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One thing the soap industry did was fool us all. In my country of origin, there’s a soap we use for pretty much everything. It is cheap & non toxic. We wash clothes, dishes, use it as body wash, shampoo, etc. It is basically the holy grail. When I came to the US, i was shocked that people had hand soap, face soap, body wash, shampoo, soap to clean the counters, different soaps for different kinds of floors, etc. That’s when i knew that big soap has gotten everyone. I finally saw a brand recently that states that it can be used for pretty much everything just like the soap in my home country. & we switched to that, finally. When we get a bigger house I’ll be making my own soap but for now i will use the all in one.

Tankado was a good person who didn’t deserve to be affected by US atomic bombs, didn’t deserve to grow up an orphan because his father was not man enough to raise him & certainly didn’t deserve to be rejected by his father AGAIN when he was looking for employment.
The fact that he changed his tune when he found out about Japan’s crimes shows how good and impartial he is. Gosh brb I’m gonna go cry myself to sleep now

Hi everyone.
I’ll be starting a new job soon with a toddler most of the day. But his sister who is in school will be there for about 3 hours after school. So a few years ago I was working with a 5yo whom i really enjoyed spending time with. And occasionally his 12yo brother. I genuinely didn’t like the 12yo. He never listened, was rude to his little brother, he always sneaked in food after being told multiple times that that’s not healthy & just a bunch of other things that just made him very unpleasant to deal with. No surprise why he didn’t have any friends. I ended up dreading everything about that job because of him. I am not a very strict person, but i had to go out of character regularly to get him in line. & his mom was a single mom with a not so helpful ex husband so he was a nightmare to deal with on my own. I did everything wrong so i can finally get fired because i just hated being there. So im writing to ask if the event I don’t really want to deal with the older sibling, how can i navigate that? Especially when they get sassy, throw insults, etc?

Hi nannies!
So I have a dilemma of what to do. Last week I interviewed with a great family. They have one little boy & they are very lovely! Everything im looking for in a family except the hours are a bit long (8-6). The job starts tomorrow & they just told me last night that they’d love to offer me the job.
Then yesterday I interviewed with another great mom. Also exactly what im looking for. Same pay as the first & hours are so much better (10-5). The problem here is that i am only meeting them next week. I dont wanna pass up on the first hoping to land the second then it doesn’t work. But i genuinely need those 10-5 hours because i will be going back to school in July so it’ll be the perfect schedule to factor in my studies.
I guess my question is how can i let the first family know im moving forward with another family but also still have wiggle room for the future if possible?

Hi everyone! New to this platform & wanted to drop a few words.
Backstory: I am prone to diabetes because my maternal side of the family is living with it in numbers. My mom included.
So last year I realized I am working out yet I’m not feeling good at all. I was constantly inflamed, constantly bloated, always constipated & I started having cravings. Then one day I saw a video of a doctor, forgot his name, and he was basically saying if someone has my symptoms then their insulin is high. That made a lot of sense to me because I knew my family history. & he suggested intermittent fasting to lower the sugar. I did exactly that. I only ate between 4pm and 8pm for about a week & immediately noticed a difference. I had more energy, my bowel was moving everyday, my cravings went away. So I continued to try it for three more months. Fast forward to this year January, I decided to completely stop drinking alcohol. Which gave me a lot of clarity. That’s when my natural journey began. I chose to only buy ingredients at the grocery store & cook everything from scratch. I make my own bread with 100% whole wheat flour too. I do not eat anything processed whatsoever & that changed my life. Every single thing I had a problem with disappeared. My stomach is flatter, my skin is brighter, my hair is thicker, my mind is sharper & I could go on but you get the gist lol. It has been 4+ months living like this & I will not be changing to anything else. This complete natural life is genuinely so great & I am so happy to have seen that doctor’s video bcos who knows I would have been diabetic by now.

This past January was when i had my last drink. My partner and I drank heavily the past holiday season. I had a very tough year & was an alcoholic for all of 2025. What I thought would just be a sober January turned to realizing my alcoholism and vowed to never touch it again.
On the 3rd/4th day with no alcohol, I found myself shaking. I had never experienced that before because i always had a drink. When i finally realized that this is a withdrawal symptom, I was genuinely shocked and disappointed at myself. I really let myself get to rock bottom like that? Then I started remembering all the times my loved ones told me how nice I am when I’m not drinking but as soon as I am tipsy, I am a nightmare. A friend of mine even invited me to her sister’s wedding but asked that I do not drink. All those memories made me so embarrassed of myself. How could I have let it get that bad & not notice?
I have so much healing to do in this journey. I have so much to catch up on in life. I am just trying to forgive myself one step at a time. I have been reading books and working out again. Things i used to love doing before I knew the bottle.
Anyway, I joined the group because I have officially decided that I will never go back to that life again & would love to see stories of people going through the journey too. I have not yet found myself, but I know everyday will be closer to learning myself without alcohol cos I genuinely have no clue how to navigate life without it. Especially now that summer is upon us.

Hi everyone!

So I will be studying towards a BSc from June 1st & i just received my evaluations. I did my transfers with Sophia Learning & only 12 courses were transferrable making the program only 34% complete. I was hoping for 70% at least because i do not have the money to study for two terms and that is probably what i would need to do considering i will have to complete 24 courses with WGU.

Is there a way to ask why the rest of the courses weren’t accepted ? Or should I opt for Study.com & take chances with that? Because I don’t understand why most of my transfer courses weren’t accepted