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Coffee Break: C9 Champion Shirt

I happened to pick this shirt up recently and thought I'd recommend it if you're on the hunt for a great workout shirt because I keep buying duds. This one is longer in the back, not too clingy despite the techy-fabric, has a flattering but high neckline, washes nicely, and, call me crazy, feels a bit more stylish than it looks in this particular photo. Particularly if you're looking for modest workout gear because you're trying to get in the habit of going to a gym near your office, this would be a great bet. It's $16-$18, available in multiple colors in regular and plus sizes. Psst: here's our last discussion of gym near your office etiquette! This post contains affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

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  1. Tradesy, Poshmark, or something else? I have sold older blazers, dresses, shoes, and jewelry in great condition and am finally done with thredup.

    1. Local consignment shop, maybe? I shop at mine, in addition to the online places you mentioned.
      Also there is an online consignment shop that is based in my area (Atlanta) too, it donates to local charities.

    2. I’ve been using Poshmark for about a year and have had a good experience with it so far. Taking photos and listing everything is a bit of a chore, but it’s still really satisfying seeing my old things going to a new home and getting some money for it. I haven’t tried Tradesy or any of the others yet.

    3. I really like Poshmark. The app is very easy to use. The better photos you take, the more likely the items will sell. I just take them in bathroom with good light against a white wall. I really don’t spend a lot of time on the photos and I’ve sold quite a bit. I’ve even sold hair products that didn’t work and a few hair dryers.

    4. I just started using Poshmark about 6 weeks ago and have already sold 4 things, with a pretty minimal amount of time invested (after all the photo taking), so I’d recommend that.

  2. Y’all, I just came here to say that The Fold now carries a shoe line. If anyone wants to award me a $500 shoe grant, I will test them and report back ;)

    1. Can I send you a bill for the 287 pounds your message will likely cost me? :) [ I just went to “look” and I may be (electronically) walking out with the Firenze Rust Velvet]

      1. I am not convinced about the heel shape, but the rust velvet and the berry calf hair look so delicious. Please report back!

  3. Tell me about your favorite dish sets. My Ikea plates are cracking one after the other and I’d like to upgrade. I love the look of Heath Ceramics but don’t love the price as much… Looking for durable polished-looking neutrals that will look good in my glass door kitchen cabinets and won’t break the bank.

    1. Nothing is more durable than basic corelle. And they don’t look bad IMHO- my office recently discussed/compared dishware styles and my (male) cube neighbor pronounced mine “classic” ;).

      2. Your comment made me look into this, and you can get a 78(!) piece Corelle cafe blue stripe dinnerware set, including some serving bowls and lids that make the cereal bowls also storage, for $209. Free shipping. I’ve been looking for an everyday cafe blue stripe option, and I’m pretty sure I’m sold. Thanks!

        1. You can also often find entire sets of Corelle at Goodwill for just a couple dollars, if you like a bargain.

      3. +2 or 3 or whatever to Corelle. I got tired of scouring EBay and replacements to replace my discontinued English ironware, and it was getting more and more expensive. I bought a couple of sets of corelle at target and have never looked back.

        My advice is to look for the sets that have two differently sized plates plus a bowl for each place setting. The other sets come with teacups and saucers and I don’t know anyone who would use those regularly.

        The only things I’ve added were a set of deep cereal bowls at my kids’ request. I’m perfectly happy to eat cereal in the regular bowls but they like the tall-sided bowls. They’re also corelle, plain white.

        3. Agreed. We also added the pasta bowls which we like a lot for both pasta or entree salads.

      1. +1 their things are nice and simple and they don’t seem to ever discontinue them.

      2. Oh me too! In fact, I just bought a few new pieces. I don’t think they’re too 80s/90s. I just love them!

    6. Mikasa Garden Harvest for years until we remodeled kitchen – now all white from Crate & Barrel – looks classic and very durable

    7. Williams Sonoma Brasserie Blue-Banded Porcelain Dinnerware. My childhood friend’s Mom had them and I distinctly remember washing dishes and literally throwing them at one another.

      Many years later, I’ve had my own set for 7 years and they’ve held up amazingly.

      1. Yes! Love the look of the blue band. We have similar looking ones from C&B and they’ve held up amazingly well after 6 years of daily use.

        On the topic of IKEA: their quality varies model to model and year to year. I have a set of small bowls (rice bowl size) from the IKEA 365 brand circa 2008 that are indestructible work horses in my house—no chips, scratches, etching, etc after 11 years! I’ve been scouring goodwill and thrift shops for more of this size/vintage unsuccessfully.

