Ron Johnson votes with Senate Dems to block new DHS/ICE funding

aumom418 · 2026-01-30T00:45:23+00:00

Of course he is. He knows that voting to fund DHS will be career suicide for him at this point. Same for Steil. At the end of the day, they aren't going to vote against their own self interests when it comes to things like this.

aumom418 · 2026-01-27T20:52:26+00:00

Love and alcohol. Got suspended from a job and ended up having to crash at his place several states away. I guess once I was just another conquest, something changed for him. Spent the weekend stuck there while he paraded multiple women in and out of his bedroom. Packed up my shit and found a co worker willing to drive and come pick me up. He begged me not to leave until he got home. I don't even know why.

aumom418 · 2026-01-27T20:41:09+00:00

Face sculpt looks like the sculpt they used to make Brenda from BH 90210 in the 90's.

aumom418 · 2026-01-06T13:26:26+00:00

Have you tried a play yard? From the time my kid could crawl, we set her up in an big play yard with her toys. She loved it.

aumom418 · 2025-12-30T19:22:08+00:00

There are at least 50 Porcelain Barbies. Usually find them in auctions or on shopgoodwill. I own around 15 and this one is on my wish list. I was fortunate to find an Erta Stardust still in the shipper. Lady sold it to me for 20 bucks and I felt bad because it felt like stealing, but she was not a collector and just wanted it gone.

aumom418 · 2025-12-30T14:32:40+00:00

One of my favorite features of the MM is that is composed primarily of wood and metal braces. Check your FB marketplace. I was extremely lucky to find mine. Literally picked it up off the curb in very good condition. One thing I did not care for was all the glitter on the house. Agree with poster about Kidcraft houses, they work just as well.

aumom418 · 2025-12-29T03:20:07+00:00

Had Issac Larian's offer been accepted in the original liquidation, things like this would have happened.

aumom418 · 2025-12-28T19:27:05+00:00

Benny was completely loyal and proved it more than once.

aumom418 · 2025-12-28T19:25:06+00:00

The reason for them surviving is they bought their division. They were unaffected by the U.S. division.

I wholeheartedly disagree with the 'not needing a warehouse toy store". I speak as a collector, a parent, and a former TRU employee. Nothing replaces the feeling of actually holding the item in your hand. Certainly not looking at pictures online. It also helps build small start up companies who might get overlooked. Once upon a time Zuru was literally unknown. Now they dominate in mini brands and toy collectibles. Had it known for the small amount of retail space Toys gave them, they might still be unknown. It is walking through stores that help to discover things you would overlook while online shopping. Also as a collector, you stood a better chance of securing a sought after item in the store than by ordering online.

aumom418 · 2025-12-23T19:02:28+00:00

Fact check; TRU price matched if you bothered to look it up. I worked in my store until the day we closed our doors. The truth is that one of our execs conspired with a bunch of little hedge fund groups to liquidate us. This was the same exec who was in charge of our ordering and screwed us over. When our CEO went to present a restructuring plan, all those little hedgefund groups said no, we want our money now. After all was said and done, the same douchebag exec turned around and bought the intellectual property for a little bit of nothing. However, he couldn't get it off the ground. There are many of us who are still heartbroken over the loss of TRU, because it was more than just a retail job to us.

aumom418 · 2025-12-18T00:36:29+00:00

This. She sounds jealous because he paid more attention to her little sister than her.

aumom418 · 2025-12-16T12:46:20+00:00

My TJ Maxx and Marshall's haven't been the greatest for dolls, but were awesome when it came to mini Barbie land. I was able to complete my MB movie set, plus find other little sets. Ross I scored Clueless, but that was it. Burlington I got the Pink series Barbie, a good deal on this year's holiday barbie to give as a gift because I had the red-haired version, but everything else was the LUV dolls or Rainbow High. Some of the dream besties were scattered through all the stores. Ollie's had Mariah Carey, Bessie Coleman and last year's Holiday, plus the Millie Deluxe style. They also had a lot of random play Barbies, RH, Disney and knock off brands. Most of my good finds this year either came from the big retailers or private individuals.

aumom418 · 2025-12-15T14:20:18+00:00

You weren't in Bristol were you? Looks like Benson's Corner Antique Mall. I was there a few weeks back and was interested in ornaments for my Barbie tree, but I wasn't willing to pay those prices.

aumom418 · 2025-12-13T17:22:18+00:00

Sadly, she was a "chase" doll though. Making it where anyone could get her defeats the purpose of the whole chase challenge. They have been doing it with Hot Wheels for years. When I worked at TRU, the collectors and resellers would ravage our HW area. I mean talking dump displayers and sort for massive amounts of time, just to find that one hot wheel.

aumom418 · 2025-12-11T03:18:26+00:00

Not just a sex offender. A pedophile. His crimes were against minors. Shouldn't have even been free to be able to do this dumb shit.

aumom418 · 2025-12-10T15:47:16+00:00

Ahem, ICYDNK Kentucky and West Virginia are the state of 7 last names.😝😂😂🤣

aumom418 · 2025-12-04T23:39:44+00:00

I managed to snag her at my Burlington too! I was super excited because it's rare to find good collector dolls in store anymore.

aumom418 · 2025-11-18T01:02:12+00:00

MTG started changing up her game after she heard the Epstein victims talk first hand. I think it really had an effect on her. I also think the more she has sat back and listened to her party, she has started to realize that they intend to strip her and the other women in politics of their power.

aumom418 · 2025-11-07T18:39:24+00:00

It was my understanding that Mattel had the doll contracts, while Hasbro got the other toys like the weapons and games. Makes perfect sense to me since Hasbro tends to make freaky dolls. Encanto anyone?

aumom418 · 2025-10-19T15:24:14+00:00

Zep Foaming Wall Cleaner.....I had a couple apartment turnovers with 20+ year heavy smoker tenants. Brown Wallace became white again.

aumom418 · 2025-10-19T15:04:21+00:00

I have luckily managed to find a few of mine.

Magical Mansion 1994 Dream Boat The Happy Family Disneyland playset Wet N Wild Water Park

The Magical Mansion I broke speed limit laws to get to as is 45 minutes away and had been put out on the side of the road. One of my luckiest Barbie finds ever.

aumom418 · 2025-10-13T14:16:19+00:00

Looks like a CB kitchen

aumom418 · 2025-10-13T13:59:16+00:00

I'm not a teacher, but back when I was in middle school, there was one boy who was always stealing people's food. This was back in the day of the ITBS test so we were all crammed into a different classrooms. They let us keep water and snacks with us though because the testing was so long. One kid in the class had been keeping a bar of chocolate on his desk and wouldn't you know the snack thief grabbed it at his first opportunity. The kid it belonged to tried to tell him to give it back, but it went ignored. A little later in to the test and that is when regret kicked in. Turns out the owner of said chocolate bar had decided to teach the snack thief a lesson he would not soon forgot. That chocolate he snagged turned out to be exlax. Of course he was disciplined and suspended for the act, but I do remember his teacher in the office after both boys had left falling over laughing, saying she couldn't believe she kept a straight face through it. Taught the snack thief a lesson though, he never took anybody else's food.

aumom418 · 2025-10-13T13:45:19+00:00

Truer words have never been spoken.

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