Assign different purposes to each corner/area. Bed in one corner, with a nightstand. Wardrobe in another corner, with a clothes hamper And shoe storage. A mirror and other supplies for getting dressed or ready in a third...

A rug will go a long way. If you are on a budget , you can easily find a remnant at a carpet store. Sometimes there are great options at a Habitat Restore.

C: short for citizenship grade.

I'm there with you.

Now I kinda wanna see a dick-but shaped exhaust. Not own it. Just see people make fun of it in this sub.

Yeah. I'll own that mistake.

Yeah, I get that. And I find most of those seeking a trad wife to be super creepy. We are partners and best friends. Not male bosses with female accessories.

Thank you.

I get your point. I was going for a boy that everyone knew was trouble and probably raped/molested others in his life..

So, kinda funny story.

My wife is technically a trade wife. But by choice. I fully support her whatever she wants, and have helped her build a couple business and she has held multiple jobs. But she always decides she wants to raise the kids. I imagine she will lean pretty heavily into a career when the youngest leaves the house. Currently she is a fitness instructor at the Y. I definitely don't deserve her.

She is an amazing cook, she can't stand a dirty house (I'm always struggling to keep up with her standards, which I can always do more for her), she is amazing with the kids. We are even religious...ect. But we are both fairly liberal. I'm way more liberal than she is, but still we are not the traditional conservative type.

Someone we go to church with expressed on Facebook that she wanted to be a trad wife. Super conservative, kinda unpleasant to be around. She has tattoos, neon hair, and just doesn't fit the part at all. Which is fine, I have no problem with any of that.

I found it weirdly ironic that I was explaining what a trad wife was to a liberal woman who was technically a trade wife without even trying while explaining the goals of someone we know openly expressed that she wanted to be a trad wife while being the opposite.

Top shelf knowledge response here. Respect! (Or maybe it's just self congrats on my part for knowing that reference)

What connective tissue disorder, if you don't mind sharing.

Many in my family have a secondary spleen. Very small and hidden. And we all have mild medical problems with somewhat vague diagnosis (like IBS or MEN1) But I'm curious enough to look up symptoms and see if anything fits.

Yeah I saw that one too. And was also very sad about it.

Money only has value if people think it has value. If everyone stops believing in the money we trade with, as has happened many times in other countries, it becomes worthless paper. Governments create and maintain the value of that money so you and I can buy and sell what we want. If not for the government doing those things, your money would be worthless and you couldn't get paid for anything... unless you are good with trading goats and such.

I pulled the trigger a few weeks ago on that one. I just couldn't take anymore of the Palestinian hate.

Kinda like how my dog makes eye contact while pooping.

I could be wrong, but I think I remember everyone just assumed it was her dad. He went to jail, and years later they figured out it was a troubled teenage boy that lived nearby.

Or that might be another girl who gave birth at that age. There have been a few. So extremely sad.

I am a big believer in balanced politics and finding the middle ground. But most people think that means finding the middle between these two arguments. No. That's nonsense. Instead I find that open discourse with varying viewpoints usually discredits extremes like racism and homophobia fairly quickly.

These two arguments are not both extremes. But they are two concepts that exist. Stopping people from sharing them usually only causes believers to stick to echo chambers. Which changes their perspective to thinking everyone feels the same as me. There does need to be caution with public figures (who do not usually engage in open discourse, but rather single viewpoint speeches prone to manipulation) pushing extremes like Trump did in 2016. But for the most part, when people engage in respectful conversations with each other, allowing others to express even their most extreme beliefs, they tend to adjust their feelings. I have seen racists calm themselves just by being allowed to be heard, and disagreed with, respectfully.

It's like the women's wardrobe version of a Mullet.

I got engaged after only three weeks. We were living separately in each of our parents' homes, just a short ten hour drive away from Vegas. We very nearly eloped after someone offered to give us money in lieu of a big wedding (not a lot, but tempting). The thing that stopped us both was not having an answer to the question "Where do we go when we get back?"

It's been over twenty's years, we have four kids, and she is my best friend. I would never, ever suggest anyone be so reckless as to get engaged after such a short time. It was a one-in-a-million windfall for both of us.

