ImaginaryVacation708

Did you actually sneak out as teenagers?

Posted by Complete-Chipmunk-0@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 4554 comments

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Nope. I wouldn’t be alive today and my mother would have been in jail For murdering me But as a mama, please don’t sneak out. Kids disappear all the time simply because they run into bad people while innocent stuff. I’m In my 40s and I still tell someone where I’m going if it’s not my normal routine

Swimming naked in high school gym class

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What's the dumbest thing you and/or your siblings did when you were left home alone?

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What's the dumbest thing you and/or your siblings did when you were left home alone?

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Where are we going?

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I’m going to stay where I am (unless husbands job makes us move which is unlikely) until I die. We already decided we can convert the garage to a bed/bath area if we can’t go up the stairs anymore Homes are too expensive

So we buy a mall to live in.

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Update: Mom died on March 24th and Dad committed suicide April 5th.

Posted by 13_Years_Then_Banned@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1057 comments

Cologuard Test

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I appreciate it. It’s a major process with me either way. I’m also on meds I’d have to stop several weeks prior so it’s Not just a one day and done thing. Getting old sucks.

Cologuard Test

Posted by Otherwise-Meaning-90@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 485 comments

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No but my mother was and she would wake up during major surgery Mine isn’t that it doesn’t work. It’s that for 72 hours after having it, I have a massive 3 day panic attack that is so bad I can’t keep fluids in me, feel like someone is trying to remove me from the world, pass out, see crap etc. it’s bad. Very very bad. I usually end up In the er but they don’t have anything they’ve found to stop it.

Cologuard Test

Posted by Otherwise-Meaning-90@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 485 comments

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How would I go about that? Like what would I ask for? I think the reaction may be due to the surgery I had at a couple of months old. I’ve read several articles that talk about how prior to 1980, they didn’t use anesthesia or pain meds on babies because of some weird idea they didn’t feel pain. They use a paralytic to keep the baby still. I wonder if it’s my body freaking out more over the surgery and deep trauma issues related to that I also told my father when I saw the Dr at 2 after not seeing him since the surgery that “he’s a bad man he hurts kids”

Cologuard Test

Posted by Otherwise-Meaning-90@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 485 comments

Cologuard Test

Posted by Otherwise-Meaning-90@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 485 comments

Cologuard Test

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I have a very bad reaction to anesthesia so I’m going colaguard right now. I have zero risk factors and am 46. Eventually I’ll have to get one but I just can’t bring myself to be knocked out knowing what it does to me

Went back to the woods where I used to play about half a century ago..

Posted by HorseyDung@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 495 comments

What form of "corporal" punishment did you endure during your youth?

Posted by WeGot_aLiveOneHere@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 882 comments

What are we doing with old photographs?

Posted by Fluffy_Musician6805@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 347 comments

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I’m a family genealogist. I’ve inherited all of the family photos. I’m slowly scanning them and loading them to drop box. Family has the link they can print what they want I’ll Keep the originals and make them apart of the genealogy book I’ll eventually put together. My son has already stated he will take it all when I pass and keep it

How do Americans feel about drying their laundry on a washing line?

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Get Your Poop Chute Checked

Posted by YoghurtNo2026@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1340 comments

Get Your Poop Chute Checked

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Get Your Poop Chute Checked

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I’m doing the box because every time they knock me out, three days later I end up having a 48 to 72 hour panic attack that puts me in the hospital. Every single time. It’s so frustrating. And no one knows why

Take your parents phone!!

Posted by themrsfreeze@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 174 comments

How do Americans usually handle disputes with neighbors?

Posted by GlitteringHotel8383@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 288 comments

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I’m very blessed with the neighbors we have. The elderly man in the back would bring me “extra” groceries he “bought to much of”. Another one saw me push mowing my 2.5 acres and came over and shooed me away and mowed it with her riding lawn mower. Another saw me using a tiller on my garden and showed up with his tractor So honestly, for me, any issues I just talk to them. We work it out. Because we all work hard to get along

Things people say about their state that almost every other state can claim?

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How does homeschooling work with more "complex" subjects?

Posted by Majestic_Carry4178@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 521 comments

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In my state a child cannot be kept from attending any class at their grade level. It’s considered discrimination if they aren’t allowed because our property taxes pay for the schools.

