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Cake day: April 10th, 2025

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  • my advice is to take her flowers and let her do whatever she wants with her body unless it’s causing physical damage. you don’t have to find it attractive if you love her like you say you do just suck it up chum. she’ll remove them when she doesn’t want to wear them anymore. Your partner doesn’t have to be a perfect reflection of your ideals of beauty. loving and supporting someone means accepting their ugly favorite hat too.

    you said directly that even mentioning it might affect her self esteem so don’t mention it. be supportive












  • I have been the home cook for 6 people for years on a tight budget so I do this a lot.

    For me it really comes down to sales and effort. I really can’t beat a $.99 pound of pasta making it myself, I have tried. So i buy things like pasta, bread, tofu that I could make but the savings if any would be minimal especially after factoring in time.

    Instead i use the time to make the more expensive dishes, things like pickled onions and slow roasted meats for my carnivores and compound butters and sauces and dressings. These elevate the meals and i’m able to make them far cheaper than I could buy them so the time spent ends up being worth it.

    Sometimes there are sales that move all this math. My kroger just had a sale on salmon cakes, something my meat eaters love but i normally would make myself. But on sale for $2 each, i bought like 10 of them for the freezer they will be massive time savers in a pinch and will come in under what i could have prepared them for because of the sale!