Indeed. It pains me to pay full-price for anything. Plus, my tastes are almost always accidentally super expensive, so I end up always choosing the most expensive version of whatever I am looking for. Thus, I have learned to make certain things (some beauty products, housewares, etc), to save money for things I cannot…

I still cringe when I recall the summer at 19 years old, I decided being attractive=embracing the Barbie look. I dyed my hair blonde and coaxed my extremely fair skin to a sort of shade of tan, it was more weirdly orange/tan. I must confess, that same summer, I stopped doing it for equally shallow reasons—I could see…

While 19 Kids and Counting isn't hard for me to watch (just because they are stupid and irritating) I find certain things where the ATI/Gothard language is used (ex: Religuosity when talking to the people at the bible theme park or whatever) to be very, very hard for me to watch. This feeling of panic and anger sort…

lol. Yeah. I've kind of given up which is why I just refer to it as a "cult". My husband still doesn't really get it/understand. My experience was even more hilarious in that my parents were sort-of reformed hippies who used to be pot farmers... It made things interesting, to say the least. In applying to medical…

It's super crazy. It is AMAZING what lies and crap they pump into these poor home-schooled kids. I kid you not, all the curriculum was based off the Sermon on the Mount and all pertinent subjects (history, math, etc) were taught as it pertained to the verse of the month. Crazy, I tell you.

I think we can all agree the 1200 calorie number is waaay off and wrong, reading the whole press release you can see that the doctor did cite very real concerns that the baby will be a. huge and b. prone to issues with diabetes. I think it's sad that she made the issue about weight gain as opposed to the very real…

Haha. I was home-schooled in the same sect/cult sort of thing that the Duggers draw from (Bill Gothard) and I remember being taught that handy little fact and thinking "but who would want to live shoulder to shoulder with people—how would you pee?"

I am in the midst of being doubly pissed about this right now because I am experiencing firsthand WHY this is so important. After fighting for *three years* to get insurance through my husband's employer I joyfully made an appointment for my looong overdue pap smear (who ever thought I'd say that?!) and talked to the…

For some reason, people always think I am taller than I am and seem shocked when I say I'm only 5' 4". (I don't wear heels THAT often!) But frankly, it always makes me giddy and find it a far bigger complement than being told I'm pretty/etc. The fact I am perceived as tall(er) makes me SO HAPPY. Aside from the fact…

Right! Plus, a steely gaze delivered at eye-leve (or close to it) is far more effective than that delivered from below.

That TOO! Though, boots are the exception in the "flat" department in making me feel demure. I feel very Napoleon-like and enjoy stomping around with authority!

I think this whole idea is funny, because heels make me feel powerful and strong. I also like that allows me to see eye to eye with most men. Flats, while good for many occasions, often make me feel demure, feminine and doll-like. Maybe it's social conditioning or marketing, but heels make me feel like I can take on…

The "Baby Jesus frowns upon it" actually had me laughing out loud because, ever since seeing Talledega Nights, whenever referring to jesus, I make sure I reference him as tinybabyjesusingoldenfleecedia......

I'm pretty sure I'm just going to rip our my uterus with rusty buttonhooks so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

When my sister found out she was having a boy, we both sheepishly admitted we were a little bit disappointed because we wanted to give the world one more kickass woman. (There are four sisters in our family and one younger brother.) It isn't that she didn't want a specific sex, but the idea of another girl was…

Do the spots itch? Are they dry? Or is it just discoloration? Do they come and go—or do they just stay? Do they get worse at any particular time of year/weather?

It's a shape I didn't know this earlier—I don't know how I missed this when I had literally tried every. thing. else.

I absolutely feel you on the price. But, do go in and try samples. I find their products last me a really, really long time because you actually don't need tons and tons to be effective. The last small bottle of shampoo I got from them (8.95) lasted me about 6 months.

Well, to give you the whole long story... I had ordered a couple of things from their website (nearest one is 2 hours away) and they did NOT help at all. So I wrote off their skincare stuff as stupid, ineffective hippy crap.

I KNOW. After experiencing a serious addiction to their hair products, I finally tried out their skin products... holy crap. My (seriously finicky weird sensitive and acne prone skin) is FINALLY looking halfway decent—of course, I had already slowly worked my way through pretty much every skin product Sephora has to…