      2. I have two really old sets of Corning Prego in cobalt blue and have collected other pieces in white with blue band over the year. I have a set of dessert plates from W-S that are white with a blue band and a fleur de lis in the center. It’s been great to get pieces that go with my set(s) rather than things that match. My two sets are slightly different, due to buying them at different times (1988 and 1995).

    8. Corelle fan here. I am clumsy and have a toddler – plates and bowls get dropped on our tile floor regularly. We are yet to chip or break a single one. My set is 10+ years old. My parents have been using theirs for closer to 30 years with little breakage but some discoloration around the edges on the oldest pieces that came from my Grandma.

    9. Whatever you do, avoid Crate and Barrel’s Marin set. Every scratch shows. Ours is less than two years old and I wish I could throw it out, it looks so battered with scrapes from knives and spoons (yes, even spoons–I can tell where my step son has scraped yogurt into concentric circles along bowl edges). If had our receipt still and the time, I’d be launching a full attack for a refund. Such garbage. The plates my folks are still using since I was a kid look better.

      2. You should try some Bar Keeper’s Friend on that. My lighter-color Fiestaware occasionally needs a touch up and it works wonders!

    10. My husband really wanted earthenware ones, so we have these heavyyyy plates from Williams-Sonoma that look nice but would not have been my first choice had I been choosing alone. Echoing what others have told you about Corelle – my mom’s set is older than me, still a crisp and clean white and SO light!

    11. I’ve been happy with Year and Day plates for the look of Heath for less

    12. So this poster has her eye on those super chic heath dishes that they use in super fancy restaurants and everyone recommends Corelle as a substitute? That super lightweight plasticity stuff with the twee floral patterens that everyone’s grandma had? Am I thinking of the wrong stuff?

      2. So this response is unnecessarily snarky but I will say I’m surprised at the love for Corelle. We had some when we first started out as newlyweds but it always felt kind of, well…cheap, to me. Not like the grown-up dishes I wanted. My grandparents had some of it also but it was like their almost-throwaway dishware. We graduated to Fiestaware and now have some really nice Denby pottery dishes I found at a thrift store, of all places. I don’t want to shade anyone for their lifestyle choices but I just don’t think “elegant” or “sophisticated” when I think about Corelle.
        For anyone looking for sheer durability and timeless style I do recommend Fiestaware. We used our set daily for 12 years and never lost a piece to breakage. It’s used in so many restaurants because it’s basically indestructible.

        1. I was the first corelle poster, and I colect other, prettier, dishes: loal pottery and china from overseas trips. But I’ve never regretted the large set of white corelle my mom talked me into buying. I’ve used Fiestaware extensively too, and IMHO it’s a little too heavy and the colored glaze gets scratched.

        2. +1 to Denby. Our set is pushing 25 years, and still looks great. Substantial and classic. We use it every day.

        3. Not meaning to be snarky about Corelle generally, it’s just…a whole different style/weight/feel? Corelle looks like it’s meant to mimic a delicate china (hence those twee patterns) but is lightweight and unbreakable. The heath looks like handmade ceramic, is probably weighty with a modern organic look. There’s got to be a middle ground between the stuff that Alice waters had commissioned and stuff that feels like plastic.

          1. Corelle is definitely not unbreakable, and when it breaks, it shatters! I’d much rather pick up big chunks of stoneware any day than tiny shards of glass. That said, I do have some Corelle pieces left from my original (35 year old) set that we use when everything else is in the dishwasher, but I’ve also had toddlers and teens shatter a fair share of pieces.

      3. Urban Grid Gray looks nicely contemporary, is light weight, and holds up to anything you their on it /place you put it!

    13. I love my (second hand) Dansk stoneware plates. Not indestructible, but very resilient. I did a mix and match of blue and cream plates.

      I also have corelle, for when I want something super casual and light, which it is great for, but it’s certainly not my preferred everyday option.

  4. Y’all I gave a guy my number at a bar. This is like objectively not a big deal but huge for me! He has not used it, sigh, but I feel very pleased with my boldness.

    4. Don’t worry, if he doesn’t the next guy will, and before you know it, you will be in the dating groove again! Just remember to take it slow, and not to let a guy baboozel you into having $ex to soon, b/c once you do, it’s hard to go back to platonic. Good luck as you navigate your way around the minefields to get to the gold! So you just go for it, gurl! YAY!!!

