And thank you for some oils I haven’t tried yet! Need to check those out. I’m in the central coast area, so we are almost neighbors. Love SF and visit it often.

Do we work with the same guy? I swear, if you don’t like something he likes, you’re an idiot, but if you dare criticise his tastes, he comes back weaponized!

I know, this is Jezebel at its best - a community. I learn so much here, and have seen things I never would have before. Lots of smart people here (and the occasional troll).

Ugh, I remember Sun-In. My sister could use it, but it would turn my brown hair that funky pumpkin (Funky Pumpkin - band name?). I’ve been playing with home made cosmetics to the point of having a small cottage industry in the 90’s, then discovered other people were doing it better with much more capital than I had. I…

It’s gotta be better than the Veganaise (or whatever it was called) stuff I tried during a vegan phase. some of the fakes taste really good, and some meat things I could do without, but dammit...cheese. Have yet to try a decent vegan cheese, and that’s what sent me back to the dark side.

Yeah, too right. I had a co-worker grossed out by something I was eating, and he is usually very vocal on what he likes and doesn’t - if he doesn’t, it’s bad crap, and you are a crap person for eating it.

Another Mazz jumping in. Don’t know about it being a lice treatment, but yes, mayo is a good conditioner/hair mask that takes a lot of shampoo and rinsing to get out. That was the trouble with the 70’s make-your-own cosmetics - rinsing. Mashed banana and avocados work well, stale beer for shine, but who wants to smell…

Good for her! She is so brave to tell her story and to point out how hard it is now to get a simple LEGAL medical procedure that shouldn’t be anyone’s business but hers and her doctor.

I wish I could star this more. I say this as a person who had the time and the knowledge to cook such things when I had a family, as well as a garden and chickens, and the luxury to be able to do all of these things. Later I was a single mum living in an apartment with a gross roomate and my son, working two jobs, and…

And where do you get this miraculous store brand cereal that has any sort of nutrition or staying power? Face it, cereal is basically cookies in milk (even the ‘healthy’ ones) and a bowl of cereal will stave off hunger for a short time, and nowhere can you get these two items for $3.

It was never a difficult choice for me. I felt relief afterwards. Birth control can fail, and raising a kid is damn expensive and time consuming, and not everyone wants that in their lives. Now that I’m menopausal, it’s not a worry for me, but it makes me even more of an activist for the women out there who don’t have…

Old timer here - still have the vhs tapes. Start from the beginning; it’s a slow start but two eps in and you’ll be hungry for more. Remember that it’s a product of it’s time, so some jokes will be dated. If you are not familiar with English humor some of it will seem strange, but yes, stick with it.

My body is going to SCIENCE! I don’t know which place or how yet, but that’s what I want. I don’t want to burden my only son (and few loved ones) with the ‘arrangements’ so it will have to be a place where they dispose of my remains, and no one else has to deal with it. I had an old family, catholic family who were…

Agreed. Christmas (or Yule, as it was called in my house) changed when my husband at the time, and my sister both agreed that the gift giving was a pain in the ass and meaningless. Gifts for the children, and then, not so many as to confound them, or as one year, my ex and I bought satellite TV (this was back when it…

Interesting that you bring that up, because yes, that’s how the pictures in our menu at the ice cream place I worked did it. Mashed potatoes, heavily coloured. This was back in the early 80’s, and my shop left what was once a big franchise to go independent, and we actually had green tea ice cream once in a while. I’d…

gah, I hate libertarians like that. One of the reasons I quit facebook was they were always picking fights with me, but couldn’t disscuss their views in a coherent manner. I would say what you said above, only to be told some non sequitor about politician A or B was immoral.

<<It is also, to date, the only car I’ve ever owned that caught fire.>>

No, it’s usually shitty people who want something for nothing, or people in it to try to debase honest working folks. I know Pinkham doesn’t like poop or vomit stories, but those same kind of people get off on messing up a bathroom or dining area because they get off on knowing that someone has to clean it up. Someone…

Hi there. I have been actually poor; making drop biscuits ramen eating poor, going through trashcans poor, while raising a hungry teenage boy by myself. It doesn’t matter that I have worked in restaurants, it doesn’t matter that we would go hungry at night sometimes, or had to wait in a line starting at 5 in the…

On the same note, I work at an airport that has a couple of bars. When flights get delayed, people drink. I like a drink myself before flying, helps take the edge off of the idea that I’m going to be in a tin can in the air. What sucks is that if the delays push further ahead, there’s more booze being consumed, and…