I absolutely believe this is what happened with Ben Carson’s suddenly realizing he wasn’t qualified to head up a federal agency due to complete lack of experience after having just run for POTUS. Then they suddenly decided they needed POC and gave him a spot after all and he made himself look even more stupid by…

Like everyone who blasts music from their cars or windows or shirty little phone speakers, she literally thinks she’s doing everyone else a favor. “Don’t you feel better now, didn’t I brighten your day and/or night?”

I am the adult owner of a mermaid blanket and I LOVE IT. I got one for each of my best friends for Christmas because they were jealous of mine. For me it’s perfect because it covers my feet and doesn’t slide off my legs since I spend most of my relaxing time with my feet propped up on the coffee table. And it is cozy…

Growing up, the only music allowed in our house between Thanksgiving and Christmas was Christmas music. Even if my brother and I were in our bedrooms with the doors closed, we could only listen to Christmas music there. To this day, he and I can only handle it on Christmas Day itself. My sister-in-law thought he was…

I have a mermaid obsession (and my name actually means protector of the sea) and my husband bought me one for our anniversary and I LOVE it!! Not the most functional but it makes me happy 😊

I have been listening to Christmas music for hours while I marathon bake today. Can’t possibly get enough.

I’ll be your friend...I still have a giant case of HOLY SHIT that won’t go away no matter how hard I try to keep from freaking out, and I have a wide circle of friends and family who are not Trumpsters. Plus, I’m 58, so I don’t even have to (personally) worry if abortion rights disappear, though I am in the wrong spot…

Hey, I’m new here too—I have been reading for 10-ish years, but have never commented—your comment made me sign up. I’m sorry, that’s such a shitty place to be, and I’ve been there. I think my dad voted for the Tangerine Overlord, despite my pleas otherwise, and yesterday he tried to tell me that perhaps I just didn’t…

He is, he has been amazing, that is one bright spot in this. I don’t know if I could do it alone.

Abusive ex flew here on my fucking dime this week to sign over his rights to my kid so my husband can adopt her. He freaked out in the lawyer’s office, called me and screamed at me for thirty minutes, and generally acted so crazy that the lawyer ethically couldn’t let him sign, even though he said he would. Then he…

I don’t have kids, but I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I hate Christmas, I am the ultimate grinch, mostly because of this - because of the rampant consumerism parading as love (also because I’m an atheist Jew who worked years in retail, so, you know, a lot of resentment there). If I do ever have kids, I’m not…

Gotta level with you, I’d wear that hooded ladybug towel to dinner. It sounds amazing.

Lolz— as a nonparent, such thorny diplomatic dealings are way outta my league! It sounds like the constant negotiations of war: you have to promise them Yes to the grocery store to get them to agree to take it off before bedtime.

It was a green dinosaur outfit and a lady bug towel for my youngest. The dinosaur outfit was like a giant fuzzy PJ set, so he basically wore it always. The lady bug towel had a hood, so he wore it until it was basically just a cape. And then he wore it until the hood frayed. I have photos of him watching TV, eating a…

I’ve had friends do this with Disney World trips. They play up the big reveal and maybe get a stuffed Mickey and a few small gifts. A friend of mine bought her 3 daughters One Direction tickets a few years ago and that was their big gift. It also prolongs the Christmas gift experience because months later they go on…

Right? What kid does NOT insist on sleeping in their grail Christmas present, regardless of what it is? Tutu, crash helmet, deelybobber headband, gas mask?

I COULD, but I don’t want to. Because I like giving him presents and watching him enjoy them. At it’s heart, it’s almost a selfish act b/c I’m the one really enjoying the act of giving - but I also don’t think he’s going to grow up to be a horrible consumer drone just because his mom got him some Brio trains for…

I had my kids young, so I’ve been broke or almost broke for most of their lives. They’re now 19 and 12. It’s just been in the last year that I’ve had some disposable income. It seriously freaked my daughter out and worried her when I started spending money because it was so instilled in her that we are a budget…

There is a part of me that wants my kids to feel, at least in some relatively painless and abstract way, that the world is fucked.

okay then...don’t? give them an experience. take them to volunteer. make it a fun day with a special treat like a fancy dinner at the end. go on a vacation. there are one million ways to give without giving items/excessively.