Apparently, you have a bee in your bonnet about real women who don't share your views. Hmm... maybe learn to co-exist in peace or try to hear them out? You are doing nothing but just whining and rather badly.
Nah. Disagreeing is like, "I enjoy hats!" "That's cool, I do not". "If you're different from me you're not a real woman" or "we should take away women's right to vital healthcare", that's bigotry. Fortunately lots of people seem to enjoy my "bad whining" :) Wait... shouldn't you be co-existing in peace with me and hearing me out rather than insulting me?
I'm turning 70, Emma, and I must say, based on decades of exposure to women of massively contrasting ilk, that you are a classic lady in the sense that you possess all the traits of the classically intriguing and inspiring. I enjoy the heck out of you. I'm glad I stumbled into your channel.
@@kimberlyaustin7030 good question! It seems like aesthetic is more important than function in Lady Thimbles so maybe not? The rules are vague and ever-changing. Only Abby can judge what is ladylike enough.
Notable, I think, that a lot of these are to some extent class signifiers -- not inherently, necessarily, since you could own a cheap watch or plastic butter dish or whatever, but Abby certainly owns the upper middle class approved variant of basically every item on this list. I guess that's what "classic lady" really means -- white, upper middle class at minimum, conservative, and traditionally feminine.
Well observed and well-said. Each item has more symbolic than practical use. The ring-holder especially. It's a reminder of your status... but that's what the ring is for.
She is probably upperclass and nowhere near the middle. But generally there are cultural and aesthetic differences between classes so you make a relevant point. It also is an example of materialism, how much culture, lifestyle, has been reduced to highly specific and not very useful or necessary junk. Domesticated life is so boring.
I asked my boyfriend if he thought we needed a butter dish and he said no and then I told him I’d never be a lady without it and he said I’ve been managing okay so far.🤪
Butter dishes are worth all the hype. Be a lady, and crucially, be a lady who can spread butter on toast. You have until mid-March before you turn into a pumpkin.
🤣 this is what I tell customers in the kids shoes section when they ask me which ones are boy or girl shoes because they aren't split into sections. The kids know. They pick the shoes that they want.
As a man with giant size 14 (15 wide) and hairy feet I challenge any women to have a pair of lower leg protrudaments that match my own ogre trotters... bring it on feminists!
Maybe I'm just weird but I actually sew a lot and have no idea what is a point of a thimble. I hurt myself a lot while sewing but not really on this one specific finger.
I’m a fairly masculine man, and I own every single one of these things except pearl earrings. I own many earrings just not pearls. I full heartedly agree with your assessment that that these things are more about being an adult than “feminine.”
I just love how feminine it feels to not damage surfaces with cold or hot beverages. 🌸 Also, because my brain is fixated on it - she has a little glass cabinet for her perfumes? I hope that room doesn’t get much sun in it because otherwise I guess Ms Abby’s signature scent is rancid, degraded perfume.
Good to know. I've had my old perfumes on a shelf for like 7 years but they still smell good. My oldest one has changed color though, but it's like 12 years old and it still smells the same. They're really expensive perfumes too so maybe that's why
I cannot tell you how luxuriously feminine I feel grabbing my 99¢, black plastic handled letter opener from Walmart, and using it to open my car registration * chefs kiss *
I always thought that being a "lady" is highly overrated. My mother always told me to act like a lady and what she was usually saying was, "Shut up, be a doormat and do as you're told."
@Lady V Ikr. Most of it is just common stuff to own if you have some disposable income and live in a place with non-carpeted floors and a kitchen…like Emma said… sounds like being an adult
Okay. So. Hear me out. I don't think that's what being a lady is about. And your mom could have been referencing something else entirely as well, but I don't know your mom, so I can't say. But being a lady, when broken down, is more about about refinement; intelligent, charming, outgoing. Secure with yourself and your beliefs. Confident. A steady forceful presence that is on a higher intellectual tier than those around you. Put together, and seamless. It's not about throwing Baby into a corner. I feel like rude and offensive behavior gets tossed around as "empowering" when you can get the exact same radical point across, without showing your ass. Basically, be girl Bond.
Whenever she starts talking about the thimbles and sewing, I think about how my great grandpa Almus hand-sewed quilts for all his grandkids and embroidered flowers on his daughter’s dresses:) they were poor and worked hard, but he always thought it was important for people to have nice handmade things you could cherish.
I think this could be made into a Grown-Ass Adult List. Buy these things, no matter your gender, and you're one step closer to being a grown-ass adult.
I'm going to be pedantic about the thimble right now: I'm a cosplayer and I make my own costumes so I sew a lot. I made myself a leather thimble because I find it more comfortable and I wasn't sure how to find a metal thimble in my size. YES thimbles are SIZED. Which leads me to my first point: Abby's thimble does not look correctly sized for her thumb. Nor is the thumb the correct finger to be wearing the thimble on, according to the immaculate Bernadette Banner: dress historian, Edwardian fashionista, and cunning witch (affectionate). Now, to be fair, I also wear my thimble on my thumb because I am a self taught sewist and I can't do a felled hem correctly, sue me. But shouldn't someone who's trying to be CLASSIC know something about CLASSIC and HISTORICAL sewing techniques?
I've been sewing my entire life and I don't even use a thimble, I know how but I prefer not to I have always taken pride in the small scars on my fingers from learning to sew as a child, only time I've used a thimble was one time I was sewing thick panels of leather together and that was really more a necessity than anything lol, also her thimble is purely decorative and not a good choice for sewing imagine the scrapping sound of needle on porcelain glad she enjoys it esthetically but not terribly useful
I have an apron it’s a Spider-Man one and my husband wears it when he makes bread. I’m surprised she didn’t say tea sets. They are historically associated with women, as afternoon tea was invented by a woman who wanted afternoon snacks (Im all about that!). I have 3 sets and one I’m looking after for my sister. Not that I’m very ladylike in any other way.
