Image 1 — one of the most heartfelt messages i’ve ever received as a small  business owner
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one of the most heartfelt messages i’ve ever received as a small business owner

i run a small crochet business and a daughter reached out to me wanting to order a grinch plushie for her family. after hearing the reason behind the order, i decided i didn’t want to charge her for it. it was my first time completing an order knowing that i wasn’t going to earn anything from it, but after receiving this message from her dad, i realized that maybe i did earn something from it after all. 

her brother , who was autistic, absolutely loved the grinch. sadly, he passed away three months ago, and his daughter wanted the grinch to have in his memory. her dad sent me this message after they received it, and honestly, it completely broke my heart.

this was easily one of the most heartbreaking and motivating experiences i’ve had since starting my business. i didn’t earn any money from this order, but i think i earned a little piece of motivation instead.

i’m incredibly grateful that this family trusted me with something so important, and i’ll probably remember this order for a very, very long time. 

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 11 days ago

any good recommendations based on what i’ve watched so far?

i’m open to any and all genres!!! i love romance and sad anime’s, but i am an open book and willing to give anything a chance!!

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 1 month ago

AITJ for sending a wife a screenshot of her husband’s message to me?

i had a random guy on facebook message me today saying “ FB suggested you as a friend so l thought why not let you know that you are a beautiful woman!!“

i noticed that he was married and had a profile picture with his wife. i never messaged him back or engaged with him at all. instead, i took a screenshot and sent it to his wife. her response was a simple “thank you so much”

i try my best to look out for other women., and if my husband was messaging random women like that, i feel like i would want to know. but now i don’t know if i overstepped or if most people would’ve done the same as i did.

i had my friend tell me i shouldn’t have said anything and just ignored it, but my husband says i did the right thing by telling her, because her husband shouldn’t have been doing that in the first place.

sooo AITJ for sending the screenshot to his wife?

TL;DR: a married man messaged me saying i was beautifu. i sent the message screenshot to his wife. she thanked me, but now i’m wondering if i overstepped or did the right thing.

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 2 months ago

if you could have ONE gluten free dessert item recreated, what would it be?

i have a GF home baker near me and she is always down to make new desserts for me.

i’ve had her make cinnamon roll, cakes, the basics before, but i’m craving something different and don’t know what to ask for!!!

i need ideas on what to ask for her to make, and if she makes it i’ll definitely be back on here with an update!!!

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 2 months ago

the things i saw after my house burned down still confuse me

when i was 4 years old the house i lived in burned down. i still remember exactly when it happened and the terror that i felt as a little kid watching my mom trying to gather all of her important documents before getting out of the house.

2 weeks after the fire we moved to a house 3 blocks down from our previous one. this is where it all began.

about a month after moving into our new house i started experiencing lots of night terrors, which i assume were from the trauma. but soon after i started seeing things, i started seeing people, i vividly remember seeing figures floating around in my bedroom, and i would see snakes underneath my bed.

my mom told me i would sit for hours at the end of my bed with a pillow on my lap just staring at it. whenever she asked what i was doing i would tell her, “i’m watching the little lady dance.”

i don’t quite remember everything, but the memory that always plays in my head is me lying in bed late one night when i started hearing a noise, so i sat up. i then saw a floating computer with a smiley face on it. i remember it floating towards me and i started typing away. my mom woke up, and when i turned back around the computer was gone.

i remember exactly what it looked like, and i’ve tried for years to look it up but i can never find it or anything similar to it.

a couple of months later my mom took me to a healing lady. she told my mom to boil some chiles and spices in a pot of water and leave it in my room overnight. after that night i never saw anything again. i was back to normal. i started eating again, and i started sleeping through the night.

we left this house when i was 6 and moved into my parents current house. i lived there for 20 more years until i moved with husband. i did have some experiences in my parents current home but nothing too extreme.

i genuinely don’t know if this story counts as paranormal, but everyone i’ve talked to has told me they’ve never heard of anything like it happening before.

unfortunately this has caused me to still be scared of the dark. i knowwww, i’m a grown woman and i still can’t sleep in the dark, but my husband has thankfully never made jokes about it or questioned why i need the tv light on.

i still have a couple of more stories to tell so ill be back soon, if anyone wants to hear more!!!

