Coffee Break: Millennial Pink Lipstick
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If you're looking for an easy, pinkish lipstick, I really like this one from Merit.
It's part of their Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick, and — speaking as someone who primarily wears glosses and tints — I really like how easy it is to apply, how comfortable it is to wear, and how long it lasts. Can you ask for much more?
The lippie is $26, available at Sephora or Merit. (My exact color is Millennial.)
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- Tuckernuck – Sample sale, prices up to 70% off! (Including lots of this bestselling work dress marked to under $75)
I am drowning in paper clutter. Throw me your best tips (that aren’t “light a match”) for just shedding this burden. I need some fundamental rewiring or I could move to a giant Texas sized house and still have papers (or ephemera) on every single horizontal surface (impossible to clean and dust around). I am the child of “stackers” and now that I have more papers than time to sort them, am hopelessly behind and have a deadline of purging this all (organizing the need-to-keeps and shredding the rest). Scanning really isn’t an option b/c I can’t index that well or have a system that will work in 5-10 years (I tried before with pictures and spent too much time on thinking through an indexing system). Paper works well if I can just get down to keep things (like tax records from 10 years ago are just saved for what is needed and with precision and organized and labelled). Ugh.
Do you have a filing cabinet with hanging files? If not, get that. Lots of hanging folders that can be labeled.
You need a PERSON to come do it with you, put away everything you need to keep, and shred the rest. The person could be a friend or a pro organizer, as long as they will keep you on task.
For example, taxes need only be kept for 7 years (the 6 year statute of limitations is for a “substantial understatement of income”). Not 10.
Start by simply sorting and throwing away/recycling/shredding the trash/junk:
1. Clear a table or counter, and put post-it labels across it for years (2020, 2021, 2022, etc.) Sort each stack of paper into the right year. Throw away/recycle junk that you come across as you see it in the stack (envelopes, junk mail, take-out menus, etc.)
2. Dump each year into a folder or a box.
3. By this time, you will have drained a lot of the unknown and dread out of the stacks, and you will now know what’s in there and will start to have an idea of what to do with it. Now you’ll deal with one year at a time. If that’s too daunting, sort the year down into months or types of paper (bank statements, receipt, bills, sentimental notes and cards, etc.) and deal with that smaller category.
You don’t need to index things. Your computer has built in OCR and can search across the documents for key words. Shred almost all of it, with a stop at the scanner for the things you might need to keep.
i am the queen of saving everything. but have become much better. what kinds of paper things are you drowning in? like junk mail? kid stuff? bills? flyers? for starters, switch all accounts to electronic only. minimize the amount of paper that comes into your home.
Buy a better shredder – I have the river store 18 page shredder. It powers through so much stuff so quickly. Actual reason behind it, papers would pile up because shredding was such a chore with a less powerful shredder. Now, whenever the moment strike, the pile of paper is taken care of in minutes. Also recommend flipping every stack of paper over, and starting on the bottom. Less likely to be anything you actually care about there.
You’ve inspired me. My shredder sucking is responsible for a lot of my paper backlog, even though it’s in a neat-ish to-be-shredded pile.
i think i’d start going through piles for 15 minutes a day and try to sort into 1) trash 2) shred 3) preserve and 4) process. shredding all goes in a big paper bag for later. trash or recycling can go wherever. for preservation — i just take photos of a lot of my stuff, it doesn’t have to be perfectly scanned. let’s face it, you’ll never need most of this or look at it again; if you want to keep it just in an abundance of caution just snap a picture. if it’s something lengthy, put it in a bag to go to a place with a fast scanner, like your local library… i also use the app “Scanner Pro” which I think is totally unnecessary because there’s a way to just scan the docs easily, but I have it set up to Dropbox and so forth (and paid years and years ago if at all) so it’s fine. I have one spot in my house that is perfect for scanning stuff (natural light, perfect angle, gray background) and i just take everything over there to do it.
for processing — this is going to be the most problematic pile. if you can try to think about whether you need the paperwork to process it or if you can just take a snapshot or add it to a to do to remember to check it or make the call or whatever.
Just throw them all in the trash. You need literally none of it.