I have soooooooo many tea sets and tea cups But I don't own no thimble (I'll prick my fingers thank you very much), or any of the other stuff she mentioner
I was thinking the age of 12 and who is she talking to. These things do not make anyone a lady. Queen Elizabeth is a lady. Jackie Kennedy was a lady. Abby is not a lady and is going about learning the wrong things. Good lord. Pride and Prejudice teaches better lessons on how to be a lady than she does.
Me watching this giggling at you looking up thimbles, and telling hubby I'm not a lady because I don't have one, and he tells me we do, it's in the sewing kit?!?! You can tell who does the basic repairs in our house! 😅
Classicly Abby: you NEED this to be a classic woman also Classibly Abby: These are just some things that I like Also I appreciate her desperation to prove that every item is unique to classic women
I’m a cis white male but I’m proud to say I’m already 7/12th the way to becoming a lady ;) And I have a couple of sewing kits (unfortunately without thimbles). So I’m not far off 2/3rds.
Dear god I think I own all of these besides the butter dish and the ring holder. I even have the best calendar ever. My mom makes calendars every year for family who live far away, and this is the first year I've gotten one now that I'm away in the big city. Thank you mom. You're the best
I love how you handle this like how you are against what she believes but you still compliment her and are just genuinely kind And I loved the video 🖤🖤🖤
Alternate video title: "12 Fundamentally Unnecessary Material Items That Temporarily Reaffirm My Extremely Fragile Sense Of Self And Distract Me From The Fact That The Few Views I Actually Get Are From Hate-Watchers"
Emma, I am only 7 minutes in, and I'm already dying laughing at work. "I'm a lady...well, I'm 10 things away from being a lady..." I love this, and I can't wait to watch the rest. You def just got a new fan.
As an American, I was under the impression that the English accent automatically made you a lady. I know when I'm trying to be more lady like, I do a terrible English accent and it makes me feel pretty.
abby is like: let's talk about conservativism in gaming abby is also like: imma play bioshock and suck at it emma when are we gonna do a gaming stream collab and talk about feminism n stuff?
The ringholder is a very coded thing. I've usually seen them sitting on the back of sinks in very traditional households where husbands don't do kitchen stuff (usually). Wives would take their wedding and engagement ring off so they didn't fall off into the dishwater. Meaning, to own one now is either intentionally kitch or signifying that gendered separation of the woman's place in the traditional family structure.
If you want a 'feminine' option, use a hooverette (we call them 'Kittelschürze' in Germany, but apparently that's what they were called in the US where they were invented). It's basically a sleeveless frock you can wear over your clothes, better coverage than a regular apron and usually made of material that's easy to clean.
A REAL classic lady would know you should NOT have a butter dish, but a French butter crock. (...A REAL classic lady would also know that trans women are women)
Ok...the thimble thing made me facepalm so hard! I love sewing so much! And in my experience those porcelain thimbles...are so...annoying to use. Also she had it on the wrong finger -__- hah...Mrs. Beeton would have a lot to say about it...and nobody is more classical than a Victorian Lady that wrote a book about household management...
And about household generals. I agree, though. First of all, porcelain is heavier than the usual thin metal or the plastic ones. In addition, that's not how you wear one when sewing.
I find it funny that she says 12 things you NEED to be a lady then follows that up with "Some of these I was introduced to by my HUSBAND"...... So in short ANYONE can own this shit. Good to know.
I always want to tell pro life people: you can't be pro life and pro circumcision, but yet, there they are. They care about the baby being born and the baby's life, and their whole thing is that it's NOT just the women's body, but yet once the baby is born, it has no rights to its own body and the mom can do whatever she wants? 😑😑
I have discovered that pro life people on the whole are hypocrites. They care about the baby being born but quite often are the same people that tell women that they shouldn't have gotten pregnant if they can't afford to raise the child and are against any sort of handouts to low income families. They also don't do anything pro active like become foster parents either.
@@amandamandamands Oh 100%. I always say how they care about the baby being born, but they don’t care what happens after, AS LONG AS the baby is born. They don’t actually care about the baby’s quality of life sadly, and they rarely to anything to help or support the pro life movement, besides just talk shit. Like why not go out and start programs for education if you all care that much lmao, then they go silent, because you know they don’t want to do shit except rag on people who think differently than them.
That's exactly what they believe. Children aren't individuals with rights and autonomy. They're they property of their parents, who live by the parent's very whim.
She also convinced me I needed a butter dish. I did store my special green butter in it once Abby and that didn’t work. You still need to refrigerate that.
Huh, apparently I'm just a butter dish away from being a "lady" according to Abby... I now kinda want to purge some of these things because "approval" from her feels icky....
I forget what I needed sewing for when I was in Basic Training in the US Air Force, but I already knew how to sew, and I showed one of the other Airmen in my flight how to sew. The crazy thing was the rain coat they issued to women in Basic Training required that you sew on the buttons before you could use it. After suffering from perfectionism for so long in my life, Abby has pointed out the source of this scourge - my letter opener! I have to find it somewhere in the mess that is my house and recycle it immediately! Thank you Abby! 🤪
You are aces at this kind of thing, Emma. I giggled my way through the video. I am not a classic lady apparently since I have no butter dish, ring holder, pearls (real or otherwise), thimbles (no Freddies for me), perfume (does body butter count? Do I need a dish then for the body butter and if I get one, am I 1/10th on my way to being a lady?), pocket mirror (ick), coasters (have them, don't use them. Lady? Not a lady?) ... etc. Please do an unboxing of your lady collectibles on the 14th (or soonest) so we can be ladies by proxy. Cheers!
Ladies by proxy 🤣 I love that! Speaking of being a lady, I recently belched while at the dining table and said, "Excuse me. That wasn't very lady like." To which my husband said, "Why start now?" And you know? He's right, damn it. Classically Abby be damned! I will not start being lady like now.
I am a man who owns multiple fragrances, sews buttons, slippers, and multiple watches. I could probably use an apron, because cooking bacon shirtless hurts. I need a letter opener as well.
I am shooketh! I had no idea I was a classic lady! I suppose my eyeliner and shadow palette should have clued me in but now I know for sure! Found you in my suggested vids and now binging your channel! Excellent and hilarious commentary!
