I love presidential elections. I spend an entire year+ watching both MSNBC and FOX News. It's the best entertainment ever. I also spend my election night following along by doing this:
I love presidential elections. I spend an entire year+ watching both MSNBC and FOX News. It's the best entertainment ever. I also spend my election night following along by doing this:
I love presidential elections. I spend an entire year+ watching both MSNBC and FOX News. It's the best entertainment ever. I also spend my election night following along by doing this:
Wedding guest favours are the wrong place to find cost savings. At least let me believe you're having a candy bar because you love them and don't tell me it was to cut costs.
Please elaborate. Our wedding favors barely cost us anything. Most of our guests have them and are still using theirs. They also doubled as other things.
I love presidential elections. I spend an entire year+ watching both MSNBC and FOX News. It's the best entertainment ever. I also spend my election night following along by doing this:
Eating pie & coloring?! So slumber party at your house in 2016??
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I love presidential elections. I spend an entire year+ watching both MSNBC and FOX News. It's the best entertainment ever. I also spend my election night following along by doing this:
Eating pie & coloring?! So slumber party at your house in 2016??
Nope, they're in Alabama too. And I also think that. It's like they are trying to compensate for the ones they don't have.
I've seen them around here in New England as well (not often, but I've spotted them).
Every time I see them, or a HUGE truck/hummer, I always think to myself "I'm sorry about your small penis".
Edit: There are some people that do need larger than normal trucks, I am not side-eyeing those people. I side-eye the big tricked out ones that I cannot feasibly think of a reason to need.
My DH says this. He drives a MINI Cooper. Just sayin'.
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Post by GoBigOrGoGnome on Apr 9, 2015 11:18:18 GMT -5
To each her own, and if someone doesn't like leather then I don't care. I will say that I like that they try to use as much of the animal as possible if they are going to slaughter it for meat. It's less wasteful and I think more respectful to the animal to utilize it to it's full extent.
ETA: If they didn't make purses, car seats, shoes, etc, with leather, the cow hides would still exist, they just wouldn't be used.
It's not dramatic. At all. I don't buy leather products because I can't get it out of my mind that I'd be accessorizing with a dead animal. I'm sorry if my personal choice to not partake in what is popular offends you. More leather for you I guess...
You do you. I don't care. In no way does your decision not to wear leather "offend" me.
The expression bothers me and that's all I've been commenting on.
I have to admit, the "corpse" line bugged me, too. It plays as aggressive and judgmental. I appreciate your values. But I carry a leather purse and I love it. I don't think I should feel attacked for it.
Wedding guest favours are the wrong place to find cost savings. At least let me believe you're having a candy bar because you love them and don't tell me it was to cut costs.
Please elaborate. Our wedding favors barely cost us anything. Most of our guests have them and are still using theirs. They also doubled as other things.
Uh... "We're spending a lot of money on the wedding." "Hey, I know, let's give the guests something cheap as a favour." "Great idea!" This is not a great idea.
It sounds like you thought out your favours (or lucked out but I'm assuming the former) and gave something nice to your guests. This is not what I'm talking about.
Please elaborate. Our wedding favors barely cost us anything. Most of our guests have them and are still using theirs. They also doubled as other things.
Uh... "We're spending a lot of money on the wedding." "Hey, I know, let's give the guests something cheap as a favour." "Great idea!" This is not a great idea.
It sounds like you thought out your favours (or lucked out but I'm assuming the former) and gave something nice to your guests. This is not what I'm talking about.
I can't follow this at all. So you're pissed because there was a candy bar at a wedding? Did you go to celebrate with the couple or to get a favor?
Please elaborate. Our wedding favors barely cost us anything. Most of our guests have them and are still using theirs. They also doubled as other things.
Uh... "We're spending a lot of money on the wedding." "Hey, I know, let's give the guests something cheap as a favour." "Great idea!" This is not a great idea.
It sounds like you thought out your favours (or lucked out but I'm assuming the former) and gave something nice to your guests. This is not what I'm talking about.
Oh ok. I thought you were saying that you can't find good quality favors that don't cost as much. Nevermind.
You do you. I don't care. In no way does your decision not to wear leather "offend" me.
The expression bothers me and that's all I've been commenting on.
I have to admit, the "corpse" line bugged me, too. It plays as aggressive and judgmental. I appreciate your values. But I carry a leather purse and I love it. I don't think I should feel attacked for it.
I dont feel attacked. It is technically not a corpse because iyt is missing to much. The appropriate term would be "part of a corpse"
I wish I was with you on that one. DH LOVES political races. He watches every debate/event, reads tons of articles, loves discussing it and all if it makes me really uncomfortable.