Did anyone ever get spanked by a teacher?

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General Advice

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What age and / or year would you kill to go back to?

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What table would you sit at?

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Where’s the one off in the corner where I can be alone because people are confusing and exhausting? Better yet, can I just go to an empty classroom and clean the whiteboards alone?

Since we like to unhash some old shit....

Posted by Cael_NaMaor@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 260 comments

What was a dreaded food your parents made. As an adult do you still hate it?

Posted by JoyfullyMortified43@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 1300 comments

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Creole rice. I don’t know what fresh hell my mother pulled that from but it was gross. Like had to fight the gag reflex gross. Had I thrown it up, she’d have made me re eat it This is nothing against the creole people. I truly think it was how she made it. It never cooked right, was crunchy and just overall nasty

Muppet Babies dolls I’ve had since 1985. Just found them in a container

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Retirement is gone

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I was today years old…

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How many of Y'all are Tipping Your Garbage-man/Postman for the Holidays?

Posted by Savings_Pie_8470@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 335 comments

How many of Y'all are Tipping Your Garbage-man/Postman for the Holidays?

Posted by Savings_Pie_8470@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 335 comments

How many of Y'all are Tipping Your Garbage-man/Postman for the Holidays?

Posted by Savings_Pie_8470@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 335 comments

So what are you actually keeping, from your parents estate?

Posted by DramaticErraticism@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1224 comments

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My dad’s still here but my mom passed a couple years ago. My sister took a lot but I really didn’t. One small set of China, an embroidered machine and fabric, all the photos and genealogy stuff, a few pieces of jewelry and a few things that were actually mine that she’d hidden so I couldn’t take them When I left originally

1980 Sears Commercial

Posted by Ebonystealth@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 306 comments

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Personally I would never want to relive my upbringing as it was incredibly emotionally and mentally and sometimes physically abusive. But the idea of stuff being happier, simpler? Yeah. I could get behind that

Let's hear your old people gifts younger you would have hated.

Posted by pirateofms@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 325 comments

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My grandmas quilt my grandma made. The top was polyester scraps from the clothes she made. The back was flannel but she knew I loved horses so it had horses on it. I slept with it until I got married. It’s in a box now because it was falling apart.

What’s going to be our generation’s “That’s just how they were raised”?

Posted by Waterproof_soap@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 750 comments

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I told my kids “look. Back then, we didn’t teach people how to do the work of not hating an entire group because of the actions of a few. He went through Pearl Harbor. His brothers went to war and came back different. He never had anyone teach him to not blame everyone for a few. We know better, we must do better. We will do the work in our own selves to not be this way. We cannot change him. But we will do better” It’s so hard.

What’s going to be our generation’s “That’s just how they were raised”?

Posted by Waterproof_soap@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 750 comments

What’s going to be our generation’s “That’s just how they were raised”?

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Generational junk dumping

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When my mom passed away we had to clear a path to remove her from the home I decided then and there my kids will NEVER have to do that. Rented a dumpster and a lot of crap went into it.

My comic books are worthless

Posted by midwest-distrest@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 2045 comments

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My mom died two years ago. The amount of Christmas presents we found that we’d given her was astounding. All wrapped up in bubble wrap and put into boxes for safety. All of it went to the thrift store. She loved them. We did not. Which is why we got her them Not ourselves

My comic books are worthless

Posted by midwest-distrest@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 2045 comments

My comic books are worthless

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What ‘Never-Got’ Childhood Toy Still Lives in Your Head?

Posted by Medium_Educator1983@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1956 comments

What do you want for Christmas?

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Parent incapacitated and broke, now what? Do we have financial risk?

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So, while I could believe that making sure stuff gets sold and her stuff gets paid could be your responsibility because of the guardianship, her actual care is not your job. Especially if you live far away. She made choices. She is not mentally incapacitated so these were HER decisions My mom was very overweight, had brittle bones and never left the house. She was also abusive. I told my husband under no uncertain terms was she to move into my home if my dad passed first. That I would help pay for care if needed but she would have to sell the home and go into a nursing home She ended up passing before my dad and it worked out but hold Your ground. Anything else is just enabling her.

Ubiquitous

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