untangle it from a very fine gold chain! Don't care about the gold chain, but the silver one was of sentimental value.

Starting to feel giddy .....

Mine do it all the time. I shall have to buy a couple of those organisers.

The best way to untangle chains is to put them down on a sheet of white paper and hold a pin in either hand. Tease the chains apart, once the weight if not on them they slither apart easily.

The only problem is, I never have a sheet of white paper and two pins when I am trying to put on my jewellery and do up DBH's cufflinks five minutes after we should have left.

Cufflinks? You're posh.

My hubby likes to wear cuff links too occasionally, but then we have to trawl through his shirts to find one that accommodates cuff links - so we are only posh here in the Thames Valley about twice a year.

Why is it considered posh to wear cuff links? DH certainly would not consider himself as such, yet much prefers links to buttons. Thoughtless assumptions are annoying.

I customarily choose a shirt that requires cuff links when going to town to lunch at my club. But I do them up myself.

I thought of this thread yesterday as I unravelled the lawn mower cable. How could it have knotted when it was attached both ends?

Nothing posh about cuff links. My sons both wear them, though not all the time. They would be horrified to be considered posh!

I think the first posh reference was just meant as a bit of a joke, so I carried it on the thread in that vein.

Nowt wrong wi' a bit o' posh, lass!

DBH is a bit of a dandy. He loves expensive clothes. Not that we can afford them very often, but he has to work with people who have far, far more money than him and he feels that if he dresses to their standards they won't just dismiss him. I fear he may be right, I read several articles lately that men are far more likely to judge others by how expensive their clothing is.

What they don't realise is that all of ours are courtesy of eBay.

I like heaps of necklaces all tangled up in bowls on a window ledge. I never wear them ,just think how pretty they are when they catch the light.

I have a filigree golden box filled with old big eighties fake pearls and gold beads and fake rubies. I know what you mean, I think mine looks like pirate treasure when the light hits it.

And we all know about the Christmas lights which have a whole year to get themselves entangled. I now just chuck them in the box, they will be in a mess next Christmas irrespective of how long I take to carefully wind them in a a neat skein.

Oh yes, GillT7, Christmas lights are particularly malicious. Stansgran - that sounds like a good use for my two precious crystal bowls! Now I need to haunt the charity shops for more beads.

I have a necklace tree, one of those that looks like a woman's torso with loads of appendages. I carefully hang my necklaces when I take them off but rarely am able to remove one to wear without some form of untangling. It is a mystery on a par with the missing sock...

Going to lunch at your club, grumppa? That's posh. Lucky you have the cufflinks to go with it.

It's not a sin to be posh. Stop using it as an insult. People who do come across as right envious sour pusses.

obviously a joke in this case bags

I think cufflinks look so much more attractive than buttons and my husband used to love wearing cufflinks; occasionally, one cufflink would go missing leaving him with an assortment of single cufflinks!

My husband also sings for his supper. He is a tenor and gets lots of engagements as a soloist. So not only does he wear dress shirts with cufflinks, he also wears waistcoats and bow ties. He is very posh indeed!

There is a very positive side to being married to a cufflinks-wearer. They appreciate new cufflinks for Christmas. Also bow ties and cummerbunds, and waistcoats, although I usually make those in secret.

Bow ties should also go on the list of accessories that end up in a tangle.

I bought him a beautiful box once with dividers to store all his cufflinks. Does he use it? Does he hell. They all go in together, mixed up in a plastic freezer carton. That looks really good on his dresser, I can tell you.

Obviously not obvious to me, jess, or I'd have recognised the 'joke'.

hollyd, then he could be unusual (possibly) and wear odd, as in not matching, cufflinks. As well as odd socks

MY DH hates cufflinks and only wears them to weddings etc. and he has so many pairs!He also hates wearing a tie, and again only does so when he has to, as he has had to all his working life.

thatbags

As well as odd socks

It wouldn't be the first time! He never tired of the accompanying joke either (how he had another pair exactly the same - groan )