My husband and I are raising a kid off $60k/yr.

His father helps with emergencies, for example the washing machine broke recently, so his grandmother actually bought it, as an early Christmas gift.

We’d be wrecked if we didn’t have at little help here and there.

The most I’ve ever made on my own was $42K for the year… These high salaries folks talk about blow my mind.

I quit buying it, and am raising my son without it. For these reasons. It’s not a good breakfast, nearly wholly empty on calories.

If I cook him breakfast, it’s usually eggs and turkey sausages. That’s the “go to”. Most days it’s leftover dinner though. He loves that shit at 8am

I don’t have breakfast (coffee usually). But like today, I broke my fast with some crackers and hummus at noon.

My son straight up just has leftovers for breakfast. Spaghetti, soup, roast chicken. Whatever’s in there he can heat up he’ll have before I even finish my coffee.

What’s your favorite kind of apple? I always like cold gala

Even if bulk is a few cents cheaper, this is why I buy loose fruit.

I did buy bulk pears, but after snacking and there’s 5-8 left, I made Chef John’s pear Clafoutis dessert. Leftover fruit is dessert.

It helps to have a garbage disposal of a kid around too

No of course not, but it still exposes a person to a culture different than what they may be used to.

Honestly, even if Americans can’t afford to get a passport to travel, so many never leave the area they are born. Many don’t leave thier regions. Many also do, but I’ve met townies… I am a townie I guess, but even just living in a city myself for a time, opened my eyes.

Many of the bigoted people I’ve met have never left thier rural enclaves, and shockingly, they’re afraid of cities (big and small) and anyone not like them, they shit all over anyone not born the same hospital they were. Is it ignorance? Fear? Insecurity? I don’t know, I don’t understand the mentality.

The United States is so large, so diverse, of course traveling abroad would be cool, but I wish more could simply travel our own country for a start, hell even just different areas of their own state might help some people I know broaden their horizons.

When my son was a newborn I had a neighbor who would always try and touch him, her hands always looked dirty.

Used to get an intrusive thought, more than a few times, she was gonna steal my baby and punt him across the parking lot like a football.

Hormones are wild

I was going to mention this. My son was taught “sight words” and it’s the dumbest fucking bullshit I’ve ever seen.

On top of that, many parents of today, do not put an importance on reading at home.

Only one teacher he’s had has done spelling tests, in all these years… one teacher.

I practice both reading and writing with my son as often as he can tolerate at home. It’s really sad seeing these kids cannot spell or write, or yes even read.

They fucked a whole generation of kids, in more than a few ways, but one of which was definitely the years they switched off phonics and taught bogus sight words.

On console, we dont have art painting. I’ve seen people do different things with colored wire, and make signs/art that way. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it seems really cool. I’ve gotten very fast at hooking up electricity/water for a farm. I forget you can color the wire.

I’ve probably 500 hours or so, maybe more of I combine my PC/Console time. But there are monuments I still have never visited lol

PvE is a completely different story. It did take me a bit to find a server I liked though. I just like building things. I always put out a “take what you need” box for passerbys, and I’ve had folks just come into my house to check it out, and drop me skinned Aks and I’ll drop em teas and shit. It’s fun.

Sorta along the same lines, but, I love how differently my husband and I play Rust. He’s on his official server doing what the game is meant for, and I’m just on my pVE building a villa/farm.

We need the farm update on console. I need pies and chickens. With the jungle update, my Lenovo Go can no longer handle Rust at all, so I’m back on console. It’s missing some of my favorite features for farm build. I want to chase a chicken for that elusive egg fresh after wipe! And the flowers! Oh…

Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

Fantastic voice acting, awesome gameplay, beautiful world. 10/10 I love her.

I yelled at a coworker once for this. He was kind of a slacker, and known as such. One day I was to be teaching him my line (plastic extrusion and slitting). It was a tough product and the blade box was shit and wrapped. It’s a tense moment, we have to fix it quickly and do a restart, there is so much to do, and it’s a giant pain in the ass.

I go to grab a tool, and like, be on your phone when things are good, I don’t care, but it takes two to run this shit. I come back and he’s still just staring at his phone, Facebook of all places, instead of fucking helping clear the wrap and prep the line. I yelled at him to go sit down if he wants to be on his phone as now he’s in my way. I told him to get tf off my line if he wanted to play gossip on Facebook.

The only lady in my department, I don’t think anyone spoke to him like that before. He put his phone away the rest of the shift and I avoided working with him again. This dude worked there longer than I did, knew less than I did, and got paid more. Fuck outta here.