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I’ve been going through cabinets, closets, everything and purging and cleaning like crazy. I think it’s because I’ve felt so shitty all year and haven’t had the energy and now suddenly I do.

I did stumble upon a “camping and hiking with babies book” that I was going to pass on but I wrote some deep heartfelt note inside when I gifted it to my husband about our first baby so even unsentimental me has to keep it!

I do have special heirlooms and papers and things that I will not part with but with our modern stuff- I have to go through it constantly or we just accumulate too much. Two kids, adequate sized space but we all have so many hobbies we have to purge all the time. My daughter is a very prolific artist which is awesome and I enjoy but we’re going to have to get a storage unit or I’m going to have to start culling her work. 😑

If those children’s books are special to you, keep them. Those are one thing I have a hard time letting go of- not books, but special ones.

I am a bad purger, frequent moves and growing up with a depression era hoarder in the family have made me the opposite. To the point where I just donated all my old clothes that didn’t fit and then lost a bunch of weight.

I would take what you absolutely must have that you love and get rid of everything else if you can. That’s not a popular view, I know. And it helps if you’re an unsentimental minimalist.

You can get rid of all your winter wear when you get to he airport, right? I bet that will feel so good.

I didn’t want you to think your comment set me off.

She did write she asks for it every year, and that every year he gets everything but. If we’re going to analyze the few sentences most people write in with I think we need to take the straight up facts as they are presented unless we get more a more detailed follow up later. I did not mean this as a response to yours, Copa. It’s not meant that way. It’s a response to the entire thread.

Like another comment someone else wrote, this isn’t a “test” she’s giving him to fail and he’s failing. She wrote she asks for it every year. Like why are we questioning her and accusing her of playing a rigged game that he can’t win?

She (I think) is a people pleaser who is afraid of seeming even slightly ungrateful because she’s been taught as many women have to never ever to seem ungrateful because it’s rude. Or have learned in worse ways, like bad relationships.

I’m really tired of bashing apart women who are uncertain of themselves, especially from the men on this site. It’s pretty common for women and abused women to have little to no confidence. A lot of us are literally brought up that way or have gone through hell and cannot tell if the reasonable thing they want is okay or if it is crazy to want the cake she likes on her birthday. Telling her she’s wrong for wanting what she likes and asking for it on her birthday is terrible advice.

This is an advice site, and it’s about relationships and it’s mostly a lot of women who seek advice about theirs. Sometimes men, but mostly ladies. If you think women just play games with their partners or that they are just disgusting as a whole, I question why you want to give women advice, if you do, or if you’re just here to be mean to strangers.

My husband and I were vaxxed and boosted and used the Binax at home tests that look like a double line positive pregnancy test. We tested positive. I don’t know if it’s the new variant of course, or not, but we had what would be considered mild symptoms and it still took ten days to run its course. My husband is athletic, healthy and strong. I have labwork done frequently and my immune system is absolutely working fine, and I had aches, chills, sinus symptoms and a hacking cough and sore throat. And I would say they were mild but I think my threshold for pain is different since I’ve had shingles and mono twice in the last 12 months.

She wasn’t asking for a possible reason. She was asking if she was being an asshole.

She’s not.

It’s her birthday and you’re being a jerk as usual, even after a Wendy told you to cut it out last month.