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Anon
Greek island recs for a trip with my active 70-something mom? Looking at going in early-mid September of next year. One or both of us has been to Santorini, Mykonos and Crete and we’d prefer to go somewhere new to both of us. We like nice scenery and good beaches and plan to spend most of our time in or on the water. No interest in partying or shopping, not that much interest in food (I mean, we like good food, but we don’t care about trendy restaurants or anything). A place we could navigate easily without a car would be a plus – we’re willing to pay for tours if necessary.
Senior Attorney
I was just in Naxos and loved it!
Anon
Tell me more! That was one of the ones that was on my list after doing some googling. How were the beaches? Did you have a rental car? Would a week be too long there?
Senior Attorney
We were there for three nights. The beaches were lovely — we could walk out for a long way without the water getting any deeper than knee deep, which was kind of great.
One day our group did a catamaran excursion to neighboring islands for swimming and snorkling and that was a highlight. We didn’t have a rental car but we did a private tour of the interior of the island with a car and driver and really enjoyed it. Also there’s nice hiking although we didn’t do that because we are lazy.
You could totally keep yourself busy for a week, I think, especially if you like a lot of beach time.
One of the things that’s great about Naxos is no cruise ships = no huge crowds. Big thumbs up!!
Cat
Friends just went to Paros and Antiparos and loved the chill vibes.
Anon
Paros and Antiparos are also doable as a day trip from Naxos.
Anon
Kefalonia is my favorite island I’ve been to in Greece. It’s on the other side of the country and has a pretty different vibe than the Cyclades though (all the islands mentioned so far except Crete are Cyclades).
sports bras
Any recs for affordable/cute/comfortable sports bras for a small chest? Never bought one before.
32D in Natori feathers.
Thanks!
Anon
lol at 32D being a small chest.
In any event, I like the nike pro pull over bras with the wide elastic band. They are unlined though and quite unpopular, but I’d rather not sweat to death.
Anon
It’s not that large if you’re wearing the correct size.
Anon
I’m well aware of what a 32D correctly fit looks like, as a correctly fit 32A or 32AA (ie, close to actually flat). I guess small is all relative, but in my world no way is a 32D “small.” Small is “don’t wear a bra except for nip protection” or “don’t wear a bra unless padded to fill out a dress you don’t want to alter.”
Anon
Well, I don’t wear a bra because….. I work in a professional environment where there is no way that is appropriate if I want to dress in my normal way, particularly with the increasingly shear and lower quality of fabrics these days.
Every single size estimator I have used online to estimate my sports bra size has given me XS or S. I didn’t even realize that sports bras only came in general sizes like this!
Does that satisfy the criteria for calling myself small?
Anon
You lol comment is actually quite rude. I trust the OP knows her bra size and can judge if she is relatively small, medium, or large. I wear a 30D and would be considered small chested.
sports bras
OP here – yup. I’m small. In a sports bra I suspect I will look totally flat!
Similar shaped women on this board may know Natori feathers well and what my size is. I was hoping someone like me has a favorite. Most bralettes don’t fit me great…. so I mostly stick with the Natori. But those are too pricey to wearing while exercising and washing frequently.
I only figured out my correct bra size recently after wearing ill fitting A cup for years. I am shallow, wide set. It was a revelation to find a bra that fits.
Anon
Natori Feathers is for shallow, unprojected breasts. I wish I knew which sports bra that corresponds to, but as a very projected G cup, all sports bras seem shallow to me!
Anon
I’m a 32DD and might be “small” in the sense of not being Pamela Anderson, but am in need of high quality sports bras to keep things in place during high impact sports.
Anon
If you think D is automatically a small cup, go get professionally fitted yourself.
Check out the calculator at r e d d i t a bra that fits.
Anon
*large
I think it’s often fairly small, which was my point.
Monte
Is this for exercise, and if so, what kind? My yoga or weightlifting recs are very different from what I wear when I run.
sports bras
Good question – not for running/high impact. Mostly for yoga/pilates/low impact conditioning classes. So I just want it to stay put. Don’t need a lot of support.
emeralds
Not sure your personal definition of affordable, but as a 32C my favorite is the lululemon Energy bra. You can get them for under $50 on sale.
I know people like Old Navy for cheap workout clothes, but their stuff has never fit me properly. Target would be another place to look.
