Corinne Yau

Do the arithmetic on both before choosing. Email: no cap, you control volume, reply rates on a well-targeted 400 person list are single digit percent, and the list is exhaustible. The other: hard cap around 100 invites a week, but a connection is a durable asset - you post and they see it for years.

They're different shapes. If your buyer lives in that feed, the cap is annoying and the compounding is real. If your buyer is a lab manager or a plumber, you're fishing in the wrong pond entirely.

Fair. Then have the number in a document you send when asked, rather than nailed to the front page where every trial user holds you to it.

Ask whether the thing is repairable before you ask how long it lasts, because those turn out to be nearly the same question. A coat with a replaceable lining, boots with a stitched sole, a knit in a plain enough yarn that you can darn it. Everything glued or bonded has a hard stop, and everything sewn has a long tail.

It pays, but not from the work you're describing. My pricing is a minimum charge that covers an hour of bench time and the fixed cost of taking a job on at all, then an hourly rate on top, and I quote a range with a written note that opening a book up sometimes reveals more work. The money in this trade sits in repeatable things: edition binding, portfolios and boxes, presentation work, and institutional contracts: not in one-off sentimental repairs, which are the slowest jobs and the ones where a single mistake costs you more than the fee. Take the repairs because they teach you and because you enjoy them, and price them so they aren't a loss.

This fixed it for me and cost nothing. I had been shooting with the subject about a metre from a hedge and blaming the lens for the hedge.

Depth of field is the part craft streamers never think about, and leaning forward over a workbench is exactly what you do all evening.

The exclusivity buys native performance and much tighter interaction design, and that genuinely does affect whether you open it. But the partner detail in your post is the deciding factor, not the design. It's around $95 a year and it's a per-person subscription rather than a household one, so an Android partner is either excluded or paying separately on a device that can't run it.

Two pairs at 150, not one at 300 and not three at 100.

The rotation point is real and it's not a small effect - leather needs about 24 hours to dry out, and a shoe worn every single day in an office will be visibly tired in a year regardless of what it cost. One 300 pound pair worn daily will not outlast two 150 pound pairs worn alternately, which is the trap in the "buy once cry once" framing.

Three at 100 gets you into glued construction where the sole can't be replaced, so you're buying disposable shoes with a rotation. Better than one pair daily, worse than two decent ones.

At 150 a pair you can usually still find welted or at least a proper resoleable construction on sale or second hand, and a resole at 60-90 in three years keeps them going.

It's construction, not washing. A collar that keeps its roll has either a fused interlining that hasn't failed yet or, better, an unfused collar with a soft sewn-in canvas. Cheap fused collars delaminate, the glue lets go in patches after a few hot washes, and once that happens no starch brings the shape back, it just makes a flat thing stiff.

Check for bubbling or a slightly rippled texture in the collar when you hold it to the light. That's delamination and it's terminal.

What helps on shirts that aren't dead yet: wash at 30, never tumble on high, and hang them on a proper hanger straight out of the machine rather than folding them damp. The heat is what kills the glue.