My mom is the same age, not quite as bad, but more of a clutterer verging to hoarder. When I went home over Christmas I cleaned the grunge that had accumulated around cabinet door handles. I think it’s just partly that things build up slowly and she doesn’t notice. I think having a robot vacuum has helped a little with pet hair and the floors. My dad is not in delicate health, so I just ignore it and do a little when I am there. If you think it could seriously be bad for your Dad, that might change what Id be willing to do. A serious talk about it seems like a good idea. Some of it may be just having different standards, and you just need to let that part go as much as possible, I think.

I let them know. Sometimes they then apparently re-enter the wrong number and send me another text, and I will let them know a second time. But after that I figure it is on them if they can’t realize they’re just texting the same wrong number over and over. Once i had someone try to argue with me, like really I wouldn’t know that I’m not the person they were trying to reach.

I’ve ordered a couple of things from Pact before, a tee shirt and leggings. That was a couple of years ago now. The quality was good.

Cute dress! I think the belt is cute too but they don’t necessarily look best together. The thinner belt seems to look better.

I really enjoyed Stiff! I was going to recommend it as well.

That was what I thought of immediately, too. My DH has all DeWalt, because once you start buying you want to get all one kind that share batteries, and that was what he bought first.

That is super cute! I bet it is really flattering.

I finished my DS’s quilt, and though I had my doubts as I was making the blocks, I really like it now, and he is really surprisingly thrilled with it for a 12 year old boy. i think my doubts had to do with the color scheme. He chose the colors/fabrics and some are not my favorites, but all together I really like how they go together. I had a lot of fabrics in my stash that were given to me, or were bought cheap by the box in thrift stores and weren’t exactly to my taste. I also made a makeup bag for my niece for Christmas.

I had a Phillips MP3 player that would remember where it left off. But I bought it years ago-at least a decade, and have no idea what the current ones are like.

In my experience, few people do reciprocate. I’ve invited many neighbors and people from church over and only a handful have asked us over to their houses. I don’t worry about it generally. And many times people do offer to bring something, so that helps. A lot of people aren’t comfortable with others in their home, for whatever reasons. I enjoy having company (and as an introvert, I prefer interactions on my turf, so to speak. Where I can take my nervous energy and use it on hosting activities like getting things ready, not fidgeting around someone’s living room.)

School nurse’s office was what I thought of too

I would imagine so! I can’t believe how fast you quilt! Love the double wedding ring, by the way. Such cute bright colors!

Tamales are amazing! I think that’sa great idea. In my family we do chili, but it’s not the sort of cooking experience you want, it’s meant to be something easy on the cook that can simmer until everyone gets there.

Adorable!

These are my latest projects. The microwave bowl cozies are 3 of 8 I intend to finish for Christmas gifts. The quilt blocks are for my youngest DS’s quilt, which I really need to get in gear on if I’m going to finish it anywhere near his birthday.

I have done it long ago, but only on a table topper that was just two rings and I can’t remember anything about how it went, sorry. But I’m so excited to hear you are finishing the double wedding ring quilt, that is a bucket list quilt for me!

Not just businesses. Government bodies, where people have a lot less choice. My husband has helped his grandparents with things that were just impossible for them with their level of technological skill, and confusing enough for DH who had no problem with most online things.

Is your 7 year old competent to keep track of time enough that she can just leave at 4:00 or whatever time you set? Or if you don’t have a phone to lend her as mentioned above, could you send her with a small digital kitchen timer in her pocket (or an alarm set on a digital watch, that sounds much more normal) to let her know when it’s time to come home? i sympathize entirely. We had some good friends so things that proved they were not who we had thought they were when a member of their family acted wrongly towards a member of ours. I am over the raw anger, but still very unwilling to see them socially or attempt to make conversation. I just can’t imagine having much to say that is genuine or well-intentioned.

As a young child in the 80s I remember a wedding where the bride was kidnapped and carried away in a wheelbarrow. My memory doesn’t provide what happened after that, and I’ve never seen it since.

When I was in the Peace Corps I didn’t have an oven, as they were not common or affordable in Ecuador at that time, but I had a gas range. In the Peace Corps produced cookbook the volunteers were given, there were instructions for a “campo oven”. You take a large stock pot or Dutch oven and place a brick in the bottom, then heat it on the range, I forget the details of how long/high, until it is about 350 degrees, and place the pan on top of the brick, put b on the lid, and bake. The previous temperature was all guesswork for me but if you have an oven thermometer would be no no problem. I baked bread, cake, and muffins this way often, but never tried cookies. You have to use pans that are small enough to fit down in the stock pot. A round cake pan would probably work, but wouldn’t hold many cookies. i still have the cookbook, I could take pictures of the pages and send to you if you’re interested.

That happens here too. When I got married, they just wrote on the windshield, but when my sister got married they stuffed hay into the suitcases they were taking on the honeymoon, and a bunch of other stuff I can’t remember. I’ve heard of glitter in the car’s vents, which sounds truly awful to me.

Have any of you heard of this/what is it to you? Around here (Texas panhandle) it’s quite common that when a couple gets married, friends and family break into or otherwise gain access to a newlywed couples home and play b pranks on them, to be discovered when they return from their honeymoon or on their wedding night. Things like taking the labels off of calls, hiding things, rearranging furniture, though I heard of one well-planned elaborate prank where a very convincing notice of the water being turned off for failure to pay resulted in a desperate couple trying to pay $400 cash to a confused city employee for water that wasn’t actually turned off. Now usually I honestly don’t hear anyone call this anything; it’s just done. But I’ve heard it called shivaree, though it doesn’t really match the historical shivaree that is described when I Google this. So I’m wondering if this is common in other parts of the country, and what it consists of elsewhere.

What about giving to a charity that is meaningful to them, along with a token food gift?

I feel like the weather forecasters in my area do this too, but with rain chances.