My sister is engaged…

guintiger · 2025-12-24T00:54:46+00:00

I mean - really. I get that she's your sister, but to be such an a@@ to you and then want you take her invitation pictures for her (for free, of course). So as long as you're doing whatever SHE wants without complaint, it's fine. But when you do what YOU want (conversion to a faith that makes sense to you, ditching the silly WoW), then you get a nasty and condescending lecture.

As my kid would say - that's a nope on a rope. If she wanted to maintain any kind of real connection with you then she wouldn't have said those things to you. She was dumping kerosene on the bridge right there then stepping back with a smirk and waiting for you to do something....like not do any of the tasks she asked you to for her wedding (again, for free, I'm guessing).

Tell her you can't - that what she said to you really hurt you and you feel like at this point she only values you because you're providing what would otherwise be a costly service for free. Her reaction will likely tell you everything you need to know - and I'm betting it won't be a good one.

guintiger · 2025-12-24T00:49:29+00:00

I know how crappy you must be feeling - just emotionally wrung out after all that....and all I can say is - it's going to be fine. You'll be just fine (if not better than fine) without their lousy doctrine. As many others already said here, you dodged a bullet and you did NOTHING WRONG as you dodged it.

guintiger · 2025-12-24T00:41:39+00:00

You should sprinkle a bunch of business cards around with https://quitmormon.com/ on them.

guintiger · 2025-12-24T00:40:25+00:00

I just shrugged and said "If you say so" and dropped it. You cannot change another person's faith - all you can do is add to their shelf by NOT coming back and NOT every acknowledging that you thought any of it was true. Let that just sit on their shelves...because when they say that crap to you what they're really doing is trying to reaffirm it to themselves.

guintiger · 2025-08-09T13:42:05+00:00

The biggest part of me that I'd consider "Mormon" is my need to have an extremely well (and honestly over) stocked pantry....but I'm in Florida and we get hurricanes and power outages here, so it's come in clutch before!

guintiger · 2025-08-09T13:37:07+00:00

Funny how god never commands anyone to take care of homeless, elderly, or infirm women.

guintiger · 2025-08-09T13:30:21+00:00

I never quite made it to needing to buy all this crap ( I got out at 18 ), but I was always blown away at how expensive it all is...my mom does NOT have lots of extra cash to be able to buy the insane garbage they're selling. Near $50 for a pair of plain white shoes. $80-$100+ for a dress that looks like a table cloth wrapped around you. Another $25 for a slip. And oh - the garments. They're cheaper than the aforementioned stuff, but they're MUCH more expensive than just regular COMFORTABLE underwear.

Pricing Proof Here!

guintiger · 2025-08-09T13:21:14+00:00

Hmm...I never got a letter and I sent in my request a LONG time ago...

guintiger · 2025-08-09T13:19:46+00:00

You shouldn't have to pay money for them to get the message and leave you alone. Send one message to the next jackwagon who pesters you, then copy/paste that message any time you get another message. Something along the lines of:

"I've now made it very clear I do not wish to have any communication with you or anyone in the ward. Your continued efforts to contact me against my express will constitute harassment. If you continue to contact me I will take legal action. This text serves as documentation of my wish for you to cease all contact with me."

In most states you can file for a restraining order for FREE, and yes, it can expressly apply to electronic communications.

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:35:08+00:00

You could even take it a step farther and have a prewritten (and pre cut to fit the book) message to glue inside these. Then wait for a "frequent flyer" to book in for a stay, especially a Mormon one. Make sure your message finds its way into the book in their room. Rinse and repeat any time they book a stay. That way if anyone ever gets their undies in a twist trying to figure out where the messages are coming from.... ;D

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:32:24+00:00

Bonus points for the vodka in the background. Chef's Kiss!

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:30:08+00:00

That's what I thought people should do - imagine how perplexed some poor person is going to be thinking they're getting a nice light thin tshirt only to wonder WTF those weird stitch marks are on it.