  5. where to stay in Austin? DH and I are planning on going for a kids free weekend. We would like to use our starwoods/marriot points ideally.

    1. Have fun! Was just there — South Congress Hotel was ok but weirdly dark in the rooms. Everyone recommended Milk + Honey massages but they were booked when I was there.

    2. I live in Austin but am not a Marriot person…what are your options? Do you want to be downtown or no?

    3. My husband and I have loved the Kimpton Van Zandt – and you could use starwood points. Right near Rainey St area, easy cab or bike to downtown, great service, beautifully designed rooms and common spaces.

      1. +1 to Rainey Street area. But I don’t think there are any Starwood/Marriott options over there. I’ve never used Starwood points at a Kimpton before.

        Marriott specific but not Rainey street: I’ve stayed at both the Aloft and Westin Downtown locations which are both very close to 6th street. Both perfectly acceptable – the Aloft has a cool restaurant/bar/coffee shop on the first and second floor which is unusual for an Aloft.

  6. Recommendations for a bankruptcy attorney who practices in DC? My husband (who was previously working in a highly skilled field) has been out of work for an extended period of time and we are at a point where we need to explore our options.

    I’d welcome any recommendations/information/anecdotes from anybody who has been through this process. Please be kind as we are deeply embarrassed to even be considering it but my salary can no longer support us and the stress is crushing. We have taken every step possible to reduce our expenses and we truly do live a modest lifestyle.

    2. No recommendations, but I know of a person who did a ch. 13 and was successful. Lots of scrimping and saving, a massive amount of stress.

      I will advise you to look into potential ramifications of this – would it affect your husband’s ability to get another job? Would it make it difficult to get an apartment, relocate for a lower cost of living and a better job, etc?

    3. I don’t practice bankruptcy law but my coworker does – though not in DC. The number one thing I hear from her is that people wait way too long to file. It is there for a reason. For many people, it is the best option and it lets you rebuild with a clean slate. I support you taking this step.

    4. Don’t be embarrassed! Bankruptcy exists as a necessary outlet. It’s not a fun process, and shouldn’t be seen as an easy out, but it helps to disburse the heavy weight of debt so an individual isn’t crushed by it.

      Go to a firm/lawyer that has a history of doing bankruptcy (which is obviously what you are trying to do). It’s technical and you want someone with experience in the law and with the local trustees. (Said as a person who worked in a firm that only started to take bankruptcy cases because it was big business in the recession. Eek – we tried to only go for the simple Ch 7s – Chp 13 is a lot of know how to structure a good payment plan.) So if its a firm where that’s all they do, then they probably do it well, even if it seems like a bit of a mill.

      If you haven’t already, start keeping a record/copy of all the bills, who you owe, what your assets are. Stop any auto-payments. Don’t try to pay down one creditor over the others (will seem like preferential treatment upon filing). Don’t try to hide assets with family. Know that even if you talk to an attorney today, it may still be a couple months before you want to file (there are strategies around last payment to creditors, etc.). Know that there will be mandatory credit counseling required to get your discharge, so don’t delay in getting that done when your attorney talks to you about it.

    5. No recs, but used to practice bankruptcy law. If you can find a small firm that specializes in bankruptcy only then you will probably be well served. Most will offer a free consultation, so go and get a few opinions and decide who you like best. The max Ch. 13 plan will be about 5 years, so you want someone that you will be comfortable with and who will actually do the work you need as it comes up- asking for permission to buy a car from the court is one example.

      Don’t run up your credit cards, but if you forsee a big, necessary expense in the near future then go ahead and take care of it while you have access to credit (like new tires or something like that).

    6. Hello and hugs.
      I have no recommendations for a DC attorney, but I have been through this with my DH.
      He purchased an old industrial building and converted to lofts/mixed use space. However cost over-runs plus the great recession and losing his job made his financial situation untenable.
      There is no reason to be embarrassed. Address everything clear eyed without being ashamed.
      Think of all your debt obligations as merely contracts, which is what they are.
      One thing I learned is that spouse’s income is included in the means test for the spouse seeking bankruptcy. So my DH couldn’t file bankruptcy b/c of my salary.
      Your lawyer can help negotiate down any credit card amounts (I think DH paid $0.30 on the dollar) + lawyer fees
      You can give the keys back to the bank for the house relatively cleanly
      DH had a high credit score before, and so all of this did not drop it as much as I thought it would.
      It had no impact on him finding a job .
      This is a glitch (albeit big and bumpy right now) that 10-years from now will fade.
      If you haven’t already and want to feel a bit of control/movement, put together your joint & individual income statement and balance sheet information, it will make things better just seeing everything set out.
      You will survive this.

