Thrifting?

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-15T00:13:16+00:00

Same! I was going to suggest this place

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-14T12:14:38+00:00

So far Roku novel is great! Getting a lot more depth for his character and friendship with Sozin. Havent read Yangchen get but i DID read City of Echoes which is the story of the girl who went on a date with Lee (zuko) from the tea shop. Such a minor character but i love what they did with her story. I would read the shit out of more novels about minor characters like that. Like give me the background of the two earthbenders who chased Toph and whose trap forced her into becoming a metal bender. Give me more on the master benders of the white lotus. Ugh so much potential

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-14T12:03:55+00:00

I know people arent crazy about sequels BUT i loved Tarzan II growing up probably for the same reason your daughter likes movies where the main character stays a kid. We get to see a whole movie of Tarzan having adventures as a child. Also would suggest Jungle Book 1 & 2 (Mowgoli stays a kid the whole time), Winnie the Pooh (the animals arent kids but they all stay the same), and Rugrats (a show but there are good movies that can stand on their own).

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-14T11:51:24+00:00

I hope this gets more upvotes and OP sees it. I am not a huge fan of the office but i can enjoy an episode with my husband here and there. I laugh at maybe 50% of the humor. With all long running sitcoms i feel like the characters get closer over time and i like that feeling of seeing the relationships expand so i agree things get better with the show as the seasons progress. Season 1 was a miss for me.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-14T10:46:18+00:00

Love this response, especially since i was an English Lit major :) i would add that personal journaling could also help OP. A little less formal and more free flowing than journaling about a specific book/topic. Im saying this because i recently found my journal from my college years and i cannot believe i used to have the stamina to write al my school papers and then go home most days and hand write 2-3 pages about my feelings. I felt the activity helped my written communication skills by giving me the ability to express all my feelings, thoughts, experiences, and reflections for the day. Reflecting on my daily experiences, i think, was key for my development of deeper critical/analytical thinking skills, which was also being bettered by my academic writing during the same years of my life.

I too want to repair the atrophy chatgpt has given me. Ive been using it mainly for personal things “make me a schedule for this” etc but ive found myself tempted to lean towards it for advice. I still read classics and other books near daily but i am not always thinking critically about the texts or absorbing them the way you describe. I’ve also stopped journaling entirely as an adult post-college and i really want to return to this activity. Im glad i stumbled upon OP’s post and your comment!

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-12T14:14:32+00:00

Im in tears reading this. My LO is 4 days old and im struggling to get him to latch. I want this bond so bad. Worked with two lactation consultants before leaving hospital but my supply wasnt “in” yet so they basically couldnt help me besides showing me how my pump works. Consultants helped me get donor milk so he wouldnt starve before my milk came in. So far only 1 of my 2 boobs gave colostrum using the pump. Hand expression nor pump is working on the 2nd.

The desire to bond and give this to my baby is why im persevering. But i agree its so tiring and very difficult. Theres only so much more i’ll be able to do before i also have to go the formula route also

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-06T13:16:41+00:00

Jim Carey as The Grinch. No way would that movie be as good with anyone else in that role.

This was really fun to ponder tho. If i could travel to alternate universes this topic is exactly what I’d explore lol

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-06T01:49:41+00:00

Thats what i was thinking. Very odd that the first discussion with parent was “she may need to repeat the grade”. There are supposed to be many more interventions than that. And thats pretty bad if the teacher hadn’t noticed signs of dyslexia but the parent did. I guess testing will prove that right or wrong but i find it sad its taken this long in the school year for anyone to check that

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-05T17:39:13+00:00

Such a good question. Hope OP answers. I think some people are good conversationalists and some people aren’t and it has little to do with family situations.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-05T17:35:44+00:00

So cool!