I mean, she should shred anything with her SSN on it.
What is really the risk here? I have a big bag of shreddables but I have not gotten myself together to shred it. I heard that dumpster diving is not a thing anymore because cyber ID theft is so much more prevalent. Not to mention that I have private trash bins that are stored in the garage until garbage morning. if I throw my shreddables away in my kitchen waste a bit at a time, what is the likelihood of my SSN being stolen? More or less than being stolen in a data breach?
If I knew I could throw it away instead of shredding, I’d do it.
Yup. Like such a low risk versus the current actual harm of hoarding.
My city has a shredding facility you can drive to like the dump. I gathered years worth of really old paperwork and put it in a big box and took it there in person and watched them put it into the shredder. The nice lady working there said “now doesn’t that feel better?” And yes! It did!
I just rip most things and throw in the trash with my food scraps and coffee grounds. If someone wants to sort thru that 2-3 days later and can figure out my ssn from what they find, I think they have earned it at that point.
Don’t index or make micro categories. You need macro categories, and you need to stop more paper coming into your house that you don’t need, and to help you not overthink.
For ephemera – are you a collector? do you get a lot of joy from keeping random stuff? If so, you need a limit and keep whatever fits in your designated space/box/drawer, your favorites. It’s okay to just shred that stuff, though. You can shred invitations, Christmas cards, and you are free to trash kid’s drawings, catalogues (rip out the page with your name), theatre programs, funeral programs – it’s okay. For any sort of magazine, newspaper or any published items, Library of Congress will have it all, you don’t have a responsibility to keep it, even if you haven’t read it already.
Tax or business stuff – one box for the current tax year, you don’t have to sort for now if you’re drowning. Older stuff that are just records, separate box.
Current invitations and things you might take action from during the next months, small box.
Current bills and immediate action items, small open box.
Trash anything you recognise as thrash, don’t stop to read. Keep a shred bucket or something, and shred as you go. Start with the surfaces you see every day and really would like to use for something beyond paper storage.
also – my iphone does a great job of searching text; i’ve used it less with my PC but i think it does also. helpful. i honestly don’t file anything especially anymore i’ll just throw everything into one big folder and label it like “2025 paper clutter.”
what kind of paper is it? bills, taxes, junk mail, cards?
cut down the paper flow by switching everything to digital that you can. My DH gets his financial/401k statements mailed for some reason and it is crazy how fast his mail pile will build up vs mine.
i tend to hang on to receipts for too long, so I have a box they all go in (for things I might return etc). Every month, the box gets dumped out. I have a big folder for all my health stuff, everything goes in there and toward the end of the year when I’m reconciling my fsa, I clear it out. Things like that make it easy to stay on top of.
The most helpful thing I did was to opt out of credit card offers, etc., and sign up for paperless billing. Now the mail folder is much easier to manage – it’s either all easy recycling, one off bills I pay quickly, or things I actually want like cards and letters.
Only keep truly essential papers, and going forward purge those once a year (e.g., when you file your taxes, shred the oldest year’s tax return). For the initial cleanup, find a free public shredding event or even give yourself permission to pay for shredding. Where I live, law enforcement, the county, and the dump all advertise free shredding events periodically. A former employer also used to encourage employees to put their personal papers in the company shredding bins.
Your city or town may have regular free paper shredding events. I find it serves as a hard deadline to get the papers together instead of “someday.” It can also help to look at nearby localities on eventbrite to find events outside of where you live. Some are only for residents, but not all of them. They often also have electronic waste drop offs as well, for old tech, frayed cords, etc.
does anyone have a great mousse recipe? just bought the most perfect little containers as part of an auction lot for $15, so now i have no excuse.
like chocolate mousse?
I don’t have a recipe, but I’ll come over and taste test for you! :)
Genevieve Ko’s chocolate mousse recipe from the NYT is so good.
Maybe I should ask on the morning thread tomorrow.
I’m curious how many times everyone has had COVID. I’m a little worried about catching it in the current wave
I’ve had it once, May of 2023. At least officially.
I believe I had it in the first week of March 2020 right before lockdown. I couldn’t get tested them because I hadn’t traveled to China. That was the requirement then!
