This was one of the most baffling things I’ve read on here. We registered for 6 towel sets (1 bath, 1 hand, and 1 washcloth) and within a month of being married we doubled that because my parents came to stay with us after Katrina. Then we got a dog, had two kids, bought another dog, and I have no clue how many towels we have. I know we have over 50 washcloths (thanks CEP for making me realize how gross we were!).
I’ll never be welcome on MM, because I just can’t get behind that sort of austerity, lol! (Also sfy left, and she is amazing and I miss her!)
The minimalist in me REALLY struggles with this kind of stuff. I am moving and fighting internally again. We have 4 towels for us and maybe 4 for guests? Still seems ecessive. lol
ETA: 50!?! ::RUNS SCREAMING OUT OF POST::
I'm with you. It's not a money thing, I just don't see the need for a billion towels. Most of the time, I wash towels and sheets on the weekend and put the same ones back out once they are clean. We have 4 decent bath towels, when we have guests (never more than 2 at a time anyway since we have a 2 bedroom house) we put all 4 towels out.
I do hang onto the old towels after I replace them with newer, fluffier ones, just so that if we need one for something other than bathing we have an option. I would never put those out for guests or choose to use them myself, though.
I really don't even know where we'd store 12 towel sets and 50 wash cloths. 2 is a little bit too lean for me since we do have guests a few times a year, but I don't know why Americans tend to think we need so much stuff.
The name Alisa rings a bell, but I can't place her. Mostly because I have a terrible memory.
And like others have said, I do wonder what some of these posters do now to fill their time. I know the internet is vast, so I am sure they have landed elsewhere.
AlisaS was old school. She was a doc in LA and had twin boys. I enjoyed her lol.
The name Alisa rings a bell, but I can't place her. Mostly because I have a terrible memory.
And like others have said, I do wonder what some of these posters do now to fill their time. I know the internet is vast, so I am sure they have landed elsewhere.
AlisaS was old school. She was a doc in LA and had twin boys. I enjoyed her lol.
I forgot about her! Psychiatrist I think? She was... interesting. A bit out of touch and pretty harsh.
I wonder about V (from MM who also posted on here), among a few others. Like the doctor, Alisa.
The name Alisa rings a bell, but I can't place her. Mostly because I have a terrible memory.
And like others have said, I do wonder what some of these posters do now to fill their time. I know the internet is vast, so I am sure they have landed elsewhere.
Yes like V was on here all day long. I used to wonder how she had time to do that and still do her super important BigLaw job.
The name Alisa rings a bell, but I can't place her. Mostly because I have a terrible memory.
And like others have said, I do wonder what some of these posters do now to fill their time. I know the internet is vast, so I am sure they have landed elsewhere.
Yes like V was on here all day long. I used to wonder how she had time to do that and still do her super important BigLaw job.
I just need to know what boards all these crazies are posting on now because you know they are. Tamb could never quit a message board. I envision them all, still together, posting. I am sure JLM and the other ones who preyed on people's kindness are out there still doing that too. No one ever really quits the internet.
So many left at once that I wonder if some of them started their own message board somewhere.
Yes like V was on here all day long. I used to wonder how she had time to do that and still do her super important BigLaw job.
Who was V? I am drawing a blank.
The fancy pants Manhattan attorney/MM queen bee. She is one of the posters who had it out for kirkette and said some racist things about her (for instance she scoffed when kirkette referred to herself as a philanthropist).
The fancy pants Manhattan attorney/MM queen bee. She is one of the posters who had it out for kirkette and said some racist things about her (for instance she scoffed when kirkette referred to herself as a philanthropist).
Oh ok, I never post on MM so that would explain why I was drawing a blank. She sounds terrible.
The fancy pants Manhattan attorney/MM queen bee. She is one of the posters who had it out for kirkette and said some racist things about her (for instance she scoffed when kirkette referred to herself as a philanthropist).
Oh ok, I never post on MM so that would explain why I was drawing a blank. She sounds terrible.
I always thought she was, but she really was a Queen Bee over there. She was a big law attorney and made sure everyone knew it, constantly. And thought she ran the board. Like she would post a "flamefuls" thread four times a week, never post anything in it, but would comment on others posts and be like "that's not a flameful." THEN YOU POST SOMETHING. Then she started coming over to MMM and making comments like "I don't see why this discussion cant be on the regular MM."
Then the Kirkette BS, and then I think she came back under a new name to defend "V" and to continue to harass K? Maybe?
I miss Kirkette but don't blame her one iota for leaving.
I’ll never understand needing a new towel for every shower. You’re clean when you use it. Do you change your sheets every day?