Anon
Pretty basic, but I have used Nike running bras forever. The basic pull over the head kind. I am a similar size and wear a small. Work well for running and regular workouts.
ollie
I’m a 32D and I like Athleta sports bras. They specifically do D/DD sizing for most of their lines, so an XS is specifically designed for us small band/larger cup ladies.
Girlonawireless
I swear by the Brooks Dare line of sports bras, which are great for running and other high impact exercise.
sports bras
Really appreciate all of these recs, and for confirming sizes to try. I’m going to order a few.
Sallyanne
I am a 28/30 D and like Lululemon Everlux train bra medium support c/d in size 4. Soft, comfortable.
Anon
I am a 32DD in Natori. For yoga/pilates, I really have liked the Lululemon longline Like a Cloud bra. I wear a size 6 in that bra. The material is soft and is so comfortable, but it has good support for me, especially since I get the long line that has better straps across the back.
CreditRisk
I am now a 30G, was previously a 32G. Athleta Advance Zip Front Bra works for me. The band runs small so for my size the 32DD does the job. I have the GAP credit card so in effect it costs me nothing.
Anonymous
fun question for today: what are very little, very specific pet peeves you have?
I can’t stand the way my husband eats soup (liquid first, slurping)
Also can’t stand the way my brother still uses the phrase “cool beans,” calls our parents “ma and da,” and uses a ton of that shoulder-shrugging non-emoji thing with dashes and parentheses.
Anon
The word rivulets.
Anon
Ohh I love that word because of the Joan Baez song “Time is Passing Us By” (“Did you know that tears run in rivulets and hearts can repeatedly break?”) which was one of my favorite angsty teen songs.
Anon
When people say Nordstroms.
Anon
Oh yes this is one of mine. Also gift as a verb.
Anon
You can sit by me. At Nordstrom.
DC Inhouse Counsel
I also hate when people call it “Nordies” and it pains me that Bloomingdales officially embraced “Bloomies”
Anon
Yes… much worse than Nordstroms
Anon
Nordstrom has also embraced Nordies, to my dismay. I’m in the Nordy club, apparently, or at least that’s how the envelope with my Notes reads.
(Still gonna use those Notes)
Peloton
Calling it Nordy’s stretches back to at least the 1990s in Seattle, FWIW!
anon
The use of “gift” as a verb.
anon
Agreed, I hate this so much.
Anonymous
Me toooooooo
anon
Same, but also the use of “action” as a verb.
I also hate the word “verbiage.”
anonshmanon
ugh, hate verbiage too.
Anon
I hate this one!! What happened to saying give????
Anonymous
Yes! And other nouns as verbs.
Anonymous
Poor microwave etiquette. Someone in my office habitually takes her food out of the microwave with about a minute left and doesn’t hit clear. When you don’t hit clear, the time remaining stays displayed where you left it, which is displayed in the same spot that the actual time would be. I take lunch around 1 pm. I approach the microwave and it reads something like 1:03. I put my lunch in the microwave and try to enter a cook time, and nothing happens. Because the 1:03 was actually the time remaining and not the time, and you can’t enter a new cook time until the old cook time is cleared. So I have to hit clear and then enter the cook time.
And no I never remember to hit clear first. My microwave at home works the same way so it just doesn’t occur to me. And it’s not an every day thing at the office because I switch up warm and cold lunches. It is SO IRRITATING but not so much that I feel like I can complain to anyone.
Anon
Yeah, this is the kind of thing where if you complained to someone in person you would come off looking cray, but that’s exactly what these threads are for!!
Anon
I do this and it drives my husband crazy. Although it’s usually only like :10 left so no one would ever mistake it for the time of day.
Anon
My mom does this and when I was growing up I hated it.
anon
Haha, I do this too and I drive myself crazy! When I come back to the microwave and it has 5 seconds left. You’d think based on how annoying I find it, I would learn? But no.
Anon
Keeping up the word theme…
When people say “two pair” instead of “two pairs.”
When people respond to a question with “yes mam?”
People who say “folks.” “Folk” is even worse.
This one isn’t a tiny pet peeve for me, but a huge one: when adults say “tummy” when talking to other adults.
Anon
I have a coworker who say she has to “tinkle.”
First of all, I don’t need to know.
Second, I don’t need to know in baby language.
Anon
I’m with you on “tummy” and “folks.”
Also, hate “cardi,” “cami,” and other diminutives of actual words. Are we five?
