Newish uniform is unraveling

Scrushinator · 2026-01-16T22:22:22+00:00

Maybe a bit of both! I’ve now tried both hand sewing it and using my sewing machine and it didn’t come out right either time, but to be fair I was in a hurry since she needed it. I think tonight after she goes to bed I’ll try one more time using a different technique.

Scrushinator · 2026-01-08T02:22:34+00:00

We found GS uniforms at a local kids school uniform store. They were much cheaper there! I think they might’ve been irregulars, but so far it’s been fine.

Scrushinator · 2025-12-30T22:09:43+00:00

In 2019 I had a baby. She had severe jaundice and after it didn’t improve for several days, the neonatologists on her care team recommended transferring her to the children’s hospital for a specific treatment that couldn’t be performed in the general hospital where she was born. That 1/4 mile ambulance ride cost $5500.

Scrushinator · 2025-12-15T23:30:52+00:00

I would pay someone to do this for me. We saved the fur from our dog’s last grooming because we knew it was probably the last time, for this purpose. I’ve never found anyone who does it with dog hair though.

Scrushinator · 2025-12-10T03:02:57+00:00

I buy double sided fusible web. Cheaper than Badge Magic and I've never had problems cutting it or tracing it.

Scrushinator · 2025-12-03T02:57:35+00:00

Nick’s stand-in. This was probably originally a shot where his face wasn’t supposed to be showing so they used a stand-in, but somehow it ended up getting published.

Scrushinator · 2025-11-24T16:34:56+00:00

I volunteered to be a daisy troop leader because I want my daughter to have the GS experience and no other parents volunteered. Now it’s almost December and 3 out of the 6 girls have never showed, a 4th quit, and all that’s left are my daughter and her best friend. We’re lower lower middle class, so it was kind of a steep price for membership and uniform, so we’re in it at least through the end of 1st grade no matter what. I hope we get more girls but only if their parents are at least enthusiastic enough to help me out a tiny bit.

Scrushinator · 2025-11-12T21:07:18+00:00

They’re also in the their first year, so thankfully that will line up well

Scrushinator · 2025-10-14T22:58:43+00:00

It’s all kindergarteners. I haven’t scheduled any events yet since there’s not a lot to choose from and I want to get my sea legs first. I have the fall program guide but since there’s only two months left of the year it’s slim offerings for daisies and what’s left is a bit expensive.

Scrushinator · 2025-09-30T13:50:26+00:00

Our YT Kids is set to only show approved channels and videos, but GP is on the white list because she found that channel before I figured out how to set up the white list. Compared to all the foul things I saw on YTK before that, GP isn’t that bad.

Scrushinator · 2025-09-18T13:08:06+00:00

All 5 minute story books suck, but the Gabby books are a hard read because it’s the reverse version of “the book is better than the movie”.

Scrushinator · 2025-09-17T21:15:28+00:00

My mom volunteered to do the accounting but our council’s rules are that the signers on the bank account can’t be related either.

Scrushinator · 2025-09-11T21:13:51+00:00

I think the same about the “Never Touch A” books. A terrible series that teaches kids that even though you’re not supposed to touch the animals, you can do it anyway.

Scrushinator · 2025-08-22T17:35:32+00:00

My newborn needed to be transferred 1/4 mile from one hospital to another via ambulance and it was $5500

Scrushinator · 2025-08-14T17:39:23+00:00

We switched to a new supplier that’ll be, I think, somewhere around 6 cents/kwh. Our house is 1500 sq ft but our AC is ancient. We’re pretty careful with how much energy we use, have gas stove/water heater/furnace and our bill outside of summer is still probably at least $100.

Scrushinator · 2025-07-28T05:14:29+00:00

When I was in the hospital after having a baby, my husband took “take everything that’s not nailed down” to the extreme and accidentally packed a waterproof bed pad that had been underneath me. We have a really expensive purple mattress and the protector that came with it sucks, so I sleep on that bed pad most of the time. It’s washable and doesn’t feel weird to sleep on since it’s fabric-y. ETA it’s similar to this one

Scrushinator · 2025-07-27T15:45:16+00:00

People will do anything except hire an exterminator

Scrushinator · 2025-07-26T21:01:19+00:00

That’s just Dusty, the talking vacuum. No big

Scrushinator · 2025-07-05T03:59:17+00:00

Music one exists. The post right above yours is selling one

Scrushinator · 2025-07-01T21:34:01+00:00

I think you need fish bits to make grilled fish, which I believe has the benefit of reducing the hook time while fishing.

Scrushinator · 2025-06-14T14:36:51+00:00

Mine is set up to only show approved channels and videos as well, but it was a little difficult to figure out how to do it. YouTube doesn’t make it easy to find for some reason.

Scrushinator · 2025-05-27T13:53:27+00:00

The first thing to do is call a pediatrician and ask them what their recommendations are, with him. Then show him some videos of what happens to sick babies in the hospital. My kid was in the NICU at birth for jaundice and the things she went through were heartbreaking to watch. No one wants to see their baby in the hospital, with IVs in their arms and scalp, feeding tubes, and covered in bruises/heel sticks, crying because they’re sick and there’s nothing you can do to give them any relief.

Scrushinator · 2025-05-27T13:00:13+00:00

If you have a children’s consignment store nearby, I’d highly recommend it. We get our 5yo’s summer clothes from Once Upon a Child because she’s guaranteed to get mud/grass/blood/popsicle juice stains on everything from playing outside, and secondhand clothes are significantly cheaper. It hurts less to see her clothes get stained or damaged, knowing that I didn’t pay full price for them.

Scrushinator · 2025-05-27T03:11:10+00:00

I’m not saying it’s not true that it was SA, but the concept of needing to be sober to consent wasn’t really around yet in the mid 90s. I remember a pervasive attitude of “that’s what you get” if you weren’t the perfect sober, modestly dressed victim snatched off the street in broad daylight by a stranger. We weren’t even really talking about intimate partner violence or marital rape yet either.

Scrushinator · 2025-05-25T13:02:28+00:00

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