Non-chlorinated bleach (regionally called “Dry Bleach”) is also great for use in hard/rusty water. We have a lot of iron in the well water locally, and it will quickly ruin clothing, but adding some dry bleach to your loads really stops or lessens that. It also makes your colors pop regardless of what kind of water…

I did that as well as wrote RETURN TO SENDER all over it, after I wrote void on the check in case it fell into someones hands that would try to cash it.

One came for my mother, with the mark ‘DECD” after her name, so they had to know she died. I wrote void on both sides and took a heavy black marker and marked out the name of Tonald Drump on the check for good measure. She hated him, so I knew she would want me to do it.

One of the bright spots of divorce was losing that damn apostrophe.

For really important stuff, in addition to backing up to a separate drive, I email it to myself at one of my various email addresses. Its either in my sent file or my received file and using 2 of my own email addresses ensures it is someplace. Low tech but highly effective.

I would also like to recommend that you pick someone who is capable of making decisions. Some folks simply cannot make decisions, let alone in a crises situation where they may be called on to make life and death decisions. They may love you and care about you, but if they freeze under pressure, it wont be a help.

I was thinking of a baseball catchers face mask. 

Chicken soup (made from the whole chicken-cooked with bones still in) with extra sage.

Chicken soup (made from the whole chicken-cooked with bones still in) with extra sage.

Some parent days are good, some parent days are bad, but treasure each and every one, since they fly by all too quickly.  (Though it doesn’t always feel like it.)

I cant speak for this particular light therapy lamp, (I have a different brand/model) but I can certainly say from years of experience with SAD, that light therapy DOES help.

I cant speak for this particular light therapy lamp, (I have a different brand/model) but I can certainly say from…

Yes. I had a mother in law as well.

That works until the first time you forget your moms birthday, or she doesn’t get a card or at least a call. You will back pedal on this so fast at that point.

I actually inherited a cross over (I have a real SUV of my own) from my mother, who, prior to that car, had several minivans. I wouldn’t have taken a minivan even for free, but the crossover isn’t that awful (mostly for my daughter to drive) and I am not totally embarassed to be seen in it, like I would be in a mini…

According to the Harvard Business Review and the World Health Organization, the drive for “perfect” could be a major cause for recent rises in mental illness and anxiety.

If you read my original comment, you see I mention an In law. Not a one time melt-down, so there is no excuse. Its a pattern of control.

Same thing as anyone who pulls this crap; momentarily the focus was not on him, what he wanted, and how/when he wanted it. Placating these self absorbed jerks only rewards and reinforces the behavior which will happen over and over until someone stands up to them. Why should they change a tactic that works? 

No video blackmail, strictly for my entertainment purposes (and to further piss off the fit thrower) and evidence should I be assaulted.

Its emotional blackmail and flat out manipulation.  If you let them get away with it once, and cave to their demands, they will do it over and over. I have an in law who does this at family gatherings, so I whip out my camera and record it while laughing. This serves to enrage him further, but, quite frankly, I don’t…

Lack of sympathy for people who screw up their own lives over and over making the same mistakes, and never learning from it. I try to be supportive the first few times, but after that, I accept they do not want to learn from their mistakes and I STFU and leave them to fall on their faces.

The only thing more sad than an expired and unused condom is the person who owned it.

The only thing more sad than an expired and unused condom is the person who owned it.