When my son turned 2 got him a large fish tank for his room. Since he was so little and it was just a family party, we said gifts were optional but anyone who wanted to get him something to think about a tank decoration or few pounds on a gift card for the pet shop. Afterwards, he used his gift cards and birthday…

Check that the name on your ticket matches the name on your passport and is spelled correctly. I got an anxious feeling and called the airport the day before a major overseas trip, to check that my flight was still happening as scheduled. The customer service rep looked up my booking information and confirmed a ticket…

It was announced at least a year ago that that a major UK supermarket was going to sell “pit-less” avocados, which were actually ust very imature specimins. The mark-up price was also ridiculous. So far, I don’t think they’ve actually hit the market. The idea might have been dropped, it was widely lampooned.

In my junior year, I asked a school councilor for help because I was self-harming. The school threatened to expell me unless I went to a therapist every week - at my parents’ expense - for the remainder of my time at high school. As an adult, I recognize that this was a gut-reaction to the Columbine shooting as…

That’s really interesting, thank you for sharing it. Whenever I’ve heard complaints about fluoride in water, it’s usually conspiracy theories on the level of government mind control. I didn’t know excressive fluoride could cause a genuine health problem.

My great-grandparents were staunch atheists, but their daughter my nan is devout. When they died, she had them each cremated, which was not what the family did normally, but then buried the urns in the plots where the intact caskets were meant to go. When the last of her aunts and uncles passed and there was no-one…

My Elia tea egg (£19.99 at purchase) and a child-portion mug blazoned with the ridiculous 90s cartoon Street Sharks (50p). I need tea to live, but when my son was born I never had time to drink it before it went cold. The tea egg holds 5 full mugs and keeps liquids hot hours. The junior-size mug is exactly as much tea…

“ATTENTION PREDATORS. I HAVE LAID MY VUNERABLE YOUNG RIGHT HERE”

My chickens live outdoors year-round, sleeping in a coop at night but otherwise out in all weather. The biggest concern is not the cold, but the mud and wet ground. They can develop foot problems if they spend too long walking in mud or water. To combat this, I collect Christmas trees and lay the branches out in the…

It’s safer to simply not refridgerate the egg at all, because once you put an egg in the fridge, you can’t take it out again unless it’s going to be cooked. The change in temperature causes air and moisture to begin to exchange across the permeable shell. This causes spoilage. Because the custom in the UK, where I…

That’s how you distract the guy so you can garrote him with the cord of an ÅRSTID table lamp (special price for IKEA Family members; suits any room)

Twist in the third act, you have to load it up with some Snitsig saucepans

Can we get a Hitman level where you assemble a Billy bookcase and then push it over on someone? Or smother them with an affordable plush broccoli?

Where is the talking dog in God’s plan for us?

Throwing his hat onto the ground while screaming because his ears are frozen.

My two-and-a half year old is very strong willed, but we actually get along just fine because of give and take. One of his biggest sore points used to be getting dressed every morning when he’d rather be naked no matter the weather. So we let him pick his own clothes, as long as he wears a nappy, a top and a bottom.…

My mother-in-law brought a stand mixer to my house one day out of the blue. She said her partner didn’t like it, so they got a different model and would I want this bascially brand new one? It turns out that when it’s on it screams louder than a jet engine. It makes such a din that over the Summer, when windows are…

Phenominal! Looking through old illustrations has become one of my favorite online past-times. There are so many interestng things to be found, I always want to know more.

Can we get gyms removed because our loved ones have short attention spans? There’s one half a block from my our bus stop, and if the bus doesn’t come immediately my wife always assumes she has time to beat it, wanders off, and has to come tearing back at the last minute. I have been tempted at the height of the craze…

Tell me that’s supposed to be Charles Darwin on the cover