I consider myself pro life but I disagree with a lot of pro life causes because I am pro provide women with education, healthcare and access to birth control. Do everything you can to help women not have unplanned pregnancies that will reduce the need for abortions which is better than outright banning them. Also I am pro social services to help support single mothers. It’s difficult for me to deal with the conservative side of ban everything and your on your own. It just seems to lack any sort of understanding of complexity. It’s also so lacking in compassion, I struggle to understand how such a position fits in Christianity.
This is exactly the confusion I have over so many conservative attitudes towards birth control and abortion! Like you say, education, healthcare and birth control are the ways to make a difference, and yet those things are so often opposed by anti-choice people. These conversations also often overlook the fact that abortion is often a completely necessary medical procedure. There's no reason someone like Abby couldn't live her life exactly how she wanted without trying to enforce it on others
As a Christian, I have a similar opinion. I don't think most people are out there celebrating abortions anyway. It's obviously a hard decision people make...So if we'd like to reduce abortion, why not make it as unnecessary as possible by providing resources, education, and support for women's healthcare? It's theological unsound to go around trying to force the world to adhere to christian values if they don't believe. So exhausting talking people who don't understand that banning everything is counterproductive
I noticed by chance that I had missed this video of yours. I have just watched it, one year after you published it. What a gem! This goes on the top list of your content. You had me laughing so hard that I began to snort, already around when you displayed your ring frog! Luffs!
Also going to have to go tell my boyfriend he can’t own slippers, perfume, use butter, or watches or coasters, bc he isn’t a lady. I wouldn’t want these items to encroach on his masculinity or anything.
The best coasters are Thirstystone sandstone coasters. I snag them up any time I see them at goodwill. I am assuming she has a bunch of affiliate links.
But that woman is wrong. "REAL Ladies & Gentlemen" don't use letter openers, right? They use a scissors or a side-cut envelope opener and open the envelope from the right side. This way you can place the document back in the envelope to hold. If you open an envelope from the top, you can't reuse the envelope to hold the contents, as they'll spill out.
Unironically heading out to by thimble rn. I knew I was missing something from my sawing kit. Alas, my tummy can't handle butter so I will never be a lady anyway. Transition failed! (maybe I can get a butter dish anyway and just hold something else in it?)
As someone currently working on a sowing project, you really don’t need a thimble that often unless you have shaky hands or need to push threw tough fabric.
My thimble is literally a scrap of leather, and for some reason I don't think that's the look Abbey would approve of. I kinda thought those thimbles were just decorative (like those plates with kittens on them?) Idk, maybe I just don't have nice things, haha
@@sweetgreenlettuce yes, those are decorative, and Abby’s a moron if she’s using one for sewing. I have metal and leather ones, and prefer the leather one. And a bunch of decorative ones for fun. Edit: Abby’s a moron regardless.
This creates an interesting paradox. If women should be women, and men should be men, and this collection of things makes you more womanly...then men shouldn't get married to women or they'll end up "owning" these womanly things too which will turn them more feminine, and we can't have that happening. So...men should only marry men...oh can't have that either. But if women marry women, they'll have twice the number of womanly things and become more feminine which is good, except we can't have women marrying women because that is wrong. Also...does this mean that women that work in the factories where these things are made or sell them in shops are more lady like than women who don't work there? ....But Abby has issues with women working and having businesses...but if a man has a shop that sells all these things that is fine, except, now he is becoming more feminine...
she probably means how video games are trying to be more inclusive and representative. YOU CAN PLAY AS A FEMALE? YOU CAN BE GAY? CONSERVATIVISM IS UNDER ATTAAAAAAACK
Apparently I'm more of a lady than Abby will ever be; I just almost hurt my brain trying to figure out how one even stores butter without a butter dish. I know no other way, lol.
In the refrigerator, my fridge has a butter door.. If I need soft butter, I just leave it out a half hour or an hour before I'm ready to use it. Its safer that way.
I keep it in a ramekin. Only a small amount so I can keep the bulk of the butter fresh and cool. Especially in the summer - you don't want butter soup that separates and re-hardens. But I might see if I can find a cute little mini covered butter dish.
Here in New Zealand, where the butter comes in big 500g chunks, many butter dishes are also a bit chunky. Btw I'm a pretty boring SWM and I have a version of pretty much everything except the earrings on the lady list - but my apron is nowhere near as cute as that. 🙂 Coasters and (I'm surprised were not mentioned) table placemats rule here in NZ - we always get the ones with cool native bird images.
I just found your lovely channel the other day and I just want to point out that even the apron suggestion is great for guys. They're incredibly useful when doing things like DIY repairs, wood working, and even electronics work (hot solder hurts).
Mara Wilson also played a character in the first official Helluva Boss episode. The show takes place in Hell and is all about sinners hiring assassins to get revenge on people who’ve wronged them in the living world. Her character was one of these sinners, lol. I don’t think the Shapiros would approve of that.
My store sells pipes made with clay and thimbles. Some have stones and/or charms pushed in. Very delicate and feminine, and also they hold enough [redacted] to make watching Abby almost tolerable.
This is exactly like listening to my 6 year old niece explaining the things in her dressing-up box. I kept expecting Abby to walk off set wearing a pair of her mother's stilettos 5 sizes too big.
Every single time I stop this video, Abby looks incredibly derpy. Tell me Emma, is this intentional? Do you know exactly when I will press the stop button and arrange it so that I die of laughter? Even if not, this made my day. Thank you
As a straight man, I own everything except earrings and I'm counting magnetic trays as a "ring holder" (except the perfume is labeled cologne) and never once considered any of them to be feminine. Knowing how to sew is a randomly valuable skill, I have a pair of thimbles and a sewing palm so I guess I'm extra ladylike?
Apparently, you have a bee in your bonnet about real women who don't share your views. Hmm... maybe learn to co-exist in peace or try to hear them out? You are doing nothing but just whining and rather badly.