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
What about the woman from Texas who had triplets? (2 boys and a girl, I think) What was her name? Why did she ever leave? I think I recall some drama but I can’t remember what it was.
Where the hell has happywife been? I miss her totally random nightly questions! Every time I wonder about something totally out of left field, I think of her.
I’ll never understand needing a new towel for every shower. You’re clean when you use it. Do you change your sheets every day?
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
But I mean, if you're doing a shower right you're washing all the mud off and clean when done.
AlisaS was old school. She was a doc in LA and had twin boys. I enjoyed her lol.
I forgot about her! Psychiatrist I think? She was... interesting. A bit out of touch and pretty harsh.
Spenjamins was interesting good way to put it.
Knowledgeable about twins and all that she was a good resource when I had my twins as hers were about five years older so she had been there etc.
She was a psychiatrist in a clinic I got the sense she had some disdain for her clients I can’t recall exactly why I remember this I just remember thinking yikes a lot when I read how she spoke of her clients/patients. Did she leave here? Haven’t seen her post in a long time but maybe name change.
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
But I mean, if you're doing a shower right you're washing all the mud off and clean when done.
My friend got into a huge argument with his live in GF at the time about this. In his mind once you've used a towel once it's dirty. She would hang the towel and use it more than once unless she was really dirty. Since it was "his" place, she was "wrong". I'm on team as long as it's not moldy you can use it more than once. save money on laundry, soap, the environment etc.
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
I see we are doing this one again. I get a new wash cloth every shower because im not using the same cloth I used to wash my ass on my body the next shower. I usually get a new towel as well. I usually hang my towel to dry after my shower and use it to wipe my hands or wipe up messes in the bathroom counter. I have enough towels/wash clothes for everyone in my house to have a clean set at each bath. I wash towels once a week. It's not a big deal.
Honestly I thought everyone did this until coming here.
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
But I mean, if you're doing a shower right you're washing all the mud off and clean when done.
I have a hair towel and another towel. Well i have 4, but i don’t use all 4.
Some folks are seriously odd. I’m not washing my towel every shower unless I rolled in fucking mud or something. Some folks must have stock in laundry detergent to do that shit.
I see we are doing this one again. I get a new wash cloth every shower because im not using the same cloth I used to wash my ass on my body the next shower. I usually get a new towel as well. I usually hang my towel to dry after my shower and use it to wipe my hands or wipe up messes in the bathroom counter. I have enough towels/wash clothes for everyone in my house to have a clean set at each bath. I wash towels once a week. It's not a big deal.
Yep, I use a fresh towel after my shower, and then it gets used to clean up the floor and tub after the kids have a bath at night.
I wonder about the poster who had the SD from another country that came to live with them and she had some really unreasonable expectations of her. I hope the kid is ok and adjusting well.
I wonder about the poster who had the SD from another country that came to live with them and she had some really unreasonable expectations of her. I hope the kid is ok and adjusting well.
that dumb bitch. She actually came back recently as another name, but I don’t remember what it was. Everything about that situation made me angry. Remember she took her biological son to therapy to help him cope, but not the SD? And that she communicated with her husband through google translate?
And people wonder why we laugh at dumb shit here. It’s to balance out nonsense like this, which occurs with startling frequency.
I wonder about the poster who had the SD from another country that came to live with them and she had some really unreasonable expectations of her. I hope the kid is ok and adjusting well.
that dumb bitch. She actually came back recently as another name, but I don’t remember what it was. Everything about that situation made me angry. Remember she took her biological son to therapy to help him cope, but not the SD? And that she communicated with her husband through google translate?
And people wonder why we laugh at dumb shit here. It’s to balance out nonsense like this, which occurs with startling frequency.
YES. That made me so sad for the daughter.
And she wanted to ground her for really ridiculous things too. I wish I could remember what. It was something stupid like watching TV past 8 pm or something. And she always sounded so condescending about the way SD and the extended family used to live back in their home country. That whole situation was just beyond frustrating.
that dumb bitch. She actually came back recently as another name, but I don’t remember what it was. Everything about that situation made me angry. Remember she took her biological son to therapy to help him cope, but not the SD? And that she communicated with her husband through google translate?
And people wonder why we laugh at dumb shit here. It’s to balance out nonsense like this, which occurs with startling frequency.
YES. That made me so sad for the daughter.
And she wanted to ground her for really ridiculous things too. I wish I could remember what. It was something stupid like watching TV past 8 pm or something. And she always sounded so condescending about the way SD and the extended family used to live back in their home country. That whole situation was just beyond frustrating.
I felt so sad for that little girl. Thrust into a family she does not know, she cannot speak the language (which can be terribly isolating on its own), and is living with people who make it clear that she is not wanted there. So sad.