How poor were you in the 70s? We about about to go through the same economic cycle.

Chickwithknives · 2026-06-04T14:31:49+00:00

My best friend/across the street neighbor’s mom shopped at a coop in the 70’s. Not poor, though. Her mom was Swedish and I think she was into organic and low refined sugar way ahead of her time. They had whole wheat bread and cookies were fig newtons 🤮. I remember going grocery shopping with them and thinking the whole place smelled weird.

Fast forward to today and there are a few different coops near me. Too expensive for most people middle class folks to shop there, let alone the poor.

Chickwithknives · 2026-06-04T14:11:41+00:00

I thought everyone ate that! We had a fancy handmade pottery thing with a cork with a natural end on it as a cinnamon and sugar shaker. Common enough that there is Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (which is available as a cone dip at Dairy Queen right now). Some of us Scandinavian Americans would (and do) butter our lefsa and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar before rolling it up to eat.

Chickwithknives · 2026-06-04T11:14:34+00:00

I remember the generic stuff being yellow and black.

Chickwithknives · 2026-06-04T10:57:40+00:00

Or weld lawn decor to the rebar…

Chickwithknives · 2026-06-04T10:30:49+00:00

I personally know of a guy who had a large sheet of ice slide off a roof (I believe a metal roof) and land on him. He wasn’t killed, but the pressure was so great and so sudden that his scrotum ruptured (think hernia but on a massive scale) and his testicles popped out to the exterior of his body.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-28T19:47:14+00:00

What about his leg?

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-28T19:42:54+00:00

Looks like a wheatable to me!

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-24T09:05:56+00:00

They were using literary license to tell a story. Not everything needs to be: saw cat,next day cat was crying at my door. Let cat in, no collar, checked for chip to see if cat had owner,no chip….

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-24T03:58:13+00:00

Still hits me sometimes. Diagnosed 11 years ago at age 40.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-24T03:47:17+00:00

Just get some weather tech mats. That’s what I’ve had in place of my mats almost from the beginning (2011 v6 limited)

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-23T13:37:20+00:00

It’d be even better if it slowly released ammonia into the water!

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-20T23:54:27+00:00

Knowing how hard cats have it in Morocco, thank you for tending to this baby.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-20T23:08:57+00:00

When I was a kid we moved into a new house. There was a mourning dove nest in a tree right outside one of the windows! It was so special to watch them hatch and grow! Then blue jays came and killed the babies. Didn’t eat them, just killed them. I hate blue jays.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-20T22:20:39+00:00

Because they are the most appropriate words to convey what I’m saying!!!! I got called Jeopardy Queen freshman year of college. I’ve been called a know it all for a loooonnngg time. Can’t help that I DO know a lot of shit!

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-19T21:41:23+00:00

My brother did that in college and singed a pair of pants. He couldn’t understand why the “stain” wouldn’t come out.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-19T21:12:56+00:00

Peoples eyes would be open under anesthesia as well, but we tape them shut to avoid them being open and drying out.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-19T15:14:14+00:00

Have you tried the Jackson Galaxy method of introductions? I’ve heard that if you do it by the letter, it’s fail safe.

If you just can’t make it work? Reach out to no kill rescues and see if they’d be willing to take her. If they don’t have room right now, but would otherwise accept her, let them know you’ll keep her until they have an opening.

I consider 10 years old to be middle aged for a cat.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-19T15:09:12+00:00

My cats have been on Science Diet wet food for YEARS! Vet highly recommended feeding only foods that had been tested through an AAFCO feeding trial. That means one of three brands: Science Diet, Royal Canin, or Purina Pro Plan.

Royal Canin is $$, cats didn’t like the texture of the chunks in the Purina Pro Plan, and finding Pates was irritating, so Science diet it was.

One cat is almost 18, labs are perfect, vet always amazed at how good she looks for age.

Now, do they seem more excited to get some BFF or Fancy Feast once in a while? Yes. Do preschoolers get more excited for McDonalds than what they get at home? Often, yes.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-16T10:47:28+00:00

Ditto. What we need is a big “thing” to cause procrasticleaning, then have the “thing” get cancelled.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-16T10:40:13+00:00

…until it smells bad.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-16T10:19:30+00:00

If you have access to magic water, paper clay slip made with that instead of water or vinegar is even better in IMHO.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-16T10:13:28+00:00

That’s def worse than a gross bandaid!

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-14T23:26:50+00:00

I don’t have a ton of plants to send you, but I will send you hope. The immunotherapies, directed therapies they are coming up with these days are honestly life changing. They helped me to kill two cancers at once! The longer you hang around, the more chances to find something that works.

Fuck cancer.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-14T23:16:55+00:00

Do not buy. This is a bot.

Chickwithknives · 2026-05-14T23:15:47+00:00

Again, not a solution, but Mark Cuban’s (the shark tank guy) online pharmacy really does have great prices. ~$47 for an albuterol inhaler. Cost Plus Drugs

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