IL
Similar: want me to never eat something? Describe it as “yummy.” Especially if it’s a “sammi,” which still takes me a second to translate into sandwich in my head.
DH is offended that the local farm stands advertise their “cukes” and “zukes” but somehow that doesn’t bother me as much.
Anon
I HATE “folks”! I feel seen, thank you.
Anon
People who write discrete when they mean discreet. Usually these same people are looking for a “discrete” affair.
Weary when you mean wary.
And in real life, people who give you a long preamble before they get to the point. By which I mean my husband.
Anon
I’ll top your last point with people who think they are amazing storytellers and who won’t begin the story until the entire room is paying attention. Then they put on a serious voice and often point the finger or a dramatic gestures. This is especially bad when they stick to the same story for 30 years.
JTM
Discrete also bothers me!
I also hate when people are starting a new event and use “First Annual” – that’s not a thing! The word Inaugural is right there!
Anon
I see reins/reigns a lot, too.
anonshmanon
But if it’s the first event and they plan to do it annually, then that descriptor isn’t wrong? I understand that there is another word but isn’t that a matter of preference?
Anon
Yeah I work in comms/marketing and I don’t think “first annual” is wrong either. Inaugural means first, but it doesn’t convey that the event is going to happen annually going forward so some information is getting lost if you use inaugural instead of first annual.
That said if you advertise the “first annual X” and then don’t do it again the next year, it’s not a great look from a marketing perspective. Some of my clients need to hear this!
Me
I’m so glad you posted your first one. I am terrible at spelling (dyslexic) and I had no idea discreet and discrete are different words. I’ve probably used them both incorrectly by just writing whatever I thought the right spelling was for whichever word I was trying to use, and now I will be aware and choose the correct spelling. Thank you!
Anon
Oh, I’m glad to have helped! I’m OP of this post and also work in mathematics, so when someone writes that they want to be discrete about something, my instinct is to reply, “versus continuous?”
Anon
I am dyslexic too, and I had to look up the difference in discrete and discreet just now. I actually did not know discrete was a word – but math is not my thing. Thank you for this!
Moose
When some has a child with a longer, more formal name – say William or Alexander – and they NEVER use a shorter version or nickname. No Alex or Will ever. It feels…pretentious? Excessive? Unsure. But weirdly annoys me, ha!
Anon
It doesn’t really annoy me, but I think it’s often a fruitless endeavor. I had a childhood friend named Matthew whose parents hated the name “Matt” and never wanted him to be called that, but he was called Matt constantly once he started school.
It also makes me think of Rachel on Friends insisting her boyfriend was Josh-oo-ahhh not Josh.
Senior Attorney
I feel like if you hate the name Matt, you are making a huge mistake naming your kid Matthew.
Anon
Yeah, exactly! We have an unusual nickname for our daughter, but we don’t hate the standard nickname for her name and I told my husband that he had to be on board with people using that nickname or we couldn’t use this name.
Anon
My first husband was a Matthew who didn’t go by Matt. He and his parents just preferred Matthew; he’d answer to Matt if someone new called him that, but he was definitely a Matthew. He started using Matt once he was in his 40s – I think maybe he just tired of the effort ha.
Anon
My husband has one of these names; he’s Richard, not Rick. There is no rule requiring people to go by nicknames, so I see nothing wrong with it.
Anon
My husband is Rick not Rich, and you would not believe the correcting he has to do.
Anonymous
I have a longer more formal name and *hate* when people shorten it, so there is that, lol.
Anon
Or don’t shorten it without my permission especially if I don’t know you.
Signed,
Don’t call me Ginny; it’s Gia but only for some friends.
Anon
As a Katherine/Kate, co-sign.
Anonymous
Yes, exactly this!
Unless you are in that select group of people I allow to use a nickname a sibling gave me when we were children, don’t shorten my name.
Anon
Yeah, that’s my daughter. She hates the standard nickname for her name and always uses the full version. Her uncle gave her a unique nickname and she loves that one, but it never really caught on with anyone but him.
(Similar name situation, name Catherine, nickname Kate (she hates), nickname Cat she loves, but no one uses)
Anonymous
My name doesn’t have a nickname, so people just make it up. Imagine Eye-eye for Irene! What the hey??
