I just recommended the same site on a different thread - it's a great site for the less mainstream. The entire Offbeat Empire is worth checking out.

I used Offbeat Bride for my wedding but OMG did not know about this! Thank you!

ummm no. I like Mothering for some things but I tend to be pretty attatchment parenting friendly. They can get a bit militant about some things. Granola or crunchy I guess. I felt judged on boards for co-sleeping, extended nursing, and baby wearing. But then I felt judged on Mothering about not co-sleeping long…

I once blew the AD/BC vs. BCE/CE thing and used BC on a frickin' biology paper (first year uni, so bear with me). When I got my paper back, the TA has crossed out all of my dates and replaced them with their equivalent in the Islamic calendar (that anno Hegirae one). Which was a nice demonstration on why you want to…

I've been happily married since 2005 and I had a lot of fun planning our wedding. It was a nice party, we enjoyed it, we could afford it and we had a good time. I'm sure I had made mental notes before we got engaged of things I wanted and things I didn't, which is normal and human.

My 18-month old daughter is my third child and the only girl. People automatically assumed I was going to overdose on pink and frilly shit because she was a girl and I like pink and frilly shit for myself.

Hmm.

I went to a place once that expected me to pay for my own food and beverages while someone else took care of "decor, photography, attire" and the rest.

It was called a restaurant.

I found the whole thing incredibly gauche, so I never went back.

Married 3.5 years, six-month-old baby. Our sex life has stayed about the same in frequency; the quality of it has gotten better with time. I think because we continue to try new things that I would never even consider unless I had been with a partner for a very long time.

We got a replica Buster Sword from FFVII from some student friends who thought I'd never be able to buy cool stuff again once I was married. I loved it. The wife was... not so impressed!

I got a really weird heavy silver divided platter with rabbits on it. (W.T.F). It wasn't very deep, so I'm not sure what it was for. I hope that someone at Goodwill was SUPER pumped to find that one.

This wasn't my wedding, but it's a family tradition to tell this story when someone starts their wedding registry.

For our wedding we received 12 place settings of these Thanksgiving-themed dishes that were shaped like maple leaves. They were also in assorted "fall" colors. It was a good friend's mom who gifted us the "pleaves," as we dubbed them, so I just wrote in the note that they looked so fun and that I would use them if I…

We got a terribly offensive piece of Judaica from my cousin who'd heard that I was marrying a Jew and assumed I was going full-on Hassidim. They'd written a note about how they'd toasted us in front of this painting. The scene in the painting was of an Orthodox Jewish wedding (so none of the women were partying), it…

Two of my husband's great aunts gave us a set of dish towels the just REEKED of cigarette smoke and a shampoo and conditioner dispenser for the shower which looked like something you'd buy off of TV. The dish towels could be washed, obviously, and obviously the matrons couldn't smell them, but that was just the…

I gave a really bad wedding gift once! I still feel bad about it and have bought the bride a handful of "random" housewares gifts "just because" in some kind of retroactive attempt to make up for it. It was a weird bisected polar bear salt and pepper shaker set (it was meant to look like it was floating out of the…

I got a cookbook from an aunt & uncle that I really cannot stand. It wasn't the cookbook that was awful, it was the inscription they'd put in it. I'm paraphrasing, but basically it read, in <aunt's> handwriting:

I got several sets of painted plaster plaques (for the kitchen, I guess). I think one of them involved orange mushrooms. I kind of wish I still had them. Also, one of my friends got a clock shaped like a toilet seat.

When my sister got married, she got four frighteningly realistic crucifixes. Two were scaled more for a cathedral than her tiny house even if she did want to display them. She is nominally Catholic and got married in the church but is not very actively religious. Those guests go lovely notes about sharing faith, and…

For everyone dumbfounded about Paula Deen: I am familiar with Deen's type of old south Confederacy-worshipping* racist. The issues is, and this is why racism is still fucking INSTITUTIONAL, is that she doesn't believe herself to be racist.

I would be in favor of labeling foods IF I could trust the general public to understand (or seek to understand) what they're reading instead of relying on gut-level reactions.