I’ve been cutting and dying my own hair for several years. Saves me tons of money. I do have the advantage of thick and curly hair so it sort of covers any “mistakes” that may happen. (I also don’t need to cut in a perfectly straight line since the curls dry at uneven lengths anyway.) But yeah, it grows back so if you…

The first time I remember gaming the system was also dinner time vegetable subterfuge. My father had a graded vegetable system. The older you were the less you had to eat. I was alright with most, but brussel sprouts were my nemesis. I was 8 and had to eat 8 of them! My initial plan of putting brussel sprouts into my…

We’re in a big neighborhood development with a property management company so no painting at all. :( We have maintenance and pest control that come in once a month too so you can’t quite hide it.

I’ve heard a bit about this technique before. Might be time to really give it a whirl.

I really love the idea of wallpapering a few accent walls in my place. But...I’m a renter. Are there any wallpaper types that are super easy to remove?

I’ve been doing more and more yoga as well. Would like to add in some weight training but my gym is small and the weight area is always so filled up! Can’t seem to find the right time to get in there.

I’m about in the same boat. I took up running lightly a few years ago and did really love it. I did 2.5 miles almost every day in the evening for a couple years. And then the weird arthritic feeling started in my feet first thing in the morning. Like painful to take my first steps of the day. And then the, I’m…

If I didn’t already have 3 bank accounts, I’d consider it hah. I’m an old so I spreadsheet my checking balance and my vaca budgets. But, I mark the money that goes to vaca as out of the balance. The vaca budget sheets are even kept in a separate “travel” folder so that the saved amount doesn’t linger where I can see…

“What if you had $1,500 in your bank account, but you told yourself and all of your friends that you only had $500?”

That $5 coffee was such a seemingly little thing in my budget. But was super easy to dump when I realized my priority was vacations. $5 a day adds up to a couple of round trip domestic flights or an over seas flight every year. There was the money that I thought I didn’t have in my budget.

When my anxiety disorder finally came to a giant ptsd/depression/multiple panic attacks a day boiling over (in my mid-20’s) and I managed to suss out a doctor and get put on some medication....the first thing I noticed as the drugs kicked in was just how physically sick I had felt before. It had not occurred to me…

I have a walk to the bus after work and then a 10 minute ride. I try to use that time to decompress. This includes sometimes not even listening to music or browsing the internet or reading. Just sitting and turning the brain off for a few minutes. (I’ve also been working on doing this in the morning on the way to…

I got one of the original customer test machines a few years ago. I filled out a form on line that said what I would use it for and UPS dropped off this magic, mysterious box about a week later.

“but under the aire of business it’s almost like a formal scripting.”

I am super lucky to have the support of my boss and co-workers. I have heard so much that is not the case at Walmart. I think anyone would get anxiety had they not even had it before working there. I hope your situation gets better and that you find something better!!

That was a big part of customer training I’ve had over the years. Nothing sets a customer off more than to try to calm them down. Get on their level. Listen. It gets them the attention they need and sort of makes them realize how escalated they are. Of course, there are always situations where you need to escalate to…

We have a really great variety of visitors! Its an aspect of the job I really love. On any given day I might meet someone from Germany or New Zealand or Japan or people who’ve never been to a museum or people who make it a mission to hit all the museums. The best thing, and the thing that gives me some hope for…

Yup, you can think of other coworkers and other departments in almost every type of job as “customers.”

That is just bizarre! There’s no way she was trained to talk that way.

It came up in conversation with a bartender friend several years ago. He felt like he was almost literally on stage since he was stuck behind the bar with everyone watching him.