u/Fancy-Mouse-7554

We just moved into our house, and I feel like I’ve gotten stuck in this constant cycle of wanting to buy more, decorate more, change things, add another plant, find another piece of decor, etc.

The thing is**,** I have lots of plants, decor, furniture, pictures, and pretty much everything we actually need. There are definitely some things in the house that are temporary, like furniture/items we’re using in place of what we eventually want, to make do. but there’s absolutely no reason those things need to be replaced right now.

I’m just getting really sick of feeling like I’m constantly consuming or looking for the next thing to buy. I want to actually enjoy my home and everything I already own instead of constantly looking around and thinking about what I could add or change.

I still love decorating and obviously want to slowly make our house our own over time, but I don’t want my house to feel like I always need to be buying. for instance, we have a living room Rug from our last place, but it’s not ME anymore, so I want a new one that I love but this one works just fine for now..

Has anyone else gone through this? How did you get yourself out of mindset and actually become content with what you already have?

**my dad is very sick right now so I know I might do it as a distraction but I want to stop.

Pretty happy with my fuel economy today 7.5L/100km (about 31.4 mpg US) in my 2021 Honda Pilot. great start to my road trip!

bonus points if you can include what you did to lose the weight, not including weight loss shots because I cannot afford them and I need real life hard working examples of what got you to lose the weight.

I am weaning breastfeeding my twins and am the heaviest I’ve ever weighed. At this point, I have my life, my husbands and my twin babies lives to be healthy for, otherwise it’s selfish when 2 littles depend on me to be my healthiest for them

that is simply all.. 8 months is my favourite thus far besides newborn stage. my identical boys are oh so baddd, cheeky, goofy, curious and so loving. 5 months was bad bad, they were so grumpy all the time wanting to sit and play but they couldn’t. 8 months, it’s like our heads have come above the water and everything feels a bit lighter. we are always laughing.

I’m genuinely curious about people’s eating habits and how they stay skinny. for instance, my cousin is skinny and she said she wakes up and doesn’t eat until she’s hungry which could be 8am or 12pm. and thatll keep her full until evening where she’ll have a normal small sized dinner. I myself, am breastfeeding twins and ravenous and I basically wake up starving and go to bed starving. it’s interesting that most thin people eat to survive, not survive to eat. which I’m jealous about lol.

so please, let me know. I can’t wait for all the smart ass comments telling me to be diciplined. I will, when I’m not breastfeeding. im simply CURIOUS to get into the mind of a thin bodied person.

EDIT: didn’t realize this would blow up, I’m working my way through comments. Appreciate everyone’s time to respond!

I’m trying to eat more whole foods postpartum and cut back on fast food and processed snacks, but I honestly can’t tell if healthy food is actually less satisfying, or if my brain and taste buds are just so used to highly processed foods and junk that everything else seems so meh to me.

did anyone go through a point where you genuinely just start craving whole foods and not junk? Nothing tastes “sweet” to me if it’s not junk, I can’t even enjoy a good hot tea after dinner because it doesn’t taste like juice. This is terrible. I am 7 months postpartum with twins and breastfeeding and I’m ravenous but cannot keep living like this. I’ve actually come to the point where I’ve eaten too terribly for too long and my body actually wants whole food/anti inflammatory foods, but I just want to enjoy them.

my husbands family all has tea after eating and I always politely say no, I’ve never liked it or I should say never found one I liked yet. I love the taste of passion fruit teas from Starbucks, iced tea (not the American version) basically juice lol. which teas taste more like a sweet light juice?

I’m really outing myself here by saying, I have a major phone addiction. it’s the first thing I grab when I wake up and last thing I put down before bed, I take it with me to scroll on the toilet, when I’m doing laundry, even when I go outside for yard work. I have 7 month old twins and any chance I get in between the chaos of taking care of them and getting chores done, I’m on it. when they’re playing, having their bottle, sleeping etc.

I desperately want to be free from it, I want to use my digital camera for pictures and be present in the moment, especially since this time as they’re little is so fleeting. I know it’s a simple answer, don’t use it. but it’s a lot harder than people without the addiction think. I’m waiting for the mean comments, but truly I’m just seeking advice.

As the title says, I am terrified of tornadoes but for the life of me can’t stop watching videos of them, documentaries, following radar, etc. but when we get bad weather and tornado warnings I get a sinking feeling like impending doom. why if this is one of my biggest fears, do I keep watching videos/reels, shows and more about them?

I have a huge fear of tornadoes and bad weather, where I live there is lots of warnings and watches so I often try to watch radar on my phone, I can’t help but check the weather facebook pages relevant to my area. they have 90-500k followers on Facebook and often make posts seem like there is serious threats and fear mongering and nothing weather wise ends up happening but some rain. do these pages make money off views and clicks and comments? should I stay clear of them when trying to gauge the weather and help my fears?

currently In between moves, and living in parents basement with one small bedroom, my husband and I and our 7 month old twins. we move into our new house in 2 weeks.

our room is SMALL. We have a queen bed and the cribs on both sides Of our bed. Basically taking up the entire room.

lately the boys have been waking multiple times per hour every hour, now we are teething, sitting more, trying new foods and gassy because if it. So I know a lot is disturbing them during sleep I suspect as well, also my husband and I crawling into bed I’m sure tossing and turning waking them too. we have a solid bedtime routine: bath, lotion, jammies, bottle, book, sound machine on.

im curious, if once you moved baby to their own room, their sleep improved? Right now we are running on fumes and extremely tired and feeling helpless. I am starting to develop the sundown scares at 7 months which is wild.

I just want to make sure this is okay? I have 7 month old twins and want to start introducing dairy. my husband came home with Oikos 11% plain Greek yogurt, will this be okay? is that fat percentage too high? just trying to understand it all!

about to move into our first home and wondering if it’s cheaper to get shaw or some sort of cable vs a few streaming services? my husband and I watch lots of crime docs, I watch a lot of reality housewives tv and we watch lots of sports. as well as the news

My husband and I have been together for over 10 years, and are 7 months postpartum with twins. We have always had a great relationship and marriage overall, so I don’t know if it’s my postpartum hormones taking over or what..but for me, I enjoy when he gives me a kiss, holds me, cuddles during movies, random stuff while passing by each other in the kitchen, stuff that makes me feel loved even in the chaos of 7 month twins.

he is total acts of service, he always makes sure my gas tank is filled, takes care of all household maintenances etc, is a very active and present father. he does often give me lots of words of affirmation which does make me feel loved but I need more physical in the day to day.

what can we do?

I couldn’t even capitalize that a** hats name. simple. how does he have a career still, yours, fans, after he nearly killed Rihanna? I know she’s forgiven him, but how do you recover from that? he did what he did , he BEAT the living sh*t out of her? why hasn’t his fake and career been literally stripped from him.

My family is taking possession of our first home in a couple weeks and while everyone talks about changing the locks and deep cleaning, I’m curious about the things people didn’t tell you to do that you figured out on your own that you needed to do.