Four years! It's amazing how time flies once you get the whole sobriety thing down. It'll get harder as you lose your momentum, but then way easier once you have new routines worked out.

Good luck! It's really easy to take how gross and crazy you feel and decide that it means you're dying. If you have a friend or family member who can check on you that might help with your anxiety (over dying, not in general - I was an anxious crying mess when I quit).

I'm a sober alcoholic and I can't tell if getting my shit together made me more or less judgy towards other addicts. On the one hand, getting sober is hard. Really hard. It sucks to have to fully admit to the mess you've made and to actually try to fix it. But on the other hand, Jesus fucking Christ. Some people…

Thoughts of peace and love and healing for him, for you, and for his other friends and family. So sad to hear this.

So this IS a cool club that most of us weren't invited to!

Regarding families with the lowest incomes spending the most: this is a chance for their kid to show off, to not feel poor. A lot of these kids may not be headed to college (which costs a fuckload more than $1100) and are facing down trying to join the workforce full time.

This video leads to a much happier kind of crying than this week's other news has.

I enjoy a fancy doughnut. And holy shit, imagine a place that does doughnuts AND cupcakes - unstoppable.

Picking your flavors is super important. I don't like the commitment of a whole cake, and I don't like the same flavors as my family members. With cupcakes everyone gets what they want and there's less resentment!

Sorry, folks, I still love cupcakes. They're adorable, the perfect portion, and you get to pick whatever flavor you want. I'm not saying goodbye yet. And what's going to replace them? French macaroons? Really? Cardboard with paste in the middle?

My husband is awesomely unjealous - one of our big pieces of artwork in the living room is from my ex (it's a framed, autographed album). I have a box of old pictures and love letters, he has some from his ex. I think it gets less weird to have the longer it's been since you broke up. Eventually it doesn't seem…

Autocorrect is a nightmare. I keep getting duplicate words because it thinks I'm not done with the word and corrects to give me a new one. And half-words with another word stuck on. Craziness!

I've started doing the band-aid method with some of our things, but it really does sting. I'll feel better and more in control when this stuff is gone, but it's hard to say goodbye!

My parents are in a fixed income (and my brother has serious mental health problems and lives with them) so we've given them a lot of nice stuff that they'll use and enjoy. We're selling a fair amount of collectibles that will be going to someone else who really appreciates them. It is comforting, definitely.

These are really great ideas! I'm SUPER sentimental too, and I've tried to do something similar where I take a picture of the item, but it still creeps up.... I love the idea of a set container that it all has to fit into!

Parks had originally only gotten a half season that was later extended to a full one, so when that episode was written they thought it might be the end of the series.

That's a really good way of looking at it - these are things that other people will love and need.

My husband has been reading some of those - hopefully it'll rub off!

I think we're going to try Freecycle for some stuff.

We're super lucky that we have a month of overlap between our new lease starting and old one ending - I think we're going to try a theory like this during that time (move what we know we need, have a couple weeks to figure out what else we have to have). Thanks for the suggestion!