For me, the worst of it is the people hand-wringing over retail employees not getting to spend the holidays with their faaaaaaaamily. What about waitstaff, gas station staff, grocery store staff, and movie theater staff? Do they not have families?

*cough* I am calm neglected to post the link;

You snuck in before me!

When do you think it’s “too late” for a career switch-up, if ever? I’m a lawyer in his early 30s who just started an administrative role in a company that deals in an industry that I’m very interested in. On one hand I feel very lucky to get my foot in the door, on the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether taking…

I’m damn glad for Black Friday appliance sales because my 20 year old oven decided to not work reliably yesterday. We got it on long enough to make me rolls, bit that’s it. There’s a burner on the stove that also hasn’t been reliable for a long time.

I’m just wondering if I need to pull the plug entirely.

Gorgeous!

i don’t even give a shit about thanksgiving. my extended family is 9 hours away, my kids are both under 3, my husband hates seeing stress tears in my eyes and we made the executive decision to avoid obligatory joy. that includes avoiding obligatory consumerism. i’ve been wearing pajamas since wednesday and i am in.…

I’ve worked 36.5 hours out of the last 50 hours and I have 6 hours left on my shift and I am SO. TIRED.

(no, I don’t work retail, and this is partially self inflicted because I wanted to help make sure some of my coworkers who regularly work 80 hours/week had some family time, but still, so tired.)

I’d posted on a Saturday night social months ago about my husband treating me poorly, and a number of commenters guessed he was having an affair. Recently, I found a treasure trove of evidence of multiple infidelities going back years. I calmly collected copies for myself and my lawyer and moved out the following…

She’s a gorgeous beauty queen.

Preach! I host Thanksgiving. One year my sister wanted to go to a Thursday midnight sale to get a jump start on Xmas gifts. JE, I caught a nasty 24 hour flu from some Typhoid Marco in those stores! She left the next day and I was stuck on the couch cursing my bad luck. Never again.

Hello Rebecca! Are you still around? All I want for Christmas is to be ungrayed! It’s the first present I’ve asked for in years.

Yeah, I tend to agree. I’ve never even been that badly off and I generally wait for the known sales events to make major purchases. I’ve noticed though that things like sales shopping, coupon-clipping and thrifting are considered to be smart and thrifty if you already have money. If you actually need to be doing those…

Yeah, there is a certain judgey “These people are so materialistic!” classist vibe from some people when discussing it. Not like the folk with 2 cars and and an accountant doing their tax avoidance...

To answer the question: yes, absolutely, as long as we’re talking about online Black Friday. I’m not willing to bludgeon a woman with my purse for a cheap TV.

Someone on Twitter made a really nice thread about how people shouldn’t be judged for going out on Black Friday especially low income families because they use BF to get things they otherwise couldn’t afford. Myself personally I just can’t turn down a good sale which is why I went out yesterday to get a bunch of…

And my point is that these insanely high consequences never happen. Nobody gives a shit. The theater managers are getting blowjobs in the storage room from one of their 17 year old employees. The people that take your ticket are about as likely to care about what ticket you bought as they are what movie you’re going…

I do this all the time. Lots of people do.