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 3 months ago

pov: when you’re gluten free and your husband finds a bakery that has gluten free chocolate chip cookies 4 hours from home, and his only thought was to buy the entire stock….

yep and i now have 20 cookies to eat, minus one that he ate on his way back home because he needed to check they weren’t “poisonous”

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 3 months ago

i think the tiny house my husband and i used to live in had a negative energy

(accidentally deleted it trying to edit some spelling errors, just now reposting again lol)
a little over a year ago my husband and i lived in a tiny house while we were trying to get our finances together to get a new home. when we first moved in everything was great. it was a very cozy and homey house and we were pleasantly happy with it for the time being.

a couple of months after moving in, weird things started happening. there was stuff moved around that we knew for sure wasn’t there in the first place. it was weird, but we brushed it off and joked that it was just our friendly ghost playing games with us.

soon after, we both started seeing shadows out of our peripheral vision, and every time we would turn to look, nothing was there. we woke up once and all the cabinets and i got mad at my husband because i thought he was playing a prank on me.

and then the arguments started.

it was like a weekly argument. we would be completely fine one minute, and then all of a sudden i would start random arguments. looking back now, they were some of the absolute dumbest reasons to start a fight. the constant arguments led to both of us being completely drained, and we even talked about divorce, but ultimately decided to push through and stay together.

there was one night after an argument where i decided to stay in the living room while my husband stayed in the bedroom. it was late, the room was dark, and the only light i had was from the tv.

i was just sitting there when all of a sudden i felt like someone was standing next to me. i thought it was my husband, but when i turned i saw a tall black figure just standing there watching me. i jumped and in a BLINKKK it was gone.

i ran to my husband and told him i saw something in the living room. he immediately asked me if it was a tall black figure. he told me that just weeks before he had seen the exact same shadow figure.

we moved out of the house in april of last year, and our new house fortunately has 0 ghosts lol. my husband and i rarely argue now. we still have disagreements like any couple, but nothing like how it used to be. i honestly can’t even remember the last time we had a fight.

i do get constant sleep paralysis, and that’s the only time i ever see things in our new house, but that’s pretty normal for me.

i truly don’t know if the bad energy in that tiny house was messing with our relationship, but i do know that the couple who moved in after us actually ended up getting divorced and no longer talk to each other.

i have soooo many more stories to tell, and hopefully i can use this subreddit to tell them!!

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 3 months ago

i think the tiny house my husband and i lived in had something negative in it

i constantly wonder if the tiny house my husband and i used to live in had a negative energy that impacted our relationship.

a little over a year ago my husband and i lived in a tiny house while we were trying to get our finances together to get a new home. when we first moved in everything was great. it was a very cozy and homey house and we were pleasantly happy with it for the time being.

a couple of months after moving in, weird things started happening. there was stuff moved around that we knew for sure wasn’t there in the first place. it was weird, but we brushed it off and joked that it was just our friendly ghost playing games with us.

soon after, we both started seeing shadows out of our peripheral vision, and every time we would turn to look, nothing was there. we woke up once and all the cabinets and i got mad at my husband because i thought he was playing a prank on me. 

and then the arguments started.

it was like a weekly argument. we would be completely fine one minute, and then all of a sudden i would start random arguments. looking back now, they were some of the absolute dumbest reasons to start a fight. the constant arguments led to both of us being completely drained, and we even talked about divorce, but ultimately decided to push through and stay together.

there was one night after an argument where i decided to stay in the living room while my husband stayed in the bedroom. it was late, the room was dark, and the only light i had was from the tv.

i was just sitting there when all of a sudden i felt like someone was standing next to me. i thought it was my husband, but when i turned i saw a tall black figure just standing there watching me. i jumped and in a BLINKKK it was gone.

i ran to my husband and told him i saw something in the living room. he immediately asked me if it was a tall black figure. he told me that just weeks before he had seen the exact same shadow figure.

