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:iagree: :iagree: :iagree: My mom brags about not having had the septic cleaned in XX years all because she uses Scott.... I'd pony up the $$ just to NOT use Scott brand. Sharmin Strong is all we use. I'll cut corners on soaps, paper towels, cleaning products (I can make a bottle of concentrated all purpose last a year if needed) but I will not use cheap TP.

I also do not have any references. When it has come up I lie. I list my sister with a different last name and my husband's best friend who I've only met in person 1 time. Society makes it almost impossible for SAHM's who are also introverts. ETA: also references are stupid. Like I'm going to give you the name of someone who's going to say anything other than wonderful praise?

I don't/didn't nor would I unless there's a problem. An example, DD was texting a friend, who had a specific bedtime, much later than the kid was supposed to be asleep (she was very open about this). We talked about how that- no she's not responsible for their breaking the rules but does she want them to be grounded, get yelled at? Then while it's not her fault if they get caught/punished she is contributing to the issue. She stopped texting them after the kid's arbitrarily set time. When my niece was staying with us last year we went through a similar situation, texting at 3am to other children who were supposed to be in bed. I talked to her like I did my daughter but the results weren't the same. She continued to text, a lot. She was 11 and I ended up having to take her phone every night at midnight. I hated doing it, I much prefer children learn to police themselves and learn self control but she had never been taught those tools and she wasn't here long enough (only 3 months) for me to work with her her, so in the end I had to restrict her. As to what they're texting, I don't feel like it's my business. Just like I wouldn't try to eavesdrop on an in person conversation why then would it be okay to "listen in" on a conversation just because it's in text?

The Good Place is excellent and if you have Hulu they're running season 2 as it comes out. I like mysteries so Father Brown, Agatha Christie, Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders, Shetland, Sherlock, Mindhunter, The Five If mystery is not your thing.... Call the Midwife, Fraiser, Friends, How I Met Your Mother (I just don't watch the last episode) I love sci-fi Dark Matter, Star Trek: Enterprise or Voyager.

I'd say about $100 per month minimum but I the parent wouldn't be paying it they'd have needed a job over Summer or would need to get a P-T job now.

I worked for a garage door company in Florida. Previous to my employment when the office person left at 3pm the phones got switched to the bosses cell phone. So if he was in the middle of a job and they got a call he'd have to stop work to take it or let it go to voice mail. He found that a lot of the people just hung up and he was worried about missing out on business (this also applied to his weekends when he was in fishing tournaments). So I worked from 3-6 M-F and every other Saturday 12-6. My job was to answer the phone and file work orders. There were rarely ever any calls and the filing amounted to about 10 minutes worth of work.

From what I've heard/seen most homes overseas are significantly smaller. Depending on how long you'll be there maybe a storage unit here could be needed. If I were only going for a year or two I wouldn't even try to take my own furniture or other big items but I definitely would not want to sell it all and have to try to rebuy new to replace it all 2 years later. So a storage unit with insurance for contents. Also medical insurance, many countries have universal healthcare or something like that. You might not have access to that and it will cost you a little to a lot out of pocket. Taxes, you will still be getting taxed here, you likely will be getting taxed there as well, pay should be adjusted for that.

Yes, but nothing extravagant, usually I'm a cat. Halloween is my favorite holiday, always has been.

I've always thought it was a football reference to having to go the whole distance (to a 1st down?). More or less meaning you have to do it all from start to finish.

I don't think I've ever come across anyone who wasn't educating their children in some way to a reasonable minimum. I've known a lot of unschoolers and "casual schoolers" who were IMO adequately educated. Of course I have very little experience with religious HSers so no idea if their community has more or less issues then I've seen.

I have a really cheap, like $10 or less from Walmart that I've had since 2008. I use it more often than the big stand mixer and no matter how badly I treat it it will not die. I'm probably going to give the stand mixer to my sister when we move in February but I'll definitely be taking the little hand mixer with me, or maybe I'll donate it and get myself a new one.

