#dollar store practices

[alwaysbewoke]

[bamsara]

If my drawing hand becomes incapacitated by RSI I will simply teach my other hand how to draw so I can take turns

[keepchangingandneverstop]

Day 359 - This is already slowly collapsing under it's own weight and is going to crack like hell as it dries but. It Malroth.

[icewindandboringhorror]

If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?

[daddopenguin]

Rift Crystals, Ferrystones, and character edit is not exclusive to the online store you can get it in game if you actually bothered to fucking play and do shit! It's been like that since Dogma 1!

[venacoeurva]

Well the snap decision to buy orange juice was a good idea and ideal foresight considering I caught another cold so now I can make "Goddamnit I'm sick again'' sparkling water + orange juice virgin mimosa-esque things

[rindemption]

I've been wanting to pick up fiber crafts for a while, y'know, the dopamine from making something by hand. I got myself some cheap knitting needles and yarn and I'm finally learning to knit :FireElmo: I refuse to show it because it's so bad, but I did it! Only a few rows, but I got the basics down

[squibo]

Sketch paintings 2 days ago

[flatstarcarcosa]

zack torture continues. we are now watching the 2001 dewn miniseries.

get a load of these ps2 ass graphics.

[transgaysex]

i am so fucking hungry everypony

[lexalovesbooks]

Damnit I went to the fabric store and bought a bunch of fabrics for my bookbinding class but I forgot to buy one to practice sewing on :(

[lieutenantlashfaz]

I was a little kid when they started making cereal box prizes and stuff like that to become more and more uncommon. It was such a sad time because that was one of my favorite parts of it was getting random prizes and being able to just have fun.

Now we're stuck inside and don't get prizes just because you finished your box of cereal. We can't go places alone because of how dangerous it is outside now. It just really sucks

"My childhood was so awesome. Kids today don't even know!"

Isn't a flex.

It's a lament.

More people should understand that.

[spicedmilktea]

I discovered the French twist comb and I'm never going back to claw clips

[sky-bee42]

one of my roommates will sometimes ask me to stop singing so she can sleep which is totally reasonable and valid. But when she does she's like "Could you use one of the practice rooms?" which does actually considerably irritate me, bc when I'm in my room I'm always just singing along to my music I listen to for fun and I don't need to be singing all the time, I would vastly prefer her asking me to just shut the fuck up and I get she's like "here's an alternative to the you making noise in our room issue" but if I were actually rehearsing music for school, I would have gone over to one of the music buildings and gotten a practice room. It's quiet hours anyways, I don't mind getting told to just shut up if you need to go to sleep like....

[swagyna]

you can't tell, but i am laughing maniacally.

[inkskinned]

you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.