we moved out of the house in april of last year, and our new house fortunately has 0 ghosts lol. my husband and i rarely argue now. we still have disagreements like any couple, but nothing like how it used to be. i honestly can’t even remember the last time we had a fight.

i do get constant sleep paralysis, and that’s the only time i ever see things in our new house, but that’s pretty normal for me.

i truly don’t know if the bad energy in that tiny house was messing with our relationship, but i do know that the couple who moved in after us actually ended up getting divorced and no longer talk to each other. if anyone has any thoughts on maybe what was going on it would be more than welcome.

i have more stories to tell, and hopefully i can use this subreddit to tell them!! 

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 3 months ago

looking for advice on buying our stepsons first phone

hey guys!! was hoping to get some advice/recommendations. my husband and i will be buying my stepson a phone, just for calls or texts. he already has a tablet so he won’t be using it for games or social media or anything like that.

i was wondering if anyone here has done anything similar, and if so, what phone would you recommend and should we just add the phone to our service plan or would it be better to get like a prepaid phone? 

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 3 months ago

To my fellow chronically ill people: good partners do exist

being a chronically ill girly when i started my relationship i was really worried about feeling like a burden like i’m sure many of others here were. i felt guilty that i would be too much and ask for too much help. 

but my husband has been the complete opposite,

i think many times it’s easy to feel like a burden when you’re chronically ill, and i won’t lie there are still times i feel like one, but my husband has been nothing but supportive to me. 

he has held me as i cried myself to sleep from pain, he has skipped work to help me with my emetophobia, and he has never made me feel like i’m alone in this 

he has made road trips dedicated just for me and called it the gluten free road trips 😂., 

he has never made me feel like i complain too much because he understands he doesn’t know what i am going through. he has encouraged me to stay home and rest even on days where i wanted to push myself to go to work, because to him my health is more important than money, 

he has researched ways to help me get better, and most of all he makes me feel normal 

i know not everyone has a support system like this and i for sure don’t take mine for granted. i just wanted to share my personal win and hopefully remind y’all that there are people out there that will love and support you even on some of the hardest days. 🤍🤍🤍

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago

crochet inosuke added to my anime collection

one of my favorite projects i’ve created so far!!! i’m super happy with how it turned out and i can’t wait to get started on my next one which is Tengen

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago
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any anime fans here?

my latest projects for my anime collection!! hopefully we have some anime fans that would recognize these characters!!

goku pattern: artgumis

inosuke & yuji: thelooped crafts

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago

my anime amigurumi collection so far:

i’ve had so much fun crocheting my favorite characters from anime’s and i thought i would share them on here in case we have some anime fans!!

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago
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my MIL texted me this for mother's day and i'm still emotional about it

super late to posting this but as a stepmom this message from my MIL meant more than she could ever know. feeling loved and appreciated by my husbands family means the world.

stepmoms won't ever replace moms, we're just here to show extra support and love and it's moments like this where it feels amazing that other people see that as well. i keep going back to this message whenever i'm having a tough day, forever grateful for all the support my sweet husbands family shows me.

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago

My 12-year-old stepson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease. Looking for advice from people who grew up with it.

hey everyone hope this post is allowed.

my 12 year old stepson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease last year. He did physical therapy for a bit, he got 2 separate MRI’s done, and then he went back to the doctors and that’s when we got the confirmation that it was DDD. i would love to hear anyone’s advice and from people that have had personal experience with this condition especially people diagnosed young.

what things have helped managed your pain and protect your back as you grew? are there any lifestyle changes you wish you had made sooner?

my stepson is a great kid and i just want to help support him as he gets older without making him feel like his diagnosis limits him.

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago

My 12-year-old stepson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease. Looking for advice from people who grew up with it.

hey everyone hope this post is allowed.

my 12 year old stepson was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease last year. He did physical therapy for a bit and he went back to the doctors and that’s when we got the confirmation that it was DDD. i would love to hear anyone’s advice and from people that have had personal experience with this condition especially people diagnosed young.

what things have helped managed your pain and protect your back as you grew? are there any lifestyle changes you wish you had made sooner?

my stepson is a great kid and i just want to help support him as he gets older without making him feel like his diagnosis limits him.

thank you!!

