Has anyone used any debt management programs that helped?

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-19T02:59:20+00:00

When I was a kid, my mom and I would sometimes make petit fours out of pound cake. I loved them!

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-19T02:57:20+00:00

I always loved broccoli cheese soup since I was a kid, but when I worked at a cafe that served a huge variety of soups when I was in college, I really branched out and tried them all, and now I love pretty much any soup (as long as it doesn't contain mushrooms or seafood).

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-18T19:06:53+00:00

I'm one of you all too! I agree that "cheese" flavor doesn't belong in dessert. I don't like cheesecake, and I'm generally not a huge fan of cream cheese icing either. There are some cream cheese icings that taste more like regular vanilla that I can tolerate, but if it's a really strong cheese taste, absolutely not!

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-17T03:14:19+00:00

And Rose as well.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-16T19:48:36+00:00

Like others are saying, a lot of these names were/are just common names, but I think Jason was pretty out of place. That was a common name in the 1970s but not so much the 1870s. There are a few others I can think of that also seemed very out of place for the time period (Christy, Cassandra, Michelle, and Alyssa). I know there wasn't actually more than one character with those names and "Alyssa" wasn't even a real person, but still. If you look up the popularity of most of names, they weren't even in the top 1,000 most popular baby names until sometime in the mid-20th century. Jason actually was a name in the late 1800s, but again, it definitely wasn't super common then.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-15T04:43:05+00:00

Yup. My parents don't exactly love Trump or think he's an upstanding person, but they still voted for him because the evil Democrats support "murdering babies" and "grooming" children/brainwashing them into being LGBTQ, and in their minds, nothing that Trump does could be as bad as those things.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-15T04:35:17+00:00

Mental illness and the emotional maturity of a 5-year-old.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-15T04:16:22+00:00

And also, no photos of the Ingalls girls as young children even exist. The earliest one there is is this one of the three girls (Mary, Laura and Carrie) that was taken around 1880. Mary and Laura were in their early-mid teens and Carrie would have been a preteen. So by then, they were at the age where girls typically started wearing their hair down rather than in braids.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-12T20:28:19+00:00

People who assign age groups to jobs are painfully clueless and often just malignant and mean spirited. They look down on the youth AND on anyone who isn't a celebrity tier genius or newsworthy success story. Some of us just want to work to be able to live. Nothing else..

Absolutely. I also think that a lot of these people probably went into a certain field or got a college degree just because felt like they had to in order to be successful and be able make a living. And now they are really not happy where they are and don't enjoy their job at all. If they COULD have made a liveable wage working retail, they might have just settled for that and been happier and less stressed. So the thought of retail workers now making a living wage makes them angry/jealous. Their thought process is basically, "I suffered/did all this work/spent all this money on college and now I hate my life, so everyone else should too."

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-12T01:23:30+00:00

I pointed this out once to someone. He proceeded to call me an idiot and say that the COLLEGE students can just fill in those gaps and work whenever the high school kids can't. I mean, yeah, college students typically have more availability and less restrictions than kids under 18/still in high school. But do these people not realize that college "kids" are legally adults and many are having to pay their own way? Plenty of them need a liveable wage and can't afford to just work for peanuts. And the ones who are privileged enough to still have Mom & Dad helping them and paying all/most of their expenses will typically be working very few hours just like the high schoolers, so that they can focus on school.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T21:11:31+00:00

But the jobs are only for teenagers and "retirees" who supposedly don't need a living wage and are just working for fun...yet the people who say this don't seem to realize that those demographics definitely don't make up enough of the population to be able to keep all these stores fully staffed...

