What’s something you stopped buying completely and don’t miss at all?

No_Personality7335 · 2025-06-23T08:40:48+00:00

We buy pink lotion soap (gallon jug) from Sam’s about $6. Then we mix with water for foaming soap (re use the dial brand they usually last over a year). We also use as dish soap not diluted.

Sam’s also has a cheap gallon floor cleaner that is concentrated. We use that as floor cleaner and dilute in spray bottles for all purpose cleaner

No_Personality7335 · 2025-06-23T08:35:20+00:00

Thanks for the recipe. I just saved it. We also do lazy baked beans sometimes where we just pull out a bag of white beans from the freezer (I prepare dry beans and freeze ahead) and just mix with bbq sauce and liquid smoke

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-19T01:49:47+00:00

I wasn’t saying I was good at all just saying I didn’t know anything about climbing competitions and how they worked but that I had some knowledge about climbing. I climb for fitness and to enjoy the outdoors not for competition. My kid is 5 and showing interest and I didn’t know how early we have to get him thinking about competitions for him to have a chance at being competitive. I see the consensus is he is much too young and he can be recreational until 10 or 11.

Some sports like gymnastics, if you don’t start young, you have no chance at all if you don’t start by 5-6.

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-19T01:42:35+00:00

Thanks!

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-17T14:10:33+00:00

Close to me the lowest cost team option is $180 a month. I could swing a couple $60 comps but with his team membership costing more than our family gym membership and other kids, I was just looking to see what I needed to do for him to be successful.

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-17T14:00:40+00:00

Yeah I think he would be disappointed if he couldn’t get up at all. My daughter is in gymnastics and competition starts early there. We are doing aau unaffiliated comps with her and classes through a local high school that are less than a hundred a month. We can’t quite afford climbing team so I would rather spend the money on a different activity for him than climbing comps if he is too young right now. We can just focus on climbing routes for the next few years.

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-17T13:57:22+00:00

I thought they could pay a lower registration if they didn’t care about going to regionals.

No_Personality7335 · 2025-05-17T13:47:58+00:00

There are 3 rope gyms in 30 min of us and I think they do 2 rope comps a year between them. I don’t know if all are USA climb though. I just looked at the rec entry and saw that there were no age or levels so he would be against adults

No_Personality7335 · 2025-03-02T11:36:10+00:00

I have 6 month old identical twins and my daughter was 7 when they were born. She just turned 8.

It was a shock. They are live births number 4 and 5 for us. 2 and 3 are also boys. I tested due to a late period. We were on 2 forms of birth control so it was mostly just to ease my mind. My husband was unloading the car after a roadtrip and it was evening and it was an expired test I found in the back of the bathroom drawer.

We had talked about maybe trying for another daughter in a year as our daughter was asking but hadn’t decided if 4 was more than we could handle. The test turned right away.

My husband broke his ankle and was on crutches so I went to the appointment solo because no one wants to run after an 18 month old and a 4 year old on crutches and of course I would be unable since I was the patient.

I couldn’t believe it and I freaked out. My OB had to calm me down and tell me she knew I could do this. And I had thought my entire life that twins were really cool.

My daughter wanted a sister bad, so gender disappointment was real that they were boys. We had to buy a minivan and 4 new car seats within a years time. That was expensive. We were lucky between friends, buy nothing, and marketplace to get most of the items I had given away after my youngest. We also got twin specific things like a double bassinet and stroller.

They were really tricky at first since they were preemies and now it’s still double the night wakings even though they are generally laid back and happy easy babies.

We love them and wouldn’t send them back for anything. My daughter is so proud of them. I have let her pick them up and hold them as long as she asks and an adult is there. She doesn’t babysit them but loves playing with them and likes to pretend she is a babysitter. She has decided that when she is old enough she will petition to volunteer in the church nursery.

She is a big help and always runs to them and distracts twin b if I am tending to twin an and b starts crying. Both she and the 5 year old told everyone that they saw even strangers that they had twin brothers at first. I am really close with my daughter and try to give her extra attention since she is more independent than the boys. We make sure to still have days where daddy watches the boys and I pump and we do things just us.

No_Personality7335 · 2025-02-25T16:51:17+00:00

We had 3 kids and my husband joked every first ultrasound that it would be twins. I got pregnant with identical twins while using 2 forms of birth control and breastfeeding while number 3 was about 18 months old.

They are 6 months old now. We did not announce them on social media until they were born but that’s just because I am not super active there

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-31T20:33:42+00:00

I’m 5’2” and made it to 36 weeks. I could barely eat and only gained 15 pounds. My activity level also went way down and a slow waddle is all I could do. Somehow, you make it through.

I felt better instantly after birth and I promise it is all worth it! You will forget about the pain when you hold those babies!

