What rules are you breaking that work for you?

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Anonymous wrote:I have an imaginary kid at work. It's been great! I use my niece's photos. My sister knows and thinks it's hilarious.

I got sick of being the childfree employee at my last job and getting crap from coworkers who were parents when I wanted to take time off. And also getting extra work dumped on me when they needed to be off for concerts, award days, mommy & me breakfast, etc.

Trust me, if you're childfree and starting a new job, toss a photo of a kid in your life on your desk. Someone will assume it's your kid so you roll with it.

I'm the coworker who would Google you and get far enough down the rabbit hole to see that something is not quite right...

Not PP, but when you Google me, you get…nothing.

What’s your name? I’ll test this theory

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Anonymous wrote:They recently lowered all the speed limits in my town from 35 to 25 because of the effing bikers. I still go 40. They can ticket me.

I always drive my car so that part is in the bike lanes. No one else uses them and I want the road surface to wear evenly. People have reported me and I have received warnings from the traffic office not to do it. I haven’t stopped but the warnings have.

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A colleague posted a long diatribe on Facebook about her “minor” child not cared for by airlines because weather delays made him miss flights. The “minor” will be a college junior in the fall.

I was running firefights in Afghanistan when I was 19. I posted this and it brought down the fury of Facebook on me. I guess I shouldn’t have called the minor a sniveler.

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I’m a crunchy Earth Mother type who goes plogging and has won multiple litter collection contests (it’s a thing where I work) but we’re keeping our large SFH on full blast AC. It’s now 68 in my bedroom and I’ve also had a fan running all night. Our windows have condensation on the inside. I absolutely can’t stand being hot.

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I’m UMC but get most of my clothes from the listserv or thrift stores. Just hate paying full price when the used clothes are just as good and practically free.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH and I sleep in separate rooms. Not because we have marital problems but because I sleep so much better on my own.

Same here! It’s been amazing and going on 2 years.

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I never wipe down gym equipment after I use it. Sometimes I act like I am if somebody is waiting but I’m not really wiping that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I pump gas with my car running.

Please don’t do this. This is a danger to the others around you.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH and I sleep in separate rooms. Not because we have marital problems but because I sleep so much better on my own.

Same here! It’s been amazing and going on 2 years.

+1. Have for years. DH snore like a freight train. I get to starfish in the king bed all alone. I LOVE it. Vacations where we have to share a room mean I don’t sleep well.

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nothing surprises me with the rampant sociopathy of the DC area

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been using paper plates a lot for a few years. We love our set of real plates but it’s a small thing that helps me keep our house cleaner. Slightly fewer dishes means we can keep up.

Buying aluminum tins to bake in was a total game changer for me. No dishwasher, so being able to bake and then throw out the tin instead of scrubbing reduces so much stress. I also buy plastic ware and paper bowls.

Ocean killer.

I was thinking the same thing! Most of these rules breakers make me laugh. This person isn't breaking rules, she, or he is just being completely wasteful. Ick

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]I let my kids ride unbuckled from the house to the neighborhood pool, and back.

[I drive slowly. I enforce that they sit down, sometimes they sit on the floor too.[b]

We used to walk. There was a cute shortcut between houses. It was really for utilities, but someone had put stepping stones. And all the neighborhood kids told us about it. I guess something happened this summer and they decided to put a lock on it.

This seems like a terribly low reward risk. Do you think your kids won’t fly through the windshield if you are hit and they are sitting down versus standing up? Let them eat Captain Crunch all summer or just say no to their Summer reading list.

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I drink wine and eat dessert almost every night, and I eat tons of carbs.

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Anonymous wrote:I let my kids ride unbuckled from the house to the neighborhood pool, and back.

I drive slowly. I enforce that they sit down, sometimes they sit on the floor too.

We used to walk. There was a cute shortcut between houses. It was really for utilities, but someone had put stepping stones. And all the neighborhood kids told us about it. I guess something happened this summer and they decided to put a lock on it.

That is disappointing. neighborhood cut-throughs are a sacrosanct tradition. But then the "get off my lawn" and "if something happens you are liable" types on here win over.

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Anonymous wrote:My life doesn't revolve around my kids. I take care of them, but in some ways their lives revolve around me.

I like you, PP!