I feel you on the Italian Catholic family. Come Easter I have to gently spread the word to mine that none of them are coming to my wedding, which we’ve decided to make “immediate family and plus ones only.” Taking bets on how many aunts say I’m turning a knife in their hearts.

Bay leaves make things taste better, that’s all I need to know. I like to add a couple to the milk for my mac and cheese while it’s heating up and the pasta is cooking. It’s fantastic.

Yum! Biscuits made with cheese and pepper are awesome for egg sandwiches. I like to use the King Arthur flour “2-ingredient” biscuit base for mine. It sounds crazy but it works. All you do is take self-rising flour and add in heavy cream, stir, and it makes amazing biscuit dough. Add in pepper and shredded cheese and…

Unfortunately that’s prime real estate, and the land is worth much more to them than the cost of repairing the buildings.

Haha, that’s fantastic.

I get it but the most vulnerable people overlap with “people who don’t have the means to move to a better place.”

Could have used this guide back when I was a scout, lol.

The material is much softer than a regular sponge, that’s why it’s so gentle on your face. The first time I put one on my skin it was like omg, so soft. That said, I wouldn’t get the one at that link. I don’t like paying more than $5 for one.

Try an exfoliating product, often just making sure you are removing the top layer of dead skin cells will clear up ingrowns, or if you have and are still not getting the results you want, check out the brand Bliss, they make a treatment for this.

If you’re a Sephora person they almost always have the little sizes of these on the website if not in-store, that’s how I first tried them :)

For dry patches, I have 2 suggestions for you at 2 different price points. These are things that have saved my skin at times when it’s been freaking out, like after I had a horrible reaction to another face product (freaking Clinique, bah humbug), or when I accidentally over-exfoliated. The Nude Progenius Omega…

That sounds similar to one of my issues - glasses. There are actually 2 breakout triggers there - the possibility of bacteria going from the mask to your skin, and the constant pressure of the device. The solution to the bacteria is to clean the mask daily which it sounds like you’re doing. But as far as I know…

Excellent article! Like with any other skincare product the process of finding just the right one for you can take a long time and a lot of trial and error. My current holy grail is the black charcoal cleanser from Boscia.

I suspect filing separately is going to become more and more common because of student loans (specifically income and household size based repayment). My fiance and I are actually contemplating delaying our wedding by several years because of this. Getting married would just be a really bad financial move for us…

Excuse me, sir (ma’am, whatever), but that very esteemed fellow whose picture is at the top of this article did not spent 8 years in medical school to hear that from the likes of you! That’s David the Gnome, MD, thank you very much.

Oh, man, that’s fucked up :(

Number one, they’re shaped like girls, unlike Barbies (which, of course you must also be anti-Barbie, right?). Second, of course you can play with them! Anything you can do with any other doll you can do with these. They’re plastic, not porcelain. I have fond memories of building things for them, making new clothes…

Hahaha. Ok. Insert Jennifer Lawrence gif here.

That’s life though, isn’t it. I mean, I also remember how much I wanted one of the full sized dolls (because no, having just the small one wasn’t the same at all, obviously) and how much I obsessed over that whole rich girl lifestyle, too. But in the ranking of things that hurt me being a poor kid it’s still pretty…

I remember that dress! I liked Samantha’s better. That little fur muff was adorable. I also lived in permanent envy of Kirsten’s blond hair, and her braided updo.