What parts of your life/lifestyle are unapproved by DCUM standards?

[Anonymous]

I went to *gasp* community college. And then GMU. While living with my OMG boyfriend. Whom I married. At 24!!! Clutch your pearls, dear. Never lived in a dorm. Had our children at 28 and 31.

None of this is the big deal or shock you think it is.

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I went to *gasp* community college. And then GMU. While living with my OMG boyfriend. Whom I married. At 24!!! Clutch your pearls, dear. Never lived in a dorm. Had our children at 28 and 31.

None of this is the big deal or shock you think it is.

DP yes it is among the DCUM crowd.

[Anonymous]

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I went to *gasp* community college. And then GMU. While living with my OMG boyfriend. Whom I married. At 24!!! Clutch your pearls, dear. Never lived in a dorm. Had our children at 28 and 31.

None of this is the big deal or shock you think it is.

Of course it’s not a big deal or shock. But DCUM loves to rag on community college and people getting married in their early 20s.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

Plus the whole family is very tall. DCUM women love "tall genes" and are all afraid they'll have short kids.

Aren't most DCUM women about 5'2" and max 80 lbs.??

[Anonymous]

We always go to Cracker Barrel on road trips. And we enjoy it.

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Anonymous wrote:My lawn has crabgrass and I don't care. Not going to put herbicide on it.

Me too. I have clover and dandelion too.

I thought this was now the norm?

DP. I think it’s moving that direction. When we first moved to our home we paid a lawn company to dump chemicals (gross I know) all over to kill the clover. Then the clover came back anyway a few years later.

We are now more educated about what a scam lawn care is and how we’ve all been duped into thinking clover is a bad weed. I’m now a huge fan of pollinator friendly yards. When kept neatly mowed, it is nice and lush looking. Soft of my kids’ feet (they do water play and run around barefoot in summer). We aren’t spending tons of $ and time to maintain it (a total win in my book). And my kids really love seeing all the bees and birds come into our yard.

I think the perfectly manicured, chemical-sprayed golf course looking yards are now like bolt on boobs — everyone can tell they’re fake and tacky. I love my neighbors’ yards that are certified wildlife habitats.

It has been the norm to not use chemicals for some time. If you spray for weeds, and especially if you have a yard service, it makes you look uneducated, backwoods, and bad with your money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We always go to Cracker Barrel on road trips. And we enjoy it.

That's for later in the day. Nobody can beat McDonalds for breakfast.

[Anonymous]

I don't do any social media. For me, it was a total time suck and all about packaging your life for the consumption of others. Life is way too short for that.

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Anonymous wrote:We always go to Cracker Barrel on road trips. And we enjoy it.

That's for later in the day. Nobody can beat McDonalds for breakfast.

We do Dunkin'!

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a 1500 sq ft rowhouse with 2 teenagers and everyone feels like they have enough space.

Teach me your ways. I also live in a 1500 sq foot rowhouse and definitely do not feel like this. (Lack of storage doesn't help. I'm considering whether built ins are worth it - you lost a foot of space but can hide stuff.)

I admit that a lot has to do with layout. We have 2 floors plus a finished basement, so essentially each floor is 500 sq feet, and we take full advantage of the space. We also have high ceilings on our top floor, and our closets/shelves go all the way to the top. Agree with you that taking advantage of vertical space is key, but also purging as much as you can helps.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a 1500 sq ft rowhouse with 2 teenagers and everyone feels like they have enough space.

Teach me your ways. I also live in a 1500 sq foot rowhouse and definitely do not feel like this. (Lack of storage doesn't help. I'm considering whether built ins are worth it - you lost a foot of space but can hide stuff.)

I would look to see if floating shelves/cabinets are possible. That way it looks like you haven't lost so much space because you still have the floor space.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

Plus the whole family is very tall. DCUM women love "tall genes" and are all afraid they'll have short kids.

Aren't most DCUM women about 5'2" and [b]min 180 lbs.??[/b]

Fixed that for you.

Agree there is not much in between - too many eating disorders!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My lawn has crabgrass and I don't care. Not going to put herbicide on it.

Our yard has every weed imaginable and I don’t use herbicides - especially never round up. I yank out invasive vines and weeds by hand so it is very uneven.

Whenever I plant grass seeds in the early spring, the lawn is a mess of dog urine brown spots and weeds by the end of May.

However We have a lot of flowers, trees and birds. I don’t worry about our dogs getting cancer after they run and roll around in our weedy lawn.

I would love to get the non toxic Mosquito treatment for lawns and bushes but don’t want to hurt our struggling bee and insect population.

I don’t think DCUM cares about any of this. At least one neighbor appreciates the lack of chemicals.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never sorted my laundry by color. My kids don’t do travel sports and they don’t get any tutoring.

I don't, either. I wash all my clothes on cold with Tide. Some stuff I put on the delicate cycle and hang to dry. The exception is sheets and towels, which I wash on warm or hot, if they're really dirty. I've never sorted by color in 20 years so far of doing laundry and I've never had any issues with colors bleeding.

Yep, same. Pretty much everything gets dumped in the same pile, washed on cold, and dried together.

[Anonymous]

I only do laundry once a werk