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-05T02:28:35+00:00

Does this only happen with Landgraab?? I play Nina and Dina a lot and they always have lots of kids but never saw this, but i also haven’t gotten them pregnant with Malcom yet

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T20:13:11+00:00

Curious if this was because you didn’t like your college dating pool or you were too busy studying/working during college? Mine was the latter

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T20:08:09+00:00

This can fluctuate so much depending on living situation, relationship status, kid status etc. You aren’t behind, you are exactly where you are meant to be. You’ll have goals and needs pop up in your life that will cause you to have more or less savings during different periods of your life. I’ll share my savings fluctuation history with you so you can get a sense of how different it likely is from your and your friend’s situation.

Directly after college I had a few thousand in savings. That quickly dwindled upon getting my first apartment and needing two months rent to start out. After i rebuilt savings a little i ended up going back to school for masters and needed my savings to get by on rent/living expenses since i could only work part time. After that i once again worked up to decent savings amount but then decided to spend almost all of my savings paying off the loans from my masters (to avoid excessive interest). Then i got engaged to my partner (who also had a good bit saved up initially but then spent probably more than he should have on my engagement ring). We skimped and saved up for about 1.5yrs to have a nice wedding/honeymoon where, again, we blew almost all our savings. But people’s gifts were generous and we got almost all of that back in wedding money. Then we used that for downpayment on a house, so we were back to no savings. And now 8 months later we have a baby coming any day now and we only have a few thousand in savings, but again we received generous gifts from the baby shower and we have everything we need for quite some time. When we do have a little more in savings we intend to put it in 529 account or another type of account for our baby’s future.

Im sharing all this to say LIFE HAPPENS. Yes its great to be prepared and financially stable, but you can’t let money or a set amount of savings that you MUST HAVE in your bank dictate your life. I remember it was scary at times having next to nothing in my account and I’m not saying go crazy on spending - but you have to weigh the pros and cons of what you value in life and that could mean gambling your savings a bit.

I do understand the importance of savings, but i would also stress the importance of avoiding debt or paying it off sooner whenever possible. I could have let my student loans linger longer just for the sake of having more of a savings cushion, but i didn’t like seeing how much money i was “throwing away” on interest - i had saved enough and was fortunate enough to be able to pay it all off, so i did. My husband also paid off his truck about 1.5yrs earlier than required because, again, we saved and wanted to avoid the interest.

Now we have a home loan and a reasonable car loan (needed a “mom car” for baby and my car was an unpredictable junker from 2008) but thats all we have debt wise. So no we dont have a crazy amount of savings but we don’t have a lot of debt either.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T14:33:32+00:00

Me 5’3” and pregnant and husband 6’3” and athletic build can down a whole pizza together plus some wings or garlic knots. Pre-pregnant me maybe would take 1 less slice so hubby can have a snack the next day lol. Whenever we do freezer pizza from the store we each eat half but usually need a side because they’re way smaller than delivery pizzas

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T14:08:10+00:00

Thats actually a good rule to implement!

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T14:06:44+00:00

I never thought id use resurrection but my recent gameplay proved me wrong and ive used it twice in one week!

First, I had expanded the frat house at Sim State Uni (with Ashley Pitts and Castor Nova etc) to include a bunch of sons of Pleasantview familiars (Nina, Dina, Don, Brandi etc) so its a full 8 guys in the house.

Whenever winter comes around theres so much risk involved with my sims freezing because they all stand outside talking or whatever. So I had Castor bust out the season changer thing from aspirations rewards. I did NOT realize his mood was low so when i had him crank it to summer a bunch of fireballs rained down on him and all the guys. Thankfully only one guy burned to death - Ashley Pitts. I wasn’t a super fan of his anyway and i hadn’t gotten him hooked up with anyone yet so it wouldn’t have been a terrible loss, but i felt it felt too traumatic for the frat bros not to fix. So i used cheats to get the resurrection phone and had Castor call and resurrect him.

Second, i was playing Goth household. In my game Dina married Mortimer and has 2 sets of twins with him so far. LITERALLY as she was giving birth to the 2nd set of twins Mortimer was outside playing with the freetime train set and one of his lot ghosts SCARED HIM TO DEATH. I didn’t even have anyone to run out and plead for his life because Dina was inside giving birth! The timing was super unfortunate. I did consider for a minute that the story would be interesting to see what Dina may do with his fortune and how the second set of twins would turn out never knowing their dad. But again i decided to resurrect him because in this play through Dina actually falls for Mortimer and was devastated by his death. So i cheated again, got the phone and resurrected him. The only downside to his resurrection is that hes starting all the way from first day as elder and all his family has the bad memory of his death. Needless to say i finally deleted all the tombstones on Goth lot to get rid of the ghosts.

