Our generation got to hear all of our grandparents tell us, “Back in my day, we had to walk uphill both ways to school, in the snow, wearing canvas shoes . . . and we liked it it.” So . . . what will we tell our grandkids about?
Here are five of the most popular candidates for the “Back in my day” stories of pain and struggling we’ll pass on to our grandkids in 50 years . . . Read More »
I’ve never met a kid who didn’t love going to buy new back-to-school supplies. So naturally, it’s time for the media to put a major damper on things.
According to an organization called the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, school supplies are trying to poison your kids.
They tested backpacks, three-ring binders, lunchboxes, raincoats, and rain boots, and found 75% of them had elevated levels of chemicals called phthalates . . . which are used in plastics and are TOXIC.
They say the levels would be illegal if the school supplies were toys, where phthalate levels are more closely regulated.
The good news here is that even at this level, your child probably won’t suffer any effects. But if they’re putting their plastic school supplies in their mouth, the risk can increase.
The worst-case scenarios from overexposure to phthalates . . . which, again, probably will not happen . . . are liver damage and even cancer.
You’ve been out of high school long enough to look back on it honestly. Plus, as an adult, it’s lame for you to cling to those fantasies of being the coolest kid in school . . . instead of admitting you weren’t that cool.
A new survey asked people for a short description of themselves in high school . . . and loner actually came in first.
19% of people say they were a loner . . . 17% say they were cool or popular . . . 14% say they were a JOCK . . . 9% say they were a geek . . . and 9% say they were a class clown.
The survey also found the most common “bad” thing people did in high school was not doing their homework. Cutting classes came in second, and being late for school was third.
17% of people say they smoked in high school, 7% forged a parent’s signature, only 5% say they drank, and only 3% say they cheated on tests.
You always hear that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery. Check this out . . .
There’s a guy in Canada named Peter McCathie who survived getting hit by lightning when he was 14. It happened during a boat trip in Nova Scotia, while he was wading in a lake on a sunny day.
And now that he’s in his forties, he just won a million dollar lottery jackpot. The odds of getting struck by lightning in Canada are about one in a million. And the odds of winning the Lotto game he hit are one in 13,983,816.
Even weirder, Peter’s daughter was also struck by lightning a few years ago, while she was working as a wilderness guide. So the odds of all three things happening to the same guy are . . . one in 2.6 trillion.
Oh, Peter also owns the store where he bought the ticket. So he gets another $10,000 from the lottery commission.
He bought the $3 ticket with a co-worker, so they’re splitting the million. She’s going to Cancun . . . he’s planning a second honeymoon.
If you haven’t taken much time off this year, it might come back to bite you. Here are six signs it’s time to take a vacation day, or maybe even an actual vacation . . . Read More »
In the modern era of crazy vanity, it’s not enough to make sure your kid looks cool for the first day of school.
According to a new survey, the average mom spends $135 on back-to-school clothes . . . for herself.
That’s right. The average mom spends $135 on clothes, jewelry, shoes, or beauty treatments to make sure she looks good when she drops her kids off on the first day of school.
The survey also found that 7% of single moms say they dress up to go to the school because they’re hoping one of their kids has a handsome, single male teacher. 4% of single moms say they hope to meet single dads.
The owner of a Maine diner is not apologizing for yelling at a 2-year-old child for crying in her restaurant because it got the girl to be quiet.
Darla Neugebauer, owner of Marcy’s Diner in Portland, is suffering backlash on social media among people who say they’ll never eat at the restaurant again. Neugebauer wrote on Facebook that the girl had been crying for more than 40 minutes by the time she slammed her hands on the counter and told the girl to be quiet.
She said that the parents ordered three full-sized pancakes for the child but ignored her, and she claimed they didn’t feed her after the food arrived. “Life’s full of choices and you’ve got to live with all of them,” Neugebauer said. “I chose to yell at a kid, it made her shut-up, which made me happy, it made my staff happy, it made the 75 other people dining here happy, and they left, they may never come back, other people may not come in. Their loss really.”
Tara Carson, the mother of the child, wrote on Facebook that anyone with young children should understand that crying is normal after waiting such a long time for food. “I turned to my daughter and I was like ‘Listen, this is how I’m raising you not to be as an adult. Like, you will never be like this when you get older,’” Carson said. “I felt helpless as a mom that, you know, I couldn’t do anything to help her, because I can’t explain why there’s crazy people in this world that behave like that.”
Your appearance shouldn’t have anything to do with your job performance. But that clearly isn’t stopping you from worrying about it.
A new survey found one in three women think that if they don’t look their best at work, it affects their career.
The survey didn’t go into whether it actually does affect women’s careers, but still . . . there’s clearly an insane amount of pressure going on. Here are the other four things the study found . . .
1. One in 10 women have even called in SICK because of a bad hair day or a skin issue.
2. 21% have canceled plans with friends because they didn’t like how they looked that day.
3. 10% have canceled a date.
4. And 5% have hidden inside and refused to go out in public at all.
Most people would say there’s no “right” age to get married. You should do it when you find the person you love, and you’re both ready. Well . . . those people are well, wrong. There IS a right age to get married. And it’s 31.
A new study out of the University of Utah found that people who get married when they’re 31 have the lowest risk of divorce.
Basically, the odds of getting divorced are the highest if you get married in your early 20s. Then they go down about 11% every year after that, and bottom out at age 31.
But from age 32 on, your odds of getting divorced go UP about 5% every year. That’s pretty surprising, and the researchers say it’s a new trend that just started over the past two decades.
They’re also not exactly sure why it happens. Their best guess is that people who wait to get married might just not be marriage material, but they do it because they think they’re “supposed to” . . . and then it goes badly.
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