I'd keep HSing because me not failing means my kids would succeed. I'd go back to school and finish my degree so if DH were ever laid off again I could find a job to carry us through. I'd lose weight, I'd work hard and the pounds (about 50) would just melt off, then I'd be healthy again.

If I was seeing this happen, I'd have probably stood up/moved toward the kid being pushed in (my first response would be to help/protect) kid comes up fine, no screaming/coughing then I'd feel a little embarrassed that I jumped the gun and I'd realize it was just how they interacted. My only remaining concern would be explaining to my kids why so-and-so and their mom could rough house at the pool before lessons but we couldn't. Still not my place to police their actions. As a parent I could see pretending like I was going to push the kid in but I'd not likely do it. I was "taught", at around age 5, to swim by being thrown in the deep end. I still have a serious fear of ALL water bodies including pools.

Youngest was like that, it was a good excuse for me to get naps. She finally grew out of it at around 18 months when I weaned her.

RTR's are epidemic in my town. Every single light almost every single time someone runs it, I am not kidding. I get honked at because I don't run red lights. This is in Tennessee, the South where people are supposed to be polite. I blame it on the crazy growth and all the other transplants (like me) who were never taught manners. It's not right that I have to look both ways before going on a green light or that you have to weave around cars in the intersection because they went but then get stuck due to the crazy traffic.

I park in the garage and DH parks in the drive but we both enter through the garage/kitchen door. You can see the front door from the road/drive so it's unlikely we'd miss a notice.

I stopped smoking just before my 40th (I'll be 43 next year). I had been smoking since I was a teenager. I didn't realize how compromised my lungs/breathing were. I've started eating healthier. Soon after I quit smoking I developed diabetes and high blood pressure, they were probably there already but weight gain pushed me over the edge. While I immediately cut out 90% junk carbs from my diet I only recently started to pay attention to the my diet as a whole. About 2 months ago Dh and I started eating what's often referred to as a "flexitarian" diet. Minimal animal products and significantly less fat. While I've not been as good about sticking to it as DH (watching some Documentaries recently has helped get me back on track) I do feel better and I expect that to continue even more so as we go along.

We adored our Sasha. She was a digger but not too bad, she only barked when she should, and she loved going on walks. She was fearless and thought she was superdog. She severely injured her back jumping off the couch at 5 years old and we had to eventually have her put to sleep the day after Christmas (we had her for 6 years and 1 day).

:iagree: ALL of these! Also people not using their turn signals, I mean how difficult is it to flick a little switch people?

When they were little they slept with us. At around 6 they started sleeping on their own and no I liked them open, same as mine, so I could hear them if they needed me. Now that they are older they insist on keeping them closed and I concur, otherwise I nag them about their messy rooms.

I'd go with the patio set. The other one will likely mildew and unlike the patio set it's not washable.

:iagree: I was married before and he was like that, didn't want me talking about friends, didn't want to imagine I had a life before him. He was very controlling and I was very young and did not know how to fix it so it ended in divorce. My husband now is the opposite, doesn't try to tell me how to behave or care that I had past experiences (other than he'll mention "yeah, I heard that one before" because after 17 years you've heard all the stories). If he's always been like this then I'd look into ways of helping him 1. realize it and 2. retraining himself to deal with it. If he's only recently become this way then I would see what has triggered the behavior shift. As for owning regrets, absolutely. We make choices that lead us to this very moment in time, I'm really happy with this moment in time, I really like me at this moment in time and I wouldn't be me if I hadn't screwed up monumentally along the way.

Couple thoughts LED bulbs are $2-$3 at walmart no more heating up the room from the light. Get her a sheet to go under the blanket, then if she gets hot she can toss off the blanket and keep the sheet. We've had the dual fans window thing for DS, it works great. I wonder if part of the problem is the HVAC system? You might have someone come out to service it.

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