The High Heeled Ruminations Of Melrose Plant

[mlroseplant]

54 minutes ago, CrushedVamp said:

Wow, that is quite the inventory system you have there.

IF... and I am in no way saying you have too... but if you switched that to an Excel spreadsheet, and then added a few columns for dates, hours worn and miles treaded you could have a detailed list of your heel's life history. Of how many miles on them, what days they were worn and where. By akl means, add what is important information for you.

Compile that date into a graph and you could see just which shoes were worn the most, or how many had the most miles, and even in actual miles or by percentages.

I do this with my money and it has its uses. You could do it with shoes...

I have thought about what you have suggested for many years. But still, I persist with my Old School method. If I still owned a fountain pen, I'd probably use that as well. Yes, it would be far more efficient to record all of this information electronically. And still, I choose to write it out in longhand. I'm a weird guy. But I'm the most normal weird guy you'll ever meet!

[Shyheels]

I am the same. I use a laptop for writing and editing my photos, but I’ve skipped the whole GPS thing entirely - I use paper maps exclusively. 

[higherheels]

On 2/6/2026 at 11:43 AM, mlroseplant said:

I'm a weird guy. But I'm the most normal weird guy you'll ever meet!

Haha you're so funny 😀

I also like hand-writing. Writing on the PC may be more efficient, but a hand-written paper is just something different than a file or printed file.

[Puffer]

Some of my lists and schedules are written in Latin on vellum with a quill pen.   (Wax tablets have proved increasingly hard to source.)

[mlroseplant]

Oh, it gets worse. I also have a blackboard in my music/shoe room upon which I chalk out what my son and I need to practice for the following Sunday, and then it also has on it the five meals we've planned for the week, referencing the cookbook and page number, where applicable. That reminds me, I really need to go clap the erasers sometime soon.

The one thing that it might be nice to convert to some sort of spreadsheet is my walking mileage data. That is currently on a "note" in my phone, but it's a true note--there's no smartness to it. If I make a mistake, or fat-finger something, data is corrupted or simply lost. When I say that I've walked 2,700 miles in heels since I started doing this in 2013, I cannot guarantee that whatever the exact number it is that day is 100% accurate. That's because I cannot guarantee that I haven't made a mistake with my arithmetic at some point in the last 13 years. It seems very likely that I would have made at least one error in that time. Still, it's a very close approximation.

On 2/6/2026 at 6:39 AM, Shyheels said:

I am the same. I use a laptop for writing and editing my photos, but I’ve skipped the whole GPS thing entirely - I use paper maps exclusively. 

That's a whole 'nother discussion right there. How GPS has influenced Gen Z's perception of the geographical world.

[Shyheels]

Yes, they can’t read a map or tell time on a traditional clock. If we brought those two things back, plus stick shifts on cars and cursive writing we could take down the whole western world