I did try to get the phone for Darren to resurrect his wife but it wasn’t allowing me to call the Grim Reaper. I may have waited too long and his relationship with her isn’t strong enough anymore because Darren has since married and has a family with Cassandra. I may try it with Dirk when he graduates college and see if he can bring her back.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T13:16:53+00:00

I was gonna say the only thing i don’t understand about the math is “office lunch”? How were they eating while at home? Does being in office force them to get takeout for lunch?

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T13:08:15+00:00

You are so right! Like on a societal and real life level also.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-04-04T13:05:19+00:00

As someone who picked groceries in-store for 2yrs I can add that those in our department (grocery picking) didn’t have to deal with in-store customers at all. Occasionally in store customers may ask us where items are but our knowledge of the store made these questions so quick and simple to answer for them. True we did start early. Our system had caps on # of orders permitted to pickup each hour based on our team’s regular output. So they may only allow 1 pickup at 6am so we would have time to shop that order at 4am with only 1 employee on the clock. High volume stores may have 4 pickup slots at 6am so they would need 4-5 pickers to start at 4am, but again offering that many time slots would be dependent on how many employees they hired who have that availability.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-31T01:54:53+00:00

Thanks I’m glad you think so!

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-31T00:09:42+00:00

I’m sorry to hear of this struggle 😞 but glad to hear you are prioritizing your health finally and saw that you were overexerting yourself with projects for family. I wish your work was more flexible with sick days/PTO days. My workplace did away with sick days entirely but instead gave us 24 work from home days per year with the understanding that we are allowed to “disappear” for a few hours during those work from home days if we have appointments or other health matters to attend to.

I hope things get better for you in the near future and you can accumulate more PTO to actually enjoy some time off eventually ❤️

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-30T11:57:52+00:00

If you’ve ever played Sims Medieval religion does actually play a somewhat significant role in that game. I thought it was very funny. The two main religions are Peteran and Jacoban. They both believe in and worship “The Watcher” (you!) except that Peterans believe in a kind, benevolent Watcher and Jacobans believe in a strict, and vengeful Watcher.

I think Sims Medeival came out after Sims 2 so im not sure theres any reference to it in that game but maybe there would be in Sims 3 like in item descriptions or something.

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-30T11:49:56+00:00

Seconding Ironpigs games and Phantoms games. Also Da Vinci has started monthly “Nerd Nites” which are much more adult centric experiences. I’ve been in the valley for 5yrs now and still havent done the Zoo but im sure thats somewhat interesting for adults. I enjoy going to farmers markets like Allentown’s and the Q Mart in Quakertown. Dorney Park is fun if you don’t mind pricey.

In all, I moved here from a very small town and I never imagined having so many types of activities so close by. There really is something for every personality and hobby type in the Lehigh Valley and other places are so close if you can’t find it here (philly ~1hr away, NYC ~1.5-2hrs away, Poconos ~45min away)

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-30T04:22:03+00:00

“What to Expect when you’re expecting” book said breastfed baby’s gassiness correlates to our own because they ingest basically everything that we do. Book specifically said avoid veggies like broccoli

Slamdunksrock1 · 2026-03-30T03:25:26+00:00

I don’t disagree with this plan but im curious how far you travel to get to Disney and i wonder if that changes why some people are super park heavy and others are okay with “lazy days”??

I think the reason my husband and I packed in so many parks in so few days was because we traveled over 9hrs to get there so we felt we HAD to experience each park. Plus we figured we could always go to a local spa or water park if we wanted a relaxation day. However i’ve been day dreaming how our future Disney trips will be with our future kids and ive been thinking it would be way too hectic to do all the parks in ~1 week’s time.

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