I toy with this from time to time as well. Have you checked your local FB Marketplace or Craigslist? I found a couple on mine for under $400. If I can find one under $300, I'll strongly consider pulling the trigger.

I think she sounds like the Sophie Lennon character. I always thought Mrs. Maisel sort of loosely followed Joan Rivers' career. No? Maybe I imagined that.

I accidentally ended up with 2 pair of these a couple of years ago. They are more cotton than the ones I had in the 90s from Lucy, which wore like iron, but they do fold over nicely.

I had something similar happen once, and the insurer's response was, "Oh, well, it's fine. We didn't pay it." I was so annoyed--DON'T YOU WANT TO GO FIND THE BAD GUYS? Apparently not.

Don't say anything. Mom of a former D1 swimmer (who started in and coached summer league), former level 10 gymnast and rising D3 baseball player, so I have had lots of experience as a sports mom. Nothing good will come of it. NOTHING. Never. Coaches have been beaten down by the generations of parents who have preceded you, and you will pay the price for the sins of your ancestors. This is especially true for summer league, which is the least competitive and most fair athletic experience any of my kids ever had. If your kid wants to ask, fine. I would also have been tempted, but I eventually adopted the policy that I would only talk to existing coaches about money or injuries. I would talk to prospective coaches about playing time, but once my kid was on the team, the new policy kicked in. Also keep in mind that by asking for your kid to be put on the winning relay team, you are asking for someone else's kid to be kicked off. Word will get around that you got little Billy kicked off of the relay team because you complained, and that is how it will play out no matter how gently or reasonably you frame it.

It is common to negotiate for more severance, but it usually only works if you have some dirt on the employer (or the employer thinks you do, which is almost as good as actually having dirt). Small employers are much less likely to offer any severance at all. However, you will likely have better luck fighting back on the bonus if they truly owe it to him. If it is written anywhere--in a bonus plan, employment agreement, email, he should write a demand letter for the unpaid bonus. Give them a week or ten days to pay and then consult a lawyer if they do not. Depending on the state you're in, they may also owe him for unused vacation. I'm sorry this is happening.

Long term, I honestly don't know how you can not end up having her go no- or low-contact with you if this is what it takes to maintain a relationship. And for your newly-minted SIL to tell you how you must deal with her must have been--hard. Short-term, I've never had an adult in my life with these kinds of issues, but I was a witness to an epic tantrum from a 4 year old boy in line ahead of me at Marshall's yesterday. Mom held him firmly by the hand and flatly refused to acknowledge his screaming. And ya' know, by the time she was to a register, he had calmed down. It was fascinating. I would have been mortified when mine were that age, but she was cool as a cucumber. An older woman even tapped the kid on the shoulder and said, "Are you alright?" Kid was fine. Mom heard but did not acknowledge the nosy woman. I was in awe. Perhaps consider your daughter is throwing a very grown-up tantrum and ignore it, along with your SIL, who is the nosy lady in line.

The state high school athletic association may have rules on that (I am pretty sure they do in Georgia), so it may not even be up to the school or BOE.

I have 3 down Euro shams on my bed, and I got them from Marshall's or TJ Maxx, something like that, and just replaced the ugly covers they came with with my nice covers. Essentially, I bought Euro pillows from Marshall's to get the inserts. Mine are down, and they're very sturdy--they hold their shape very nicely, and they're very plump, but they're also heavy. A fat Euro sham can hold a lot of down. I am confident they did not cost $65 each. I want to say they were $25, but it's been a while. ETA: I have had that same size insert from Ikea, and they did not hold up well. They were lightweight, and it showed. If that is the look you're going for, that would be fine, of course, but with my king-sized bed and pillow configuration, I needed the heft of a poofy down insert.

I gave mine away in about 5 minutes through a post on our neighborhood Facebook page. I even had someone down the street show up at my door saying she'd responded first. (She hadn't.) Someone will want it.

