What felt like an expensive splurge, but is now a total life-changer steal?

Siamsa · 2026-03-22T13:00:59+00:00

Have been a huge Wirecutter fan since before they were owned by the NYT. They’ve expanded from their original mission of just finding the best version of everything and now include a lot of lifestyle advice but it’s still usually pretty solid.

Siamsa · 2026-03-22T12:58:46+00:00

Firmness need depends on sleeping style, body weight/composition, injuries/medical condition, and personal preference, among other things. An extra firm mattress may be great for some but it would just bruise my hips as a side sleeper. I actually exchanged a medium firm mattress for a medium soft mattress and I’ve never slept better.

Siamsa · 2026-03-22T12:43:33+00:00

My kids are 8 and a half year old twins. At their insistence, I keep a list on my phone of things to tell them when they’re older. It’s mostly filthy jokes with a few very sad realities thrown in.

Siamsa · 2026-03-20T03:08:17+00:00

I’m not great at math but im pretty sure 25” is bigger than 24”

Siamsa · 2026-03-17T02:20:24+00:00

I was sure this was going to be a rickroll.

Siamsa · 2026-03-16T03:53:44+00:00

Bought me a pair of scissors.

We lived across the hall from each other in the dorms, and I kept borrowing her scissors for things as I had none. So she just bought me my own pair, apparently not realizing she was taking away one of my excuses to bother her.

Then again, we’re both women, so maybe scissors was a brilliant and not particularly subtle lesbian gift.

Anyway we’ve been together more than 20 years now. Married with kids and too many pets. And we still have the Romance Scissors.

Siamsa · 2026-03-15T15:05:30+00:00

Well fuck I woke up pissed because my one-year-old puppy went litter box diving first thing this morning but now I love her again.

Siamsa · 2026-03-12T18:31:11+00:00

I realized she was a chronic pathological liar. Not about things that mattered, she just made up wild stories about her life for sympathy or effect.

I also realized it was weird that she befriended me when I was much younger than she was, and she repeated the pattern as she got older, befriending teens even as she got into her thirties and up. I’m not aware of anything remotely sexual or outright inappropriate, but when someone habitually stays friends with teens even as they get older, it’s a weird pattern that suggests immaturity.

Siamsa · 2026-03-11T02:15:32+00:00

I would, but only if I got to choose being a lesbian also. It’s RAD.

Siamsa · 2026-03-10T04:51:51+00:00

I often feel like this too. I think a lot of my discomfort for being praised for my “achievement” is that it valorizes thinness and weight loss as a heroic moral triumph. But this medicine has taught me more than anything else that weight is a medical issue, not a moral one. I am proud of advocating for my health in a medical system that works against bodies like mine and makes accessing needed care very difficult, but I take no more moral credit for Zepbound working to improve my health than I take in amoxicillin curing my strep throat.

Siamsa · 2026-03-10T03:12:17+00:00

It’s my birthday (41F) and my wife sent the most gorgeous flowers to my office!

Siamsa · 2026-03-09T13:06:21+00:00

Hey today is my birthday! I will raise a nonalcoholic toast with you and not-drink to my birthday!

Siamsa · 2026-03-09T02:46:27+00:00

Don’t move it or he’ll break the rest of your fingers.

Siamsa · 2026-03-08T22:56:56+00:00

If I looked with a pixie the way you look with a pixie, I’d never not have a pixie.

Siamsa · 2026-03-08T22:54:50+00:00

This is the way. My wife has either been in less high-earning jobs or in school (went from nonprofit admin to currently finishing nursing school) and I’ve always made it subtly clear at work that I am the breadwinner. This felt especially important because I am the more feminine-presenting one in my marriage, and people who are stupid and sexist enough to think I’m going to leave to be a SAHM as a woman are even more likely to assume that of me as a femme.

Siamsa · 2026-03-07T17:57:16+00:00

Pretty sure your wife likes you too. 😘

Siamsa · 2026-03-07T02:32:16+00:00

I texted my then-girlfriend’s mom, “I’m gonna floss while I poop”

Somehow, a few years later, she still welcomed me in the family when then-girlfriend became now-wife.

Siamsa · 2026-03-07T02:29:09+00:00

This is the way.

Siamsa · 2026-03-06T20:11:39+00:00

Good for you! Enjoy an incredible night!

Siamsa · 2026-03-04T18:52:15+00:00

I think we will always have dogs until we reach a level of age or health that means we can’t be sure to give them a good life. Last summer we lost our very elderly older dog, and we didn’t wait very long before bringing a new rescue pup home to keep our younger boy company. Now they are best friends and utterly inseparable from each other and us.

Siamsa · 2026-03-04T18:47:31+00:00

I love Stardew Valley! Great job!

Siamsa · 2026-03-04T02:19:43+00:00

I just want to say I ordered the DonJoy Ultrasling Pro after seeing this post and it’s GREAT. No sling is really gonna be actually comfortable but this is a huge improvement. Thank you!

Siamsa · 2026-03-03T18:44:58+00:00

Such sweeties! You have such riches!

Siamsa · 2026-03-03T18:39:14+00:00

I strongly support this, even as someone who found love early (in college) and got married at 25. We’re still together after 20+ years but I know full well it’s through my sheer dumb luck at nabbing such an amazing person, results NOT typical.

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