We ended up saving up enough money to get a small start, and just before getting married I got a terrible job that paid a lot (railroad, fun job with good pay and benefits, but horrible work life balance). It has mostly provided for our needs. We planned our first pregnancy and kept from ending up like this meme. But I will never fail to see how fortunate we were. It is extremely difficult to start a family in the modern economy.

I drive trains. I don't want to die at work either.

My favorite fact about Tarantino was when he wrote a scene where Salma Hayek forced her foot into a bar patron's mouth and poured tequila down her foot into his mouth. Then cast himself in the role of that bar patron.

You aren't wrong about your Madonna and Britney thoughts. I just think it tells us that there have always been tons of adults serving on youth. The only thing that has changed is awareness.

Tbf, back in the early 2000s there were a lot of adult comedians who joked about knowing every move in Britney Spears' dance routine without ever hearing her music.

But yes, I too have had redditors confuse my statements about my youth as well.

This map is wrong. I know of an inland waterway maintained by the DoD that runs right through the middle of Wisconsin.

Years ago, I (a bearded 40 year old man) was driving a minivan, filled with boxes, with temporary plates across the country. I got pulled over in Chicago and the cops definitely believed I was a drug mule and this was going to be the bust of his life. In reality, I was helping my parents move from Pittsburgh back to their home state of Utah and they had just purchased the minivan from the church they were serving in Pennsylvania (dad was providing free mental health to other lay church service workers). The cop pulled me over for changing lanes too quickly (to give him room, he had someone pulled over on the left and three of us all jumped out of the way when the truck in front of us jerked his wheel out of the way too).

He asked why I was avoiding him. I said I was sorry if I did anything wrong, and told him it was a law in my home state to move over for emergency workers and slow down. He asked why I had temporary plates not registered to me. I told him what I explained above. He left and called to verify, and the clergy kindly verified it was just sold to a nice old couple. Which was all they knew. He asked to search the vehicle. I said "Absolutely, if you have a warrant." That was obviously frustrating to him because I didn't refuse, I remained open and willing as long as he followed the law. He then asked if he could bring a drug dog around. I asked how long that would take, and he (lied) said maybe 20 minutes. I told him I had a long way to drive on limited sleep. And that waiting for a drug dog would likely push my travel time late enough into the evening to make me drive tired. Which could pose a danger to myself and other drivers.

Notice I had valid and rational responses to each of his questions. I never refused anything, I only stated my feelings about what he decided to do and made him make the choices. At each step I made him assume liability if anything went wrong. They are trained to push liability onto us, and honestly for good reasons. But we should be ready to avoid those attempts by never saying things like "no you can't" or "I won't do that" without getting them to say they will arrest you if you don't. The moment they threaten to arrest explicitly for not doing something, like giving them your ID, or allowing them to search something; they get to say you were acting suspicious. When you don't fall into those traps, they know they are risking trouble. Nothing is foolproof and cops are flawed people too. But for the most part, if you present yourself as apologetic (without admission of fault) and cooperative they know they have hit a legal brick wall.

Best example I have seen was a lawyer who had the cops take his briefcase away from him as he exited the court building. They said they saw his client hand him a cell phone they had a warrant for. The lawyer (black man in the south) smiled the whole time while explaining that he would not stop them from taking it, but that he did not give his permission and that it was illegal. He did this while holding the briefcase out at the end of his fingers so it wouldn't look like he was trying to protect it. They insisted, and his words as he handed it over are an example of how we all should act: "You're sure you want to do this?" Said with a huge smile, while passing it to the cop in front of him, with his other hand held away from his body. The cops got roasted by the judge and the DA. His client's case was dismissed with prejudice (despite being a weak case). And I believe at least one or two of them were fired. (I am pulling from memory, I could be wrong about the details). The point is that cops manipulate the context of videos all the fricking time. It's about time we use that, in a myriad of ways, against them. I don't think a single out of line cop should be going into court with a video that doesn't question his sobriety and make him look like he is on drugs.

Yeah, I get that. But I'm not. Unfortunately that is just one more way we have all been brainwashed to hear opponents in normal conversations. I honestly do not blame anyone for hearing things like that in what I'm saying.