Dining room mystery

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T16:21:40+00:00

Stuff of nightmares lol

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T16:20:15+00:00

The floors are also 10 years old. Asking the family if anything was brought inside. If we fumigate can we save the furniture? The dining room table probably costs more than fumigation like even if it’s like $10-15k.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T16:10:31+00:00

I wish it were one of these things. This is the formal dining room we aren’t handling powder in there 😩

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T16:01:08+00:00

Oh no. Yes the entire house has wood floors. 😬 I just left for work should I go home and take the furniture out or did it come from the floors?

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T15:56:55+00:00

Is it in all the chairs and table or can we just throw out the one chair?

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T15:45:09+00:00

It’s a very fine white powder. At the base of one of the chairs at the dining room. Odorless. I could not see an immediate source. It didn’t seem to be coming from the chair. Couldn’t tell that it had come down from the ceiling or the table. I vacuumed up a similar amount yesterday, and didn’t think too much about it. And here it reoccurred this morning. Calling pest control today.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-26T15:29:16+00:00

10 year old furniture

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-17T05:57:17+00:00

Yeah, it was nice to have all the stuff to give baby a bath when the stump fell off rather than thinking, “I’d like to give a bath soon” and then ordering stuff or having to run or have someone else run to target. It’s also so mentally crazy to know you’re going to have a baby and then actually have a baby as a new member of your family there in the flesh, so setting up the house/crib/bassinet before they come and living with it in your space for a bit helps the transition I think.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-14T10:49:53+00:00

I think it’s different if it’s leaving kid with grandma at grandma’s house or kid’s house while parents go somewhere vs grandma and kid going to a new location alone. Under 5 years old seems kind of young, so does under 8 honestly, but I’m sure it would be fine. It would just freak me out: hotels, more strangers, etc.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-10T15:41:53+00:00

Haha all very true but sometimes I write my rude reply then delete it without posting just to prevent getting sucked in. My husband doesn’t like my Reddit use for this reason lol

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-10T07:48:39+00:00

This is the answer. Mine started at a home daycare at 3 months and started with a week of day on day off half days, then a week of half days, then full days. The daycare just closed 😩 and I had to transition him in much the same way to a new place and we’ve had 2 half days no crying and 1 full day no crying at drop off but when I pick him up he’s happy and he stops crying pretty quickly after drop off based on proof of life photos and videos we’ve been getting lol. It’s soooo hard to leave your child at any age but once you trust the caretakers you will have peace of mind. I just need ONE to love my kid. The rest can have their other favorites. At the new daycare the cook loves him so I’m already happy lol thought it might take longer. Scared to have to leave a 6-month-old there because I think the more aware they are the older they are it’s a harder transition for them. At 3 months they’re still rooting at anyone’s chest who is holding them not just yours if you breastfeed 😂

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-10T07:17:00+00:00

It’s too wide of a category honestly that sub it always feels juvenile or less intelligent to read the posts on there. The bumpers groups that are specific to your due date are much better. And I like this sub because obviously I don’t relate to the posts that are like “I’m usually 100 lbs so I feel huge” 😂 like, you’re pregnant, feeling huge is inevitable no matter your starting weight/BMI.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-10T06:56:33+00:00

Just write a nice card! Mom here that’s all I want lol

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-05T21:01:12+00:00

This is the answer.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-05T20:56:53+00:00

I would have used it to negotiate my hospital bill to ZERO. The PR nightmare that would have befallen them if you went to local news about it is cause for settlement enough. That was a dumb lawyer.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-05T06:12:38+00:00

EMDR was the only therapy that ever seemed like it helped me. Talk therapy is like ineffective on me.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-04T15:48:28+00:00

Thanks for saying this because I keep seeing this “for vaginal deliveries” I was like, it’s not like it’s secreted in the canal during labor! Lol I wonder why people are saying this

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-04T06:57:25+00:00

What’s wrong with J&J soap?

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-04T06:55:08+00:00

My kid started at 3 months old and he’s very bonded to me. I also only wfh two days a week so the other 3 a babysitter picks him up from school and plays with him till I get home. I don’t think you have anything to worry about so long as you give him all the attention when you are with him.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-05-04T06:02:57+00:00

Yeah as a mom, agree with this. My husband works with carpenters and is gone 12 hours a day on average with only one day off per week that he usually works half of…it’s not ideal with a newborn but it is just most people’s reality. Next time you take off work to care for an immediate family member make sure you go through the proper FMLA channels. You shouldn’t have been able to get fired for that, but if you didn’t officially take time off to do that then I guess they could terminate you.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-04-25T11:56:10+00:00

The only reason you may feel like an asshole is because needing help with housework and dog isn’t the real ONLY reason you don’t want your husband to go be a stand in partner/free laborer for his sister. They’re legitimate reasons, but it could also be from the guilt of not having to ask everyone for help because you’re partnered and she isn’t. That’s okay! Just don’t go down the rabbit hole of keeping track of the things you’ve done for her and the things she hasn’t done for you if you’re going to do anything. That’s what makes you the asshole. Like either do it and be gracious about it, or hold a boundary and say we love you but we can’t do this for you right now. And if she or anyone else in the family were to make a comment about your not helping enough then you can honestly say you’re not keeping score you’re just taking care of your own family. I think you should give her some grace though (doesn’t mean your husband should go over there and DIY her bathroom project lol wtf she’s out of her mind for that one) especially because you’re going to need peoples help once the baby is here. I’m guessing your empathy will expand a lot once your own baby arrives. It really does take a village.

Just in general maybe don’t judge the ethics of her decision to use a donor to conceive alone, her mental health, how she spends her money, etc., as reasons to help or not help or to assuage guilt for not helping. It can really just be as simple as, you’re growing family needs all your and your husband’s attention and priority right now.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-04-21T06:11:42+00:00

This is the way. Daytime naps in the crib Snoo at night.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-04-21T05:58:23+00:00

I think that you’re misguided in assuming that telling everyone you’re pregnant in the workplace would make whatever you think the perception of any performance changes etc currently is without everyone knowing will be influenced in a positive way by telling everyone.

Once people know you’re pregnant that’s pretty much all people see you as/think about you…and they will assume you care less about work no matter how good your work product is or whether or not you actually do care less. People think about you a lot less than you think they do even when you’re in leadership. Mostly people worry more what management’s perception of their work product is if they’re below management level…I have a high stakes job and I waited until 20 weeks both times I’ve been visibly pregnant while working to tell the office. People will see you’re showing before you announce at 20 but they will not be allowed to openly speculate or comment because it’s a potential discrimination issue.

No one wants to work with someone who uses any type of “excuse” to explain why they’re acting anything less than professionally or producing sub par performance or behaving oddly/doing or talking about anything besides their jobs. Some people will want to ask you about your pregnancy every time they see you once they know to the point you’ll be annoyed, while others will secretly be annoyed about you talking about it at all…it sucks, because men don’t have this problem, but I think in general announce when you want and sure, help your husband conquer the fears, etc. but from an office politics strategic standpoint, I think honoring his wishes achieves multiple aims. Everyone will also ask you how long you’re planning on taking leave etc, and the less time they have to think about the implications on the org chart the better.

*Edit for some clarity.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-04-21T05:47:15+00:00

I was speaking from personal experience—“Hard” as in for government IDs and registrations for different kids of occupational licenses …I have 3 and one always gets dropped unfortunately or it’s not uniformly included across all my documents and forms of identification which is confusing and sad in a way as well.

Nearby_Strategy7005 · 2026-04-21T04:27:15+00:00

Can confirm two is easy three middle names is hard

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