Nah. Disagreeing is like, "I enjoy hats!" "That's cool, I do not". "If you're different from me you're not a real woman" or "we should take away women's right to vital healthcare", that's bigotry. Fortunately lots of people seem to enjoy my "bad whining" :) Wait... shouldn't you be co-existing in peace with me and hearing me out rather than insulting me?
Oh fantastic! Someone to tell us how a butter dish or letter opener is so classically 'woman'!
Notice how you say "real" women....How passive/aggressive. It's clearly intended to be insulting and sounds highly self righteous. Yuck!
Oh, honey, noooo 😂
Is...is there some part of her watching the whole video that's not...hearing Abby out?
Also, what whining?
The bee, I think, is in your bonnet.
As a man I'm going to have to throw out my slippers, don't want to accidentally become a classic lady
I guess I'm a classic lady in the winter.
Dead 😂😅
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Please throw them out with a manly battlecry to assert your manliness
Classic man, more like calloused...man
I'm turning 70, Emma, and I must say, based on decades of exposure to women of massively contrasting ilk, that you are a classic lady in the sense that you possess all the traits of the classically intriguing and inspiring. I enjoy the heck out of you. I'm glad I stumbled into your channel.
He's not wrong.
This comment is so sweet ❤
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The thought that I'm one thimble away from being a classical lady is enough to prevent me from ever purchasing a thimble.
I wonder if the cheap thimbles in Dollar Tree sew kits count as a 'Lady Thimble"?
@@kimberlyaustin7030 good question! It seems like aesthetic is more important than function in Lady Thimbles so maybe not? The rules are vague and ever-changing. Only Abby can judge what is ladylike enough.
@@Cal-c-u-later she is the ultimate judge of us all, I guess. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
I was given my great grandmother's thimble because I'm the only one in the family who sews ☹
@@rayraffiki1856 that's so sweet!
Notable, I think, that a lot of these are to some extent class signifiers -- not inherently, necessarily, since you could own a cheap watch or plastic butter dish or whatever, but Abby certainly owns the upper middle class approved variant of basically every item on this list. I guess that's what "classic lady" really means -- white, upper middle class at minimum, conservative, and traditionally feminine.
Well observed and well-said. Each item has more symbolic than practical use. The ring-holder especially. It's a reminder of your status... but that's what the ring is for.
Sadly, being Upper Middle Class does not make you a lady, it just makes you Hyacinth Bucket
She is probably upperclass and nowhere near the middle. But generally there are cultural and aesthetic differences between classes so you make a relevant point. It also is an example of materialism, how much culture, lifestyle, has been reduced to highly specific and not very useful or necessary junk. Domesticated life is so boring.
I’m not surprised
According to Abby, my boyfriend has more lady items than I do. I don't know how to break it to him.
Lol😆 do it gently. It might be too unladylike to break it to him any other way
Yikes
According to Abby I am a thimble short of being a lady
But I can sew a button on a shirt.
Just not necessarily in the right place :(
Do it near the fainting couch in case he has an attack of the vapors. Have to be careful around his (soon to be her) delicate constitution.
Thats gay :P
I asked my boyfriend if he thought we needed a butter dish and he said no and then I told him I’d never be a lady without it and he said I’ve been managing okay so far.🤪
Butter dishes are worth all the hype. Be a lady, and crucially, be a lady who can spread butter on toast. You have until mid-March before you turn into a pumpkin.
“Feet are not gender specific” is the best quote I’ve ever heard 😂
🤣 this is what I tell customers in the kids shoes section when they ask me which ones are boy or girl shoes because they aren't split into sections.
The kids know. They pick the shoes that they want.
I never knew men had legs! :0
@@DreamyFlowerz wait .... Holy Heck I have legs! This changes everything!
As a man with giant size 14 (15 wide) and hairy feet I challenge any women to have a pair of lower leg protrudaments that match my own ogre trotters... bring it on feminists!
Fax📠
"To be a lady, you should own a thimble" *owns a decorative thimble that wouldn't be all that useful for actual sewing* uhhhh ok sure
Yeah, my Seamstresses' Guild thimble is more useful than hers, and I bought that purely as a cosplay prop.
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Not me thinking I am a lady when I don’t OWN A THIMBLE
Erudite thinking. Yes Kyla, she is saying that to be a lady... you must own a thimble. Your obliviousness precedes you.
To be fair, it's a well known medical fact that if don't own a thimble your vagina will heal closed.
I own a thimble. It looks absolutely nothing like her painted china floral thimble.
Maybe I'm just weird but I actually sew a lot and have no idea what is a point of a thimble. I hurt myself a lot while sewing but not really on this one specific finger.
I own a thimble, I had no idea I was a lady. I spent my entire life thinking I was a man
I’m a fairly masculine man, and I own every single one of these things except pearl earrings. I own many earrings just not pearls. I full heartedly agree with your assessment that that these things are more about being an adult than “feminine.”
You are more of a lady than I am. I only own 7 of these things, but at least I have the pearl earrings.😄
I just love how feminine it feels to not damage surfaces with cold or hot beverages. 🌸
Also, because my brain is fixated on it - she has a little glass cabinet for her perfumes? I hope that room doesn’t get much sun in it because otherwise I guess Ms Abby’s signature scent is rancid, degraded perfume.
i think saucers (like for tea cups) are more "feminine" than coasters lololol also perfume smells gross to me anyway so no thanks to that one xD
Yeah I keep my own perfume in a dark cupboard. I also keep my room fairly cool.
Good to know. I've had my old perfumes on a shelf for like 7 years but they still smell good. My oldest one has changed color though, but it's like 12 years old and it still smells the same. They're really expensive perfumes too so maybe that's why
And I'm over here with no perfume
I'm pretty sure that's just a set
I cannot tell you how luxuriously feminine I feel grabbing my 99¢, black plastic handled letter opener from Walmart, and using it to open my car registration * chefs kiss *
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I always thought that being a "lady" is highly overrated. My mother always told me to act like a lady and what she was usually saying was, "Shut up, be a doormat and do as you're told."