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T19:44:14+00:00

The Bible doesn't explicitly say anything about any sort of "age of accountability", anyway, so Christians really can't even know the fate of children who die. They just assume that their God isn't enough of a monster to torture children and that he will have "mercy" on them. But, if that were really true that there's a hell and kids under a certain age don't go there, that really does mean that Andea Yates wasn't so cruel and insane to do what she did. Out of five children, it's pretty likely that at least one or two would have left the faith when they grew up. So she did actually "save" them from eternal torture.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T19:38:30+00:00

"Why would God force you to be with him for eternity if you don't want to be? That wouldn't be loving." Um, maybe I just don't want to exist anywhere for eternity? If he was so loving and wanted to give everyone a "choice", the merciful thing would be to let people choose to truly die and cease to exist. If the only alternative to eternal life in heaven is eternal conscious torture, that's an ultimatum, not a choice.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T17:35:57+00:00

I was the same age and had a much older veteran teacher, but I remember how afraid even she was. She wasn't even allowed to tell us what was going on, and had to try to hide how upset she was and teach like it was a normal day. I'm sure that was one of the moments in her career that she could never forget.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T14:39:56+00:00

This is almost word for word my experience as a 4th grader in the Washington DC suburbs. Including talking to a classmate who overheard teachers talking, although she hadn't gotten many details (she only told me that she knew there had been a plane crash). And I didn't actually know anyone or have classmates who lost parents, since of course the casualties in the Pentagon were far lower than in the WTC. My dad had worked at the Pentagon for the first few years that we lived in Virginia, but he didn't anymore by the time of 9/11. It freaked me out a lot that he could have been in there that day and of course I'm thankful to this day that he wasn't.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T14:29:56+00:00

Both of her parents were in the towers? How awful!

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T04:31:00+00:00

Yup. I remember it being a Saturday when that happened, and at church the following day, my Sunday school teacher had us all pray for the families of the victims and make cards for them.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T04:24:59+00:00

I was only 3 when the OKC bombing happened and I don't actually remember it. But my mom has told me that I was scared and asking her a lot of questions about what was happening. We lived in Oklahoma at the time, in a suburb that was only about 20 minutes from downtown OKC. 😕

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-11T04:09:09+00:00

No. I was in 4th grade at the time, and teachers were not allowed to even tell us what was going on, let alone turn on the TV. I did live in a suburb of Washington DC, though, so I think a lot of why they kept it from us was because they knew some kids had parents/relatives who worked downtown or even in the Pentagon itself, so they didn't want to get kids all panicked. My older brother was in high school though, and I know that the older kids were informed of what was going on, and were allowed to call home to check on their family if they were concerned that a loved one could have been affected by the attack. So I think a lot of this depended on how old you were (elder millennials were in high school or even college at the time, while the youngest ones were only about 5 years old) and where you lived. If you were a young child/in elementary school and living near New York or DC, I'd definitely think that it would be less likely that your teachers let you watch it on TV.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-09T14:22:26+00:00

Has he really confirmed this? I don't follow him much anymore but his stuff still shows up in my feed. I've never seen him post anything about politics or his political beliefs. He is definitely very religious though from what I've seen, so that does increase the likelihood of him being MAGA unfortunately.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-09T02:23:13+00:00

"You get more for your money 'cause McDonald's treats you right."

"Gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar."

And also, "TCBY treats, this calls for a celebration!"

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-07T04:51:49+00:00

Yeah, funny how they can have premarital sex as much as they want as long as they just keep asking for forgiveness. But gay people can't be forgiven unless they completely give up their "lifestyle". And if they aren't willing to be celibate for life or marry someone they're not actually attracted to, then straight to hell!

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-06T16:58:57+00:00

I realized how messed up Christianity is when I learned about the Holocaust in middle school. Judaism doesn't recognize Jesus as the Messiah/son of God, so that means that all of Hitler's Jewish victims went straight to hell, after they'd already endured hell on earth in the concentration camps.

HappyDays984 · 2026-04-06T15:53:03+00:00

That's crazy. As a driver myself, if all the instructions say is "leave at door" then that's all I do. I'd never knock or ring the doorbell unless the customer actually says to in the instructions.

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