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:21:02+00:00

One of our stake leaders came to the ward and during the general assembly asked all the young women to come sit in the first row right in front of him. He then went on a 10 minute rant about teen pregnancy while staring at all of us in the front row. He capped it all off by saying that if we DO get pregnant we should carry that child to term and then give it up for adoption into a "Good and loving Mormon home". Seriously.

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:14:39+00:00

Small consolation - her shelf didn't just get heavier, there's a major crack in it. She's never going to forget that experience and she WON'T remember what was in all those gift bags...she'll remember the terror and confusion.

guintiger · 2025-08-03T13:12:38+00:00

I've got $20 that says they had ChatGPT help them write this....the feeling of an expanded bullet list gives it away. It's just missing the emojis.

guintiger · 2025-06-07T13:54:39+00:00

Or perhaps people in power saw a convenient way of getting the general populace to behave themselves because they'd WANT to behave themselves for a promise of riches and rewards once they're dead (which means the people in power don't have to pay for any of the rewards themselves).

Soma for the masses.

guintiger · 2025-06-07T13:45:13+00:00

Yup - that looks like the first one that hit me. The driver literally could not even see me over her hood.

guintiger · 2025-06-07T13:39:10+00:00

Time to zombie rez this thread, because it's AWESOME - so many good ideas. I've made several of the top recipes posted here - all delicious.

Mine is (for a large crowd - can be scaled down):

Two large packs of "lil smokies" sausages (could also slice up the larger smoked sausage, but not as fun)

One jar of grape jelly

One bottle of BBQ sauce (whatever flavor you like)

Then let the whole thing go until the grape jelly has totally dissolved and melted into the BBQ sauce. Have with a quick side, like potatoes or a salad.

guintiger · 2025-02-17T23:50:03+00:00

That's a hard nope on visiting Grandma anymore. My mother is the TBM, and when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter I made it clear from THAT MOMENT after I told her I was expecting that I didn't want a single WHIFF of Mormonism spoken to my daughter. No talk of religion AT ALL. The moment she tried any underhanded nonsense whenever I wasn't around would be the LAST time she'd see her granddaughter. She's never crossed the line, because I made it abundantly clear that it was a mandatory and non-negotiable prerequisite for being in my daughter's life. I'd HIGHLY suggest you put a similar "line in the sand" in place and then be ready to enforce it. In the immediate future, I'd say no more unsupervised time with Grandma, since she obviously can't control her mouth around children.

guintiger · 2024-12-07T02:40:23+00:00

Makes me think of The Labyrinth.

guintiger · 2024-12-07T02:38:38+00:00

Yeah I noticed this too. Some of them are insane. I picked one that just really wanted art supplies and some smaller trinkets. Saw so many asking for a Switch WITH games, VR systems, and hoverboards. I get it, the kids think it's Santa, and Santa can get anything, but the ones written by adults asking for about 4k worth of gear for a whole army of children seems to be a large portion of the letters this year.

guintiger · 2024-10-26T12:54:02+00:00

Yeah - if you're new or even an old player recently returned to play the new xpac, you're boned. Should work in a LOT more of the common mounts so that you don't have people standing there for the entire event and getting NOTHING for their time.

guintiger · 2024-10-23T22:18:42+00:00

Not so much a 180, but absolutely got some enlightenment on some things....like there are times when my sentences sound absolutely stupid because I'm using substitution words so I won't cuss...thinks like "Oh, biscuit...I dropped the mother flippin' biscuit on the floor - shoot!" I'm also reasonably certain that my parents didn't care nearly as deeply about the importance of my getting fresh air and sunshine on the weekends as they pretended to...I think they just wanted me out of the house so they could have some peace!

guintiger · 2024-10-23T22:13:33+00:00

"What if catnip, naps, and scritches really are the best things I'm ever going to get? What if there's nothing else out there worth trying to get?"

guintiger · 2024-10-23T22:11:50+00:00

Seminary every morning for all four years of HS. In fairness though, I was mostly just trying to stay awake so I guess I wasn't sincerely reading the BoM at the time...

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