I did the same thing with my husband! I was like “I know I said I didn’t want to get married but I do so if you want to let’s do that but if you don’t I need to decide if I’m okay with that.”

Mine was not romantic. It was after a few drinks on a weekend night and I just blurted out, “So, I know we talked about not ever getting married but I changed my mind and decided it’s important to me that we’re married so if you want to get married we should do that but if you don’t want to get married I need to…

The thing that gets me is when I wear completely appropriate clothing to my grown up well-paying professional job that WOULDN’T be in dress code. Somehow my male coworkers are able to work without being distracted by my clothing choices, a downright miracle.

I do the laundry so hubs doesn’t shrink ALL MY CLOTHES (really only my fave things. Always my fave things), empty the dishwasher, and pick up because my husband’s idea of “tidying” is “Imma take all this mail in these carefully sorted piles and sweep them into a shopping bag and stick it in the closet.”

Fiji here as well!

Fiji here as well!

This seems... problematic? Like “I’m Beyonce and I”m flawless but to be MORE flawless limit your diet.”

I’m embarrassed by how many wine keys I’ve had confiscated (1. why do I carry so many cork screws on my person?! 2. It’s the little tiny foil cutter that gets them confiscated, not the actual pointy cork screw!), but am always amused by what I find on the other side by accident. Matches! Lighters! Lotions! etc.

This was like a month (maybe - 2 or 3 weeks?) after the liquids rule went into effect, so that probably didn’t help.

Actually you’re technically limited to 1 1-qt clear bag/person to “limit the total volume of liquids” or some other nonsense.

You do: http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-infor… They don’t enforce it any where near as strictly as they used to (thanks, TSA agent who took my $30 tube of mascara - my ONLY liquid - because it wasn’t in a ziplock bag!), but for the cost of what I’m bringing I don’t want to risk losing it to an overzealous TSA agent.

But fitting all those tiny bottles in the ziplock is where I lose it.

Right after hearing about this book I gave about $1k worth of really, REALLY nice/beautiful/luxury yarn I’d accumulated working for a craft business to a colleague who most likely wouldn’t be able to splurge on that type of yarn and was just really really getting into knitting. I wouldn’t get rid of the yarn because…

Ugh, same here. Who uses a base coat?!

At my last office we had no desk storage and all sat at long tables so there were no places to even put tampons besides on your desk. I just left a zip pouch of them in the women’s room, and eventually we got a basket in there for everyone’s zip pouches. Occasionally someone would steal from your stash but sometimes…

I’m growing out my hair so it’s in a weird in-between stage right now that I forever pull back but when it was short my saving grace was a more textured cut that could look intentionally messy that I could style with a little bit of spray wax/texturing spray.

I’m a member of this club too! Even now, a decade later with both of us being married, when I’m going to be in the same city as he is he’s always like “hey, wanna hang out? ps i’m still in love with you” and I’m all “YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME.”

My husband and I didn’t really have a wedding because he was very anti-them, so this advice, grain of salt, etc, but maybe instead of being like “THESE ARE THINGS I AM SUPREME LORD OVER...and you get these ciao!” you could do more of the initial planning and maybe have like 3 options for each “piece” of the wedding…

I first started hearing of the book right after I cleaned out my closet basically in the method recommended in the book. I kept the things I wear everyday and will continue to wear everyday, but there is still a solid chunk of my closet that is highly impractical and will rarely be worn but those clothes bring me so…

I asked my husband last night where my wife bonus was, and he reminded me of two important things:

My husband doesn’t blink an eye at anything I wear ever, save for the Crocs. The Crocs come out and it is a holy war.