Ah I made a similar mistake, wondering if the spikes or the center of the curling iron were the hot part. I solved this by laying a finger flat along (surprise!) the hot metal center of my mom’s 80s curling iron. She finally threw it out around the time it turned 30 because it exploded sparks “too often.” Not just one…

Ugh cosigned and sorry. I take amazing care of my teeth, always have, and they're still literally falling apart. I'm not even quite 30 yet. If it weren't so expensive it wouldn't be quite so traumatic, but YIKES it's bad enough to lose your teeth without having to spend thousands of dollars to mitigate the damage.

Noooo I love Common Ground! Take it back! Children trying to start kindling fires, people in giant fruit costumes, being told garlic is a natural birth control...

Growing up my parents would rent a cabin somewhere in the northern part of our state for a week every summer. It was the early years of online listings (but you had to contact the owner by phone/email) and somehow my mom agreed to rent a place despite the owner declining to share photos. It was....bad. Small, dingy…