I had a really good conversation with an outspoken feminist friend of mine about this. We get in such a team sports mentality about celebrity feuds — especially when it’s two women — and she said pretty much what you did. The petty stuff is stupid and she’s not overtly political like Cyrus and Grande have (minus),…

That’s thing, like what did we make you do girl? Like did you kill someone or something. Like, I to like her songs(most of them). However she has some songs(Dear John, BAR(possibly)Bad Blood, and LWYM for example) that seem like a 13 year old having a freak out. Like girl calm down.

I think it was petty because she made it a point to reference everything between here and Katy Perry and Kim & Kanye. She just needs to move on...to me it’s getting old. I can understand using your past relationships for songs, but this song was a lot and she was in the wrong. She is the manifestation of a 13-yo…

“It Works!” is the grossest. This girl I used to work with joined, and now being FB friends with her is a nightmare. She posted a nice picture of her and her girlfriend at dinner for their three year anniversary and it segued into how luckily they can eat the rich food because she has It Works! Fat Buster Pills. I…

Ha! bangs cane on the ground Back in MY day we sold Tupperware and Avon, door to door!

I am on the committee for a juried boutique/artisan show and we do not allow any direct sales/MLM exhibitors, period. Every year, they apply anyway. And every year, they get the same rejection email pointing out the type of exhibs we are looking for :/

I am surrounded by Arbonne people. A co-worker, her daughter and friends. I know the woman who got them involved a couple years ago, and she’s making a fortune. My co-workers daughter, notsomuch. Pyramid.

Our former sitter posts nothing but this, in an increasingly panicky tone. They buy in for so much and then can’t sell it, so they are desperate for anyone to dump it on. Sigh.

This actually doesn’t bother me one bit. It keeps items out of landfills or being marked way up at a thrift store conglomerate (like Goodwill/SA) and allows many parents to stay within a decent budget for items. There are FB groups for selling (which is the preferred way to do it) that keep it out of the normal…

I lost a “friend” because she just would not have that my then-broke ass wouldn’t get into her Pampered Chef shit. Conversely, I have a friend that I have a very special respect for, because it was years before I even knew that she sold Mary Kay. I saw her exchanging goods and money with someone and I said “you sell…

I’m not even on FB, and Rodan and Fields haunts me. One of my favorite cousins growing up, who I only see every few years now, e-mailed out of the blue:

My problem with multilevel-sell-from-home crap is that it preys in those women and most get in debt because of the promise of “easy money from home” only to find they make nothing. I won’t buy from them because I fundamentally think they are wrong and prey on people. (I agree women use them because they struggle to…

Years ago when I was getting invited to tons of candle/vitamin/kitchen stuff parties I just started telling everyone I knew “I hate those parties where people sell stuff so don’t invite me.” First people said “Oh you don’t have to buy anything, it’s just a fun get together!” And I’d reply “Yeah, that’s not true, you…

The volunteer fire departments in these small towns is usually the best place to find out where you can donate without worrying about whether or not the money is going to a shady group. Most of them have facebook pages with community info on them. I would contact those.

The problem is that the smaller towns do not have Red Cross or FEMA. Houston is a huge horror. Smaller do in the awful begin to be, but not have TV shows for a big city. I live in New Orleans and know that what on the Mississipppi coast was worse than our world. Nobody saw it. Fewer people and no pictures. A freaking…

People crap on the Red Cross but you can specify where you want your donation to go with them.

I think it’s ok to give to shelters in San Antonio, Dallas and Austin too. They took in some of the people from the small towns. You can go to the website of the counties or the mayors of those cities to see what they need.

From what I understand, churches are the best place to contact in those smaller towns. I know some churches are full but they can refer you to other towns. I had that happen when I contacted someone in La Grange; they referred me to Smithville. TXSAR is doing great work and I know they are dispatching their volunteers…

United Way doesnt have specific small towns but you can do it by county

I shared above, but a lot of my fellow Houstonian friends have been doing donation drives (including ask for chainsaws, gas, etc to help clean up these areas) and are driving trucks into these towns. There are restaraunts and schools all over town gathering supplies for Rockport, Refugio/Victoria, Beaumont/Port…