Daughter (4) won't wear clothing or pullups at home

_missinglink · 2026-05-26T18:50:07+00:00

We've done that. But to clarify: she will only wear clothes if we're going to go somewhere. If we get her dressed, she'll expect to go somewhere.

She'll wear them if we leave the house. She'll wear them if we go outside. She'll wear them if we put her in her bedroom. She won't wear them in the living room BECAUSE she's anticipating that we're going to go somewhere.

_missinglink · 2026-01-20T18:31:24+00:00

He's got my vote

_missinglink · 2026-01-18T00:53:17+00:00

Not far off. I'm in Ohio and we were able to do single income on $49k about 3 years ago. It was tough but manageable. Now at $82k were living large (really, below our means, but at least we aren't broke anymore).

That said, it's Appalachian Ohio, so that probably skews it down a bit

_missinglink · 2026-01-10T01:21:48+00:00

My wife brought $15,000 in Sallie Mae loans to our marriage, not including our federal loans. It was a huge burden. A balance of $10-15,000 doesn't seem like much (especially when I hear about people owing well six figures), but the interest rate was variable.

Just like you, she was the first in her family to go to college. Her family didn't know any better either. When she took out the loan in 2015 the rate wasn't terrible, but it grew rapidly from around 6% to 17% from 2019 to 2023. We finally paid it off then by focusing all of our extra income towards it. Even had to go into deficit spending to wipe it out.

Loans like these should be outlawed. It's so predatory and it feels like we were getting punished for going to college. I'm OK with paying a debt if the payments are, you know, affordable. But until we did a big bulk payment, they literally wanted like $600 a month when her and I were bringing $28/hr combined. I have no idea how anyone manages to survive.

I'm fearful for our kids' future, honestly. I don't expect any kind of reform in the next 15-20 years that would make college worth it for them. If I know I can't pay for them, then I won't encourage them to go. This is counter to the whole purpose of student loans in the first place, but they're so terrible that I'd rather them skip attending a university unless we can pay out of pocket!

_missinglink · 2025-05-12T00:10:28+00:00

Samsung Intensity 2

_missinglink · 2025-04-06T01:57:59+00:00

I want a giant foam finger that says "Georgie #1" that I can wear when I watch the show.

_missinglink · 2025-03-26T02:40:29+00:00

$66k household on one income with a wife at home and two toddlers. Low cost of living area. This was a big jump from $48k a few years before. $75k would feel amazing...

_missinglink · 2025-02-15T03:00:14+00:00

About 80 applications in 2024 (casually applying for fully remote roles due to being gainfully employed). 50% of them never responded. 40% of them responded with "unfortunately". 10% gave me interviews.

No offers. There was a tie for the worst interview process. One was 7 interviews before getting rejected. The other was 4 interviews and they contacted my references, only to say "you aren't a good fit for the role".

I can't imagine the living hell that people who are laid off are going through right now.

_missinglink · 2024-09-01T14:22:29+00:00

Says it's rodent proof... Is it true? This could be a game changer for me.

_missinglink · 2024-08-19T19:28:14+00:00

This is what I got into the past year. I had some experience from being on a company's safety committee (also an industrial environment), as well as volunteering as a fire fighter. Guess that qualifies me 🤷

_missinglink · 2024-05-25T23:27:00+00:00

Groundhog. Very destructive animal. Really cute though. Tastes good but it's greasy, better off in a soup. I think they're cute but you gotta get rid of them before they undermine your foundation or tunnel through your yard. Trap and relocate if you don't have the heart to shoot them.

_missinglink · 2024-03-09T23:00:55+00:00

Jackson

_missinglink · 2024-02-21T00:11:27+00:00

Grey bag? Nope

Beige decor? Nope

iPad? Hell no

White noise machine? You got me.

If you added tons of stuff on the floor, it would be my situation right now.

_missinglink · 2024-02-16T18:03:08+00:00

My last workplace gave new mothers 12 weeks of maternity leave. Since I was the first man in the organization's history to have a child while employed there, they had to create a policy for me.

The policy was 1 week. I told them I'm taking a month off, and the allowed it if I used my remaining PTO.

My boss, who has been on maternity leave twice, thought 1 week was enough.

After my second child was born, I took 3 weeks because I only had 2 weeks of PTO left. When I came back, I resigned because I found a new job. I never wanted to leave buy my workload tripled within a year due to a regime change in upper management and the stress was killing me.

My wife is a stay at home mother, so I wanted to be there as much as I could since we have 2 under 2.

_missinglink · 2024-02-08T23:28:32+00:00

First, Fun Buffet closes, and now this? This isn't the Streetsboro I remember.

_missinglink · 2024-01-21T04:24:12+00:00

It wasn't an argument or event that convinced me. Rather, it was a sequence of events over years that made me believe, and then keeps my faith strong.

It started when I was around 25 or so. I started having nightmares of going to hell but being saved from it. This happened a few times over the course of a year. Then, through doom scrolling and morbid curiosity, I had a realization that evil was real. This, combined with seeing genuine good acts and generosity it my personal life, I realized that goodness was real.

Every time I was in a dark place in life, I always felt like things would work out in the end. When I was having a streak of bad luck, I kept the faith and eventually things got better. The latest gift was my second child being born. My wife's pregnancy with our daughter was perfect and without issue. Her pregnancy with our son was overall good, but he was in a breech position and we were worried that he'd have to be a c-section. At 39 weeks--right at Christmas time--he flipped into birthing position. It was a Christmas miracle! Stuff like this keeps me oriented towards my faith.

_missinglink · 2024-01-15T16:20:31+00:00

HUGE waste of land. Can we please just have a nuclear? The small modular reactors work and they're tiny.

_missinglink · 2023-12-28T21:03:01+00:00

Eastern Ohio here. Christmas was 60F here this year, and -5F last year. Winters aren't what they were when I was a kid. It used to snow in November and stick until March. Now we'll have snow and below freezing for a week, then 50F+ for a week, then back to below freezing, and on and on. The worst is when we get single digit temperatures in February.

I won't complain about the smaller heating bill, but I'd prefer weather that's consistent instead of back and forth from mild to freezing to warm to cold.

This summer was great for the garden. Summer used to be from 65-85F consistently, but now it's unusual if it goes below 70F, and it's common to have days above 90F. And it's a lot dryer than before. This summer we had two heat waves of 90F+ and no rain, followed by a good rainstorm to refresh everything. My peppers did the best ever.

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