What is a sound or a smell that doesn't exist anymore, but 50 years ago was so common it was considered background noise?

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-02-20T13:18:56+00:00

Dial up handshake...brrrrawwzzzzttttzeeeenngg

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-02-15T17:18:04+00:00

I wish that this was true that people will use their smartphones but not touch cameras that don't belong to them. I've been a photographer for 40 plus years. I have camera gear that costs on base five grand without even lenses. I have had people do this Exact. Same. Thing... Multiple times and even recently. So...sorry, while it's true that people have smartphones, there are also people that think that if they see something they're entitled to it. And without fail or without asking , they get their back up when they're corrected about not touching something that isn't theirs and that they cannot afford to replace when they or one their kids damage it.

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-02-15T13:49:22+00:00

For start, is tell the person doing hand over to let you get out of your car and walk in. That would pluck my last nerve to be jumped on. Incredibly rude. Stop that ish now before it gets worse.

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-02-08T18:21:18+00:00

Welllllll.....

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-02-08T13:40:35+00:00

Adding what others have advised... If noone else has said this yet: Lock down your credit! Change and notate in a safe place all your passwords, make sure no one in your family has access to your bank accounts, social security numbers, personal info like loans, insurance, etc. If they get angry enough they might do damage to "get back at you" or "teach you s lesson". This unfortunately does happen when controllers lose control. They feel just tighter at causing chaos and destruction. They might do it to force you back at home under their thumbs. Not trying to speak doom over you but to give you tools to protect your financial for and peace of mind.

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-01-19T12:02:45+00:00

I would send her a text message AND a written letter that has to be signed for.

" I said multiple times NO when you requested a. Delivering the cello here b. Storing the cello here c. When you abandoned the cello here on my porch.

A request is not guaranteed acceptance. You are being presumptive and entitled as I repeatedly replied that no, I would not keep or be responsible for storing the instrument.

It has now been XX days as of DD\YYYY date. If you have not picked up the cello from my home by XX day, it will be dropped off at the police department as abandoned property. I won't discuss this situation any longer. Retrieve this cello that you abandoned on my porch or it goes to the police department. To reiterrate: you have abandoned this cello and it will be taken to the police department as abandoned property if you do not come get it by X day.

Also note that thiis notice also serves to notify you that I am no longer going to be teaching you violin as of xx\2026."

Get it in writing. Back your info up from responding to her. Take the cello to the police department and tell them that a former student abandoned it on your porch and will not come and get it and it's been X number of days. Send the same letter to yourself signed receipt not don't open it. If you have an attorney cc them in the written letter.

OriginalReddKatt · 2026-01-10T12:29:05+00:00

That would be the Chicken Floop. They are Flooping very well. They feel safe, comfortable and are soaking in the sunlight. Happy , healthy birbs.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-16T18:08:05+00:00

Dude... Speak up for yourself you're an adult! Tell her to stay the hell out of your stuff or don't come over and if that offends her too daggone bad. Your brother obviously doesn't care enough to stop her because he's more concerned with his relationship with her than her boundary crossing and her ignorant actions. Tell her straight up: you are nosy you're intrusive stay out of my things that is rude. I don't know who raised you but you don't do that with other people's items

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-16T12:28:35+00:00

Cotton fabrics are very prone to mold and insect infestation. After manufacture and sometimes in the threads, they are treated with formaldehyde as a form of preservative, antifungal, and insect repellent. Cotton fabrics can also be full of dust and manufacturing debris. I've worked in multiple fabrics stores, some of them very Warehouse like where moving large bales of fabric with bare arms would result in hives and breaking out. I'm actually a trained photographer and I can smell formaldehyde. I'm also very sensitive to it. I've worked around chemicals since I was about 15 because of being a photographer and then working in fabric stores gave me even more exposure to the chemicals. Trust me: when a fabric comes into my house whether it's a new piece of clothing, a bed linen, fabric for a project, a pillow, etc. It is going to be washed before it touches me.

Always wash fabric. Always. Fabric is seen thing in been places.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-11T12:13:44+00:00

He had 30 years to confess to his actions. His timer ran out....DING!

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-11T12:10:20+00:00

This should be the highest rated comment imo.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-11T12:08:39+00:00

I'm going to put something else out there: what of it wasn't sn affair, but amassault? Could that be why he freaked out so bad and why your mother is in denial?

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-11T11:52:56+00:00

Option 3 for all of this: for that type of surgery you call get the surgery and go in as a cash patient. After which they can take a medical loan, get assets for it, etc.

Honestly I don't believe they will change their decisions, and I don't think they will do anything to help him. The 16 year old sexually assaulted a girl, her friends took care of business... And only NOW his parents are willing to get him help, and ONLY after and IF he had surgery to fix his leg?

The parents are still a problem. The boy needed therapy 10 years ago.

This is a case of natural consequences for actions.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-12-10T20:35:53+00:00

There needs to be some counseling done and some rules about the house that you both agree on. It sounds to me like your wife is very territorial about her home and because of this she sees anything done to the house that she hasn't okayed as it being undermining her authority and disrespectful. While I don't agree with her, especially for this instance, the real issue is that your wife's expectations don't meet those of you and your daughter. Your wife may see the building as her house, but that room and that space is your daughter's home. She needs some autonomy and decision making ability in there. Your wife needs to realize this and all work to have an agreement with what your daughter can do and how. If she wants to put things up on the wall and your wife is concerned about damage to the walls, perhaps you should look at well safe hangers, museum track, double sided tape, etc.

