It's so hard to give up the mindset that $20 can buy any article of clothing, though. I still slip up and walk out of f21 with a bunch once in a while but I'm also building a good 'nice' wardrobe too.

My rent is through the roof as I live alone in DC. I'm definitely not shopping exclusively at jcrew but I am working on adding fewer good pieces to my wardrobe rather than more shitty ones. I couldn't afford a few hundred on dresses but I'm 22...not sure quite how old the above ladies are, although I know April is…

Same with the H&M (or F21) habit! I am working really hard on letting myself spend $100 on 1 really good quality, versatile piece rather than 5 cheap items that are trendy/such poor quality they wont make it past this season.

I'm newly a young professional and I'm working on being able to spend $100+ on a quality piece (J. Crew, often...sometimes Anthropologie) that can be dressed up or down rather than dumping the same amount of cash on 5+ forever 21 tops that wont last the season. Right now I think I've found kind of a balance between…

Seriously. I bet she still gets carded! She looks fab.

Yeah. I think the only change you'd have to make is if you go to a restaurant that's really big on allergens and avoiding cross contamination (it will usually say it on the menu or the waiter will ask about allergies) you can just ask that your dish contain no nuts for non-allergy reasons. Then it's the same for the…

That's pretty much my exact (22-year-old) body now. And I have that problem too.

I know I am probably the only person on earth who is invested in the real housewives as if they are people I know in real life, but I can't believe they fired Gretchen and Alexis and kept Lydia around. She's very holier-than-thou and boring!

I avoided the 'tane and got on (/am still on) spiro instead. But as long as I can eat all the cheese my little heart desires, I'm happy.

Hmm, interesting! A lot of people are weird about tomatoes — like them in sauces/on pizza but don't like them plain.

Nope! I mean, I suppose in a way vegetarians only contribute to the vegetable half of almost-slave-labor so that's kind of an improvement although I think toiling on a farm might still be harder than working in a slaughterhouse, but that's just a guess as I'm rather uninformed on both (intentionally because I know it…

Same here, I read somewhere that dairy can have an effect on acne—I had mild acne (that still bothered me to no end) and no other dairy intolerance symptoms and definitely didn't think it was worth giving up. I just spent a fuckton on various dermatologists and creams and pills instead. No more acne and still get to…

You don't like veggies? If you don't mind me asking, how do you get all the vegetable nutrients—vitamins?

Agree SO HARD about the gluten thing, but people using allergies to justify food preferences (no matter how severe those preferences are) isn't great either.

While I suppose vegetarianism might be slightly more humane since it only contributes to one industry (crop farming not animal farming), I'm not understanding the arguments you're getting thrown at you that 'well the people aren't slaughtered' as they seem to hinge on the idea that a chicken being 'murdered' is on the…

Woah, sucked down the Roseanne rabbit hole. Throwback!

They DO fight like lovers.

Completely. I just got back from a year there and I felt very safe and not particularly harassed. Perhaps slightly more than here but not as much as one would think the stereotype would be..

Starring your defense of Jodi Picoult. I'm not ashamed to be a fan. Plain Truth!