Fellow poor/rural kid here. I lived in a microscopic town in Indiana and this is absolutely where I had to buy clothes/food/everything else. Even when I moved to DE, it was still the primary option, as I lived in a really rural part. When I moved to a city to do grad work, I was surprised by all the elitist snobbery…

I grew up in a rural town - the nearest Walmart was 30 minutes away on the highway. You had to drive 2 hours over a mountain (not always passable in the winter) to get to a mall. There was definitely an element of privilege and wealth for the people who could afford to buy non Walmart clothing.

Where do you think the hand me downs were purchased from? For alternatives yes  in the summer and spring time there are garage sales. Rare if ever are they in the fall or winter. And I don’t know what small town you’re from, but it has to pretty big to support an actual thrift store, one that’s open all year at…

I don’t shop at Walmart mucheither—I live in a high density neighborhood of Houston (we exist!). However, I work in southern Louisiana on occasion where it is the only game in town, and there is just no way it can be avoided. I also think that if you look at companies that have devastated small retailers, Walmart is a…

Ah the luxury of having never bought an item from Walmart. You obviously have never lived in a small town with poor parents, and the only place for 30 miles is a Walmart. In rural areas, it’s a necessity.

MODCLOTH IS A WALMART BRAND?????

But even she hasn’t properly turned on him. Her regret is that she voted for him, not that she didn’t vote for HRC. She’s upset that Trump has been doing what he said he’d do, she wishes he was nicer, she doesn’t wish his opponent had been elected.

What infuriates me is that what she learned from all of this is that she thinks she shouldn’t have voted at all. Really? With hindsight, you don’t wish you had exercised your right to vote for someone whose administration probably wouldn’t have ended up encouraging the type of ICE deportations that resulted in tearing…

I feel bad for him. But her? Screw that. She should have listened to him more carefully, or, you know, not drunk the Kool-Aid and done some research. The only good thing to come of this is that maybe, just maybe, people like this will turn on him in 2020.

It can be awkward, but I feel like using existing English words that are understood by all is a lot better than bumbling around with ze and hir or whatever. And you’ve probably already used a singular “they” at least once this week without thinking about it — e.g., “somebody left their mug in the sink” or “that troll…

It’s really not, when you get used to it. My friend’s partner goes by they and them, and sure, the first few times talking to my friend it was a bit odd but after a little while it just becomes second nature. So, a typical conversation might be “Hey, how was your visit out to see [John]? They doing well? How’s their…

While reading this article I was struck by how... inaccessible some of these goals are for a majority of the population.

IDK, as far as the book goes, I found pennywise pretty damn creepy from the moment he said hi to Georgie. And really, people know he is the penultimate scary clown already at this point, so why not show a little menace in the trailer

I do not like scary things except for Stephen King. It is a bit of an exception but quite often dumb/greedy/corrupt people are the real villains in his books, all wrapped up in supernatural packaging.

This is good! Now if they would just dump Elmo, who trivializes and annoys in every scene he’s in, which seem to be most of them. Or did back when I couldn’t take any more of him and stopped watching.

This is us too. 2 school aged kids and carpool, homework and one after school activity per kid per semester, plus both of us working. We cook (most days), clean, do laundry and shop ourselves (although mostly myself). Kids have chores. Last night after hour 3 of 5th grader homework I had to lay in a dark room for 7…

Absolutely. I understand what you mean. I love my husband and kids life is really very nice, I signed up for all of this. But, it still really sucks and is exhausting and hard a lot of the time right now. And you really are a champion for having two under two. Seriously. It’s such hard work. Please know at least one…

And you feel guilty that any time you spend doing one thing is time not spent doing something else. Time spent cleaning is time not spent cooking a nutritious family-friendly meal is time not spent working out to “get your figure back” after the recent baby is time not spent playing Legos with the older kid is time…

Can we stop with the whole “ur doin it to urself” thing please? Sure, there are probably upwards of several hundred couples in Manhattan who are both employed, with young children, who have attempted to craft a Halloween costume out of mason jars and pallets, but that really isn’t life for most of us (admittedly…

Yes, exactly. I sometimes think it’s a big of an urban legend about the kids who are in all of these activities. My older son is in boy scouts - and we skip the majority of the boy scout events due to time. My younger son does nothing because he’s a pre-schooler and I figure he gets enough socialization and exercise…