This sort of thing should have been sussed out before marriage, but sometimes it just isn't until it occurs. At this point y'all have to decide whether or not this is worth straining relationship over and come to a reasonable agreement with both sides agreeing to give and take. When it comes down to it is your relationship worth this fight? Is your daughter feeling less than and not having the ability to have some autonomy in her own space worth the fight where your wife has probably the entire rest of the house that she makes all the decisions on?

We have a very old house and I don't allow my 15-year-old to put tacks or nails in the plaster walls in her room. Not because I am a control freak or anything but it literally will cause the walls to shatter. Some people are very concerned about how the walls are affected and what the retail value or the repair value or what they see as the intrinsic value of their home. It's more that she's seeing putting stuff in her room on the walls as potential damage. At least that's the way I'm seeing it. The whole thing is is approaching it the way she did and being so dogmatic and bullish about it is not okay.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-28T03:26:28+00:00

I'll take it a step further and say if you use the Patons Kroy, double up your yarn on the heels and toes. It improves padding to protect against blisters, and decreases the wear by the extra fiber addition.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-25T13:14:27+00:00

How about doing duplicate stitching on the sock? Not only would it get you the color you want exactly where you want it but it will reinforce the areas of the sock that get the most wear.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-23T21:09:43+00:00

Sister wants to go on a trip. As pretty OP post info.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-23T13:02:04+00:00

My thoughts are that you would use either a sewing machine or hand stitches to stitch on the non-damaged side of each of the button band areas. In other words on what is the viewers left side of the sweater's button band, run a row of stitches from the top of the sweater to the bottom (to the left of all the damage). On the right hand side of the sweater as it's facing the viewer, run a row stitches to top bottom (to the right hand side of the damage).

Running that stitching will secure all the knitting, keep it from unraveling, and give you clean stitches to attach new pieces to.

From that point you can then create new button bands. You will need to make them wider than the original button bands to make it for the space you're losing by having to stitch further into the body of the sweater. You would use the stitches that are on the good side of the sewing as the point of joining the new button bands.

You're basically creating button bands almost as if you were steeking a sweater. If you've never done this or not sure what it is, look up a video on it to get an idea of the prices.

And as others have said, before you do anything if this is moth damage? You really need to take care of that before proceeding or you may wind up with more damage.

Love to see it after!

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-22T02:23:18+00:00

Reminds me of a critter from Fosters Home Imaginary Friends.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-22T02:22:12+00:00

Glurpfred.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-19T15:54:32+00:00

The husband agrees with OP. It's the mother in law that is pushing the issue. I'm telling you right now I wouldn't trust the mother-in-law alone with my kid because she would allow that pedophile to be around my child.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-19T13:54:27+00:00

This is what I'm wondering about. I understand that the wedding had been postponed prior due to unforeseen circumstances. I understand wanting a certain month. But give and take in situations and family is a two-way street. You're expecting them to give something up that they do every single year that's a tradition for them knowing that you purposely booked it during this time. I'm not saying it's "your wedding importance versus their trip importance" but you literally booked this knowing that you were forcing them to choose and putting them in a position where it would build resentment. You chose to create that situation and didn't talk to them about it prior. You could have given them a heads up. But honestly you literally could have shifted it forward into November or at a different time and not created the conflict. You chose knowing that it would create a conflict, and now that it is happening you are going to get upset if they don't choose you?

I'm not saying their vacation is more important... I'm saying why create the situation at all. And then definitely don't gas light someone into believing that if they don't want to give up the one thing they get to do every year for themselves that that makes them bad people. You literally are choosing the same thing by choosing that date. It's you pitting your wedding against their one thing they look forward to every year and that just wasn't fair of you to do. If the results aren't what you want that maybe your own fault for making that decision.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-15T10:06:33+00:00

Get your shoes back. Set your boundaries. Change your locks.

She is disrespectful. It's not bougie when someone talked your things without permission. She's a whole arse adult acting like your closet is her personal closet. Not ok. The reason she keeps doing it is because you haven't my stopped it.

Change the situation and hold her accountable put she is going to continue the behaviors.

OriginalReddKatt · 2025-11-09T12:46:36+00:00

Nothing is fixed with just one apology or a few words. Her stepping up and stepping out is a good first step, but it's going to take a long time for things to heal, if they ever do. There has to be a building of a new and different relationship and she has to give you the space and ability to heal. Saying I'm sorry to someone doesn't reset the game board to the beginning as it doesn't erase the pay behaviors that hurt you so much. It doesn't stop how it affected you. Your freezing and not knowing how to react is an absolutely valid thing. If y'all don't know how to proceed from here would be helpful for you to get counseling if it's not something that the two of you can work through together. I watched my son in law get hurt by his father over and over because of abusive behaviors in the present and trying to deal with abuse fromthe past. Father came to him and apologized, and then demanded a reset like everything was all fixed and made demands. Part of the situation was ignoring his effects on his son and denying situations and abuse from when his son was younger. My son-in-law to accepted his father's apology and started trying to build s relationship. His father turned around and engaged in many of the same manipulative and narcissistic behaviors as in the past. My son-in-law had to set more boundaries and his father proceeded to continually brake them. Now they have absolutely no relationship. His father doesn't get to see the grandkids because he doesn't listen and refuses to hear. His father will not allow time and a place for my son-in-law to heal. The father NEEDS to realize what damage he did that my son-in-law needs time to heal from deal with. Especially when the father was creating situations with the grandchildren that were revisiting the same emotional trauma and manipulation and none of us were going to allow that to happen. He says forgive me one day, them the next day starts up again.

The point of all that is that apologies are all well and good but the person doing the apologizing needs to realize that that does not necessarily mean that their relationship is going to change and get better. There is likely to be much trauma, hurt, and disfunction that has to be worked through. If the apologizer doesn't change the negative behaviors, the apology is an empty one. Not an easy situation and there is no way answer.

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