I paid for my bridesmaids' dresses, and when I was a bridesmaid, the bride paid for my dress. However: She had only ever been a bridesmaid in MY wedding, so she might very well have gotten the idea that it was de rigeur because I'd done it.

Having a flat of water bottles in your fridge is actually a good way to keep your power bills down, because the more space that is filled inside the fridge the longer it takes for the temperature inside your fridge to rise enough for the fridge's motor to come on. Water bottles specifically make sense for this…

I picked essentially a rando at a party. It was fine, and it did help me feel more normal, even though I was 17 and most of my friends were virgins anyway. I think it will be fine for you to sleep with an old friend. As for what you should do to prepare? Whatever makes you feel hot, honestly. If you can find a bra and…

Same reasons as everyone else, except I had to stop because when I was 15 my arms broke out in infected ingrown hairs that wouldn't heal and kept getting re-infected. It got really hard glossing over why I was wearing long sleeves in June. When I bleach my arm hair it looks really pretty though.

Having actual construction trade gear, like leather tool holsters etc. available in pink makes really good sense to me, since when my husband was working in his trade the other guys were always jacking each others stuff. If you're a woman trades person, you're likely the only woman on site, and if your stuff is all…

I think I would have tried to press charges on the fetus chucker, just for the fun of explaining to a cop that you were assaulted with a rubber fetus.

I call my little kid George. She says she'd never ever want to change her name.

I used to get walk throughs and bike throughs at the drive through when I worked at Tim Hortons. The problem is that the speaker is activated by the weight of a vehicle person or a horse or a bicycle doesn't weigh enough or have the right weight distribution to activate the speaker to take your order. Not an issue at…

I haven't been attacked, but on mild spring and fall days an enormous murder of crows like to hang out in the trees in my back yard. It's so many that it looks like the crows are leaves, and the noise is like the sound effects from The Birds. It's extremely eerie.

I like unusual but not soap opera-y names, and that is where I differ from the people who think i'm despicable for wanting to use that name. Otis is a great name, btw. I might put it on my boys name list, actually.

Everyone is disgusted with me that I want to name my current fetus Ursula. Disgusted. But it's a freaking amazing name!

One of my cousins' has a very noticeable facial birthmark over half of her face, and If the Operetta doll had existed when we were kids, I bet it would have made her feel beautiful, or at the very least helped the other kids see her that way.

90% of the time I'm really nice to religious people who want to tell me about Jesus, but the ones who talk to me are usually adorable Mormons, and the fellow you described sounds frightening, and unbalanced. One of the best things that has worked for me is telling pushy religious people that I was raised Atheist, and…

Some smells will go if you just let the item sit in the sunshine for a few days. Alternately you could try a liberal spraying with vinegar.

I had a pig! He was lovely, affectionate, and inquisitive, but sometimes played rough. He liked getting brushed, and being slathered with sunscreen and he hated being alone when we were at work or school. He was also very clean, and only pooped in specific areas of his enclosures.

There are options if you're afraid to walk down an aisle.

A weave is a hair piece or hair pieces that are basically sewn into ones existing hair. They can be made of human hair or synthetics. They're popular among women with textured hair because chemical straighteners can damage hair to the point that a weave is the only way to achieve long hair. Weaves are not just a US…

Well, you can't have a wedding without bananas...

upon seeing this, I just changed the name of my husbands' most frequently used folder to "definitely not porn". So, thanks!

I need to vent. It's been 54 days since my last period. I have in the last couple years had cycles ranging anywhere from 27 days to 74 days, so this is not outside the norm. When my period finally starts I am to call my Ob-Gyn so she can schedule 2 hysterosalpingograms. This entails injecting dye through my cervix and…