But my then-undiagnosed autoimmune disease flared up after that and I was officially diagnosed in June 2020. I don’t believe the illness caused the autoimmune disease as I’d had symptoms I was trying to get diagnosed for a few years before. But I do believe the illness led to the flare that led to the diagnosis.
Wonder whether anyone else here had a similar experience. And whether how many times you’ve officially had COVID has correlated with other issues.
Once – in late March/early April of 2020. Like you, I couldn’t get tested at the time, but a blood donation a few months later showed antibodies. I lost my sense of smell and had mostly sinus infection-type symptoms. As far as I know, I haven’t had it since – I test whenever I’m under the weather and they’ve all been negative. I think I’ve been very, very lucky.
ETA that I got the vaccine as soon as I could and have gotten at least one booster annually since.
Same here.
I’ve also had it just once officially, in Jan of 2024, and also think I may have had it in Feb 2020 (DH worked in NYC). DH only had it officially in 2024, too, and my kids have never had it as far as I know…and I had to PCR them for school for years, and home tested them when I was sick, and they’ve always been negative.
I sometimes wonder if we all had it early in 2020 and having that strain primed our immune systems in some way. None of us was super sick, but I remember a period of weeks of having a cough and a heavy feeling in my chest and always expecting to wake up with full-blown cold (but never did).
All of us are vaccinated with all our boosters, and I always have a reaction to the vaccine (aches, chills, etc for 12 hours)
I got something like the worst cold of my life in Seattle in January 2020 and later wondered if there was undetected spread then
But officially, I’ve only gotten it once in 2023, and it was mild. I rarely get sick, but tested if I was once home tests were available free (but wasn’t going to buy extra “just to know”). I followed all the public masking rules & stay home orders religiously, but stopped when they were lifted; worked in person throughout; lived with people who didn’t take precautions. I think there’s a lot of randomness in it and in how people respond.
I have had it four times. I do not have any other health issues, though.
I had it once this spring and husband hasn’t had it yet (or at least nothing with symptoms). We’re both up to date with vaccines. Most of the folks I work with have had it 3+ times (a lot of them not vaccinated or with heavy travel schedules). I mask on planes/in airports and wash hands religiously when traveling (every few months for work). I eat out about once a month or so.
i currently have it for my 2nd time. i got it in May 2022, and have it now. this time feels different than the other time i had it. this time i thought i had a sinus infection. i don’t recall exactly from May 2022 other than being very anxious bc i had two unvaccinated children. both got it at the time. one pretty badly, but recovered fine. based on my recollection, my symptoms in 2022 were more acute but shorter lasting than my symptoms now. this time not as acute (though i had such intense sinus pressure and headache, i desperately wanted someone to come and drill a hole in my head) and i’m having a lot of trouble getting rid of the headache and congestion, but currently not as feverish, or coughing or throat. i am vaccinated and boosted multiple times. i’m scheduled for a flu shot and booster in early october.
I had a confirmed case once, in July 2023, after international travel. It was very mild, a low grade fever for a day or two and a streaming nose for about a week, but energy-wise I felt much better than I do with a typical cold. I tested positive and isolated from my family for around 15 days, which was by far the worst part of it.
I really don’t think I had Covid before then, because I was basically never sick from 2020-2022 and tested whenever I had even mild cold symptoms. It’s possible I’ve had it again since then. I test for things like fever or feeling severely ill, but don’t test every time I have a sniffly nose. I have tested a few times after known exposures and have always been negative. I’ve also done high risk things like cruising without getting sick.
I have an autoimmune disease that was activated by pregnancy a few years before the pandemic. But I haven’t observed any health issues since 2020 or since having confirmed Covid in 2023.
None.
I have multiple autoimmune diseases, on immunosuppressants. My doctors always push me to get vaccinated early, and I am covered for all the ones folks like us should be (COVID, flu, pneumonia, RSV, shingles). I am too scared to stop my immunosuppressants before a vaccination because I don’t want my disease to flare severely – either from being off meds or from the vaccine itself. But it probably suppresses my body’s ability to have an immune response to the vaccine.
