Depending on when you decide to start savings, you essentially lose whatever time it takes to fund that initial deposit. On the other hand, each $15 investment “matures” every 12 months.

Oh, fuck off. Nowhere does Ark ask for a bailout. Take your sanctimonious bullshit elsewhere.

Pretty much how I feel about 90% of LH’s financial advice articles.

The only reason that matters: “Financial goals” require more money, and nobody has gotten a raise in 30 years. Everything, absolutely everything, boils down to needing more money coming in.

I don’t find hordes of abusive “superfans” relentlessly calling people thirsty hoes and more particularly comical or “slightly nasty” but I guess that’s just me.

I’m a major Beyoncé fan, though I don’t engage in this kind of thing (it’s gotta only be like snotty 14-year-olds with nothing else better to do, right?).

good input 10/10

Why are the kids watching from the second floor? I’m imagining Kanye ordering everyone, including Kim to remove themselves and observe from a distance of 20 feet.

It does! I love this. I love to talk about my grandmothers. I miss them dearly.

Thank you and best wishes to you. Early on the West Coast, waitng for a respectable time to start drinking. Just kidding! Finnegans to start celebrating. Coffee, Baileys, Jameson, the breakfast of champions.

Thanks - first MD formally estranged from my mom here and all the advertisements and friends gabbing about their wonderful mothers have me down. But, you know, my life is better without her constant neediness and drama, and I have a kickass friend who hosts me for every holiday (I’m helping her husband make steaks and…

Some people hold a Death Cafe in my neck of the woods. I think it’s very healthy to talk about death in a safe, group setting. They are having a special Motherless Mother’s Day session:

Hugs. Thank you for this thread. I needed a place to vent about this, but there just hasn’t seemed like a good place to do it in any of my usual forums. I lost my mom fourteen years ago (cancer, so we knew it was coming for several months, but it was still not enough warning, especially since she wasn’t even 52 yet),…

I lost my mom eight years ago. It was abrupt and I still haven’t dealt with a lot of it. It’s just a shitty time of year since she died on April 6, my birthday is May 6, Mother’s Day is always shortly thereafter, and her birthday is on May 30.

Thank you! I’m still reeling from Mark’s post earlier. I have been trying to write something to deal with the feelings I have about my mom.

This Mother’s Day is glass half full for me...I get to see my son for a breakfast date at the diner....but my 17 year old daughter still is not speaking to me...(long story short...I left my ex over two years ago...I needed to get sober, and couldn’t do it in the emotionally and verbally abusive marriage I was…

I miss my mom pretty often, but yes, especially on Mother’s Day. We never made a huge deal of it but it was fun to spoil her with little presents and take her out or cook for her. It’d be nice to be able to at least call her tomorrow.

Condolences. My mom died when I was 10. I have my own kids now so it’s not that bad but I think every kid who lost a parent early will always at least partially feel like the kid sitting in the back of the classroom doodling while the rest of the students make Mother’s Day/ Father’s Day cards.

My mom is a crazy person who tells everyone that my therapist brainwashed me to turn me against her. Because it’s definitely not that she’s done terrible things. Brainwashing makes way more sense. Le sigh. Currently I'm 30 weeks into a very high risk pregnancy that she has not acknowledged in any way.

A question. Doesn’t the code talks about political PARTISAN activities? BLM is not a partisan political activity. It’s social activism but not partisan political activity.