But as I listen, I own 7/12 of these items, but still doesn't make me a lady.
@Lady V
Ikr. Most of it is just common stuff to own if you have some disposable income and live in a place with non-carpeted floors and a kitchen…like Emma said… sounds like being an adult
@@ladyv5655 I own 10 of 12 💁♀️(my wife is currently welding pipe together in my apron I stitched together using my thimble)
Yep! I always say I'm NOT a lady, I'm a woman, so watch out!
Okay. So. Hear me out.
I don't think that's what being a lady is about. And your mom could have been referencing something else entirely as well, but I don't know your mom, so I can't say. But being a lady, when broken down, is more about about refinement; intelligent, charming, outgoing. Secure with yourself and your beliefs. Confident. A steady forceful presence that is on a higher intellectual tier than those around you. Put together, and seamless. It's not about throwing Baby into a corner.
I feel like rude and offensive behavior gets tossed around as "empowering" when you can get the exact same radical point across, without showing your ass. Basically, be girl Bond.
Whenever she starts talking about the thimbles and sewing, I think about how my great grandpa Almus hand-sewed quilts for all his grandkids and embroidered flowers on his daughter’s dresses:) they were poor and worked hard, but he always thought it was important for people to have nice handmade things you could cherish.
He sounds like a great man (and probably had enough callous' to bother with a thinble).
But if he did, he have like the Henry VIII ones.
These are all extremely random objects that she's _reachingly_ pulling together to say they make you more of a "lady" ...
For real! She just grab random shit in her house
@@christyannatiur7307 I _have_ had a butter dish on my amazon wish list for a while, though...
Lol, obviously for content.
I think this could be made into a Grown-Ass Adult List. Buy these things, no matter your gender, and you're one step closer to being a grown-ass adult.
@@סוזטכהן And the content was obviously just for newsletter subs in the end. And possibly purchases through affiliate links on the letter opener
I'm a man with 9/12 of these. Either I'm 75% a classic lady or Abby's 75% a geeky man who cares about his appearance.
I think you're a hipster and I think it's the latter.
Silly man coasters are for CHIX, dude! 😊
This chick thinks being married is a personality trait
Not just a personality trait but a political statement as well
Her entire personality is “I’m married and own a butter dish”
I am not married and I got a lot of things in that list. I might even have a thimble!
@@brassattacks2411 making trolling comments is your personality trait.
@@notNajimi ikr? Would my being a married, straight left-leaning woman be too much for her to wrap her mind around?
I'm going to be pedantic about the thimble right now: I'm a cosplayer and I make my own costumes so I sew a lot. I made myself a leather thimble because I find it more comfortable and I wasn't sure how to find a metal thimble in my size. YES thimbles are SIZED. Which leads me to my first point: Abby's thimble does not look correctly sized for her thumb. Nor is the thumb the correct finger to be wearing the thimble on, according to the immaculate Bernadette Banner: dress historian, Edwardian fashionista, and cunning witch (affectionate). Now, to be fair, I also wear my thimble on my thumb because I am a self taught sewist and I can't do a felled hem correctly, sue me. But shouldn't someone who's trying to be CLASSIC know something about CLASSIC and HISTORICAL sewing techniques?
I've been sewing my entire life and I don't even use a thimble, I know how but I prefer not to I have always taken pride in the small scars on my fingers from learning to sew as a child, only time I've used a thimble was one time I was sewing thick panels of leather together and that was really more a necessity than anything lol, also her thimble is purely decorative and not a good choice for sewing imagine the scrapping sound of needle on porcelain glad she enjoys it esthetically but not terribly useful
Bernadette Banner is amazing. And that thimble looked like it was for display rather than use.
I have an apron it’s a Spider-Man one and my husband wears it when he makes bread. I’m surprised she didn’t say tea sets. They are historically associated with women, as afternoon tea was invented by a woman who wanted afternoon snacks (Im all about that!). I have 3 sets and one I’m looking after for my sister. Not that I’m very ladylike in any other way.
You cannot beat a cute tea set! Also I now want a spider-man apron...
I totally expected this to be on the list and I’m not through the entire video yet, that’s shocking to me, ha.
I have soooooooo many tea sets and tea cups
But I don't own no thimble (I'll prick my fingers thank you very much), or any of the other stuff she mentioner
Oh, I also own objects that make me feel very... ladylike.
But I'm not quite sure Abby would approve of those.
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Is one looking like that ring holder?
Hehehehe
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"You'll have to do twice as much laundry."
How much.... how much of a mess are you making if you need to double your laundry just by cooking once??
Simple solution for the messy cooks: Cook nekkid
Spilling food all over your clothing isn't very CLASSIC or LADYLIKE, though.
question is, for how long she is wearing the same wardrobe. I hope Abby is changing his underwear every day not once a week :)
The thing is, if she were just a “classic/vintage” aesthetic channel, she would get a whole different response from people
This poor, lost woman. She comes off like a little kid making a list of what she thinks makes a person grown up. So much compensation.
I was thinking the age of 12 and who is she talking to. These things do not make anyone a lady. Queen Elizabeth is a lady. Jackie Kennedy was a lady. Abby is not a lady and is going about learning the wrong things. Good lord. Pride and Prejudice teaches better lessons on how to be a lady than she does.
Me watching this giggling at you looking up thimbles, and telling hubby I'm not a lady because I don't have one, and he tells me we do, it's in the sewing kit?!?! You can tell who does the basic repairs in our house! 😅
Classicly Abby: you NEED this to be a classic woman
also Classibly Abby: These are just some things that I like
Also I appreciate her desperation to prove that every item is unique to classic women
I’m a cis white male but I’m proud to say I’m already 7/12th the way to becoming a lady ;)
And I have a couple of sewing kits (unfortunately without thimbles). So I’m not far off 2/3rds.
Ever since I found out she is Ben Sharpiro's sister, I can only see Ben with a wig
Same voice
@@jeremyhollyer977 nah....ben's is higher....
You know if they swapped bodies we probably wouldnt notice cause they are both so toxic
Ben Shapiro drag when?
