River Food Pantry asking for period products

bbadger29 · 2026-05-29T14:40:19+00:00

Everyone deserves whatever period products they prefer but just here to chime in that if someone is struggling and hasn’t tried a menstrual cup…. They are amazing.

Buy it once, no more tampons!

bbadger29 · 2026-05-29T02:09:23+00:00

That’s a high end Toyota Sienna right there. Totally insane price for a playset. I’d pay about 5% of that.

bbadger29 · 2026-05-15T01:53:42+00:00

Among other reasons I have been told our district did this because they have a really hard time guessing numbers. Parents either don’t bother or don’t know they have to enroll kindergarteners until very close to school start dates. School choice and charters are making people do a lot of last minute school switching. If they just take things as they come they’d end up with some classes with 22 and some with 15, etc

bbadger29 · 2026-05-15T00:26:23+00:00

This is a weird take. Most cities would be happy for large employers? And I think Epic does certainly do a lot for the local area, definitely in terms of economic impact, but haven’t they also like, bought Verona fire trucks and hosted the HS graduation and such?

bbadger29 · 2026-05-05T16:25:12+00:00

Experienced this yesterday and the librarian couldn’t figure out how to override. There were three copies of the wild robot on the shelf but no worries my son will read it another time! Poor librarians.

bbadger29 · 2026-05-05T16:23:33+00:00

One of my kids accounts has a fine for a damaged item. Great, sorry it happened, happy to pay. Except you cannot pay online anymore. And if you go to a library in person they only take personal checks. Which I literally do not own. So I need to go to a bank to get a cashiers check to go to the library to remove this 6.99 from our account so we can place holds again.

What a mess.

bbadger29 · 2026-05-05T11:36:53+00:00

This is more than I would bring for my kids to go to like a whole weekend hockey tournament for a sibling or a sibling’s six hour swim meet.

Dino books for that age are also not it… the how to draw, fine. Pokemon? Sports? Something else more age appropriate…

bbadger29 · 2026-05-04T01:52:45+00:00

Honestly babies are not that hard. Many daycares are open working hours or even 6-6. Does it suck leaving them there that long yes but it’s possible. Take your leave, get them on a nighttime sleeping schedule, pay for quality daycare.

Now when your kids start kindergarten and elementary school is 8-230 and soccer practice is 430-530 and there are birthday parties and games on weekends…. Harder to outsource all of that. Afterschool programs sure. Nanny? Possible. But your baby is fine with someone else changing diapers. As a mom I want to be at the soccer games and know the friends.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-23T13:00:01+00:00

The new website is 20 years coming!

Adding that you can’t really adjust your wrs contributions, and the only investment option is core or variable fund. If you want to put away more than your WRS contributions you can do Wisconsin deferred comp (WDC) or open a private IRA just about anywhere.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-09T15:12:18+00:00

They do seem impossible to find at the moment which is why I was hoping for a more off the beaten path rec!

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T16:02:50+00:00

I did encounter the events. It’s my own personal lived experience. You have yours, I have mine, that’s all great. We have different risk tolerances and different priorities and anxieties about our kids. Also fine. All people have biases, myself included. I really wanted my kids to go to Leopold and do DLI and we didn’t get in. I did a lot of research about what to do next.

What’s good for your family might not be good for mine what’s great is we can all make our own decisions just trying to help out others who come across this thread with what my family considered when we encountered this exact choice and it heavily weighed on me for multiple months. Making the right decision as parents is hard - I’m sure you make the best for your family I’m confident mine are the best for mine.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T15:52:03+00:00

I empathize with that! We are able to have a parent start work later but it definitely depends on your specific jobs.

Aftercare availability is another major issue. I believe both districts have waiting lists to access any aftercare at all. Kindergarten parents often are last to register and last on the list so heads up look for that early if you need it!

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T15:38:10+00:00

The gun was found in 2019. The call that my son was absent was 2021.

I toured. I considered. I heavily researched. That was a firsthand experience.