I tend to hole up and read about all the major issues, learn about them, decide how I feel about them, then turn and look at the people running and see how they match up with what I care about, and leave it at that. I try and stay away from any articles that are super bias, do not watch any of the debates (I'll read recaps after to make sure I know what was discussed but get very uncomfortable actually watching them). I recognize I'm not the norm here, I just really really hate it
First: Please tell me where you find articles and recaps that aren't biased.
Second: I can't imagine not watching presidential debates. How a president deals with pressure and opposition is a huge part of their leadership style.... Political stances aside...
edit bc words.
I hear you on all of that. As for articles/recaps that aren't bias, I'm sure they don't exist. I do try and pull articles from all different sources rather than focusing in on just one or two for that very reason. Not ideal by any means, but I'm also aware at how ridiculous I'd be to read one article and form my opinions just based on that.
And I'm sure you're in the majority who can't imagine not watching them. I do think that you learn an insane amount by seeing how presidents deal with pressure - how they articulate, how they respect/disrespect their opposition, how they act under pressure. I just really really struggle to watch them. I attempted to watch in the last election and my blood pressure was through the roof. The next day I YouTubed bits and pieces and even those were hard to watch.
I will say that I have some polar opposites in my family that I enjoy talking to about this stuff. My husband and my father-in-law on one end ... my dad and aunt on the other. I will often talk with them to get their opinions on how the debates went and its really interesting to hear their different takes on the same discussion. While I recognize they each have their own predispositions and beliefs, it's interesting to be a somewhat neutral party that didn't watch and hear what they have to say.
None of that is ideal and I should probably just watch.
Uh... "We're spending a lot of money on the wedding." "Hey, I know, let's give the guests something cheap as a favour." "Great idea!" This is not a great idea.
It sounds like you thought out your favours (or lucked out but I'm assuming the former) and gave something nice to your guests. This is not what I'm talking about.
I can't follow this at all. So you're pissed because there was a candy bar at a wedding? Did you go to celebrate with the couple or to get a favor?
Nope.
I do eye roll when people are advising brides-to-be along these lines and she is like "that's an amazing idea!" Or when the bride-to-be is telling me herself that the favour was chosen because it was cheap.
Uh... "We're spending a lot of money on the wedding." "Hey, I know, let's give the guests something cheap as a favour." "Great idea!" This is not a great idea.
It sounds like you thought out your favours (or lucked out but I'm assuming the former) and gave something nice to your guests. This is not what I'm talking about.
We didn't give out favors. We made donations to charitable organizations on our guests' behalf.
I had a candy bar and a photobooth for favours.. oh and I threw a fucking expensive party and fed and entertained 100 people
Post by zombiesquad on Apr 9, 2015 11:27:22 GMT -5
My mom got me this Vera diaper bag and it's one of the few pieces I don't mind carrying. She always gifts me something Vera and I don't have the heart to tell her it's not my style, which is why I have all these pieces in my closet. I really need to man up.
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I do eye roll when people are advising brides-to-be along these lines and she is like "that's an amazing idea!" Or when the bride-to-be is telling me herself that the favour was chosen because it was cheap.
If she spends $5 per, or $0.50, who cares? She's still paying for her guests' food, and probably their drinks.
I guess my UO is I don't care for wedding favors. I don't need a little jar of honey sitting around my house or M&Ms I'm never gonna eat with your name on them.
We had monogrammed cookies as our favors. Yummy and won't sit around your house for years until you decide to throw it out. #winning
LOL last week I found two little baggies of pink M&Ms from baby showers in my purse. I wouldn't be offended if I didn't keep accumulating those things.
I can't follow this at all. So you're pissed because there was a candy bar at a wedding? Did you go to celebrate with the couple or to get a favor?
Nope.
I do eye roll when people are advising brides-to-be along these lines and she is like "that's an amazing idea!" Or when the bride-to-be is telling me herself that the favour was chosen because it was cheap.
Also candy bars are NOT cheap. We said "hell no" when we found out the cost.
I do eye roll when people are advising brides-to-be along these lines and she is like "that's an amazing idea!" Or when the bride-to-be is telling me herself that the favour was chosen because it was cheap.
If she spends $5 per, or $0.50, who cares? She's still paying for her guests' food, and probably their drinks.
I think we're coming at this from different angles, but I'm okay with that.
My mom got me this Vera diaper bag and it's one of the few pieces I don't mind carrying. She always gifts me something Vera and I don't have the heart to tell her it's not my style, which is why I have all these pieces in my closet. I really need to man up.
I feel the same way about Lily dresses. My mom gives me a Lily dress as a present sometimes and I know that it is really nice and generous, but with few exceptions it is not my style. I just can't bring myself to tell her cause she loves them. I will wear it when I am going out with her, but not really any other time.
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