Werewolf eyebrows
I have cardboard coasters with beer advertisement that I stole from a bar because I thought they were pretty. That counts, right?
My gay, alt ass feels so angry because I own all these things. Again, it’s just “things to make adult life easier”
@@nharber9837 bidets changed my life
@@nharber9837 pro tip: the retrofit for bidet by Toto or Brondell. Any toilet can have a warm water bidet. 60.00 well spent.
Dear god I think I own all of these besides the butter dish and the ring holder. I even have the best calendar ever. My mom makes calendars every year for family who live far away, and this is the first year I've gotten one now that I'm away in the big city. Thank you mom. You're the best
freddy mercury themed kitchen set is a must now. butter dish, plates, kettle etc!
I am a straight woman and I am so ready for that!
YAS❤️👑
I love how you handle this like how you are against what she believes but you still compliment her and are just genuinely kind
And I loved the video 🖤🖤🖤
Alternate video title: "12 Fundamentally Unnecessary Material Items That Temporarily Reaffirm My Extremely Fragile Sense Of Self And Distract Me From The Fact That The Few Views I Actually Get Are From Hate-Watchers"
Emma, I am only 7 minutes in, and I'm already dying laughing at work. "I'm a lady...well, I'm 10 things away from being a lady..." I love this, and I can't wait to watch the rest. You def just got a new fan.
I thought you said Freddie Mercury NIPPLES in the intro and honestly it made me want to stay even more
I love that when Emma is searching for thimbles, the first three suggestions of the search engine are "thundercats". 🦁🐯🐱🐆
Okay, so my first thought, was oh maybe I should get a ring holder for my engagement ring, BUT NOW I NEED A RING FROG
As an American, I was under the impression that the English accent automatically made you a lady. I know when I'm trying to be more lady like, I do a terrible English accent and it makes me feel pretty.
abby is like: let's talk about conservativism in gaming
abby is also like: imma play bioshock and suck at it
emma when are we gonna do a gaming stream collab and talk about feminism n stuff?
Hmu any time we'll make it happennnn
Ppllleeeaaassseeee collab ASAP 🙌🏻
When will you and Abby stream a two-player game playthrough? Preferably a game with several forking paths involving moral choices.
I think Abby has officially found her calling in life; making challenging scavenger hunt lists.
Every time she says “lady” I get David Walliams in my head “yeeess I’m a laaaadyyy” 🤣🤣 this Abbey is a loon 🙄
Yesss, I was expecting her to drop in "I'm a lady, you see."
I was looking for this comment 😆
The ringholder is a very coded thing. I've usually seen them sitting on the back of sinks in very traditional households where husbands don't do kitchen stuff (usually). Wives would take their wedding and engagement ring off so they didn't fall off into the dishwater. Meaning, to own one now is either intentionally kitch or signifying that gendered separation of the woman's place in the traditional family structure.
Screw aprons. I favor a lab coat in the kitchen; the coverage is much better and I can indulge my Bunsen Honeydew fantasies.
I worked for a restaurant supply company and we got 50% off anything that was one of our house brands. I own a full blown Chef's Jacket.
But it’s harder to clean tho
I prefer a white raincoat with frontal buttons.
If you want a 'feminine' option, use a hooverette (we call them 'Kittelschürze' in Germany, but apparently that's what they were called in the US where they were invented). It's basically a sleeveless frock you can wear over your clothes, better coverage than a regular apron and usually made of material that's easy to clean.
Good idea. I need to see if I still have my lab coat.
Lol, you putting the skull ring in the jewelery frog makes it look like it ate someone.
A REAL classic lady would know you should NOT have a butter dish, but a French butter crock.
(...A REAL classic lady would also know that trans women are women)
You’re not a classic lady without perfume
Me:is allergic to perfume
no you will never be a classic lady😢 how will u cope😂
Ok...the thimble thing made me facepalm so hard! I love sewing so much! And in my experience those porcelain thimbles...are so...annoying to use. Also she had it on the wrong finger -__- hah...Mrs. Beeton would have a lot to say about it...and nobody is more classical than a Victorian Lady that wrote a book about household management...
And about household generals. I agree, though. First of all, porcelain is heavier than the usual thin metal or the plastic ones. In addition, that's not how you wear one when sewing.
Goddammit! I’ve lived to be 45 as a heterosexual cis male, and now i want a set of Freddie Mercury thimbles too! I’m learning things about myself!
Hahaha, my mom has a “Buddha dish” and it’s a butter dish shaped like Buddha, obviously, but I love him.
A thimble? The only thing Abby sews is dissention. I grew up with sewing thimbles, my Hispanic, ordinary although classic mom sewed us dresses.
I find it funny that she says 12 things you NEED to be a lady then follows that up with "Some of these I was introduced to by my HUSBAND"...... So in short ANYONE can own this shit. Good to know.
It also implies she wasn't a real lady before she got married (well duh, but even beyond that! What does that say about hubbies values?)
Especially a watch or a calendar? Don't men need to write down appointments and lists, too? Don't they need to know what-o'clock it is as well?
9:35 wait if she never had a butter dish growing up that means her mum is/was not a lady.
I always want to tell pro life people: you can't be pro life and pro circumcision, but yet, there they are. They care about the baby being born and the baby's life, and their whole thing is that it's NOT just the women's body, but yet once the baby is born, it has no rights to its own body and the mom can do whatever she wants? 😑😑
I have discovered that pro life people on the whole are hypocrites. They care about the baby being born but quite often are the same people that tell women that they shouldn't have gotten pregnant if they can't afford to raise the child and are against any sort of handouts to low income families. They also don't do anything pro active like become foster parents either.
@@amandamandamands Oh 100%. I always say how they care about the baby being born, but they don’t care what happens after, AS LONG AS the baby is born. They don’t actually care about the baby’s quality of life sadly, and they rarely to anything to help or support the pro life movement, besides just talk shit. Like why not go out and start programs for education if you all care that much lmao, then they go silent, because you know they don’t want to do shit except rag on people who think differently than them.
