As I’ve said in a couple other threads over time, my parents were the absolute BEST at educating me about money and I can’t thank them enough for that. I grew up with a weird perspective...we lived in a small house, took reasonable vacations (driving to the beach 8-12 hrs away) and had a mix of blue collar and white…

Yeah, but unless you’ve experienced it its hard to explain. You totally can go through life like that without actually realizing how rich you are. My mom makes better than a quarter million dollars a year and I went to a private school where mine was one of the poorest families. I look back on it and go, holy shit…

It’s amazing how the words “we can’t afford that” get stuck in a kid’s brain. I think most of us heard that to one degree or another growing up, but it meant vastly different things for all of us - and we all took different meanings than what our parents intended in a lot of cases, too, I think.

I don’t know if Blue Ivy understands yet that her family is “special.” She is a very little kid and has lived a rarified existence, so it’s likely that she thinks everyone lives this way. I imagine it’ll be quite some time before she understands the broader world and her family’s place in it.

Second grade. Opened my lunchbox midyear to find half a bologna sandwich, a gherkin pickle, and an empty cup to get water from the fountain. I was like, “Huh. We’re POOR.” Then I shrugged and hightailed it to the playground.

I always took it as a legitimate evolution of character.

There is one all-singin’ all-dancin’ celebration of Stockholm Syndrome (in the Wild West). It’s actually painful to watch nowadays:

Most fairy tales are pretty fucked up, given that they started out as cautionary adages. It’s just that Beauty and the Beast has managed to make it through to the current century more or less intact in comparison to the more watered-down versions of Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty that we have today. Sleeping Beauty, in…

Chez Lindsay/Nostalgia Chick made a better argument that it wasn’t, in that Belle leaves when given the chance and only comes back because the town is attacking.

Fair question!

He walked by me once in Budapest, can confirm he smells fantastic

I worked at Lenny’s record label during the 90's and met him a number of times. Super nice guy. Smelled good too, even post-concert.

And in case you need something stronger; here’s this...puppy? cub? pub? cuppy?

Good to see he’s moving on from Heidi Klum

honest question: do you watch many Warriors games? Draymond Green is one of the 2-3 best defensive players in the NBA, and is also somehow top 10 in the league in assists as a power forward. He does everything out there.

What’s with the snark? Emily Weiss has built her company from the ground up, it’s hugely succesful, and the products are actually good (their concealer is seriously the best I’ve ever tried, and I’ve tried them all, including the super expensive Clé de Peau, I also love the serums). She asks from input from her…

Puzder is reportedly “very tired of the abuse...”

Instead, she got beat down by Matt Lauer, who responded to her usual word soup with, “Kellyanne, that makes no sense.”

I think it suggests that everybody is different and has different experiences with marriage and with everything else.

Married for almost a decade. Not so hard. Maybe because I didn’t rush into it until I was older. Two marriages dunzo by 32 is suggesting something.