If you have a freezer and a bit of storage, Costco can still be a good deal. I did plenty of shopping there when we lived in a one bedroom apartment. We’d freeze meat in portions (the chicken already comes that way) and buy shelf stable stuff from tomato paste to toothpaste to dried fruit without crowding our space.…

The elections in 2008 and 2012 mean fuck all when the House of Delegates is elected in off and off off year elections that those voters don’t turn out for. The Virginia House is possibly the most garbage gerrymandered map in the country, but it got that way because not enough people vote.

The great thing about Netflix and Amazon Prime is no endless commercials for junk food and toys. That alone is worth the price of the subscription.

I grew up in North Jersey, so I remember his unchanging commercials running endlessly on cable instead.

Yeah, my husband’s been great. My mom too.

I did tell my extended family because I was already showing enough to tell, this having been my second pregnancy. I didn’t want to show up at Christmas and make it all about my news, and the odds of miscarriage after checking it out by ultrasound at about 8 weeks are fairly low.

I’m sorry it was like that for you. I’m lucky enough to have a three old, and this pregnancy felt so different and not symptomatic my first I felt weird about it even after having an ultrasound where I heard the heartbeat and got the pictures. I knew something was wrong. In a way, it was a relief that I was not crazy.

Same. I had a miscarriage two days ago. Would have been twelve weeks tomorrow if it had worked out.

Betty is a nice name, but putting a nickname on a birth certificate is my all time number one naming pet peeve.

I bought the expensive digital one after a couple of super cheap ones gave me such faint positives I thought they could have been evaporation lines.

I absolutely used to get their disposable cameras in my stocking every year. I tended to use them sporadically, lose them for a while, and finish the roll months or years later, leading to a really strange assortment of pictures when I finally got them developed. I found a half used one in a filing cabinet last time I…

I was just going to say that. It’s still funny today that he was and remains that upset.

I think it was quite good initially, but “Hannah gets a big opportunity and fucks it up, but there aren’t any real consequences” can only go so far before you can’t stand her.

I watched two episodes, I think, long enough to see the fake out shooting. I thought it was cool they killed off one of the big names, but as soon as I found out that wasn’t the case, I stopped watching.

He could write them off as a business expense though.

I have family members who give scratch offs on what would otherwise be a just a card occasion. We’re all adults, it’s more fun than gift cards for coffee, so I like it.

The thing that gets me is, if I wanted to be naughty, the first thing I would do is touch the elf so that he couldn’t narc on my to Santa. And you know kids touch it when their parents aren’t looking to test the story. The whole thing is really flawed.

Santa crisis is a crock of shit. By the time kids are old enough to stop believing, they’ve known for a while. My brother tortured my mom one year when she couldn’t find some particular Power Ranger by telling her Santa would bring it. He coerced her into telling him there was no Santa just to be a little bastard.

My aunt got one for my son for his birthday recently. Her grandkids are really into their elf, and I felt like I had to put the elf out because it will probably come up at Christmas.

It’s not the dollar bills at this point. Unrestrained 2nd Amendment extremism has become one of the hallmarks of Republicanism along with being anti choice and sticking it to “those people.” The NRA could close up shop tomorrow and nothing would change. You still would not be able to find a Republican of any…