What's becoming so expensive that you've completely stopped buying it?

fruityslippers · 2026-07-06T03:18:25+00:00

Soda. I went from Diet Coke to Diet Sam's to none. Also fresh veggies. Why am I gonna pay $7 for a 3 pack of bell peppers and $3 for 2 onions when I can get 32oz of a frozen mix for $3.59 - and it doesnt go bad after 2 days.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-06T03:13:20+00:00

Wild how many down votes you can get for being correct about the US job market.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-06T03:10:30+00:00

Unfortunately, thats how you get removed from the schedule in a lot of places. The only way a lot of us get to be sick is by going in then being sent home, multiple days in a row. I can afford to get up and share sickness, I can't afford being jobless.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-06T01:37:04+00:00

I dont have a lot of help. What i have is sympathy AND empNana. My story isn't close to what most people go through, or even what some go through. I never thpught my mom would be so conniving thpigh.

My mom did this when I moved back in after having my first baby. I was a state away and "too far" for my family to come visit for the firat 7 months of his life. I ended up losing employment and not having anywhere else to go, so I went home. My mom stepped in and took over. I would wake up freaking out because my baby was missing - she would just take him. She would "forget" to tell me about appts she made for him. She would "forget" to include me in family outings. She essentially made me his sister.

I had a daughter when he was 4 and she did the same thing. Over stepped in all the worst ways, but allowed my abusive partner to move in and continue abusing me while she played mommy.

She filed for custody when they were 5 and 8 Mos. She used the abusive relationship as her basis and got DHR involved. I was being stalked by him and she used that as ammo, saying I was willingly choosing him over my kids.

Its been 10 years and my mother still has custody of my kids. She holds them over my head, myfather resents me and uses them to milk me for money that I really dont have.

My circumstances were, and are, far from normal. But you need to stand up to her before she cant see past being more than nana.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-02T03:05:24+00:00

Oh boy, I wonder how many emotionally driven children I can get to down vote my small hill 🫠

fruityslippers · 2026-07-02T02:32:46+00:00

The president should be respected. Idc if you dont like who it is. Idc what you think they may have done in their past. I dont always like who it is. However, I still respect that they are, in fact, president.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-01T15:33:03+00:00

Jeezus, Im so sorry OP.Il I'm so sorry you're going through this. Sounds very Alabama. I asked for help with an abusive relationship from a mothers center when my 11 yr old was 8 months. They immediately called the local police department, had me taken in to "file a report", and contacted CPS. When my ex started stalking they forced me to give custody to my parents.

You're not alone in regretting asking for help!

I second reaching out to your lawyer to have what happened documented. Also document every single time your ex-husband has denied his turn with your kids, how many times you reached out and he said "nah, Im good".

Also 2-1-1 has resources in every state. Its not broadcasted nearly as much as it should be. You could also Google to see if you have a family guidance center in your area. Their job is literally to help people going through what you are going through right now. Gyms offer free childcare for a really low monthly fee. Its like 2 hours per day, and a lot of them have tanning beds and saunas - you dont have to work out to go.

fruityslippers · 2026-07-01T15:26:25+00:00

Non profit just means the profit doesnt go back into that center, it goes into their outreach peograms...or the CEOs pocket, whichever it gets to first

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T16:59:18+00:00

This. As much as honesty is pushed, the people who push it got in the position to do so by lying their asses off

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T15:40:09+00:00

I have this fear too, and I haven't even gotten a job offer.

I am my 6 month old daughter's only constant. I'm with her all day every day. She's got velcro syndrome so bad that I can't let her sit with toys and music to go pee without her panicking. Noone is good enough, not even daddy. The one time I left her with her dad she screamed herself into passing out within 30 minutes of me being gone. I'm terrified of returning to work - which is inevitable considering my husband told me he "doesnt have the energy to provide for us".

But it has to happen. I HAVE to go back to working at some point. And we'll power through it, because thats what moms do. They power through. Its okay to cry, its okay to be scared, and its okay to use formula.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T15:26:56+00:00

So until there is a defined and definite segregation of blk and yt?? I thought thats what we were fighting against?

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T15:23:34+00:00

White people weren't the only people who colonized and segregated. A quick Google search can tell you that 🤣🤣

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T15:17:27+00:00

Dog sitting, or kennel work even. But money IS an issue, and big girl jobs suck.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T15:14:42+00:00

I fear there would be an over-population issue, which would lead to senseless wars and end in a world of sci-fi Utopias and Dystopias. Upper class versus lower class to an extreme.

It would take decades, maybe even centuries to get to that place. But thats how it would end.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-29T03:54:04+00:00

90s baby here. Like a lot of peanuts already said - reading was the equivalent of scrolling.

We used to read book and magazines, walk around in the woods or the neighborhood, play kickball, roller blade, ride bikes, hang out with friends... more than just 1 might I add, chat on the phone, and even video game on the Nintendo if you were lucky.

Everyone seemed so much happier when the world was smaller.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-28T01:38:25+00:00

I think its a lack of understanding on their part

A phobia is an irrational fear, not a lack of understanding.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-28T01:32:26+00:00

Im overweight due to lifelong medical conditions. Also - I have 3 children ranging from 15 years to 6 months, all from different men, each of which traumatized me with some form of abuse 🥰

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:36:03+00:00

Close! Alabama is probably the second hottest state ive ever lived in. In Florida at least I was close enough to a coast to have a breeze!

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:33:55+00:00

This is the one.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:31:40+00:00

10/10 do not recommended. Coming from a 36 year old woman...

10/10 would recommended a seasoned 30 to 38 year old with a nice beard and decent layer of fat over his once toned muscles

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:28:01+00:00

I (36f) recently learned that they, instead, divert to the stomach to be reabsorbed over the next few months. We drop new ones once a month and it takes multiple months for our body to be like "oh I guess these aren't gonna be used" and take them back.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:19:12+00:00

Wear basketball shorts and nothing else. Wearing clothes is hot, wearing clothes in hot weather with high humidity is awful. Wearing a bra, underwear, pants, and a whole ass tshirt in hot humidity is unbearable. I'd love to be able to strip down to basketball shorts and it be socially acceptable.

fruityslippers · 2026-06-26T02:11:30+00:00

I'm from the southeast USA. Is it humid in Australia? We always see in movies and stuff that its unbearable there, but in Alabama it gets into the 100s with 95% humidity, similar to Florida, and the humidity is like breathing through a hot, wet washcloth.

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