Anon
This makes me chuckle. I gave my child a more formal name with intentions of using the short name. And now she’s adamant about using her long name. Which goes bug me to the some degree for the same reason. We’re not trying to be pretentious. But at the same time, she’s 3 and if this is her way of asserting independence, I figure I need to go with it for now. haha
Anon
I’m okay with it if the kid actually goes by that (like my cousin Elizabeth truly only goes by Elizabeth – she’s 35 but someone made it through grade school without becoming Liz!). but I hate when the kid uses a nickname and the parents refuse and only use the full name. To me that’s very annoying and pretentious.
anon
IMO, Elizabeth is very different from Liz. I dated a guy once who really preferred “William.” Will and William are not nearly as different as Elizabeth and Liz, or Margaret and Peggy, or Robert and Bob, in my view. And I always got the sense that the …gravitas…behind “William” was his motivation.
Anon
Flip side: I’m related to a William who refuses to go by anything but Bill (his prerogative) *and* insists everyone else go by a nickname. I think the refusal to take other people seriously motivates a lot of that.
Anon
Eh, I know Williams. They’re fine. I respect the names people want to be called.
anon
When I was little, my friend’s younger brother was “Bucky,” short for William. He understandably outgrew that nickname.
Anonymous
I would never think to call an Elizabeth Liz without prompting. The natural nicknames happen when you stop after one syllable and leave off the rest. So for Alexandra you stop at Alex. No one uses “Eliz” and “Eliza” is a name unto itself. “Liz” eliminates the first letter which is just weird.
Anonymous
I don’t think dropping the first letter is that strange. My daughter is Elizabeth and I frequently find myself calling her -lizabeth without the first sounds. She’s still a baby, so we’re trying to use the full name along with a couple of nicknames to see which ones suit her/us the most.
Anon
Related to this topic, I find it baffling when people name their kids planning to call them by their middle names rather than the first.
Anon
Yes!! I get it if it turns out their middle name suits them better, but to plan it from the start is odd to me.
Anon
That’s usually because both are family names, and using the middle name helps to distinguish father and son. Ex., James Henry Smith Sr and Jr, father is Jim, son is Henry.
Anon
I know of one case where the parents call the kid by the nickname of the middle name and have done since day 1.
Anon
My husband’s sister and her husband could not agree on a name for their second daughter, so they flipped a coin, she won and chose the first name, husband chose the middle name.
He has called daughter middle name since day one, and everyone else followed suit. Sister in law just ended up going with the flow. I think that’s how those things tend to happen.
Anonymous
I see you know my BIL. It is a family tradition that our generation chose not to perpetuate with our kids.
Anon
In the SEUS where I live, sometimes it’s because the monogram will look better in that order.
Anon
Oops wrong place on thread.
Anonymous
I have a longer formal name and I hate when random people try and give me a nickname. My name is my name, say the whole damn thing. I’ve been known to give people blank stares then ask ‘who is that?’ if they misname me.
Anon
:)
Anonymous
Same! A receptionsist at the dentist did that to me once and I sort of blinked at her and said “Uhh… who?”
OP
Oh, I totally agree with this – unless we’re friends and I know you’re OK with it, don’t shorten my name (I have an easily shortened name too). I guess I find it funny when a child is referred to as “William” all the time, like they’re a supreme court justice or something.
Anon
My former neighbors had a kid named Waverley. Ugh.
Anonymous
A nephew went to school with a Mercedes and a Hennessey, both girls. Also ugh.
ALT
Mercedes is a very common Latina name…
Anon
Yeah I know several Mercedes. It’s not my choice but I don’t think it’s weird.
Anonymous
As a person who dislikes the standard nickname for my “formal” name and has never ever gone by the nickname, I find this kind of presumptuous. The fact that a nickname exists doesn’t give you the right to use it. It is not pretentious for me to go by my actual name instead of a cutesy juvenile ‘80s nickname.
Anonymous
I hate the inverse. My husband’s name is William. We call him William. Don’t call him Bill or Billy. He won’t answer.
buffybot
Today mine are all pet related (and I swear I don’t hate dogs): dog strollers. People who take their animals in all stores and restaurants even when those places have clear signs and health code restrictions. People who pretend their animal is a service animal when it’s a ratty little terrier that wants to bite off your face and has been trained into codependency. People who don’t pick up after their dogs.
Anon
I love dogs but they’re dogs not people. No need for strollers or to come into ferry store or restaurant or other place.
