I rewrote the post a few times in pursuit of clarity without getting too TL;DR and added the part about choosing to have children after the part with ‘terrible choices’. I didn’t mean to imply that having kids was a bad decision, I just muddled how I expressed it. I can see that it grievously bothers you and I…

Yeah, I know :)

Exactly— you’re conscious of what you’re doing, can afford it, consider it a worthwhile expense, and aren’t sitting around desperately wondering where your money went.

Honestly, if I were to magically gain access to more money— even conservatively, let’s just say double what I make now, or $72k a year— I’d buy a small house, keep (but pay off) my car, figure out how much I needed to live adequately, then invest the rest for retirement. I estimate I’d go from spending $18k a year…

I don’t understand... you’ll give 99 or 110% of what?

I didn’t say having children was a *bad* choice, just that it *was* a choice, and a choice that costs them a fortune. And if they lived elsewhere, had a cheaper mortgage, cheaper or fewer cars, no insane childcare and lessons, etc. etc. they wouldn’t need that extra $250k, PLUS they’d be raising their own children.

The couple in this story has no concept of what it means to be poor. Apparently you don’t, either. Hell, *I* don’t have much of a concept of what it means to be poor, and I only make $36,000 a year ($24k after taxes) and yet somehow I manage to live on half that and save $6k/year.

500k doesn’t go as far as you think

If NJ gave a fuck about anyone’s opinion, maybe, but... nah.

I’d love to try it but I’m a PC/Android girl, so I’m still SOL :(

See, that confuses me, because I tried to switch to OneNote and it seems like it sucks 3 kinds of serious ass. Am I doing something wrong? Halp.

Right??? My ovaries fluttered like they were trying to take flight when I saw that gif.

Robb Stark is so intensely pretty, though.

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Let people have their own opinions. If someone feels arranged marriages aren’t normal or sane, and you feel differently, just COPE.

Yeah, it’s really hard to find the right balance. The ‘dusty rose’ nude for me can’t be too cool or too warm, just poised on the knife-edge between... and it can’t be too dark, or it’s awful, or too light, or it’s awful. It’s hard to get, but once in a while I find a lipstick or lip cream that manages it, and then I…

I have light olive skin, and it’s basically my perfect ‘nude’ in lipstick.

the brothers who wanted to date me because I was “Black enough” to avoid be criticized for dating a white woman

I’m confused as to why everyone keeps calling today the first day of spring— I thought it was the 21st of the month: 21 March, 21 June for summer, 21 September for autumn, 21 December for winter. No?

I work for a state-wide program of advocates supporting defendants and inmates with intellectual disabilities and/or mental illness. We’re the only statewide program in the country, and it kills me to think of how many tens of thousands of people in the other 49 states have no one looking out for them, trying to…

Luke Evans is unfairly handsome. How are people supposed to function after clapping eyes on him? It’s just unreasonable to expect such a thing.