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Although we are too piggy to do it consistently, I admire the poster who limits the meat servings to 2oz each. Everything I read says we Americans consume far more meat that is healthy for us. We try hard to limit meat consumption (more for health than for budget), but my husban can easily eat...

I didn't read all of the responses, but this seems more complicated that just attending the wedding. It seems like three separate issues to me: a) you resent your mother not visiting your children in more than two years b) you and your sister have a struggle going on about power c) actually...

I am not making the slightest effort to camaflouge my thoughts-- I am saying, quite directly, that I think this charitable undertaking, while well meaning, has very little actual benefit to the children. I think the most important part of charitable work is the actual relief it provides to...

I agree that in the situation you describe, the blanket has value. BUT, I believe that for the equivelent cost (with admin cost in, it looks like these blankets run $80-$100 apiece), the girl you describe could have had a new change of clothes to wake up to and a toy she would actually enjoy...

I think your analogy to a soup kitchen is a false one. The difference between sodium and chemical packed canned soup and a homemade soup of fresh ingredients is demonstrable and real. The baby in NICU could absolutely care less is the blankie around them is the standard hospital issue or the...

After seeing it refrenced so many times in this thread, I googled "project Linus".....Frankly, it strikes me as a pretty silly "charity" as well. Children could care less whether their "blankie" is handmade or not.... When I think of the cost put into these blankets (on this thread people are...

This "build a bear for charity" strikes me as being much more a money making opportunity for the bear building store than a legitimate gift to needy children. $12.99 is about 10 times the "supply" cost of one of these little bears and about 3 times what similar sized stuffed animals bought in...

My family has been to Disney 6 times over the last 10 years. Obviously, we enjoy going-- but I think this thread does grossly overstate what the Disney experience is. It is a commercial venture with plusses and minuses. Some people are charmed and delighted by it, others really are not. The...

Have you considered a complaint to the appropriate consumer affairs office? Sounds like your original loan officer lied to you about the loan you were getting--Have you contacted her about your concerns? How does she explain your ending up with an adjustable rather than a fixed rate mortgage?

What a wonderful present! When I got married some years back, some of the gifts we received didn't thrill me. There were some bowls, vases, etc. that weren't really to my taste. But now, years later I find that they have really grown on me. I don't know if my taste has changed that much or...

In many cultures money is the standard gift. When I attended a Vietnamese wedding, I gave money. The bride and groom didn't ask, but when I inquired to her friend about what to get her, she was really puzzled at the question--Everyone in that culture gives cash (or money equivelents like...

KPM76-- I think you are confused about the wine. Guests bring that as a hostess gift, not because they don't like what you are offering. When I take a bottle of wine it usually isn't even opened that night, but enjoyed (hopefully!) by the hosts later. If they are serving chicken you don't...

To us, it's no different than inviting you into our home...no one pays to visit and celebrate with us...it just doesn't fit our definition of hospitality. I agree with this poster completely. Cash bars are tacky because you are charging your guests for hospitality! Because a wedding...

Oh my. Brides do not give themselves showers. Actually, no relative of the bride should give her a shower (I know this is widely ignored). Showers were supposed to be given by close friends of the bride (and traditionally, they were small, intimate gatherings). Also, not registering...

I don't have an online source for travel ettiquette-- but Miss Manners certianly talks about tipping hotel housekeepers. Also, the tradition of Boxing Day is directly derived from the English tradition of tipping houseservants. Also, a good book on social history would probably address the...

It could well be that the tradition is dying as far more middle class people (unexposed to the tradition) travel. But-- tipping housekeeping in hotels has been the tradition going well back to the 18th century. I bet the tipping rate is far higher at the Waldorf than the Motel 6.

Oh, yes-- completely inequitable. But, so if our whole wage sytem. Paying sports stars more than teachers is ineguitable. Paying CEOs one thousand times the wage of the line worker is inequitable. But, nonetheless, that is the way our society does things. I think that if I want to protest...

Of course, each of does as we feel is appropriate. I was just pointing out that tipping housekeepers isn't a shocking new ides, but just as old a custom as tipping those other positions. Thinking it over, I guess that tipping maids isn't as obvious if you have never been exposed to it. That...

Tipping housekeeping is traditionally done (even as I posted earlier, in private houses--that is, guests would traditionally leave a tip for the maids after they had been a house guest at a rich person's house). Tipping hairdressers, bellmen, waiters is traditionally done. Other positions that...

45 bottles. Won 9 out of 12 tries. Thanks to the people here who pointed me to it!