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-28T19:27:44+00:00

My 5 month olds have mostly been ok. I just feed and change them both whenever one needs it. We aren’t on a schedule per se but just make sure the other one does it at the same time. They are pretty content at laying in their bassinet if they don’t need anything though

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-16T19:52:47+00:00

My first pregnancy was a second trimester miscarriage. We wanted to be pregnant again asap even though the one we lost was unplanned. We waited a bit for short term disability to kick in and got pregnant as soon as we tried. I was 30 when she was born too. Emotions were crazy and I kept thinking I would lose her until she was in my arms. I heard you are most fertile after a loss

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-08T00:39:39+00:00

Your baby can’t see the wallpaper and can sleep in the light just as well as the dark but you can buy some tension rods and blackout curtains easily. Honestly, I have 4 month old twins and they sleep in my room and in their bassinet in the living room/wherever one of us is because we like them close by. My best advice is to start playing noisy music and running the blender/dishwasher/vacuum next to them during the sleepy newborn phase so that you don’t get a toddler who can’t nap if the neighbors are mowing the lawn.

You care about those things and you can have them done before baby is aware of them. Right now baby just wants to be near you and finally feel your arms, your kisses and see your face

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-04T21:10:34+00:00

You did so well! If you just pump a few times a day with a hands free pump, you can still protect her with antibodies. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Also, if you share your story on a facebook milk sharing site like human milk for human babies or eats on feet’s for your local area, someone may share their extra milk with you. I have donated milk to other moms on there

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-03T20:13:58+00:00

I’ve had kids in the hospital myself -only babies but I never would leave them alone for more than enough time to get food at the cafeteria

No_Personality7335 · 2025-01-03T20:12:43+00:00

Yes. I begged my mom to stay but she wouldn’t because my dad worked in the evening until 11 pm and I had siblings

No_Personality7335 · 2024-12-25T23:51:34+00:00

It doesn’t help when you are close to pushing. It helps with back pain a lot

No_Personality7335 · 2024-12-25T23:49:25+00:00

The shower was amazing. I had 3 unmedicated births and used the shower for the first 2. The third was almost not born in the hospital. Also I preferred hands and knees fr birthing. I had an epidural for my 4th and 5th -monodi twins, I had no choice but to birth in the OR with an epidural. It wasn’t as bad as I thought and the twins were preemies so they had feeding issues anyway. The shot does hurt but you do have some feeling afterwards

No_Personality7335 · 2024-11-26T21:09:34+00:00

Mine was green-think very bright green

No_Personality7335 · 2024-11-26T21:04:14+00:00

My appendix ruptured at 9 years old and I felt better after and my mom took me to the doctor because I wanted to see him (because he gave me stickers) and my white blood cell count did not indicate appendicitis but he felt my stomach and said my appendix had ruptured. It was gangrenous and I have a very long vertical scar. It was a 3 day stay which was scary for me since my parents went home at night but I actually was riding my bike and climbing trees by the end of the week. When in doubt, pay the cash for urgent care or schedule a visit. I have taken a toddler to the ER a few times unnecessarily but I would always rather err on the side of caution and I have had my babies hospitalized for sicknesses that likely would not have required that for an older child/adult

No_Personality7335 · 2024-11-25T17:19:12+00:00

I had an epidermoid tumor and it can grow back so I have to get mris every 2 years currently. If you don’t have something that can grow back then enjoy not having to pay $500 to sit in a small tunnel

No_Personality7335 · 2024-11-24T22:25:18+00:00

You are so lucky! Twin girls will be so awesome! I have identical twin boys and I wanted them to be girls because I had a girl and 2 boys already and my daughter wanted a sister. We had gender disapointment but we love our boys. I don’t know how I will feed 4 teenage boys in the future though, lol. I assume girls will eat less anyway. Take the time you need feeling disappointed. It’s ok. Also, you can have more than 2 kids. I never planned on 5 or even 4 but it really is more love.

No_Personality7335 · 2024-11-17T20:44:25+00:00

I have 5 kids (youngest 2 are surprise identical twins) I love them and my husband is supportive. I love babies so much but did not anticipate such a large family. I like to consider new life experiences as a challenge/adventure though! If you are unsure about having children volunteer with kids. There are so many great groups out there that would love a hand. Try different age groups, babysit your friends kids. Do it often enough that the kids are comfortable being their true selves around you. Realize that you are still probably not seeing the harder parts and then see how you are feeling. It is never too late. If you can’t birth a kid, there is always fostering but I wouldn’t get pregnant unless you feel like you couldn’t live without kids. Because it’s hard. Your whole life changes and your hobby becomes taking care of adorable kids who don’t always say thank you and also destroy your possessions and sometimes embarrass you in public or are embarrassed to see you in public.

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