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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not on a Buy Nothing group (I'm not on Facebook) but live in Capitol Hill and recently learned that the administration of the CH Buy Nothing group on Facebook was so toxic and draconian that a group of people splintered off and started a different group called Take My $hit that has literally no rules or administration and now has as many if not more members than the original group.

If admin of Buy Nothing groups is anything like admin of neighborhood parent list serves or certain school/activity parent groups I've been in, I can imagine it's awful. There is this small minority of people who live to order other people around and punish them for not following exacting rules that only exist to make them feel official and in control. And they make everyone else's life miserable. Worse, they often truly believe that they are the only reason anything ever happens, and that the rest of us rely on them to make our lives better. They don't realize that most of the time, good stuff happens in spite of their "organization efforts" and that most of us are functional adults who somehow manage to do okay without them the rest of the time.

I wish therapy were free and widely available.[/quote]

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