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  1. I was going to suggest contacting comic book stores. If a particular store might not be interested they might have suggestions for where to sell. Also, regular bookstores that buy used books might be interested (Books-A-Million, for example). My ex-husband had a comic book store and when it went bankrupt he sold a bunch to one of these bookstores (it was Hastings, which I think is out of business now). He actually sold the majority of them to some guy that had the money and the storage space for the tons of comic books that he had. I think the best chance of finding someone like that would also be through checking in with comic book stores.
  2. You know, I think I would just carry on as if the conversation never happened. The more you explain your (very reasonable) POV, the more she will fight back. Just continue living your life as you choose and don't open yourself up to any input on that from her.
  3. Paid streaming apps. My current paid apps are Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+, all with ads. I don't have cable. I've been watching (free) YouTube a lot more lately, and there are a lot of free streaming apps like Pluto, Tubi, and Freevee.
  4. I'm not saying your nurse didn't screw up, but my arm after the Covid shot I got a month ago was really sore for days. I think my very first Covid shot 3 years ago hurt like that, but none of the shots in between did.
  5. I had the magnets-I have a new driver with a license and a learner. I took them off the cars because I truly felt like people were more aggressive with them on. I was taking them down and putting them up so often that I decided to just leave them on, and even when I was the one driving, people seemed worse when they were up. I did like warning people with the magnets, and I think many people were more understanding. But there were far too many assholes that I felt like intentionally did stupid things because of them. Like, that's a great idea, speed up as you approach a new driver and swerve around them quickly, instead of slowing down. That's a great situation to put a new driver in (and all of the other people on the road).
  6. This thread is so nice to read. Sounds a lot like my DD, but she has a lot of mental health issues so I thought those were to blame. I just hope she gets more motivated when she starts college.
  7. I've used subscribe and save for a long time and this issue has popped up occasionally. The winter weather could be a factor for sure right now.
  8. This is good advice. If scholarships are not at risk without the scores, I would not include them. I was skeptical of these new policies so I asked a lot of questions at the college my daughter will be attending. They really did base her admission and scholarships on grades and other factors.
  9. There is a rule not to exchange gifts, and they broke the rule. You should not feel obligated to reciprocate with a gift of your own. In fact, maybe they'll take a hint if you don't. And you are not obligated to keep the gift. You can toss it out, donate it, whatever you'd like. It's your gift to do with as you please, no guilt.
  10. I thought I'd add that I work for a blood center, and they actually train for phlebotomy if you get hired. So that may be worth looking into for kids that want to avoid paying for training.
  11. Very true. Sometimes, doing everything right is the wrong thing for your kid's needs. OP, have your kids had any sort of psych evaluation?
  12. This was going to be my suggestion. They love giving you a phone when you start a line with them.
  13. I think you should go ahead and serve alcohol. Sounds like Angie pre-parties enough that she'll probably show up drunk anyway. Is there any way for the older generation to politely call her out on her criticisms of others in attendance? Asking "Why do you say that?" may be enough to get her to re-think what she's saying. And, "That's not a very nice thing to say," or "Maybe they're withdrawn because they can't get a word in edgewise" wouldn't be out of line if she continues to disparage other attendees.
  14. I was going through a major life transition (divorce after moving to a new city) just prior to Covid. I had a long-term temp job in the new city, where I was only interacting with a boss and a co-worker. I changed jobs weeks after Covid was declared a global pandemic, and that job was remote. So I haven't had workplace interactions where I would perhaps have found a friend. Basically Covid was the nail in the coffin for the few relationships I was managing to maintain post-divorce and move. There were different reasons for these ending. My mom became really nasty to me about not being able to visit on a whim, so after decades of her mistreatment of me that was it for our relationship. My best friend was going through a divorce and got a major promotion at work, and lives several hours away. So we have just drifted apart, and I am hopeful when we are both more settled in our lives we will spark up a friendship again. I also have social anxiety and I find that Covid made it too easy for me to stay in my comfort zone, and now the idea of initiating any sort of social interaction is so daunting. I have a lot of work to do.
  15. My daughter has BPD and as a caregiver, one thing that can be done to defuse a lot of negative situations is validation. It's not always easy to find something to validate when someone is going off in a rage about something you don't understand, but it gets easier with practice. The important thing is to validate their feelings, not feeling obligated to validate their decisions or behaviors. https://www.happierhuman.com/validating-statements/
  16. Or as a reminder to many of us with manipulative elders in our life that most of the time, it's just a game they're playing. And we do not need to feel guilty for our confusion or lack of action.
  17. This might be out of left field, but I got Fifth Disease as an adult. I started noticing symptoms on a Friday. My neck was the first thing that I felt. I could barely turn my head at all. My ankles felt like they were sprained and they got really big, I remember wrists hurting a lot too. I really remember thinking I had sudden onset rheumatoid arthritis. I had some tests done the following Monday but they didn't show anything. Finally, a week after it started, one of my kids had the Fifth Disease rash, and that's when I learned that Fifth Disease can cause all the symptoms I had as an adult.
  18. One time I was mowing my yard with my phone in my pocket. I never go on FB marketplace, but somehow while I was mowing I asked someone if something was available. I was so confused when I got a response saying "Nope." I probably had FB open and didn't close it all the way before mowing, but geez. 😅
  19. I do drugstore color whenever my roots start to bug me. I work from home, don't really interact much with the outside world, so I'm not really too concerned with it looking professional. But I don't think it looks bad or anything.
  20. Hello! My DD has BPD and I'm a single mom, so I know the burnout is real. Something that helped me is a NAMI class I took last year. It was for family members of people with mental illness. They also offer support groups, which is really nice because it can be so hard to explain your struggle to people that don't understand what it's really like. Here's the website if you wanted to see what's available near you. There are also online groups but I preferred something in person. https://nami.org/Home There are also groups for the people with mental illness. I can't really speak to those but it might be helpful for your DD.
  21. Yeah, I would guess maybe they were priming you for the abortion question. First you were exposed to the idea in a less direct way, and then you were asked directly. In my former life, I conducted research on survey construction, how one survey response could influence a subsequent response, etc. I think I even applied to work at NORC when I was finishing grad school. (Obviously I wasn't hired). So this is very interesting to me!
  22. NORC, who created that survey, is the National Opinion Research Center, based at the University of Chicago. They are heavyweights in nonpartisan survey research. My guess it's an attention check, or they may be priming you to answer later questions. Or different people got different versions of the survey?
  23. And if you use the right paint outside, it should be okay. Just good to know before you paint exterior brick!
  24. Like I said, the building was already in terrible shape and was going to fall sooner or later. But the fact that the slumlord painted it came up in many discussions about the collapse, and how that likely hastened it. (I live a couple miles away from the building so I was very interested in this horrible event and understanding its causes). https://www.reckon.news/news/2023/06/this-tragedy-was-altogether-avoidable-lawsuits-mount-in-davenport-condo-collapse.html#:~:text=“Painting over the bricks acted,building had prior water damage.
  25. I don't know if you remember around Memorial Day, a building in Davenport, Iowa collapsed. There were many, many structural issues with the building. But the owner decided to paint some of the brick buliding as a way to cover some issues, and there seems to be a consensus that that contributed to the building's collapse. That's when I first learned that painting over brick is a bad idea. https://www.houselogic.com/remodel/painting-lighting/paint-brick-house/
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