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  1. Colleen27

    Teen Female Suicide Way Up

    I absolutely, completely could not agree more with both of your two observations. Among DD14's friends, more of the girls identify as trans than not... and I think it is a very particular form of rejecting the expectations and burdens our culture places on women, especially young women, but I...
  2. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    I'd like to see that as well. I assumed it was based on rolling the fee into the loan and therefore paying interest on the increase, but the math doesn't work on that either. An extra $500 in principle should add less than $10/mo. And the link in the last article shared that appears like it...
  3. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    Frankly, it is just a mental hold-over from the days when my husband was in business for himself and our income was so wildly variable from month to month or season to season that I didn't feel comfortable doing that. I probably should work on changing my attitudes toward credit - lord knows a...
  4. Colleen27

    May & Mother's Day isn't easy for everyone

    Sometimes a choice is between two bad options, and in that case, there is often a grieving process for the "perfect world" vision that was wanted but not possible. I'm glad that's not the case for you but the choice not to have kids because of circumstances that make it more...
  5. Colleen27

    May & Mother's Day isn't easy for everyone

    May is such a weird month in my family. My grandmother, mother, aunt and I all have/had May birthdays, so between that an Mother's Day it used to be a month full of family gatherings. Now I'm the only one of the May babies still living, and my brother passed a few days after my birthday in May...
  6. Colleen27

    slo’s TUESDAY 5/2 poll - Musical Instruments

    Currently, I play alto sax fairly well and piano fairly poorly. I used to play clarinet, oboe and soprano sax as well, but haven't picked up any of those since high school so I don't know if or how well they'd come back to me now. And I love messing around on my kids' guitars but don't practice...
  7. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    Did you even read the examples that have been posted? The borrower with a good score isn't being "penalized". They're getting less of an advantage than before, so that borrowers with "bad" (though average would likely be more accurate because bad scores don't qualify for mortgages) credit pay...
  8. Colleen27

    How do you like to embarrass your children ?

    I fail entirely at embarrassing my kids. Not that I try to do so, but I was pretty embarrassed by my parents at times without them ever setting out to make me feel that way and I'm pretty unfiltered compared to my mom (but pretty tame compared to my dad, so there's that...). I'm not sure if it...
  9. Colleen27

    What if anything would convince you to move home currently?

    Nothing. We're absolutely committed to staying put until DD14 is out on her own.
  10. Colleen27

    Chosen for Nani in live-action Lilo and Stitch, but should she have been?

    The idea of them doing live action adaptations so quickly that the original voice actors are able to do the part adds a whole new layer of annoyed to the whole trend for me, because I feel like it can't help but influence casting for the animated originals. If there's the possibility that a film...
  11. Colleen27

    phone for a 7th grader? Best parental monitoring apps.

    That's not the only purpose of software, though. I had monitoring on my daughter's phone in middle school to remove the "just one more video" temptation to use it too late in the evening or pick it up "just to check real quick" when having trouble sleeping or after waking up in the middle of the...
  12. Colleen27

    Chosen for Nani in live-action Lilo and Stitch, but should she have been?

    Generally, it doesn't bother me when they cast actors who don't resemble the animated original when their race/ethnicity/appearance isn't relevant to the story. Snow White, Little Mermaid, Cinderella... it just doesn't make a difference to the story. But you really couldn't engage in race-blind...
  13. Colleen27

    What would you change about your home if you found yourself living there alone?

    I'd probably sell. This place feels huge for 3 people, now that all of our older kids and bonuses have moved out. It would be ridiculous for just me.
  14. Colleen27

    What are your first actions when the people you live with goes away and you have the house to yourself for a while?

    Turn everything off! My husband is one of those who has the TV on any time he's awake, and sometimes after he's dozed off too, so the ability to have actual quiet is fairly rare and much appreciated.
  15. Colleen27

    slo’s FRIDAY 4/28 poll - Youth Sports

    My athletes have aged out. DS25 wrestled when he was young and played football all through school. DD21 played softball from preschool through graduation but wasn't interested in playing at the college level. My only kid still in school used to swim competitively but decided against going out...
  16. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    Friend is too strong a word, but the economic relationship between our two nations is far too interdependent for active warfare. Snipping at one another via currency manipulation (China) or reining in business incentives (US), sure. But not open warfare. Russia worries me more, but mostly...
  17. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    So the tax thing is really complicated because our system of government is really complicated. First, it isn't just the wealthy that oppose a flat tax. It is also anyone engaged in advocacy for the working poor and struggling middle. Because to be revenue-neutral, a flat tax rate would have to...
  18. Colleen27

    Spinoff: Defunct Stores

    I loved Zellers. We used to go over to the one across the border for Canadian Sailor Moon merch we couldn't find in the States. Ben Franklin, Woolworth, Kmart, Sears. Chatham grocery and Perry's drugs. Waldenbooks and B. Dalton's - two bookstores in one mall, truly a golden age! And...
  19. Colleen27

    slo’s WEDNESDAY 4/26 poll - Car Entertainment

    Mostly playlists and podcasts on Spotify or FM radio on NPR or the local alternative-rock station. I tried Sirius since my car came with a free trial, but the rotation on each station feels very shallow - it doesn't take long to start hearing song repeated - and the genre stations are so narrow...
  20. Colleen27

    Interest Rate and Credit Score

    Journalists who want to report the facts are fighting a two-front war - against companies that know feeding people what they want to hear makes for a bigger bottom line and against consumers who insist that anything they disagree with isn't a fact at all. We have nothing more, or less, than the...




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