When my now-18 yo youngest child was about 10, our ped's office fired us as patients because I did not take my super-healthy kids in for annual physicals. GPs and the like in our area will not see patients under 18, so I instructed my children not to get sick until they turned 18. They mostly obliged. I ran each of them into the Walgreen's clinic a couple of times for random things, and we were on a first-name basis with a sports medicine doctor, but they just never saw a pediatrician again.All that to say: our pediatrician was the epitome of inaccessible. It still annoys me 8+ years later.

If you remove them later, remember that you have to dispose of them. I am so tired of disposing of junk that this would be a major factor for me.

The Redwall series! No dragons, but fights among roughly medieval-era small woodland creatures. Bonus is that there are tons of them. One of my daughters got really into them at one point, and the author made an appearance at a bookstore near us. It was delightful. He died shortly thereafter, so I was glad we got to see him when we did. Most of the fans at the book signing were 12 year old boys.

I do as well, so naturally I 100% subscribe to this random youtube theory of the universe. 😎

I feel confident in advising that you should definitely get chickens. They are so entertaining.

If you expect this to be your forever house, keep in mind that your older teens will want somewhere to entertain friends, and a schoolroom now could be repurposed to a teen hangout room later if you do not have space for both. We originally finished our partial basement for use as a school room. When the kids all went to high school, it was easy to repurpose with a TV, game system, mini fridge (v. imp.), sectional sofa, etc., and it now gets tons of use when the boys have friends over. It is also a safe place to entertain girlfriends--there is a door at the top of the stairs, but the stairwell is closed, so they get a few seconds' warning when I pop down to check on them offer a snack or throw in some laundry.

Not always true. Federal tax fraud is a crime very much punishable by imprisonment. Property taxes are not federal taxes, however, so in this case, it is true that she is not going to prison.

One of my daughters reacts similarly. She scars from mosquito bites unless she puts Benadryl cream on them immediately. She has tubes of it in her purse, car, backpack and house at all times. She has outsized reactions to ants, centipedes (who even had any idea they bite???) and biting gnats as well. If she gets several, she has to take oral Benadryl for a night or two.

My daughter has a set or two of the Ikea Frakta bags (purchased from Amazon) and a set of off-brand also from Amazon, but not the ones you linked. The Ikea bags have made it through multiple moves and have taken much abuse. Several of the off-brand bags tore in the very first move. BUT, regardless of brand, the bags are way easier to pack and carry than cardboard boxes and are easy to store in the dorm room or apartment until the next move. She started with 2 4 packs but did not use them all.

I have an almost-7 yo black tri Aussie. We were pretty terrible dog trainers when he was little, but he loves us very, very much, and that is really what we need him to do. She is precious!

I'll be the dissenting voice here. I had a car that was hit 5 times in 4 years. None were my fault, and I never dealt with my own insurance. I always dealt with the other driver's. I always got a fully-paid rental (and I made them upgrade me to a minivan because that is what I drove and what their insured hit) and 100% coverage of my repairs. I never paid out-of-pocket for anything; I just used rental agencies and a car repair place on their approved list. My then-16 yo was rear-ended by a grandma who was texting while driving, and we did the same for her except that I had to give her my car and I drove the rental because no one would rent to a 16 yo. So 6 accidents, same process.

I was really into Agatha Christie at that age.

Okay, but if you don't want school kids hanging out in your yard while they wait for the school bus, you do not need to live in a neighborhood. We flipped a house once that backed up to a Little League field. Not a travel league park; the field was too small for anyone over 12. Literally a Little League park in a small, county-owned park. And we had potential buyers nix it on that basis. If you are the kind of person who doesn't want to hear the sounds of 12 year olds playing baseball--possibly the most wholesome of sounds ever, you are just not a good fit for our neighborhood or, possibly, any neighborhood. Go live in the country far away from other people.

My Cutco scissors have disappeared. I am so irate. Why they ever left the kitchen I do not know, but I miss them daily.

I have that knife. Cut a bagel and spread your cream cheese with one utensil--life changing. Do you have their cheese knife? It is amazing.