Anon
As a dog owner, who will probably someday have to get him a stroller, I still agree with 75% of what you said, and people who don’t pick up after their dogs can burn in hell.
anon
My only exception to the dog stroller is a senior big dog. You know pushing that 70 lbs to take for a walk is an act of love by its owner. And, there was some training involved.
Anon
Mine is an 8 year old bulldog. He’s still mobile, but chances are he will outlive his mobility. If that happens, he’s definitely going into a stroller. I don’t want to torture the guy.
inspiration: Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building
Anonymous
It’s an act of kindness with a 12 pound as well. Think what you want, but letting my 15 year old pup with cancer enjoy more time outside will never ever ever be something I regret or feel an ounce of guilt over. Frankly no one’s business. (Do you sneer at a dog with a cast, tooi?) Not picking up poop or bringing into restaurants is just rude and a completely different category.
Sallyanne
We have a stroller for our older dog. He walks/sniffs every morning and afternoon but for evening walks we pop him in the stroller so that we can actually get a human walk in. But hard agree to not bringing inside grocery stores and restaurants- gross.
Anon
We originally purchased our stroller for our human baby, but the baby is now 6 and the stroller is used by our elderly chihuahua. She likes being able to come with the family on long walks but can’t begin to keep pace with us on her own now, even with the kid in tow.
Anonymous
Planned obsolesence and disposable everything.
anonymous
When people send 7-8 short texts in a row when it could have been 1-2 texts.
Please stop making excess noise and breaking my concentration more than necessary.
Anon
Ha. People give me grief about sending one long block of text in a single text (“This isn’t an email!”) Apparently I text like a boomer even though I’m 38.
Anon
I used the word “ostensibly” in a text to my younger colleague once, back when we had Nokia-type phones where you had to use the number keys to form letters. She made fun of me for that for a long time.
For the record, I’m Gen X.
Anon
You’ll see…. as you age, you will be grateful for the breaks. Your eye’s will appreciate it.
Anon
Ah, I see you’ve met my landlord. All separate texts:
Hi
How are you?
See you this weekend
Will you be around?
:)
Hope so!
We’ll be there
Peloton
You still have audible non-work notifications turned on??? My mind is blown. Not like in an offensive way—I just assumed we’d all turned them off years ago because they’re so annoying!
Me
People who get on to elevators before other people get off of the elevator. I live in a 30-story building, and it’s a problem every single day.
When people start sentences with “me” unless the sentence is “me too.”
Anon
… do you know a lot of pirates?
Me
Your comment made me laugh. In the part of the country where I live, sentences such as “me and my wife went out to dinner” are very common.
Anon
Oh see I feel like it’s the opposite and people use “I” where “me” is actually correct, e.g., “please buy Sara and I some fruit if you go to the store.”
Anon
I figured haha – it’s just the way I read it at first, I thought you might be in a buccaneer-heavy area
Anon
I’m not “Me” but I hear teenagers talking like this – Me and Ella are going to the store – and they know better, but it’s the vernacular. It drives me nuts.
Anon
I hate the phrase “game changer.” It is so overused. I also hate when people use the word “utilize.” They almost always use it incorrectly. Just say “use.”
Anon
I’m a professional writer and utilize vs use is one of my big writing pet peeves too.
Anon
I didn’t really know there was a difference! Will look it up the next time I need to use (ha) one or the other!
Anonymous
My biggest pet peeve is when people explain the policies and legislation *I WROTE* to me, like no your understanding from a 30 second biased news bite is not correct. I just say ‘hmm, that’s an interesting interpretation’ and move on though since there’s no benefit to correcting people.
Anon8
I keep seeing people saying “I resonated with that” instead of “that resonated with me.” Drives me nuts, and I’m seeing it everywhere lately.
Anon
I’ve also been hearing this a lot recently and it grates on my ears, but when you think about the actual meaning (responding to a small vibration with a larger vibration or richer sound), it actually makes more sense
Anon
What?!? I have never heard this but how awful.
Anon
This manifests in so many different ways in my city, but I can’t stand it when people don’t position themselves in a logical way in crowded settings. For example, when people are the first to get on crowded trains but don’t move to the middle of the train. Or people who get on crowded elevators and then stand in the center. People who walk abreast with others on narrow sidewalks. People who parallel park, but leave huge gaps between the car directly in front and the car behind. In situations where there is limited seating and lots of patrons, taking up seating that is significantly disproportionate to party size. Drives me nuts.
anonshmanon
We can be grumpy friends.
