Changes in lifestyle

[Ainsly Wordsworth]

I'm just curious if any of you have seen changes in your lifestyle since stumbling upon steampunk and/or the steampunk community.

I for one find myself being more fastidious and liking things tidy.  Of course my crafts and tinkerings are always a mess but the rest of my space is clean (so I can concentrated on the crafty mess).  I'm also more tolerant of spending time in the kitchen making things (the kitchen was formerly not my area of expertise).  And lately I've had the urge to cut open my teabags and brew the loose leaf (not being able to afford quality teas at the moment).

Naturally some of you would consider your lifestyle just how you've naturally lived, but maybe you've adopted new habits or changed things.  And of course for former muggles like myself, the changes are bound to be very interesting.

[Vienna Fahrmann]

      Dear Mr. Wordsworth,

      Aside from the time spent on brassgoggles, no big changes.  I was pretty much "steampunk" before I knew there was a name for what I liked.

      Vienna

[elShoggotho]

I pretty much embraced a muted "formal" Victorian style as my everyday attire. Quite a change, coming from leather jackets and black t-shirts...

Now I only need to be more annoyed with my untidyness than I already am. Need to overcome my laziness.

[Ky_phosis]

Hmmm...well, now I found a new website to lose hours of my life on! But besides that, I suppose I still have an appreciation for the same things. I just have a name to place on my obsession. And I'm probably snobbier. Kidding!

[Rowan of Rin]

I cut open tea bags to make those tea bag rockets..never mind Well, changes, I seem to have a brazillian projects on the go, but even less time to do them in, so my life has gotten exponentially busier, also the hours trawling BG and eBay for cogs and such.

[Ky_phosis]

I cut open tea bags to make those tea bag rockets..never mind Well, changes, I seem to have a brazillian projects on the go, but even less time to do them in, so my life has gotten exponentially busier, also the hours trawling BG and eBay for cogs and such.

What, you're getting a Brazilian wax?? 

[terobi]

If that's considered a "project", I shudder to think...

I think I've just managed to become increasingly likely to do things I've wanted to do for a while anyway.

Although that may be the student loan.

[Captain Briody]

I cut open tea bags to make those tea bag rockets..never mind Well, changes, I seem to have a brazillian projects on the go, but even less time to do them in, so my life has gotten exponentially busier, also the hours trawling BG and eBay for cogs and such.

What, you're getting a Brazilian wax?? 

Behold, the Steamwaxer! Simply place the apparatus over the, ahem, "area", bite down on this leather strap and throw the switch!

The only alteration I've found is that my previously prodigious shop space seems to have shrunk by quite a bit. I know there was a workbench here before, but now all I can find is a pile of parts and tools!

[Lisbet De Lacy]

Er... tidier.  Right.  Only if your definition of "tidier" includes having three periods (technically quite a few more, if you break down my SCA gear by era) of clothing, accessories, and crafts floating around my house. 

My major cleaning effort begins... soon.  Ish. 

Regarding lifestyle changes, I tend to carry my parasol more often, but beyond that, no, not so much.  I don't have enough steamy clothing to wear it as more than a costume, just yet. 

[Johannes Ghee]

I pretty much embraced a muted "formal" Victorian style as my everyday attire. Quite a change, coming from leather jackets and black t-shirts...

Now I only need to be more annoyed with my untidyness than I already am. Need to overcome my laziness.

Same for me, tried out my new quasi-formal look at work last week and the next day, while wearing my usual work trousers and black top, I remember thinking "Dammit I like being better-dressed than your average Joe. This stuff I'm wearing is crap."

Now I need to buy more waiscoats...

[Lily]

I'd say it's gotten less tidy. There was a time, once, I could walk past a discarded piece of something-or-another and not see it. Now, not only do I see it, I see all the things it could be. Mr. Lily claims I'm running a scrap metal orphanage.

[Angel]

I drink more tea and less cola.

[terobi]

I've been compulsively drinking tea for years now.. the canteen staff at my sixth form would make a cup of tea with the requisite amount of milk and sugar  and charge me for it before I'd even ordered it. Luckily it was always what I was going to order anyway

[Nigel Wetherby]

I tend to use bigger more victorian words, and most of my art projects are somehow steampunk-esque.
Not to mention I recently purchased a tophat and wear it regularly.