That's exactly what they believe. Children aren't individuals with rights and autonomy. They're they property of their parents, who live by the parent's very whim.
She also convinced me I needed a butter dish. I did store my special green butter in it once Abby and that didn’t work. You still need to refrigerate that.
Huh, apparently I'm just a butter dish away from being a "lady" according to Abby... I now kinda want to purge some of these things because "approval" from her feels icky....
Nah. It's not worth throwing away something you like just because of her.
Beware you may have antiques. That gravy boat may have been a thunder mug. Some of that stuff is worth alot.
I forget what I needed sewing for when I was in Basic Training in the US Air Force, but I already knew how to sew, and I showed one of the other Airmen in my flight how to sew. The crazy thing was the rain coat they issued to women in Basic Training required that you sew on the buttons before you could use it.
After suffering from perfectionism for so long in my life, Abby has pointed out the source of this scourge - my letter opener! I have to find it somewhere in the mess that is my house and recycle it immediately! Thank you Abby! 🤪
You are aces at this kind of thing, Emma. I giggled my way through the video. I am not a classic lady apparently since I have no butter dish, ring holder, pearls (real or otherwise), thimbles (no Freddies for me), perfume (does body butter count? Do I need a dish then for the body butter and if I get one, am I 1/10th on my way to being a lady?), pocket mirror (ick), coasters (have them, don't use them. Lady? Not a lady?) ... etc.
Please do an unboxing of your lady collectibles on the 14th (or soonest) so we can be ladies by proxy. Cheers!
Ladies by proxy 🤣 I love that! Speaking of being a lady, I recently belched while at the dining table and said, "Excuse me. That wasn't very lady like." To which my husband said, "Why start now?" And you know? He's right, damn it. Classically Abby be damned! I will not start being lady like now.
@@carriepinkduck Haha. Oh, that's funny. I love relationships like this. :D
I am a man who owns multiple fragrances, sews buttons, slippers, and multiple watches. I could probably use an apron, because cooking bacon shirtless hurts. I need a letter opener as well.
That tiny cabinet did in fact mess with my perceptions for a moment. Thought it was further away, then thought Abby was a giant.
I actually own a thimble. I own it because I do a lot of sewing. Like, skull patches on my club jacket, but sewing nonetheless!
She's so random. It's like she just grabbed everything she touched in the morning and went, yeah... I can make this a video
Desperation
I am shooketh! I had no idea I was a classic lady! I suppose my eyeliner and shadow palette should have clued me in but now I know for sure!
Found you in my suggested vids and now binging your channel! Excellent and hilarious commentary!
I consider myself pro life but I disagree with a lot of pro life causes because I am pro provide women with education, healthcare and access to birth control. Do everything you can to help women not have unplanned pregnancies that will reduce the need for abortions which is better than outright banning them. Also I am pro social services to help support single mothers. It’s difficult for me to deal with the conservative side of ban everything and your on your own. It just seems to lack any sort of understanding of complexity. It’s also so lacking in compassion, I struggle to understand how such a position fits in Christianity.
This is exactly the confusion I have over so many conservative attitudes towards birth control and abortion! Like you say, education, healthcare and birth control are the ways to make a difference, and yet those things are so often opposed by anti-choice people. These conversations also often overlook the fact that abortion is often a completely necessary medical procedure. There's no reason someone like Abby couldn't live her life exactly how she wanted without trying to enforce it on others
As a Christian, I have a similar opinion. I don't think most people are out there celebrating abortions anyway. It's obviously a hard decision people make...So if we'd like to reduce abortion, why not make it as unnecessary as possible by providing resources, education, and support for women's healthcare? It's theological unsound to go around trying to force the world to adhere to christian values if they don't believe. So exhausting talking people who don't understand that banning everything is counterproductive
Sounds like you might actually be pro choice 😉
Once someone told me pro-life people should actually be called pro-birth, then it all made sense.
We're not so different, you and I. Perhaps one day enough people will hold similar positions to you and a compromise between the divide can be found
I noticed by chance that I had missed this video of yours. I have just watched it, one year after you published it. What a gem! This goes on the top list of your content. You had me laughing so hard that I began to snort, already around when you displayed your ring frog! Luffs!
Also going to have to go tell my boyfriend he can’t own slippers, perfume, use butter, or watches or coasters, bc he isn’t a lady. I wouldn’t want these items to encroach on his masculinity or anything.
Same
The best coasters are Thirstystone sandstone coasters. I snag them up any time I see them at goodwill.
I am assuming she has a bunch of affiliate links.
As someone whose current wishlist definitely contains pearl earrings, I feel offended.
Also my letter opener is a tiny sword in a scabbard. Game on 🤣
But that woman is wrong. "REAL Ladies & Gentlemen" don't use letter openers, right? They use a scissors or a side-cut envelope opener and open the envelope from the right side. This way you can place the document back in the envelope to hold. If you open an envelope from the top, you can't reuse the envelope to hold the contents, as they'll spill out.
I have or can do, the majority of these things. I'm a lady!
A 6', bearded cis-male lady!
I think we need an update once your "classic lady" items come in. We need to know if you feel like more of a lady.
Also thank you, this was hilarious.
Unironically heading out to by thimble rn. I knew I was missing something from my sawing kit. Alas, my tummy can't handle butter so I will never be a lady anyway. Transition failed! (maybe I can get a butter dish anyway and just hold something else in it?)
We have a Lord the the Rings "Sting" Letter Opener. Does that make me classic?
I think you've exceeded classic and moved to epic with that kind of letter opener quality
I have everything on this list except a pocket mirror. I love being a classic lady. The first thing I'm going to do is call the manager!
Omg the video I didn’t know I needed!!! I hate her constant ads on my feed telling me “how to be” 🙄
Same I have no idea how I get her ads as bisexual atheist who dresses like a lesbian (so I've been told) am as far away from her target audience
That tiny cabinet is messing with my brain, it really looks like it's bigger and far away
It feels like low key summoning spell...what is Abby trying to bring forth???
A sense of dignity, because clearly she doesn't already have one.