  7. Has anyone done an e- consultation with her?

    I am doing a reno on a house that will involve a kitchen and a bath. I know what I like (honed marble, white subway tiles on the walls). Kitchen floors will be wood. Bathroom floors will be some sort of hex tile.

    Where I fear going wrong is: cabinet colors, possibly not having kitchen blend in with the open den space that abuts it, different decision items not meshing well with other items. If I go wrong on wall color, that is the one thing that I could fix myself or is cheap to hire someone to fix. But with other things, there will be no budget / bandwidth to redo.

    I don’t know if doing an e-consultation will work (will it work with timelines we need for deciding items), will I be able to convey enough of what I want? etc?

    Locally, the options are that the paint person can advise on paint color (but how to you know how good he/she is?) or interior decorators who really want to pick your furnishings (but really like $50K commissions, which is not my budget). I can furnish a house. I just want the bones of the two most expensive rooms to be something I love (not something I’m meh about or actively hate).

    1. Only replying in case no one else does, but my MIL went to one of her color consultant trainings and said she was amazing, really genuine, and great to work with. I’d email her your questions and see where you land – she might not be available within the timeline you need, but you could talk it out and see.

    2. Email Kilim and see if someone local to you has gone through one of her color workshops, and then hire that person. Seeing it in person would matter a lot for color, I would think.

      1. That is a great idea. IIRC she hasn’t been to my city and isn’t planned to. But will cross fingers.

  8. For the OP asking about breast biopsies – I replied with 2 comments in the morning thread. Sending positive vibes your way and truly hoping that they don’t play Marley and Me in the waiting room :)

    1. Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed to hear. I feel like I don’t know anyone who’s been through this and all of my internet searching has lead to either really technical data or extremes, and I just appreciate the anecdata that things could be fine.

    2. +1

      I’ve had two breast biopsies and one particularly fun question mark bout of mammo-ultrasound-hi def mammo, wait 6 months, ultrasound-hi def mammo

      All were negative. None were fun! Hang in there.

    3. FWIW, I’ve had multiple friends go through this, and all of them were fine. (And found the part of the process you’re in right now really really stressful, so sending you many internet hugs!)

    4. I did one earlier this year and it was such dark times. The biopsy procedure was fine, I went to work after but I didn’t work out for a few days. Mine came back as benign tumor, ( I also had multiple lumps). I also have breast cancer in the family, both sides, aunts and grandmothers. Because of this I need to come back every 6 months for monitoring, but I’ll take it and feel grateful today I’m aware of this. I didn’t even know I had a lump, it was discovered at the Ob.

  9. Shoutout to my passive aggressive in-laws who “gifted” DH and me a coffee maker a couple of days before their visit, even though we don’t drink coffee, live in a small apartment with no place to store it and have told them that repeatedly. And then of course they left without cleaning it or disassembling it, so I told DH he can figure that out or I’m donating it. Hope everyone had a better holiday weekend than I did!

    1. Oh come on. They just wanted a cup of coffee. I think it’s a bold and brilliant move.

      1. Yea take it easy drama queen and be a better hostess….a cup of coffee is not a lot to ask

        1. This. If you knew they drank diet Coke, you probably wouldn’t hesitate to buy a six-pack of it. It’s not like they shipped you a specialty mattress or something.

          1. Try to imagine the six pack of Diet Coke took up 1/3 of your fridge and had to sit there taking up space year-round, when your guests only visit once a year. That’s the situation OP is describing. The coffee is consumable. The coffee maker is not.

        2. This is kind of mean. You don’t have a right to insist on what is in someone else’s kitchen.

          We have the means to make coffee (a Melitta single cup setup and a gooseneck electric tea kettle) but then my family says it’s “too hard”. I’m not OP, I’m the person who tells them there are coffee shops down the street.

          1. What ever happened to being nice? An electric coffee pot, a small one, is not too much to ask. Sending people outside to get a cup of coffee at 6-7-8 am is just mean.

          2. We will have to disagree on what’s rude. I think complaining about the Melitta and ground coffee and half and half I provided is rude, and I agree with OP that a guest ”gifting” a space hogging appliance that only the guest will use is definitely rude!

            Trixie is definitely not invited to my house.