People who step off the escalator and immediately halt to look around. Or the same when they step off a train and block the exit for everyone else. People who stand on the left side of the escalator when everyone else obviously stands on the right.
Anon
I’m in a boot for a broken foot currently. I cannot believe the number of people who “tailgate” me on the sidewalk, like I should just speed up and they can’t be bothered to go around. There’s room to do so. I don’t honestly know what to do – I suppose the offense is my using the sidewalk.
Anon
Yes, I know this…. Makes me crazy/self-conscious.
I stop moving wait for them to go around me. But doing that several times really slows you down!
Anonymous
The misuse of the reflexive, usually “myself”
The worst part is people seem to be trying to be pretentious or formal when they are making the error.
Anon
Oh, like “Ella and myself are going to the store”? That drives me nuts too.
Sorry, that drives myself nuts too.
Seventh Sister
I know people mean well, but I loathe, “it is what it is.” I don’t know why it bugs me so much, maybe because it rhymes, or there’s something about it that’s so defeatist.
MIL-specific, but using the term “nibbles” for the random (un)appetizers she puts out when we have to go and see her at her house. I get it, you’re an American married to an English guy, but it just sounds like…another word.
Anon
I took the “It really do be like that sometimes” meme as responding to “it is what it is.” I associate both with burned out millennials hustling in the gig economy which makes it comes across as pretty dark.
anon
“It is what it is” bugs me too because people mainly use the phrase when they could have done something but didn’t and are trying to deflect any responsibility. Like when the wife of the Long Island serial killer said it in police interviews or Trump said it about the COVID death toll. It’s not an appropriate response to tragic events and tells me the speaker lacks basic empathy.
Anonymous
I have twins and it’s super annoying to me when people name their twins rhyming names or matchy-matchy names. I also realize it’s petty AF to even care about this.
Anon
My BFF named all three of her kids names starting with the same first syllable (so she has, e.g., Julia, Julius and Juliette) and I think it’s sooo terrible but I keep my mouth shut.
Anon
Yup, my aunt uncle their kids all have names that begin with J.
Anon
Same letter is not so bad, although it’s a little cutesy for my taste. What my friend did is a lot more extreme than that…her kids basically all have variants of the same name.
anon
The phrase “big girl panties.”
Anon
I hate the use of work “hubby” and “kiddo” unless people are actually directly addressing those individuals.
Anon
“Doggo” too.
Anonymous
Not quite the same but I loathe the word “preggo” with the fire of a thousand suns.
Anon
Oh yeah, that one too.
I think all of the Millennial language ticks like this annoy me, probably because I’m Gen X.
Pep
Add “wifey” to this list.
Anonymous
My husband slurps his soup and his coffee and it drives me nuts.
I also cannot stand business-speak. “Role” for “job,” “resource” for “person” unless you are working in project management software, “circle back,” “inflection point,” “put a pin in it”…
Anonymous
The abbreviations DH, DD, and DS. No one calls their family members “my dear whatever” out loud or written out unless they are being sarcastic.
Anon
No one calls their husband “dear husband” in real life but I think the abbreviation serves a purpose. I prefer H but it’s not quite as specific and isn’t as clear what you’re talking about, so I use DH. Better than having to type “my husband” over and over again.
Runcible Spoon
“Supposably” and “I could care less” instead of supposedly and I couldn’t care less. Also, people who stand too close to me while I am in a line or at the ATM or at the counter at the pharmacy.
Anonymous
People who use red exclamation points in emails that are absolutely not “high importance” (and really no email ever is that).
Anon
Oh yes. But this is not a trivial pet peeve!
PLB
I “would of” done so and so. *cringes*
anonshmanon
ahhh, you are totally right. Forgot about that one.
Katie
The word “veg” for vegetables.
Peloton
In legal writing, the word “remarkably.” You are demonstrating that you think that whatever that modifies is remarkable by, well, remarking on it! Anything that you think is unremarkable should not be making it into your brief.
Anon
I need a pillow recommendation. I don’t want anything alternative made out of buckwheat or soy foam. I just want a regular, traditional pillow that doesn’t get super compressed within a year, like the ones I grew up with and can apparently no longer find. I have a basic one from target that got incredibly flat within one month of use. Do I want down or down alternative to have a “traditional” pillow? Help!
Anon
I think this is a characteristic of all pillows. They’re not made or intended to be used for more than a year or so.
