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I know it's likely Yourube, but who on YouTube offers the best (most clear, etc.) instructions?
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If I got to stay home alone (much more rare than going out alone!), I'd probably pick up lunch (& maybe coffee) and then cross stitch and watch something (mood dependent) while stitching.
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We moved and did a major purge. I heaped books up on our pool table and left a lot on bookshelves. IIRC, we had already boxed up the keepers. I advertised mostly by word of mouth in our homeschool community that I was having a give away and people come over and just dug through my stuff and took it. I tried to sell a few curricula that I knew had adequate resell value, but otherwise--give away.
I'm a teacher and librarian and so kept A lot of books (at least some people would think so). Now that we're firmly in the institutional school/two parent income world, I need to purge again.
At this point I'm only interested in keeping sentimental favorites.
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May not be your thing, but we installed a hammered copper single bowl apron-front sink in our last house, and I loved it.
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Ditto on checking Costco
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My girls wore Lamour when they were little. Fifteen years ago, they were very high quality and tres chic for little southern girls. I'm sure the same is still true.
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31 minutes ago, Ali in OR said:
Today's norm. They all need their phone to know what time it is--they can't read the clock in the classroom, they don't know what the hands will look like when class is over (this isn't everyone of course, but it's true for way too many. And these are high schoolers). They also don't understand time references to an analog clock:
Them: "What time does class end?"
Me: "Quarter 'til"
Them: (blank stare)
I feel this is akin to not knowing how to count back money. I would say "kids these days," but some committee somewhere decided to take it out of curricula/courses of study, or at the very least decided to give teachers so much else to focus on that something had to get short shrift.
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23 hours ago, Ali in OR said:
I would get rid of play money, but there are plenty of math manipulatives I kept. I'm now a math teacher in a public high school, and while I'm not likely to pull out the cuisenaire rods with the nifty ruler to add them up, I won't rule it out. One that I do use every year in Algebra 1 is our old balance scale and gram weights, demonstrating that the two sides stay equal if I add or subtract the same amount to each side or double or halve the amounts on each side (properties of equality that we use to solve equations). I should try teaching them how to read an analog clock...that ability is dying off. And counting bears--I could never get rid of those cute little guys! We have the weighted ones which also come in handy with the scale.
I work with a 25 (ish) yo college graduate who struggles to tell time on an analog clock. I can't figure out if she's an outlier or if it's today's normal for her age.
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9 minutes ago, MrsMommy said:
We Didn't Start the Fire
2 minutes ago, Dmmetler said:That could be a whole 20th century history course by itself....
I used it when I taught high school world history!
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Gorgeous! I have a friend who's a jewelry maker (& homeschool mom!) and she used labrodite a lot, I believe.
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1 hour ago, Idalou said:
It was found in a hole under their garage as a newborn, mom was run over, other babies died. They had it descented. It was very tame. They fed it chicken and vegetables, I think. It ran all over their house and slept in a bedroom corner. Whenever we would go visit them my aunt would let us pet it once and then it was put away, probably more for its safety than ours.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
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FWIW, I took the test Sneezyone linked, and I got what I always get, even in a paid test--INFP.
Any other enneagram 4s here? (And want to admit it? Haha. We're the number that LIKES to be different, so we like to think there's no one else out there like us!)
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3 hours ago, Idalou said:
My aunt had one as a pet. It was a very clean little thing, slept in her back bedroom.
I need to know more about this.
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15 minutes ago, wintermom said:
This forum is the only place I see these personality type things. I did see one reference to it at a Christian Reform Church event 20 years ago. Maybe it's more prevelant in religious circles.
I love personality typing! My favorite (& the one I feel the most accurate for me) is the enneagram.
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2 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
Yes. There is somewhere in the middle of parents or grandparents paying or going to debt for 100k. Kids staying at home through college is a huge costs savings that is rejected as an option because the whole ‘college experience’ has been sold and bought by so many.
Yes. I agree with this. This is the part we're giving up by our kids going local. Granted, it is a bit different because they can move into dorms with no cost (and have, and will), but it's still not the same experience as not being ten miles from home.
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6 minutes ago, kathyl said:
Yeah our kids got into plenty of good schools. But in the end we went with what we could afford. Those out-of-state schools they got into were just so so much more expensive and offered very little money besides loans. And even those wouldn't have made it affordable for our kids.
Plus, all 5 of ours were attending college at the same time, for the bulk of their college years. So it was the affordable state school for all of them. And it was cheaper to help with housing, transportation, insurance, etc., than to pay for tons of tuition, books, fees, etc., for 5 kids, too.
This is our experience, too. Both kids qualified for presidentials but were points shy of housing at those schools. Our smaller (but not by much!) local university offered the full ride with the added bonus of proximity to home should the housing not work out. Others probably disagree, but in our minds the debt was not worth the difference in schools. YMMV, of course.