        4. The problem is that people who live in small apartments with limited countertop and storage space don’t want to clutter up their space with other people’s stuff. If they brought a travel mug French press, that’s one thing, but you really can’t expect that people are going to have all of your preferred appliances.

          (If I were “gifting” a coffee maker, it would be a Nespresso – some are incredibly compact – or a French press, which could just sit in the back of a cabinet until it needed to come out.)

      2. My parents dislike my aero press and cannot stand cold brew coffee so they too have sent ahead their much loved Keurig (they did the same to my sister, aunt and one of their friends from college.) I leave it in the guest bathroom and they travel with their own coffee.
        I do not see this as passive aggressive – I see it as a brilliant house guest move. There’s really not much to clean or disassemble and you can box it up for their next visit.

        1. My dad bought a toaster for my apartment when he couldn’t take toasting it under the broiler like I did anymore. I figured, fair enough.

    2. I feel you! We remind people that there are at least three coffee shops a block away and that it’s a lovely stroll to get there.

      1. You’re rude. Coffee/tea/water are a basic part of hosting and no people should not have to walk a block every time they need coffee. And that’s great that that is your lifestyle to walk out the door for coffee every time, but I’m thinking your suburban inlaws don’t do that kind of thing and are used to having coffee you know . . . in their kitchen.

        1. That’s wonderful. They should have all the coffeemakers they like in, you know…. their own kitchen.

      2. who wants to take a walk to get coffee? Most people wake up, have coffee or tea, and stay in their robes for a while. A cup of coffee is not too much to expect when one is an overnight guest. Do you send people out for their meals, too?

    3. Are they otherwise passive-aggressive types? Were they staying with you? Otherwise…eh? They wanted to be able to drink coffee in their pajamas.

      If you still have the packaging, you could mail it back to them with a “it’s best to store this at your place” note.

      1. +1

        This seems like the best option. Assume good intentions and mail it back to them with the kindly note suggested above.

    4. I see you’re related to my mother. I at least have room to store the random coffee maker she brought last time. It sits in the attic in between visits.

    5. OP I sympathize. My in laws used to carry on about how we needed a rice cooker. We did not need a rice cooker. They bought a new one for themselves, and gave us their old one without cleaning it well. We put it into the trash.

    6. Honestly seems like they’re trying to make it easy for you to provide coffee, and I think providing coffee is a pretty basic part of overnight hosting. Can I suggest the little over the cup funnels? Even just 1. That’s how we make our coffee and they take up a lot less space.

      1. Not OP, see my comment above where my family thinks that set up is “too hard”

        That is exactly what I provide, plus a little bag of ground coffee and half and half in the fridge.

      2. OP here – we’ve always provided their preferred (expensive) brand of cold brew, so it’s not about having coffee in the house and I don’t think the Diet Coke analogy is a good one since we have to store this appliance forever and they visit us rarely (once a year at most). But mainly I’m just annoyed that they’re acting like this is a gift to us, when we do not drink coffee and very much do not want a coffeemaker. If they’d purchased something small and asked us to store it as a favor to them, fine, but they purchased something enormous and are acting like they gave us a generous gift when it was obviously a gift to themselves.

    7. I am on your side. After my parents killed our toaster on a visit, my ILs offered to buy us a new one . . . as my birthday present . . . but we do not really eat toast (or we occasionally make it in the oven).

      That one was a corker, but not as good as the rocking horse that the ILs bought us as an “engagement present”.

        1. True story that sums up my relationship with the ILs, but there are oh so many more of them. I am seriously considering writing a book, with names changed to protect the guilty.

      2. “but not as good as the rocking horse that the ILs bought us as an “engagement present”.”

        What the FORK?

      3. As a child free couple my husband and I wouldn’t have even pretended to be polite.

    8. Having spent a bunch of time living in not much space, I feel for you. I don’t think you need to feel bad about not keeping the coffee maker. If you have the space, maybe keep a pour over cone for guests?

    9. To everyone else who only wants coffee on hand for guests — the Melitta cone filter is great and you only need boiling water to make it work. Also, Folgers makes coffee singles that look like tea bags.

    10. I am a caffeine addict, as are many other people. My MIL had a percolator–yes, really–and she did not drink coffee. It was too much time and energy at 6:30 in the am with my toddlers to set it up and wait. My SIL and I went out and bought a Mr. Coffee, and explained that this was a necessary morning medication for us. I think it is mean of you to not be prepared to serve coffee to your in-laws. A cup of coffee is not too much to ask, and sometimes a cone system, a french press, etc are just too much in the morning. My husband and I set up the coffee at night and hit the button in the am. Sorry, but you get no sympathy from me.

