My spending biggest regrets are cheaping out on shoes upfront and paying for it with injuries in the long run. Running in old shoes for way too long and not going to try on proper running shoes. Not getting good insoles at the beginning for my extremely high arches. I cringed at paying $100+ for a pair of shoes and…

Upping mileage too quickly in shoes you need to replace.

So the car seats thing is kinda dubious and it’s really fascinating how we ended up with the idea they “expire”: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/11/14/is-there-any-data-that-says-secondhand-car-seats-arent-safe/

The larger arguments around ethics aside, I don’t get the complaint over mislabeled “vintage” and whatnot. You don’t have to buy anything. I use poshmark (have sold some of my old clothes on there) and if I think something’s ridiculously priced or mislabeled I just don’t buy it! 

I just had to have a biopsy (came back benign!) at 28 after an ultrasound was inconclusive. Yes “I can handle” a false positive but I would prefer not to take time off work, hang out in the waiting room of a breast health center (during COVID, which has its own risks) until I get called in, lay on a cold table while a…

Un-fun fact: He probably got that $15,000 by stiffing his employees out of health insurance and defrauding his own state. https://www.wbrz.com/news/amputee-learns-he-has-no-health-insurance-after-employer-neglected-to-pay-bills/

A man at the gym a few years ago came up to me, unprompted, while I was doing rows with headphones in, said “Can I give you some advice?” and I, being apparently a naive idiot, said sure, thinking I was actually going to get a helpful tip. He then told me “You should use some lighter weights.” That was it. I think I…

Yes, not having your own Senators is disenfranchising. Nearly 700k people live there and don’t have federal representation. (The House rep. does not have voting power.) It’s not “somehow disenfranchising,” it’s very straightforward disenfranchising. The federal government routinely overrules local officials’ decisions…

DC is not in Maryland. I don’t know why so many people think this. 

Definitely don’t cheap out on running shoes.

Or sitting on the toilet with a trash can in front of you.... ugh

It sketches me out to have a doctor do them. It will be sterile, but they’re not really trained on placement. I know 2 family members who went to the doctors’ office and both of them turned out uneven. One was so low on one side the earring ripped through her earlobe eventually and she had to get it surgically fixed.…

I had someone pretty much roll their eyes at me and say “OK, yeah, a tattoo parlor.” when I said that’s where I went. Wouldn’t listen to me when I explained guns were terrible and cause scar tissue and none of it is sterile. Excuse me for going to a person who does this all day for a living and not some barely trained…

Same, anyone I know who had theirs done as a baby was Latinx, and even then it was usually people of an older generation.

I was 13. In 7th grade one day my mom asked “You ever think about getting your ears pierced?” I said not really, she asked if I wanted to, I said sure, and she took me the next day or something.

Yes!!! I got my ears pierced + cartilage at Claire’s/Icing in my early teens. (Everyone did.) You don’t realize how bad they are until you get work done at an APP shop. It was an eye-opening experience, where you get “holy shit, yes, I am getting a hole punched in my body, why the hell would I EVER do this at the…

So, this was what “locker room talk” refers to.

Aside from the fact all of these people should know who Frederick Douglass is, did it occur to no one to Google him? It would take literally 30 seconds to find out who he was and that he is long dead.

Also

Very insulted my own IHTM didn’t make the cut here. I come off vapid and insufferable as ever and deserve some recognition for it! (The things you do for an easy $50 when you’re fresh out of undergrad and unemployed....)