What rules are you breaking that work for you?

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Anonymous wrote:I reach 100 mph nearly every day on the highway and blow through the unnecessary red lights recently installed near my home. I'll pump gas with the engine running because there is no danger in ding so at all. Same for using a cell phone. When I'm grocery shopping, I usually take that time to eat something I grab off the shelf and not pay for it. My cats are outdoor cats and yes, they kill a lot and I don't care. I'm not dealing with a litter box ever.

I don’t think you’re real but on the off chance that you really are that loathsome of a person, blowing through red lights is how people die. It’s not funny, it’s not amusing, it’s not cute. You SUCK as a human. I work in a hospital and see the aftermath of YOU. My kids are on the road, my loved ones are on the road. Feel free to put your own life at risk but leave innocent people out if it.

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Anonymous wrote:I vowed to never go back to work, once I became a sahm. It bothers a lot of people on DCUM but I don't care. My DH does more than 50% of work at home and I have cleaners too. I have AC.

Air Conditioning? Adult Children? Armpit Cysts?

Active chlamydia?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a queen sized comforter on a king sized bed.

I have a King sized comforter on a queen bed, bought a King sized once because it was on clearance and and the queen was full price… i’m never going back!

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I didn't have my prek4 kid do any of her homework last year. Our family was going through an immensely stressful time, she was way ahead of the learning curve and is already reading all 3 and some 4 letter words, she was in school all day 7:45am-3pm for a 4yo and lost her ever-loving mind when I tried to do more school work after, I only have a few hours a day with her and want to enjoy them so I just....didn't do homework last school year. No one said anything.

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Anonymous wrote:-Never floss, brush teeth only in the morning, see the dentist once a year. I've never had a cavity (and I eat a ton of sugar)
-Babywise. It's amazing. Sorry DCUM!
-Everything cleanliness-wise - I shower every other day, the house cleaners come monthly and besides the kitchen I don't do any other cleaning, towels and sheets get washed monthly. Good enough!
-I don't even own makeup.
-I have a full time salaried job that pays well and since having kids, I work prob an average of 10-20 hrs a week. Got a promotion in there, too. Shrug.

Yes to Babywise!

I did a Babywise-Ferber combo that worked wonderfully. I regret nothing and think people suffer needlessly because they are so rigid.

+1 on the sleep training! So much needless suffering in other parents!

We never sleep trained. I slept with my kid in her room until he was 7. Then she told me she was old enough to sleep on her own. No one cried; no one suffered.

Your husband probably suffered.

You sound uncreative in the bedroom. I'm sorry.

You sound like your husband is cheating on you. Not really sorry as you’ve brought it on yourself.

Because I don't limit sex to the bedroom? Mmmkay. You're not real smart, are you?

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Anonymous wrote:-Never floss, brush teeth only in the morning, see the dentist once a year. I've never had a cavity (and I eat a ton of sugar)
-Babywise. It's amazing. Sorry DCUM!
-Everything cleanliness-wise - I shower every other day, the house cleaners come monthly and besides the kitchen I don't do any other cleaning, towels and sheets get washed monthly. Good enough!
-I don't even own makeup.
-I have a full time salaried job that pays well and since having kids, I work prob an average of 10-20 hrs a week. Got a promotion in there, too. Shrug.

Yes to Babywise!

I did a Babywise-Ferber combo that worked wonderfully. I regret nothing and think people suffer needlessly because they are so rigid.

+1 on the sleep training! So much needless suffering in other parents!

We never sleep trained. I slept with my kid in her room until he was 7. Then she told me she was old enough to sleep on her own. No one cried; no one suffered.

Your husband probably suffered.

You sound uncreative in the bedroom. I'm sorry.

You sound like your husband is cheating on you. Not really sorry as you’ve brought it on yourself.

This is harsh but agree with the underlying principle. The co-sleeping people who say "you need the BEDROOM to be intimate? How uncreative!" are so weird. That's like saying "why would you use the DINING ROOM to eat? You can eat in the car or in the living room!" Well, yeah, but...

DH snores, so he has his own bedroom. If there's a kid in the master, we just go in there. Not sure why this means he's cheating on me.

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I starch and iron my clothes.

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Pay for my kid's college, first car, wedding, down payment to first house.

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I've been in a long term relationship and have children but never married. No one knows but us.

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Anonymous wrote:I starch and iron my clothes.

This is truly horrific. But if it works for you....

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Anonymous wrote:I pay for one movie and sneak into one or 2 more after. I plan it in advance with the movie start and end times.

How do you do this now where you have reserved seating?

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Anonymous wrote:-Never floss, brush teeth only in the morning, see the dentist once a year. I've never had a cavity (and I eat a ton of sugar)
-Babywise. It's amazing. Sorry DCUM!
-Everything cleanliness-wise - I shower every other day, the house cleaners come monthly and besides the kitchen I don't do any other cleaning, towels and sheets get washed monthly. Good enough!
-I don't even own makeup.
-I have a full time salaried job that pays well and since having kids, I work prob an average of 10-20 hrs a week. Got a promotion in there, too. Shrug.

Yes to Babywise!

I did a Babywise-Ferber combo that worked wonderfully. I regret nothing and think people suffer needlessly because they are so rigid.

+1 on the sleep training! So much needless suffering in other parents!

We never sleep trained. I slept with my kid in her room until he was 7. Then she told me she was old enough to sleep on her own. No one cried; no one suffered.

Your husband probably suffered.

You sound uncreative in the bedroom. I'm sorry.

You sound like your husband is cheating on you. Not really sorry as you’ve brought it on yourself.

Because I don't limit sex to the bedroom? Mmmkay. You're not real smart, are you?

+1 PP thinks that you can only have sex at night and in the bedroom, how boring.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Same. Our HHI is over $400K and most of my clothes and our furniture are secondhand.

Don't you feel like you should leave that stuff for the people who can't afford new though?

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Anonymous wrote:I put on a hardhat and neon yellow shirt, and walked onto a big construction site taking photos. No one stopped me.

Do you also keep a clown costume in your trunk, just in case you need it?

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Anonymous wrote:I pay for one movie and sneak into one or 2 more after. I plan it in advance with the movie start and end times.

I did this once when my friends decided to do this after the first movie, even though I didn't want to. It was pre cell phone, so I had no other way of getting a ride home. I sat through the second movie terrified that someone was going to come whisk me away to Sing Sing.