Anon
I had pillows growing up that I’m pretty sure came from Macy’s that lasted for years and years. I don’t think they were very expensive and since I was a kid I’m not sure what they were made out of, but I have to believe it’s still possible to find something that doesn’t disappoint me within the first month.
Anonymous
Really!? I’ve had my feather pillows for 13 years and they still have lots of life left in them.
Anon
I really don’t think that’s true.
Cat
I don’t think so- we’re going on a decade with some Hotel Collection feather pillows from Macy’s that were not expensive.
Anon
We still have our Hotel Collection towels we got for our wedding 11 years ago and they’re still impossibly fluffy. Hotel Collection is good stuff!
Anon
I’ve found the feather/down alternative pillows get lumpy and flat a lot faster than real feather/down pillows.
Anonymous
I like down and feathers, as pure down is too squishy/thin for me (side sleeper). My favorites are from IKEA – down with a feather core. They can always be re-fluffed by washing and drying them.
Moose
I know you said you don’t like foam, but this is shredded foam – I’ve had it form years and works great:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V909F4M/?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AwEAAAAAAAAAAmUa&th=1
Anon8
I have this one too and love it! Doesn’t feel like other foam pillows.
Anon
I’ve had Casper pillows for a few years now and I’m really happy with them.
New Here
Another vote for Casper. I got one for Christmas and really like it.
My husband just bought the Medium Firm Casa Luna pillow from Target. He likes it, but it has only been a week.
Anonymous
We bought cheap bamboo pillows at Ollie’s. They were pretty good to start but had mushed over the last three years. My mom came to visit and insisted on washing them. Since they had been cheap, I didn’t care if they washed up all lumpy like the only other time I’ve washed a pillow. OMG, they’re like the pillows of my childhood!!! Fluffy and somehow firm and soft and supportive all at the same time. Maybe that’s the trick with modern pillows? Wash and dry in normal laundry loads?
Anonymous
Yes—wash and dry to fluff them back up.
Anonymous
Garnet Hill gusseted down alternative pillow.
Anon
Just get a firm foam pillow that is somewhat higher-end. I have this one but I think it’s kind of a local thing:
https://sleepworks.com/oxygen-pillow/
You’re going to have to spend some money.
Anon
Get a pillow from Coop. You can easily increase / decrease the stuffing.
Smokey
I agree! Great pillows!
Anon
Does anyone have favourite shops/designers for winter holiday party invitation downloads? For years we have chosen a design off vistaprint, but we have now run our of designs we like. There are like 1 million options on etsy or zazzle, but many look really similar and we are hoping for something with authentic antique/vintage vibes this year, or something with woodland animals, or…well, just something a bit different! We are looking to avoid anything overtly religious, as well as Santa Claus. Any great recs?
Anonymous
I got an amazing one off Zazzle last year. A little antique cottage in the snow – perfect for our party of colleagues and friends. Let me see if I can find it.
Anon
Here you go! I got lots of compliments on this one! I futzed with the fonts a little and repeated the blue in another line.
https://www.zazzle.com/watercolor_country_holiday_christmas_open_house_invitation-256006302386135386
Anon
Oh that is great, thanks!!!! It makes me crazy that there are these gems out there hidden in the endless results.
Anon
Have you tried Minted?
OOO
I was going to suggest Minted
Anonymous
I too love Minted. They’re high quality, easy to customize and you can filter on all kinds of criteria.
Anon
Unsure if you can download them, but we’ve used Dogwood Hill for years
Runner
After a fun summer with my kids, my job hunt is heating up and it’s getting to me. I have a few leads and had a screening interview on Monday but it doesn’t feel like enough. I am in non-profit, looking for remote roles, and my last role was senior enough that I’ve been bumped for being “too qualified.” So I get that I’m looking for a niche position. I’ve also sort of forgotten how to job search. The last two roles I had were prettty magical in terms of how I got them. I’m looking for advice and tips, thanks!
OOO
Are you checking idealist.org?
Styling services
Has anyone ever tried a styling service they would recommend? Preferably not $$$. I have the old closet full of clothes but nothing to wear problem and could use some help finding items/ styling them.
Anonymous
Last week I took photos of everything in my closet that’s work appropriate, to send to a friend who’s a personal stylist and is helping me curate my wardrobe. It might have taken 30 minutes. She hasn’t sent me any recommendations or pieces yet, but I find just seeing all my clothes in one place helps me put outfits together better. Maybe start there?