You Know You're a True Rennie if...

[Element of Air]

... when you start to get sick a week early from all the excitement for Opening Weekend of Fair.

[CaraGreenleaf]

... your wedding plans include a battle with real swords and cooking all the food for the reception yourselves, because there is no caterer who makes traditional Scottish food, and you ponder for hours on how to make a haggis more palatable.

Sage and Chervil, my dear, Sage and Chervil


....you actually know how to make haggis more tasty....

....you get a job in a fabric store that pays only minimum wage so that you can keep an eye on the sales and the upholstery fabric you're making your next dress out of....

....on your one day off during the week, you go back into the fabric store and spend half your paycheck on the Butterick patterns that are finally on sale for $0.99....

[Nailin]

....you fly to faires!

...you celebrate days like "Day of Wrong" and "Talk like a pirate"

[Lady Neysa]

When you go into a local Starbucks, and the barista looks as you as if she recognizes you, and she says "Hey, aren't you the guy with the squirrel?"

True story!...and, I tipped her big! Still do...

Cool story Amras!

[Lady Neysa]

When you go to your daughters' marching band competition, and there's another band there whose drum majors are dressed as a Nobleman and Lady (she even had on a french hood and veil), and the color guard are dressed as wenches.  For the most part the  costumes look "faire good" - not too halloween costumey- and you're sitting there wondering if these kids are real rennies, or are they just doing this for the show?  At the end of the performance you give them a huzzah just for the costumes even though you didn't recognize the music they were playing. 

[CatAshtrophy]

My high school marching band was full of rennies. So could be that they really are. Our band director was a rennie too and hooked many of us onto ren faires.

[Al-Nimer]

You pack to go to Faire (TRF) for the weekend, and have to use a duffle bag and garment bag for the garb, but your mundane clothes/toiletries/etc. fit into half a carry-on bag.

[Dayna]

Why would you need 1/2 a carry-on bag for your non-ren clothes?  I'm female, so a t-shirt, deodorant and toothbrush, I'm ready to go.  Skirts are garb, boots are garb, bloomers (if needed) are garb.  T-shirt can be warn as a nightie or wear a spare chemise, washed in the morning and left to hang dry.  Bloomers can be washed at night and left to hang dry.  Same with socks and chemises.  Of course, chemises count as garb, so I just bring as many as I expect to wear.  If you're camping, throw in a bar of soap and travel size shampoo.

Dayna

[RicKim]

When friends find that your favorites list on your PC has hundreds of Garb, Faire, and Weapons sites on it...


...and this forum is at the top of the list!

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

When you are sitting at a concert (where the people were dressed up, not a rock concert) and seeing women in their dressy clothes and think "Ooohhh, that brocade jacket would make a beautiful forepart" and "that dress would make a nice bodice"  and so on.

[DT_Masters]

You have nightmares because you had to miss another weekend. (Dreampt I was there in very plain clothes, without a camera, trying to find the show of Lord Randolph, hoping no one I knew would see me too much out of costume, the RF was all out of place, spread out, etc...)

[DonaCatalina]

You're going through 'Bed, Bath & Beyond' and you almost buy the embroidered translucent shower curtains to make some Elizabethan sleeves.

[LadyElizabeth]

... the most your new co-workers know about you after a month of work is "what she does on weekends is go to faire"...

... you spend your bday on RF cause you can't think of anything better than being on here with friends...

... the fabric store ladies call you by your faire name "Queen Elizabeth" and hold items for you knowing "you'd like it"...

... you tell a guy your talking to that if he wants to date, it will be during the week or AFTER faire season, and if he doesn't understand, you don't date him!!

BTW, ALL of these are true and recent!!

[metalcelt]

You see a Rennie and a Mundane outside the Faire and tell the mundane he dresses funny (Rennie is in Garb at the time)

You declare spaces a "Huzzah" free zone

[Var Greyshadow]

Your realtor tells you that you could get your home inspection done on Saturday, but you schedule it for Monday so you don't have to miss faire.

You already know which closet in the house you're buying is going to be the garb closet.