      1. I’m not sure why everyone is assuming we don’t offer them coffee, I never said that. We always ask our guests what food and drink we can have on hand, and purchase whatever they want. We buy Coke specifically for my parents when they visit, and since my in-laws love a particular brand of cold brew, we go to a special grocery store we don’t normally shop at to get it before they arrive.
        Purchasing a consumable food or beverage and having to store an appliance that takes up 1/3 of my kitchen countertop space are very different situations, in my experience. And like I said, mainly rolling my eyes at the notion that this is a gift to me and my husband, people who don’t drink coffee. But wow you coffee lovers are defensive!

        1. Honestly if they bought the coffee maker then I would assume they want real hot coffee versus off the shelf cold brew. People like cold brew but I think most people aren’t drinking it every morning.
          Acting like giving you a coffee maker is some sort of betrayal instead of mildly annoying is a bit over the top… or maybe a BEC situation.

          1. Then they should use their words instead of communicating their wants through passive-aggressive gifts.

          2. Did I say it was a betrayal? I said it was annoying. But yeah I admit I’m BEC with them, they’re unpleasant and passive-aggressive in general. You can make hot coffee with the cold brew concentrate, fyi (you just add it to boiling water), which I’ve seen them do at our house many times. We also usually have Starbucks VIA packets on hand too but I realize some people are snobby about instant coffee, my in-laws included.

      2. I can’t believe someone smart enough to be an “overachiever” thinks pouring water over coffee grounds is too hard.

    11. I need coffee too but I travel with Starbuck instant packets in case no coffee or bad coffee. Problem solved.

    12. I feel for you. I once lived in a 300-sq-ft apartment, and that coffee maker would have been donated ASAP. In my last apartment (1000-sq-ft), my parents’ Keurig was still pretty inconvenient, but I found a place to store it and figured I could suck it up because I want to be a good host and because they travel to me more often than I travel to them and they’re helpful when they’re at my house. They also didn’t treat it as a gift to me and knew I’d store it until their visits. Now I live in a 4-BR house with a garage, and I don’t even notice the Keurig in the garage cabinet where we store backup paper goods, cleaning products, etc.

    13. And this is why I will never stay overnight with my son and his wife, if he ever gets married and moved away. Don’t need my future DIL finding reasons to hate on me when I can stay in a hotel and keep the peace!

      1. Um, don’t give her reasons to “hate on” you? Like, don’t give them passive aggressive gifts. Not too hard!

    14. J F C ladies, having your preferred caffeinated beverage ready to go for you is not a human right you get to demand. As a tea drinker, people I visit rarely have what I want. You know what I do? I deal it with it by myself, like a grownup. And as evidenced by the number of non-coffee drinkers posting in this thread, drinking coffee in the morning is far from universal.

  10. Sometimes I think about buying a small coffee maker to have on hand for guests, but I always warn my house guests that I don’t have coffee or a way to make it and nobody ever seems unhappy. This definitely sounds passive-aggressive and would annoy me, too.

    1. reminds me of my relatives who stayed with us and then gave us towels after their visit!

    2. Really? Coffee is not an unusual beverage, or expensive, or hard to have on hand. What ever happened to being nice? They are your guests!

        1. Why is it being a bad hostess to not have one specific appliance? She said she offered them two kinds of coffee, and there are portable coffee makers you can travel with if you care that much about how your coffee is made. Do you expect your hosts to have waffle irons and panini presses too?

  11. Does anyone else notice people posting photos of their kids on non-kid related message boards “for attention” or algorithm purposes? Someone just posted a picture of her 4-yr-old daughter wearing nothing but diapers in a FB group asking for recommendations for a last-minute present for a milestone anniversary for her parents. I’ve also noticed it on WW Connect (where the poster isn’t even in the picture). Not to be Michelle Tanner, but how rude.

    2. I’ve seen this on Facebook – I get that it’s a natural result of the algorithm favoring photo posts over text posts, but I already have *plenty* of pictures of acquaintances’ kids in my feed already so it’s not my favorite.

    3. I’ve seen this and I don’t think it’s rude, but it does seem exploitative. Sometimes they call it a “baby tax,” which makes it worse imo. It doesn’t bother me that they’re trying to attract my attention (I do it with colored backgrounds/big fonts on short text posts) but it’s sketchy to offer your unwitting children up as a sacrifice to the algorithm, you know?

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