Calling your colorist on it while she’s working her craft. You’re remarkably brave.

I find it hard to be terribly sad about Sir Lee. He was an awesome person and gave me personally phenomenal amounts of entertainment.

He will be missed but I would choose to celebrate an amazing life over being sad.

I mean, you think being gay is super bad and it’s a sin, okay. You think it’s super awful that people who “choose” to be gay are allowed to get married, okay.

Honestly, fabric counts for more than anything. If it ain’t cotton, silk, linen, wool or other natural fabric, I probably won’t buy it because I know how easily polyester ruins in the wash.

The cheapest casual stuff I have from Sears is mostly 5+ years old and still going strong because it’s 100% cotton fabrics. I…

See, I’ve always just felt like they’re just wonderfully close best friends. And I LOVE that. Cause it is somewhat rare in our society to see male friends who are that damn affectionate with each other. It’s lovely!

I come from very, very Southern people with very clear non-optional social conventions. As such, my people would view this as tacky and grasping. Showers always for the first wedding and the first child. You host them. You don’t complain about it. Finger foods and small talk are awkward and mandatory for all involved,…

Because soliciting donations is weird and tacky unless you’re an actual charity. If you don’t register anywhere, most people will get the hint and give you cash by default (and those that give off-registry physical gifts probably would never have given cash even if asked). You can also spread the word that you’re…

I feel like many bridge designers/labels are now more affordable than J Crew and with better fabrics/construction...something is wrong. If I’m going to spend $400 on something, J Crew would never even cross my mind.

I’m not sure if it’s because people are poor, per se, but because no matter how much J.Crew wants to paint itself as a high end brand, it isn’t. And people aren’t willing to pay $450 for a sweater from a ‘suburban mall brand’ when if they were in the market for that, they’d head over to a designer boutique or Neiman’s.

In general I’m a fan of the guideline that you only invite people to a shower if they are invited to the wedding.

My MIL’s friend is getting remarried in August. They’re both in their 50s, have fully grown children, two homes full of crap and they have a wedding registry. IT’S HUGE. Four different stores!!! And it’s full of ridiculously expensive shit, like a $700 sous vide machine (not joking). My MIL has “forbidden” me from…

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The problem here isn’t that they’re asking for cash, I don’t think, so much as they’re completely skipping the part where you celebrate with your friends and family. They’re being far too open about the fact that they don’t actually care to see any of those people - they just want their money. Which is basically…

Ok what about a shower where the bride is ONLY having her parents/future in-laws/siblings at the wedding? Then on a blog that features her wedding she makes a big deal about wanting “only the people that have been near and dear to her” at her wedding? Tacky.

But that's family and is actually a very clever idea. It's not this impersonal shit.

We don’t do showers in the UK; they’re viewed as grasping and tacky. But if I got an invitation stating no boxed gifts, my gift would be lots of tupperware boxes, individually wrapped.

This is the tackiest, laziest bullshit I have ever seen. And that includes that one bride who castigated a wedding guest for bringing the wrong gift or the one who yelled at the guest who brought the gourmet basket of things that the bride hated the shit out of.

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WHOA. Holly never signed a NDA? I know this is not my best moment, but......