I still mask in crowded places if I will be there for extended periods of time.
I’m op. I was also on immunosuppressants once I got diagnosed so I qualified for all of the extra boosters and even the antibody injections.
Still got it, but at least it didn’t kill me. And my autoimmune disease seems to be in a good place now.
That’s good. Honestly, you may be in pretty good shape, as you are probably quite well protected by having the vax + prior COVID. One of my autoimmune diseases affects my lungs and airway/trachea, so my pulmonologist really puts pressure on me to keep masking and not get COVID/flu. I really hate wearing a mask, but am single and don’t have any help if/when I get sick and hospitalized so that’s life.
at least 2x, probably 3x. it isn’t great but it is what it is. we’ve been extremely cautious, too, with lots of masking and only-outdoor-dining up through like 2024. There’s a lot more understood now about the way covid affects your body, lungs, immune system, brain, etc, and none of it is good. (It is not just the flu!) My guess is we’re all going to die like 10 years earlier than we would have otherwise.
Once. August of 24. The sickest I have ever been in my entire life and I still have lingering exhaustion. I got it while traveling despite being masked 99.5% of the time.
I am so sorry to hear that!
One confirmed case in March 2022, one other time we all thought it was COVID but negative on rapid tests. Up to date on all vaccines but return to work and work-related travel fairly early in the pandemic. Will say that among my family who stayed with WFH and limited being around people up until recently, my immune system overall is handling not getting sick with the normal illness better. We can debate the chicken and the egg on that.
Once, summer of 2020. My only symptom was loss of smell, but I tested positive. I have not been vaccinated, and I masked only when required by law, e.g., on a plane. No one in my immediate family has had it more than once.
4x for me and no discernable aftereffects, thankfully.
I’ve had it twice, first in November 2023 and again in December 2024. Not terribly sick either time, thank goodness. And no long covid symptoms. But my understanding is that your risk for long covid increases each time you get it, so it’s smart to try to prevent it even if your experience hasn’t been awful.
Once, Fall of 2022 during the omicron wave after some travel. Most of my immediate family has only gotten it once, execept my brother’s had it twice. As far as we can tell, my mom has never had it, and she is the type that will test at every cold, so I think she really hasn’t had it (or at least not been symptomatic). Though I’m half expecting to catch it again with the current wave, especially if FDA doesn’t approve updated boosters for everyone (I don’t have anything that would qualify me for a booster if they use the restrictions everyone is expecting). Knock on wood.
I’ve never tested positive, despite pretty regular testing once it was available (and warranted/required) through maybe 2023. I’m sure I’ve had it, though. I had a mild illness matching the symptoms in early March 2020, and I had short, intense spell while on a vacation (during which we masked pretty consistently!) in Jan 2022.
I should add: I was on a work trip abroad in Sept. 2022 when of the 10 of us there, 8 people came down with Covid of varying intensities. I was among the 2 who escaped symptoms and positive testing. Wild.
I also got it on a work trip in 2022. Leadership off-site, my boss showed up complaining of allergies, gave it to all of us, and finally tested as we were all on our respective flights home. 🙄
OP here – my vector event was a one day conference
We had all been reading about Coronavirus and avoided shaking hands and touching our faces – remember that? Seems so quaint now – but the colleague I traveled with and I were both down hard a couple of days later. It was less the coughing, but more the fever and aching head for both of us.
(Sorry, to be clear, I’m talking about the “flu”
I caught in early March 2020!)
Same. I’ve never had a positive test but know I must have had it. (Everyone around me having it and many symptoms)
Twice. Not at all cautious but vaccinated. Each time was a nonevent and I recovered faster than when I just get a cold. No other health issues.
None. I had a really bad virus in the Fall of 2019 that was going around the office; we had weeks of really intense coughing. I tested for Covid antibodies in Spring of 2020 and didn’t have any. That non-Covid virus sped up what had been a slow moving condition. I have been on a steady regimen of boosters on the schedule of people who are immunocompromised, have been masking, and haven’t been flying much. I have seen a lot of no-vid people post that this round got them, so I am trying to be extra careful.
