Tons of other stones that are more beautiful than diamonds, and conflict free. My home state of North Carolina has it’s own emerald, though it’s expensive. Other states have their own gems, often cheaper than diamonds.

Like others have said, the park has a special rule that lets visitors take home their finds. That’s actually the main tourism appeal of some of these sites. My parents used to pan for sapphires in a similar one elsewhere in the country. My dad got the nicest of the bunch when he was by himself and had it made into a…

No, you can take them home at this particular park because it has special rules allowing it. There are a few mining/geology-type parks around the country that let you keep your finds like that, though I think this is the only diamond one.

I’m from Arkansas and wanted a conflict-free diamond for my wedding ring. Bonus points from it being in my home state and all. Guess what...those muhfuckers are hella expensive. It would have cost less for me to fly to Africa and spend 6 months in a mine my dang self to find a certified conflict-free rock. I plan on…

I do meal plans but with two adults who work more than 40/hrs and two kids with activities, homework, etc - Sunday is about the only day I have to grocery shop. A lot of these tips don’t work if you don’t have the free time necessarily to shop at multiple stores/ on more than one day or on the right day.

Don’t care that it’s not even 10 AM, this is going in my face

Nah. There’s stronger evidence for the safety of aspartame than for the ace-K they’re replacing (part of) it with.

Certainly not sugar! Just organic dried molasses hand-picked by unicorns.

Well, it doesn’t taste as much like ass. So there’s always that.

I had a 2 liter Diet Pepsi habit for a very long time. When I went cold turkey, I had a caffeine withdrawal headache for a few days, but that was the only affect. None of my health issues resolved themselves, I didn’t feel any different for lack of Diet Pepsi and aspertame.

Cassie?

fuck yeeeeeh more TEQUILA COCKTAILS.

Tequila is my lifesblood. I think that in about 40 minutes when I get to leave this hellhole, I’m going to imbibe in some.

KENS GETTIN’ LOOSEY GOOSEY TANIGHT FOLKS

I have to say, Timothy Dalton in this film is one of the finest performances of any actor ever on screen.

This is an acceptable criticism. And yet, I don’t question the Kool-Aid man. He has his reasons.

Let me save some nerds a lot of time...

The trick is, if you are looking for long term weight loss (and keeping the weight off)... muscle mass burns more calories than fat when you are just sitting still...

So building muscle bulk, at least early on, will help accelerate and maintain weight loss.

I would find this all really hilarious if it weren’t for the bit in the middle where there is a whiff of maybe an eating disorder that makes me terribly sad for her.

Ugh...Mr. Bubble? I can just feel myself getting a UTI looking at it. When I was a kid, it was no bueno...like putting Tide in the tub.

Literally 100% of this is going on my Wishlist.