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  1. Seeing as I myself was graduating highschool in 2004, no I haven't been here that long. I'm guessing I found the boards when my oldest was kindergarten age so 2013.
  2. March is turning out to be quite an expensive month. But so much of it is wasteful spending that isn't worth it, so we've got to reel that back in. I've got some hefty savings goals for this year that I'd really like to accomplish so I need to stop wasting money on unimportant things. So, the goal for the rest of the month is $500 for groceries and any essentials. And that is it. I'm also thinking about selling a few things just to sock a few hundred in savings to make up for the overspending. We'll see.
  3. I imagine most kids who say opening is too hard don't actually care about using the locker and just use the difficulty as an excuse.
  4. At the private school I went to through most of high school we weren't allowed to carry our backpacks into classrooms so we had to use our lockers. But we rarely locked them. In the huge public high school I went to for one year, I didn't even know where my locker was. But my parents knew nothing about my locker usage. And honestly had my mom demanded I use it or she'd come show me how to, I'd just lie to her about it and likely stop talking to her about anything having to do with my school life and likely personal life because of that overreaction.
  5. So, I sort of hope it is the last one because I don't want to get sucked up into the world of competitions. Although, I see the value of her doing 1 a year because is did push her in a different sort of way compared to performances. It is the same one as she did the masterclass last year. And it isn't that I don't like it. The competition was National Ballet Competition. And I actually thought it was a great one to start with instead of YAGP Philly because it was her home stage, where she does all her dances with the company so she knows it well and could take the aspect of anxiety out of the equation. I don't know much about competitions so I don't know how important they are for someone who wants to go professional. I imagine if you ask ten people you'll get ten different answers.
  6. There were 40 kids in her division.
  7. Dd placed 9th overall in her division. She is pleased with that for her first competition. I just hope it is her last 😂
  8. Not according to the artist who wrote the song. He says that the song came from 2 incidents. One was when he was tripping on LSD sitting under a peach tree at the house of a woman he had a crush on. I can't remember the other story though. Something about a homeless man. Oddly enough, my brother's and I were talking about this last weekend. Mainly because of the fact that the guy is Casper Baby Pants.
  9. I'll keep you posted. Hope your kids get into the intensives they're hoping for. Only one of my other kids dances. She is 9 and I won't let her compete until 13 at the earliest just because that is what I did for her older sister. My oldest just wanted to try competing and thankfully we got that contemporary piece choreographed and coached for free, so it made competing much more affordable. I certainly don't want to get caught up in the crazy competition schedule some dancers do, and dd doesn't want that either. But we may be ok with her doing 1 a year if she wants.
  10. She is done with competitions for the weekend. Great to get it out of the way on day 1. Now just masterclasses. It is up to her if she wants to go away this summer or not. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to yet, which I'm happy with. She may choose a different school to do intensives at though. The only thing she's specifically mentioned is The Rock School because they do partnering and her school's intensives don't.
  11. And ... received_430507852772853.mp4
  12. Posting this here because I know @mommyoffive will want to see it. Dd13 had her first ballet competition today. It continues tomorrow and Sunday so no idea how she did but here are her pieces. Hope the quality is good. received_1426569211292937.mp4
  13. We got our tax refund today, which is always really large because of the child tax credit even though we don't have any federal taxes taken from our paychecks. $5000 of it went into my RothIRA, $2000 went to sinking funds, and the rest is just sitting waiting to figure out what we're doing with it. The rest of March should be a close to zero spend month, minus a few b-day gifts we need to get for nieces.
  14. I know I can love without a dryer, I've done it with no problem. And could likely live without a washer, I'd just require people be more conscious of what they're asking me to wash. No jeans that were worn for 2 hours, etc. But I've learned how to replace many washer parts so I don't have to live without one or replace them
  15. I thought of one that most people think is a necessity but I could easily do without, a dishwasher. We are a household of 11 currently
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