[Rowan of Rin]

No no no, you've got it all wrong. Brazilian is a unit of measurement, it is the next level up from a #$&^ - load .
Also, due to steampunk, my room is FULL of stuff not essential for day to day living.. old boxes, chemistry wear, voltmeters, clocks, chests, lamps, filament heaters, scales, goggles, fossils, books, jars, tools etc.

[Ainsly Wordsworth]

Also, due to steampunk, my room is FULL of stuff not essential for day to day living.. old boxes, chemistry wear, voltmeters, clocks, chests, lamps, filament heaters, scales, goggles, fossils, books, jars, tools etc.

Hehe, me too.  Fortunately I have a forgiving mother who's let me take over the guest bedroom as my "office".  When cleaning my room I devoted a basket to collecting all my odds and ends so that I could move them into the office.  I now have about 3 baskets and 5 boxes of . . . stuff.

[Mrs. Sullivan]

Although I do not dress in the Victorian style at work, I have looked at my daily wardrobe with a more critical eye.  A friend told me that he noticed that I had been "dressing better lately". (Although to my shame I seem to have "gone native" during this current Portland heat wave and adopted the Hippie Tribal mode of dress.)  At least I shall look better during the winter months.

Also, during the Steampunk Tea we held a few weeks ago, I was invited to attend a local "Fetish Night" by a most lovely and engaging young lady.  Does that count?  I'm afraid I've fallen in with a rather "fast" crowd.

[HildeKitten]

I don't really behave differently or have adjusted my lifestyle in another way then changing over my wardrobe.
Although I still often dress non-steamy because it would be a dire waste to throw out a lot of perfectly non steamy clothes.

[Radio Saturday]

I worry more about whether or not I dress like a steampunk/build steampunk apparati/own enough corsets to actually be considered steampunk. But otherwise... No, not much, other than an increased desire to take apart machinery.

[Rowan of Rin]

Fortunately I have a forgiving mother...

My parents and my sister think I have gone completely and utterly bonkers!

[Flynn MacCallister]

I was born steampunk >_o

[buffpixie]

I was born steampunk >_o

heh, ditto. i guess the only real change has been since i got my bf into it...our house is looking more and more like that of my parents. >_<

[Ginny Blundy]

Like many others have said, and like I have said on another thread, I feel compelled to dress it up a bit more these days. I'd already become dissatisfied with my daily clothes, and steampunk provided me with a direction I could take when changing my wardrobe. I plan to do sort of Victorian Light most of the time, and I think it's a very smart-looking dress style. Very classic, for the most part. And with dressier clothing, I've always preferred more classic and less trendy looks.

I drink more tea and less cola.

Oh my, yes. I was giving up soda for coffee and tea anyway, after discovering that making this exchange causes me to lose approximately two pounds a week - a two pounds per week that I could definitely do without. The nice thing about being here on the forum is that all the tea-talk is encouraging, and reminds me that tea is a delight to drink. I no longer feel like I've made a sacrifice, but that I've moved up to a nicer, more enjoyable beverage.

I worry more about whether or not I dress like a steampunk/build steampunk apparati/own enough corsets to actually be considered steampunk. But otherwise... No, not much, other than an increased desire to take apart machinery.

Radio Saturday, I encourage you not to fret over whether you are steampunk enough. My experience with this crowd so far is that exclusion is not part of the fun. Your interest and enthusiasm for steampunk makes you as steampunk as anyone else.

[Prof. George of Chaos]

I find myself in a similar boat to Vienna. No major changes to my mode of dress (though that said I was already quite inclined towards velvet and poet shirts and tophats and bowlers and brogues and pocket watches and and and and and I should stop with the examples now, yes?), though I certainly find myself thinking about copper-derivative metals more as possible materials for sculpture now, and Von Slatt's vivid demonstration and articulation of the Personal Industrial Revolution has given me a nice push towards gathering more of a toolkit.
Aesthetically at least I remain firmly in the "Oh, there's a name? Neat!" camp.

[Lady Evelyn Grey]

So, this seems a fun topic to revive after more than four years.  Especially since the Steampunk phenomenon is a little more mature and people have been living with the aesthetic for longer.

For me, who is relatively new to Steampunk, I've noticed that I'm already beginning to pay far greater attention to what people are leaving outside their homes marked 'free.' My best find so far is a beautiful sterling silver dish that, with a good deal of polishing and a little metal work, has become a perfect holder for my jewelry.

But how have people noticed that their love of Steampunk is affecting their day to day lives in either speech, dress, habits or otherwise?