Two total – 2022 a few weeks after a surgery, and 2024. I tested a lot from 2020-2022, and once I finally tested positive I don’t believe I could not have missed prior incidents. COVID knocks me on my A S S for a week – usually two days in bed/not working and another ~5 days of feeling crummy/not normal. My symptoms have usually been fatigue, malaise, fever, sore throat but not much respiratory.
I think my surgery recovery contributed to my 2022 occurrence. While I can’t point to any lingering symptoms, I do wonder if having COVID during recovery contributed to inflammation and delayed healing.
I’ve had it at least 4 times. Christmas 2020, summer 2022, fall 2023 and most recently around March-April of this year. no preexisting health issues, and I have always been fully vaccinated with the current recommendation (will have to rethink how to track this now that it’s politicized), and fortunately have never suffered worse than a bad cold/mild flu. Each time there was one day I just wanted to lie in bed, and maybe some tiredness and brain fog for a few days, but no hospital, no long COVID symptoms, nothing scary.
I’m glad your brain fog was so short lived. That was my longest lasting symptom!
I’ve had it 3 times – annually since 2023, which is infuriating because I am still largely cocooning to protect an at-risk family member – I am still WFH, I have traveled 5 times in 5 years on public transport, I rarely eat indoors, and I wear masks in any indoor crowded spaces (and largely avoid outdoor crowds). I must be very susceptible to it. I’m also infuriated that apparently Trump and RFKJr. plan to cancel the vaccines soon – news today – which at least lowers my risks of long Covid and a bad infection if I am susceptible to it.
Similarly, in the most cautious of my entire extended family and have had it the most times (3). Yet notably I’ve only had one other illness in the last five years, a mild cold (tested multiple times and am confident it wasn’t Covid, as I didn’t have the intense fatigue that defines Covid for me).
However I travel a lot for work and fun (still n95 on all travel and don’t eat) and was masking at things like concerts and even groceries up until this spring/summer, when the case load dropped a lot.
I don’t know. Even when I’ve had every symptom and exposure, I’ve never had a positive test—self tested and professionally tested.
I also think I had it very early on – I was very sick in late January of 2020 as “some bug” swept through the office, sickening many. A colleague had been to China to visit family over the holidays.
I officially had it in January of 2024, picking it up somewhere while traveling to Texas for a wedding.
This morning’s thread debating whether legal permanent residents should be allowed to work for the government is a new low, even for this page. Do people not know the breadth of available jobs in the government? I am trying to fiture out why a surveyor or civil engineer or waste management employee needs to be a citizen. Not every jgovernment ob involves state secrets.
Can’t we just leave the cess pool from this morning’s thread in this morning’s thread?? Why does everybody immediately need to rehash the same arguments.
+1. Also, I’m pretty sure at least half of the commenters there were trolling.
That was not even close to the lows here, lol. But yeah, leave it in this morning’s thread. No one cares enough to discuss it twice.
Really horrifying
Xenophobes are especially emboldened right now. It’s going to get worse before it (hopefully? maybe?) gets better. RFK jr better get the autism farms up and running soon or half our crops are going to rot in the field (/s).
None of that conversation surprised me. I’m also over some of the comments which are so negative towards anyone on here making more than an amount which enables someone to barely scrape by.
Can we please normalize women having ambition and a family.
I am, thankfully, not in a position of needing to hire people very often. Generally, once someone comes to our team, they stay for a while. However, I had someone quit recently after I expressed concerns about their performance. And it’s kind of messed with me, how quickly things went really wrong. Now I need to rehire that position, and I am a little spooked that I’m going to get it wrong. I’ve rehashed where the process went wrong with the person who just left, and I can admit it: There were some things I overlooked in the hiring process because I really, really needed someone in the position. (Not red flags, but probably some yellow ones!) I’ve learned from it, but I am feeling anxious about evaluating candidates again. I don’t know if this is a common thing or not, but this is the type of thing that makes me feel like I’m too soft to be a manager.
I just fired someone, and they were the top-rated candidate in the interview process by multiple interviewers. There were yellow flags almost immediately after they started, which progressed to red flags, and they were let go for performance before hitting their 1-year anniversary.
