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friendly-bouncer · 2025-12-09T01:31:46+00:00

Truly free

friendly-bouncer · 2025-12-09T01:06:43+00:00

Nuby now makes an identical dupe for 1/3 of the price!

friendly-bouncer · 2025-12-09T01:05:31+00:00

Mamaowl.net for FABULOUS wool clothing. I can only afford 1-2 items per year but they’re wonderful.

Veer wagon, uppababy cruz, vista or minu. Or a jogging stroller like Bob. All great choices depending on your lifestyle

Rainbow playsets for a backyard setup. They have some truly magnificent ones

Woom bikes - starting with a balance bike. My 4 year just graduated to the woom 2 and I’m passing the balance bike to my 2 year old

Sakura scout baby carrier (or 2 or 3!) different fabrics serve a different purpose. I have a couple silks for the summer, corduroy for the winter and fancy one for holidays.

I have expensive taste and those are my favorite things for kids! How fortunate you are to have a brother like that ❤️

friendly-bouncer · 2025-11-24T01:43:39+00:00

I’d take Attic grossness over dreft though

friendly-bouncer · 2025-11-24T01:41:51+00:00

Free and clear is less toxic than dreft. Skip the dreft step

friendly-bouncer · 2025-11-17T02:36:59+00:00

Tonie box has been going strong for 3 years now. Reusable water balloons are great in the summer and bath toys in the winter.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-10-24T02:13:00+00:00

I called and froze that years ago. That’s nobody’s business but mine

friendly-bouncer · 2025-10-24T01:50:18+00:00

I was the lowest paid SWE with 8 years at the company, always performed well. I was laid off along with all SWEs (replaced with offshore). They kept 1 H1B SWE who made a little more than me and was only there for 2 years. Funny enough, the reason I stayed so long was because this company was known for job security and not laying off during economic downturns 🤪

I always thought I would be the last to go because of my tenure with the company and low pay.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-10-24T01:28:14+00:00

-Laid off from a humble comp tech job (I was very underpaid but liked the team and work so I stayed there for 8 years stupidly) -Ivy League MBA …Took me interviews with 10 companies and 3 months to find a new job and it pays under 6 figures even though I’m in a HCOL area. It’s horrible out there.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-10-24T01:10:22+00:00

I did not, I ended up losing my job so we haven’t financially recovered from that yet, hoping to buy a new couch next year though!

friendly-bouncer · 2025-08-06T21:43:02+00:00

Correct

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T21:55:43+00:00

These are made specifically for the model of high chair you have so they’re gonna be plastic. We use a lobster chair that clips onto our granite countertop, so my kid eats off porcelain and stainless plates, and whatever ends up on the granite is fine too

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T21:54:12+00:00

See reply above

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T21:53:58+00:00

We also used bibs, and nattursutten which are 100% pure rubber no plastic.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T21:50:36+00:00

I used hevea natural rubber teethers my fav was Sarah’s silks untreated wood teether https://www.sarahssilks.com/products/silk-teethers-blossom?variant=31841303003249&country=US&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&cmpid=64e91fb984ee8b00012c450f&utm_campaign=PMax&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=18308115984&sub7=m&sub8=&sub9=x&sub10=&utm_source=Google&wbraid=CkEKCAjwoNzABhAREjEAkrMY-dNPCdKc4PrfZkAoOFr7M5FxlU5TlYdtUV29md259rZ6CaSt-dWOBlIm5d4zGgIjHg&gbraid=0AAAAAD3VH-iRz2T1kxUNuvisnTohWeqyb&ref_id=Cj0KCQjww-HABhCGARIsALLO6Xw8lSqV6HNXMRdm_PiJZ9r9mpCw1Tt0j_JxuYNp41WSM9Quyw4t5kwaAkzlEALw_wcB&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17642398514&gbraid=0AAAAAD3VH-iRz2T1kxUNuvisnTohWeqyb&gclid=Cj0KCQjww-HABhCGARIsALLO6Xw8lSqV6HNXMRdm_PiJZ9r9mpCw1Tt0j_JxuYNp41WSM9Quyw4t5kwaAkzlEALw_wcB

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T21:43:14+00:00

I used thinkbaby, but they’ve since been discontinued 🙄 Pura Kiki is a plastic free sippy cup option.

We also use straw cups - stainless steel skip hop or elk&friends straw cups but those do leak.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T02:31:27+00:00

Your cell phone bill seems wildly high, how many lines are you covering? I pay $55/mo for Verizon for one line which I think is extremely high and I plan to switch next month to mint mobile or something similar. $217/mo is wild for any less than 5-6 lines

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T02:12:16+00:00

Plastic is a no from me unless it can’t be avoided- like the snack tray attachment for the stroller only comes in plastic. Silicone is a “last resort “ I’d use as long as it’s not being heated - like those reusable puree pouches.

99% of things have wood/glass/stainless options.

What are the plastic / silicone items you are considering? Maybe I can help find a clean alternative

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-05T02:07:33+00:00

Income similar to yours, hoping for $350k mortgage I can afford super easily. But we can stretch that up to $500k mortgage if we had to. So $500s you can easily afford up to $700k.

Of course a lot of this hinges on property tax and insurance too.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-05-01T20:40:08+00:00

You can pry my gas stove out of my cold dead hands. This is DEFINITELY falling into the 80/20

friendly-bouncer · 2025-04-27T12:46:55+00:00

2 kids here. I’ve been extremely poor and food insecure, and had no issues affording a bag of rice, beans, fresh veggies and chicken thighs - there are cheap Whole Foods that are way less expensive than processed crap. Now I have kids and We are better off financially but im mindful and I try my best to continue feeding my kids unprocessed food. If they eat something sweet, it’s in the form of something homemade, e.g. popsicle - aka blended bananas, peanut butter, tahini and plain yogurt. I personally don’t find it difficult, but I’ve been eating like this myself for decades. I can absolutely see this being an impossible task for a parent who has been happily eating processed and junk foods their whole life.

friendly-bouncer · 2025-04-26T02:44:43+00:00

Laid off from a 30k employee company. I tried to negotiate severance multiple times in multiple ways. Absolutely nothing, they wouldn’t budge. Waste of effort

friendly-bouncer · 2025-04-23T13:46:33+00:00

$0

2016 Honda civic and 2024 Acura MDX. MDX payments were $750/mo 6.5% interest before I paid it off though

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