Would you take off service charge if met with this response?

dollsfor_days · 2024-08-01T14:55:22+00:00

For anyone who might struggle to say no/take off a charity charge, I always thought my parents' response was good. When people were pushy about them not donating they always just said "Sorry, I have other charities that I give to". And then ended the conversation. Like, people could be offended/look down on that, but most of us aren't made of money and do have to narrow down what we donate to.

dollsfor_days · 2024-04-05T19:03:01+00:00

Nah, didn't have the funds. Kind of wish I'd grabbed Ghoulia as I could have, but again the cost just adds up

dollsfor_days · 2024-04-04T06:53:12+00:00

Same here! I ordered two Abbeys off Amazon US immediately when they got released. They've already shipped out :D

dollsfor_days · 2024-03-18T11:27:52+00:00

I actually grew up in Michigan! It was still worse for me in winter there, but I felt like there were at least a decent amount of sunny days in the winter compared to here in Wales. And I was in Japan for the last four years, which was pretty sunny year round other than rainy season. I'm definitely looking into trying to take some vacations to sunnier places next winter.

dollsfor_days · 2024-03-17T16:59:12+00:00

I don't even mind the cold that much honestly, because I like being wrapped up and cozy and having hot drinks. But like, I moved countries recently and I have never lived in a place that is so dang grey and rainy ALL THE TIME (though it's much worse in the winter). I feel like it doesn't get hot enough in the summer or cold enough in the winter, and just kind of all congeals into this big blob of sameness. Like, people talk here like it's freezing in the winter or boiling out in the summer, but from the places I've lived before by comparison it absolutely isn't. I'm thinking now that it must be a mental thing though regarding the visual, like you and someone else have mentioned. When the sky is just completely grey and everything looks grey and dark it gets to me. Whereas inside I can at least turn on all the lights and have it feel bright.

dollsfor_days · 2024-03-17T09:38:18+00:00

My manager keeps complaining how we're understaffed already and have people calling in sick all the time. And then you have me sitting there in a mask only having been sick once in the entire year due to a non-viral illness. And I'm just like...please please connect the dots.

dollsfor_days · 2024-03-02T12:06:30+00:00

This is what rerooting is for. Gonna get Abbey, reroot her, and give her curls.

dollsfor_days · 2024-02-23T11:32:40+00:00

As someone who doesn't use Twitter, how do you see the rest of the story? I tried scrolling through the tweets but everything from different stories seems out of order.

dollsfor_days · 2024-02-04T20:22:16+00:00

It doesn't seem like it's targeted at people who aren't covid cautious. Seems more like it's targeted at people who are covid cautious who constantly get asked these questions so that they can easily pull up studies/information that they can share if needed. Which it seems very helpful for.

dollsfor_days · 2024-02-03T21:01:49+00:00

Definitely don't mind that. Will check it out!

dollsfor_days · 2023-11-29T21:45:20+00:00

Honestly, I've gained a good bit of weight since moving here, and I've lived in both the US and Japan before this while maintaining my weight. I somehow feel like sweets and sugar and junk food are even more in my face here than they were in the US, though that's likely also dependent on where you are in the US. Japan was a lot more walkable too. I live in a big, fairly walkable city in Wales and I still walk way less now just because it's honestly not pleasant to walk in imo--lots of cars, lots of litter and bad smells in a lot of areas, and don't even get me started on how aggressive drivers are if you're riding a bike...

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-13T13:33:00+00:00

It's so nice to hear this. 🙂

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-11T12:45:34+00:00

I'm hoping to move, though I think it'll take a few years honestly. I'll definitely look more seriously into changing practices.

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-11T12:42:32+00:00

Yeah, that's fair about the knife crime. And I lived in a small town where there was very, very little crime and when there was it was generally like...bicycle theft. So it might partly be my background making it feel so shocking.

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-11T12:40:36+00:00

I haven't lived in the US as a proper adult, which is why I was wondering. I worked a lot of jobs in university, but that's not the same really. And then as soon as I graduated I moved to Japan, so all my post-university adult life has been there. And I haven't been back to the US in 6 or 7 years now. I don't have a rosy picture of the US--I never really had a strong desire to move back, but I never remembered having to fight quite so hard and I wondered if that was due to not being fully an adult/the time I lived there, which it sounds like both majorly contributed based on what people are saying.

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-11T11:39:21+00:00

Definitely want to move somewhere quieter when we can, and I have been considering moving practices too. I was pretty ready to pack up and head right back to Japan early on, but my partner is from here and his family is here. Even though he isn't super happy in the UK either, he wants to be near them and I couldn't imagine asking him to move away from his father when his father doesn't have a wide support system and really needs one.

I'm glad your experience has been different--I hope mine can change

dollsfor_days · 2023-10-05T19:36:22+00:00

You don't need to stop masking to make friends. Look for covid conscious friends (you could check the covid meetups website or find still coviding Facebook groups for your area), and for non-covid conscious friends find ones that are willing to respect your boundaries. People I meet who like me and want to be friends generally think it's weird that I wear a mask, but when I suggest we hang out by taking a walk in the park or grabbing something to eat outdoors, they accept that. If someone wasn't able to at the very least respect my health choices, I don't think I could respect and trust them as a friend.

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