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Ditto on what the two previous posters have said. I consider our lack of debt mostly the blessing of an academic predisposition for both me and my dh, more than anything else. (And the kids have genetics on their side--in this instance a blessing, not a curse. Everything is a trade-off!) Both of us grew up modestly and still have what I'd consider a firmly middle class lifestyle now.
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1 hour ago, Indigo Blue said:
Threads. New social media platform. Sigh. Related funny:
As an INFJ, he nailed my reaction.
I THOUGHT I was an INFP, but I only identify with the second half of the INFP reaction. 🤣
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My first two both earned housing scholarships but the first one moved over and then opted to come back home. (Kid didn't enjoy shared bathrooms--though they share with three siblings at home!--and knew coming home was an easy option. Also, home is closer to kid's job than sxhool, so late shifts usually resulted in a night at home anyway.) Second kid is set to move to dorm next month, but we're keeping an open bedroom. 🤣. I 100% support the move, but knowing the play of personalities (& certain tendencies/issues), I fully expect home to be preferable. Both kids have jobs and pay most/all of their day-to-day expenses. We provided cars for both kids. Older kid pays car insurance but that's it in terms of required bills. Younger kid will start with insurance when able.
I agree with pp that not all parents are able financially to pay kids' ways. We certainly couldn't and didn't obligate ourselves. If second kid had opted to go off, loans would've been the way to accomplish that. Kid thought it through and eventually concluded the 100% merit award at the other school was worth the sacrifice.
dh and I both managed full academic scholarships and had little debt to start off adult life, as I mentioned before. Our parents would've helped us (& did--cars, a place to live, etc), but couldn't have footed the entire bill and thankfully didn't have to. I wouldn't have qualified for grants, etc. , and while dh's situation was different than mine, I don't think he would've either. I fully recognize this is not everyone's situation and appreciate that, so no judgment at all for student loans. We are educators who greatly value education but DEFINITELY look at college pragmatically when it comes to debt and have encouraged our kids to always consider ROI.
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I am horrified by this. This is an area we travel through several times a year, and I have college-aged children. I pray she is found safe!
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Also--and perhaps this is a big one--my dh and I decided we would work toward being financially fit enough to meet our own needs as we age instead of helping them go elsewhere to school, and that would be our gift to our children since (so far) they've managed to qualify themselves for scholarships at our decent local school.
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7 minutes ago, Kuovonne said:
There were a lot of factors that are very unique to her and our family. A lot has to do with her personality, her interests, her skills, and her weaknesses. It also has to do with a lot of changes and uncertainty in our family finances in the past four years, and my tolerance for risk.
She got a scholarship, but obviously not enough to afford her college without insane loans.
I also do not personally believe that the main reason for college is to earn more money. I think going to college can have value unrelated to an increase in earning potential.
I went to college on full scholarship (including covering room & board) for both undergrad and grad school. So I have never had any college debt, and maybe I am underestimating how soul-crushing college debt can be. But we discussed the alternatives and decided they would have been soul-crushing for her too.
I don't know about soul crushing, and having never had significant student loan debt (I did borrow about $2k for a computer--which I had forgotten until now--and then took advantage of a payment plan through the university for grad school, allowing us to pay it off by graduation), I can't speak to it personally. I THINK the reason why so many people try to avoid it (& this is certainly true for us) is that the repayment generally comes at a time in a person's life when there are many other financial obligations for most people. For example, I have a friend who is about to have to start paying on her loan after the deferment (or whatever--I haven't been keeping up with all the details), on top of having two kids, a house, vehicles, and a husband whose job was tenuous there for a bit. It was a lot of pressure. Thankfully, the job is resolved for now, but they were looking at a loss of income on top of the loan. I think stories like that (& worse) are what many of us take as cautionary tales. (Also--the friend didn't finish college, and the job she currently has wouldn't have been helped in any way--practically or financially--by what she was studying.)
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Just now, Kuovonne said:
There were a lot of factors that are very unique to her and our family. A lot has to do with her personality, her interests, her skills, and her weaknesses. It also has to do with a lot of changes and uncertainty in our family finances in the past four years, and my tolerance for risk.
She got a scholarship, but obviously not enough to afford her college without insane loans.
I also do not personally believe that the main reason for college is to earn more money. I think going to college can have value unrelated to an increase in earning potential.
I went to college on full scholarship (including covering room & board) for both undergrad and grad school. So I have never had any college debt, and maybe I am underestimating how soul-crushing college debt can be. But we discussed the alternatives and decided they would have been soul-crushing for her too.
Thanks for sharing this. This makes the taking of loans similar to say, borrowing money for travel or for a serious hobby or something like that. I wondered if that was your motivation. Thanks again!
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Thanks so much! Love the slow-mo videos! Very helpful!