If I remember correctly, Martha Plimpton also introduced Patton Oswald to his current wife as well. She really has a knack for matchmaking.

I think that was also the loan that was at 120% or something, so it actually made sense. He’s an idiot doomed to fail and you’re going to get like 3 times the money back from the loan. 

I guess maybe part of it is that he preyed on people who were desperate to be part of the “in crowd.” That’s the only selling point I can see for that credit card bullshit. And that Frye app for booking major acts was like a totally insane idea. In fact, the Frye Festival probably the least doomed to fail idea he had…

I’ve been watching the Hulu Frye doc, and I have to say — I don’t understand how anyone who worked with Billy MacFarland didn’t think they were getting scammed all along. Like, I have very little sympathy for the rich white kids who showed up to a festival and realized they weren’t going to get the perfect social…

I have to use both a wake up lamp and a meditation alarm set to go off 20 minutes before the lamp. And I have to place the lamp across the room. And a third of the time I don’t make it up on time anyway. 

Many of those furloughed workers still have to get up, take their kids to school, make sure shit gets done. 

I’m an extrovert who likes being the center of attention, and I wouldn’t even like a public proposal at a restaurant or a bar. I’d prefer either something private or something with a few some of our close friends. I remember a few years ago someone I knew had like a crazy over the top public proposal that tons of…

This is the only thing I was thinking: HOW can someone spend $27K on junk food? I’m pretty sure if all you ate was junk food for every meal, like Buddy in Elf, it still wouldn’t add up to $27K. 

There’s so much about the Tidying Up books and series in general that reminds me of the 12 step philosophy (and I think it’s not surprise that a lot of people I know who have read her books are in recovery and former addicts). People resist the steps, try to pick at why they’re stupid and don’t make sense, but once…

It’s the only way RtR is worth it to me. 

Over time, I decided selling shit is usually more trouble than it’s worth. I now only sell to the Buffalo Exchange, and only for credit, and only before I’m about to take a trip to a city with a really cool Buffalo Exchange. Then that becomes added to my shopping allowance for that trip. Plus, the fact that I’m…

For me it was that he clearly had a higher expectation for home cleanliness than his wife did (which is fine) but refused to make any kind of effort to reach that. For any situation where you live with other people, you must decide: is it more important to you to live in a place that 100% meets your cleanliness…

People also make fun of her “thanking the object before you let it go” thing, and I did too in the beginning, then the other day I was decluttering my living room and had a shit ton of crafts I made or started that really had no use of purpose, but I hated the idea of throwing them out. Then finally I was like “you…

Rent the Runway does sales of dresses they’re taking out of rotation. I’ve gotten some great keepers that way. 

My boyfriend worked all kind of service jobs and he told me that on a first date he’d pay special attention to how his date treated the service staff at whatever place they were. I am very conscious of how I treat wait staff, probably too conscious. There have been several times where I was like “oh wait staff have it…

I stumbled on this article a while ago that pretty much convinced me that eating meat is no worse for the planet that eating vegetables. It’s not so much what we choose to raise as food, meat or veggies, that impacts the planet negatively, but how we raise it. Using natural grasslands for grazing animals is much…

I think people see the show where folks are like KonMaring their entire life in a week and think it’s overwhelming, but you don’t have do it that way! You can like pick a thing and just do that. I do my closet probably 2-3 times a year. I just did one drawer in my coffee table and a few shelves on the side of my…

It’s just an eyeroll inducing statement when someone says “X isn’t a diet, it’s a lifestyle!” That basically applies to anything. 

Literal definition of a diet: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason 

Frankly, it is completely worth it for me to leave 5 trash bags outside for some donation service to pick up than the $30 odd I might get from trying to sell it. I’d probably pay someone $30 just to get rid of the crap, so why bother trying to sell it? (unless you honestly have something you think is worth serious…