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 4 months ago
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foreman said “lay it down” may have misunderstood…

well the topic for the safety meeting monday just dropped…

*nobody was injured*

u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 5 months ago

UPDATE: AITJ for telling my husbands ex wife to keep her personal items at her house?

hey y’all i had a couple of people as about an update. we got my stepson yesterday and i am very happy to say that there was no undies in his clothes basket this week!!! i would like to thank everyone for their support and for making me laugh with ideas on what to do if it happens again lol. like i said i really don’t know if it was intentional or if laundry got mixed up, i do feel like she did it on purpose only because after my husband told her she could take him to court she backed off and started crying and saying no she didn’t want to go to court.

EDIT: usually i send her pictures of stepsons outfits for school every morning so she can have pictures of him she told me not to text her anymore so that means no outfit pics right!? well she’s mad that she didn’t recieve a picture of her son this morning 😂😂😂 and i have blocked her!!!!!

someone asked if this was the first time something weird has happened and no it’s not,

last year stepson had an awards ceremony and my husband and i were waiting inside and she called him to ask if they had started and he said no we were just waiting and she got mad that i was there because she thought i was trying to steal her mom role, so i decided to step out and wait in the truck because i didn’t want her to create a scene and ruin stepsons day. when she pulled into the parking lot she got out and started yanking on the door handle telling me to get out and if i really wanted to be kiddos stepmom i would get out and talk to her. i did not get out of the truck and i stayed inside the whole time. after everything was done she demanded i stay and hear her “apology” which i did and afterwards i didn’t have anything to say to her and she proceeded to look at my husband and say “you see i’m trying to be respectful she isn’t“., could i have said something? yes, but anything that was going to come out of my mouth wasn’t nice so i decided to keep quiet.

after that she got a boyfriend and i was able to attend stepsons games and events, they did break up around 4 months ago and then this happened.

TL;DR: no undies this week, new debate she told me not to text her every again and i always send her pictures of stepsons school outfits so she can have pictures of him and doesnt feel like she’s missing out on his life, i didn’t send pictures this morning and she’s mad lol 😂

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 5 months ago

AITJ for telling my husbands ex wife to keep her personal items at her house?

so my husband and i have been married for 3 years, he was previously married to his ex and he found out she cheated the whole marriage and they got divorced,

well they share custody of their son 50/50 and 4 weeks ago she sent kid over with a basket of clothes and i was picking out clothes for him to wear to school one morning and i found 3 panties in the basket. now immediate thought was ok laundry probably got mixed up no biggie, i told my husband about it he said if it happened again we would say something because he doesn’t want her stuff at our house. two weeks later kid comes over to our house for the week with a new basket and i’m picking out his clothes for school and i find 2 more panties and lingerie. i immediately told my husband and we agreed we would say something.

now anytime my husband brings up anything she always gets defensive so i told him i would send her a text and all i said was “hey!! kid was sent home with his basket, on top are a lot of your personal items, this has happened twice before and we both ask that from now on you please be more careful with what gets sent with him., thank you!!” i didn’t hear back from her all day so i assumed she got embarrassed and didn’t want to say anything back which was perfect for me because no conflict. later that night she sends two texts back to back saying “don’t ever text me again, you are not and never will be kids mom” i didn’t say anything back to her because i’ve never claimed to be her sons mom i’ve always said i’m just an extra support system i’m not here to steal anyone’s role. well she proceeded to call my husband screaming saying she was going to take him to court and that i threatened her and was trying to tell her how to parent. mind you my husband saw the texts of what i said there was no threatening done whatsoever. soooo AITJ for telling my husbands ex to keep her personal items at her house?? 

TL;DR: ex wife was sending kid over with a basket of clothes for the week and her lingerie was in it two weeks in a row, i said something to her about it and she threatened to take my husband to court for it.

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u/FaithlessnessOld3594 — 5 months ago