Ah. The classic "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Gotta love the classics.
“I would like to thank Classically Abby for giving me the opportunity to buy stupid shit off of eBay, ‘cause, god, I love doing that so much!” 🤣
As I was reading this comment Emma was literally saying the words. It kind of messed with my brain lol
Honestly though, a butter dish is needed in every house🤣 my mom gave me two when I moved out lmao
As someone currently working on a sowing project, you really don’t need a thimble that often unless you have shaky hands or need to push threw tough fabric.
I have a couple but I'm also epileptic, and my hands shake sometimes. But I think I'd rather have a timble made from scrap leather
My thimble is literally a scrap of leather, and for some reason I don't think that's the look Abbey would approve of. I kinda thought those thimbles were just decorative (like those plates with kittens on them?) Idk, maybe I just don't have nice things, haha
@@sweetgreenlettuce yes, those are decorative, and Abby’s a moron if she’s using one for sewing. I have metal and leather ones, and prefer the leather one. And a bunch of decorative ones for fun. Edit: Abby’s a moron regardless.
This creates an interesting paradox. If women should be women, and men should be men, and this collection of things makes you more womanly...then men shouldn't get married to women or they'll end up "owning" these womanly things too which will turn them more feminine, and we can't have that happening. So...men should only marry men...oh can't have that either.
But if women marry women, they'll have twice the number of womanly things and become more feminine which is good, except we can't have women marrying women because that is wrong.
Also...does this mean that women that work in the factories where these things are made or sell them in shops are more lady like than women who don't work there? ....But Abby has issues with women working and having businesses...but if a man has a shop that sells all these things that is fine, except, now he is becoming more feminine...
she's talking about how conservatives are "under attack" in gaming but like, bruh, Abby, do you even game???
No, I don't think she does. It's "not feminine"
@@j.c.2240 Maybe she wants to, but her husband just hasn't given permission for her to try it yet.
I'm thinking she doesn't.
she probably means how video games are trying to be more inclusive and representative. YOU CAN PLAY AS A FEMALE? YOU CAN BE GAY? CONSERVATIVISM IS UNDER ATTAAAAAAACK
Me, a cis straight white male who owns almost all of these (minus a compact mirror, I have aftershave (basically man perfume)): "Am I a classic lady?"
Apparently I'm more of a lady than Abby will ever be; I just almost hurt my brain trying to figure out how one even stores butter without a butter dish. I know no other way, lol.
@Rachel Rabbbit we keep it in a plastic container or an old margin container.
In the refrigerator, my fridge has a butter door.. If I need soft butter, I just leave it out a half hour or an hour before I'm ready to use it. Its safer that way.
@@Nekulturny right? I mean, we've always had a butter dish/holder of some kind, just in the fridge when we don't need it.
I keep it in a ramekin. Only a small amount so I can keep the bulk of the butter fresh and cool. Especially in the summer - you don't want butter soup that separates and re-hardens. But I might see if I can find a cute little mini covered butter dish.
Here in New Zealand, where the butter comes in big 500g chunks, many butter dishes are also a bit chunky. Btw I'm a pretty boring SWM and I have a version of pretty much everything except the earrings on the lady list - but my apron is nowhere near as cute as that. 🙂 Coasters and (I'm surprised were not mentioned) table placemats rule here in NZ - we always get the ones with cool native bird images.
I audibly gasped when I saw your Spyro coaster! That was my favorite PS1 game growing up!
I just found your lovely channel the other day and I just want to point out that even the apron suggestion is great for guys. They're incredibly useful when doing things like DIY repairs, wood working, and even electronics work (hot solder hurts).
I'm neither a lady or an adult since I don't own 10 out of 12. I have my Fitbit and a digital calendar.
What about a pocket knife, paracord, chisels, pliers, airsoft guns? I'm literally so offended that my favorite lady things arent on Abby's list😟
Agreed, she was running out of ideas and just grabbed the nearest thing.
Also, shoot, I don't own a butter dish!
That ps1 spyro coaster is cool af
Since I haven’t seen this comment yet, I’ll add that she’s also Mara Wilson’s cousin. (Matilda) They’re polar opposites 🥰
More terrifying is that a quick Google search says that Ben Shapiro is too.
@@amandamandamands well considering Abby is Bens sister it would be weird of he didn't have the same cousin
Mara Wilson also played a character in the first official Helluva Boss episode. The show takes place in Hell and is all about sinners hiring assassins to get revenge on people who’ve wronged them in the living world.
Her character was one of these sinners, lol. I don’t think the Shapiros would approve of that.
I think she doesn't like them seeing as ben has said that she's blocked them both on twitter lmao
My store sells pipes made with clay and thimbles. Some have stones and/or charms pushed in. Very delicate and feminine, and also they hold enough [redacted] to make watching Abby almost tolerable.
This was absolutely hilarious. I love watching you react to her. I can't watch her channel because she is boring.
Honestly people talk about her so much that that was what surprised me most... the majority of her content is just not at all interesting to me!
@@EmmaThorneVideos I would rather watch c-span 😂😂😂
This is exactly like listening to my 6 year old niece explaining the things in her dressing-up box. I kept expecting Abby to walk off set wearing a pair of her mother's stilettos 5 sizes too big.
YOU HAD ME AT THE FREDDIE MERCURY THIMBLES.
Every single time I stop this video, Abby looks incredibly derpy. Tell me Emma, is this intentional? Do you know exactly when I will press the stop button and arrange it so that I die of laughter?
Even if not, this made my day. Thank you
Omg I love your pocket mirror!! It puts Abby's mirror to shame 😆
Lol I feel like a coaster is like a practical thing to have. Is that just me?
I happen to own all of these things. Most of them were presents. They are nice for anyone to have.
As a straight man, I own everything except earrings and I'm counting magnetic trays as a "ring holder" (except the perfume is labeled cologne) and never once considered any of them to be feminine. Knowing how to sew is a randomly valuable skill, I have a pair of thimbles and a sewing palm so I guess I'm extra ladylike?
Very feminine good sir 😂