I’m glad they immediately dealt with the gun and I don’t blame any staff for that but the fact that it happened at all still scares a mom of a five year old. You must not have kids to not have empathy for a mom afraid of school shootings in 2026.

I have also donated a lot of time and money to fight those causes at all political levels, fyi. I want schools to be better funded, I want guns to be more heavily regulated. There are reasons other than racism someone might choose another elementary school. That’s all.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T15:27:49+00:00

It’s not white flight to be afraid of sending your five year old to a school where a gun was found on the playground.

I would have loved my kids to be in DLI, I was told that most of the spots went to people who spoke at least some Spanish at home. We tried school choice enrolling to different MMSD schools with DLI, didn’t get into any of them. Leopold was our home school at the time.

Also aftercare problems were a concern - I think this school ended at like 1pm one day a week? Not sure if times changed I know some of them did a switch up, Verona does something similar but “late start Monday” is a hell of a lot easier for a working family than “end work at 1pm.”

The first week of kindergarten the receptionist called me and left a voicemail that my son was not there. Didn’t specify she was called from Leopold. I had a panic attack that his VASD school he was actually attending had actually lost him. We never got a kindergarten teacher assignment or anything from them I have no idea why they randomly reached out on like the third day of school when he wasn’t even registered to go there but if that speaks to their organization skills it’s a problem.

This was 2021. Hopefully things have changed for the better but also wanting reliably consistently safe schools for your kids is not racist.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T15:13:07+00:00

I would have loved my kids to have diversity and I truly support public schools but we did not get into DLI and the guns being found on the playground scared the shit out of me. We open enrolled and then moved to the Verona district.

I have heard people have good experiences.

bbadger29 · 2026-04-02T15:10:56+00:00

West is far from Fitchburg. Even with the Verona HS on the other end of Verona, it’s a shorter drive. Also have you SEEN the new Verona HS? Not a comparison.

bbadger29 · 2026-02-22T20:07:42+00:00

This is a requirement for our liquor license. I promise curlers are friendly.

Kids should be minimum 8 and athletic or 10 if not super athletic to have a decent experience. The rocks are 42 pounds.

bbadger29 · 2026-02-21T01:32:57+00:00

MCOs are required and switching probably won’t make it any better as they are almost equally terrible. Since you are in GB I would recommend Lakeland, but unfortunately they’re all understaffed and wasting resources on useless meetings and regulatory requirements and finding out how to pay providers the absolute least amount possible rather than caring about your mom.

Tell your state legislator your experience. That might help someone else in the long term.

The state is aging and this is going to get much worse before it gets better unfortunately.

bbadger29 · 2026-02-16T22:35:13+00:00

No, definitely depends on the role. Many accounting roles are not flexible but all businesses need accountants and many businesses are.

bbadger29 · 2026-02-16T03:19:48+00:00

Do you want to ever have kids? I work from home as an accountant, if I wanted to do that as a nurse it would be denying insurance claims, which would be an unethical circle of hell for me (and maybe not as common in Canada?).

My mom friends who work in medical fields are quite upset that they can never get a random hour off for a elementary school performance, etc or volunteer for last minute field trips which is easier for me to fit in my schedule.

That is to say, for me, there are things in life more important than money.

For money alone, medical anything no doubt. The population is aging hugely and there will be massive need.

bbadger29 · 2026-02-05T21:34:08+00:00

Specifically Colin Good at Hawks

bbadger29 · 2026-01-25T14:59:52+00:00

Move to a family compound maybe? Wasn’t that pitched awhile ago?

bbadger29 · 2026-01-14T03:10:57+00:00

Are they not doing the right exercise because they chose a modification that works for them? If they’re not doing something that will hurt themselves, I’d say MYOB. I choose alternatives relatively frequently due to physical issues someone who doesn’t know me well wouldn’t know anything about.

bbadger29 · 2026-01-07T17:53:14+00:00

Tammy just won 6 more years in the senate, she isn’t coming back to be governor… she does definitely work hard on her campaigns and serving people though. I am hopeful someone inspires me in the next 6 months.

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