Sometimes people just don’t work out, and it’s not that you’re a bad manager or you missed a bunch of red flags in the interview process. I just had someone get a promotion and another person get an above-average performance rating, so my manager skills are just fine, and my hiring sense is solid.
Good on you for starting the performance management conversation, and now you know what to look for as you backfill this role.
Can I just say that it sounds like you got out of a bad hire pretty easily? I’ve had to manage people out through a long, painful process where I kept hoping they would just quit.
Everyone makes a few mistakes in hiring, but it sounds like you’ve already done the analysis of what went wrong so you don’t repeat it. You’re doing the right things. You’ve got this!
That was my thinking too. It’s hard for people who are bad at their jobs to find new jobs. They usually know this in some level, so they’re less likely to quit and make you go through all of the hoops to get them out.
OP, I would consider this a gift.
It definitely was a gift. He needed to go, and I was fully prepared for it to be a long, drawn-out process. But, he leveled lots of interesting accusations at me on the way out (that my feedback had severely affected his mental health). It is what it is. The job was not a good fit for him.
This happened to me. A candidate had some yellow flags that turned out to be indicators of serious problems. She had good explanations for these yellow flags and we gave her the benefit of the doubt because she had lots of shiny green flags on her resume. I don’t feel like that suggests I’m too “soft” to be a manager. I think it’s really tough, because sometimes you truly cannot figure out whether a yellow flag is actually an indicator of a problem or has a reasonable explanation until they’re in the door. When we rehired, I got much more serious about investigating yellow flags and double-checked candidates’ stories where I could.
I am a “give the benefit of the doubt” person by nature, so this was a hard lesson to learn. But, I also realize that sometimes things just don’t work out.
girl that is the ideal outcome! you managed the person out with no drama. Learn what you can for sure but don’t think this means you’re soft!
It sounds like you brought up performance concerns quickly, and clearly enough for the person to recognize for themselves it wasn’t going to work out – that’s a good thing, and doesn’t at all sound like “too soft to be a manager to me”
I don’t think this makes you too soft to be a manager, but as someone who also stews on this stuff, I am happier in non-manager roles. It’s ok if you decide that’s where your peace is, too.
I co-sign all of the comments here telling you it sounds like you did everything right, but this would keep me up at night too, and you don’t have to do things that unduly stress you out.
I keep being served up posts/comments from people incredulous that their children have shut them out, and when I click through, their posting history is rabid MAGA. (Yeah, I’m sure the algorithm keeps showing me them because I get sucked in). Good for your children! Time for you to choose between a relationship with your kid or Trump.
And for those who call themselves Christians: “Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against.” (Luke 12)
I realize this is out of left field but I can’t spend my life shouting at randoms so getting it off my chest here. Sigh.
Friend, there is a greater than 50% chance those are Russian bots. Or just generic profit-making, attention-to-ad-dollar-conversion-machine bots. Don’t give them your peace!
Absolutely.
The rabid MAGA people are major fans of Russian bot accounts, but the ones I know are real and sincere and VERY interested in saying of all of this stuff entirely offline.
Totally understand the need to vent. Mine today was about vaccines.
Hey poster on the weekend who was just horrified about her husband watching a gambling addict give in to their addiction. Bet he looks great in comparison to this woman who is absolutely giddy with delight about the loss of healthy/loving parent/child relationships, right?
Found the mean girl! You seem pretty giddy with delight yourself at your attempt to draw that comparison. Please chill and direct that energy elsewhere — maybe into actually making the world a better place, instead of putting down women.
Some women deserve to be put down. This is one of them. Hope that helps!
What? Clearly these people didn’t have a loving or healthy parent/child relationship if their children are setting boundaries and walking away. The parents are delusional about their role in pushing their kids away. They are playing the victim… as they spout cruelty after cruelty about others
If you enjoy this unhinged drama check out neighborsfromhell on redd1t.
Sometimes the neighbor is from hell. Sometimes (often) the person posting about their neighbors is actually the neighbor from hell.
FYI I’m a merit fan but have this lipstick and find it very drying. I won’t be rebuying.