I wish I had a dollar for every time I was not invited to a “couples” event - cuz you know it would be so uncomfortable to have a single person messing up the “couples” vibe with all that stuff that only they understand.

Haha I just found all my thank you cards (while spring cleaning) from my wedding 6 years ago. That I forgot to mail out! WHOOOOOOPS. Just how classy would it be to mail them now?!

Nobody is arguing that buying a small gift is a Herculean task. But what if you were expected to buy presents for every green-eyed person you know, over time, but because you have brown eyes, nobody would ever fete you in the same way? Buying a single present for a green-eyed friend isn’t a huge burden. But after the…

when one of my friends had her second shower, it was really just a diaper party... they didn’t need any stuff except diapers and wipes, and it was just a really fun pizza party with no stupid baby games (the games at any shower are the WORST)

I’m not married and have been in/to a bunch of weddings. Once one girl in the friend group gets married it sets off this whole chain reaction of comparisons. I gave Alice three separate gifts so I don’t feel bad inviting her to five showers! Laura made us buy the ugliest dresses so how dare she refuse to come to my…

Maybe I can throw myself a house warming when I move into the facility for destitute spinsters.

We have a deal! My opinion of Honeyfund has been intensely negatively colored by my experience of a couple of former friends of mine making a hobby of discussing who gave how much to them and how that person should have given more (or given at all). In both cases, I was privy to these discussions because I’d given…

It’s all in good fun, anyway. Every few weeks I like to fire up this argument again for the sake of craps ‘n laughs.

tortilla = pita = bread = the envelope that delivers the delicious meat and cheese letter to my mouth hole.

I was ready to read this and call the guy a creep.. but it doesn’t really sound that bad? The fact that he was on a skateboard makes it sound like he lived in the area, found out she lived around there, and thought it would be cool to give her cookies. I don’t blame her for calling the cops, but this doesn’t…

YES. Especially since we live in a society that pretty much agrees two incomes are required to get by, it becomes frustrating watching single people buy their partnered friends (increasingly in their 30s and 40s, to boot) stuff they’ve probably never purchased or struggled to buy for themselves.

After sending out a million fucking thank you cards for wedding gifts and baby gifts, I finally decided I’m done. We had my son’s one year old birthday party and I didn’t send out thank you notes and it was the most fucking glorious feeling ever. If the person was there when we opened it, they got a verbal thank you,…

Trump blew that conventional wisdom out of the water.

Ban the wedding registry. Seriously. With the average age of people getting married slowly getting higher and higher and a majority of women (because that’s who the registry was originally for) have already lived on their own for a number of years anyway, wedding gifts and registries are a fucking joke for all the…

I took a heterosexism class and mentioned in a paper these “friendship gift taxes” that some people collect through performance of life “milestones” and others never do.

The nepotism surrounding Chelsea still rubs me the wrong way. 200,000 a year to be on the board of Expedia because her last name is Clinton. I’ll give it to the Bush twins. One of them became a teacher instead of trying to sell her name.

In his defense, young people do stupid things. I did something similar with a girl I had a crush on. As a gift I mailed her a box of homemade cookies, along with a trail guide for a bike route she had said she dreamed of traveling someday.

Was never a fan of her, but I proudly voted for her, and whenever I stop and think about how things went down I get really angry. Especially in light of this Russia bullshit.

I don’t know why she didn’t talk/dress/act like this during the campaign

I’m not defending the stupidity of the teen, but teens are kind of known for not thinking things through. His thought process probably was “I like cookies. I bet she would like some too. Then maybe she’ll think I’m attractive.” It’s stupid and wrong, but normal teenager logic.