Not to mention you have to pay a membership fee to go to Costco, which appears to be the universal answer to everything for people I know.

Expensive or Blah.

Which is why, it sounds dumb but when we have a food drive at work I always try to put some spices in. A little goes a long way and when you’re subsisting on canned tuna and green beans it’s at least a change.

Oh, god, I remember those times. I’d gotten a bad sunburn and was in terrible pain on my back/shoulders. I went to go get some aloe, and my choices were: tiny tube of pure aloe for, $3, or a buy-one-get-one 50% off deal for a HUGE bottle of after-sun aloe (with lidocaine!) and a HUGE bottle of lotion for $8 total. The…

Yeah, it sounds like your dad is rural, which means access is the biggest issue. I’ve been living in or near a city for the past 8 years. Even when I had a good job and a car, buying in bulk was tough, because I had a teeny tiny studio. And I had all sorts of fun furniture from ikea that had storage built in. It would…

I remember what a relief it was getting over that hump between making just enough to get by and making enough to start stocking up. It felt so wrong to “splurge” on a $15 pack of toilet paper, even though I knew it was such a better deal.

Plus, even if you have access and money, if you don’t have storage, that’s another huge barrier. With less perishable stuff like diapers or paper towels, I suppose you can pile it up somewhere, but if you’ve got a couple with a child living in a one bedroom, there aren’t going to be many corners to stash things into.…

It’s legacy time!

Sometimes no. In your example, building houses for free may be preventing an already depressed economy from growing new businesses. Imagine if some rich kid came to your community and just started doing your job for free, and was praised for it. If there's a skill shortage in the area, an obvious solution presents…

I wonder what the average shelf life is on one of these gigs?

Sounds like a nightmare. Part of me just really wants to say, Look if you really need to make thirty dollars off of me, why don’t you just come over to my house and help me in the garden? Or bake me a couple of pies? Or feed my cats while I’m away next week? I’m sure that would be seen as really insulting though.

I’m going to be unpopular and say I really hate this business model. I kind of understand its neccessity (especially half a century ago), but all in all I feel like its a form social extortion. One of my aunts and a couple of good friends of my mother’s chose to go this route after being (well off) stay at home…

SENSITIVE WEEKS

Why don’t mothers supply their children with toilet paper and tissues before they leave for school?

“My body count? Soon to be 1, after I kill you for being such a douchebag.”

Huh. I read it completely differently. I read it as don’t let someone bully you into doing something you aren’t sure about. If you want to say no to the D, then for gosh sakes, say no.

Absolutely. I want Hillary to be the nominee, and then the president. But if the cost of that is disenfranchising voters, that’s a cost too high for me.

I’m disappointed in my fellow women.

If you can’t see anything wrong with that, how about this:

Your naivety is sad and pathetic. How old are you? 16? Or are you one of those people who never had to work a “demeaning” service job?