RED FLAGS THAT MIGHT MEAN YOUR FRIEND ISN’T HAPPY FOR YOU
When you have a personal win, you want to share it with your friends. But everyone doesn’t always seem as happy for your successes. Here are a few things to watch out for the next time you’re excitedly telling your friends about your latest win:
- They change the subject quickly
- They downplay your accomplishment
- It feels like they’re competing with you
- Backhanded compliments
- They don’t celebrate your successes
- It seems like they’re only there when you’re having a bad time
- They’re outright negative about your successes
- They don’t like talking about your achievements in public
- For every win you share, they mirror it with one of their own
- When you need them most, they’re nowhere to be found
Things Younger Generations Will Never Get
Many Y2K trends are back, especially when it comes to fashion. But there are some trends from the ‘90s and early ‘00s that would totally blow the minds of those under the age of 25.
- "Downloading music off Limewire to iTunes, running to Walmart while it downloads, buying blank CDs, and burning them once it’s downloaded. Then, thinking of a cool name for your new CD."
- "Playing literally one video game for the entire summer, no online walkthroughs. If you wanted a hint, you needed to buy a paper guidebook, hope your friend knew the tricks, or call a 900 number for help."
- "Not just having a landline, but SHARING a landline."
- “Buying ringtones”
- "Chain emails: I'd be so embarrassed to do that today..."
- "Having to wait a week for 10 photos to be processed and printed."
- "If you missed a new episode of a TV show, you just missed it."
- "Waiting for songs to come on the radio so you could record them on a cassette tape, and getting mad if the DJ talked over the intro. Kids today will never know the struggle of timing it perfectly and still ending up with the DJ’s voice at the beginning."
- “The simple act of being bored while waiting in a doctor's office, traveling, or attending family parties, etc."
How To Eat Well On A Budget
- Snag a $5 mystery dinner: Apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help you score a surprise bag of groceries worth $30 for just a few bucks. The only catch? You’ll need to pick it up fast, so be ready to dash out the door when the alert comes in.
- Take a free cooking class
- Make friends with your freezer: Buy items like meat, bread, and even milk in bulk when they’re on sale, then freeze what you can’t use right away. Pro tip: freeze herbs in olive oil in ice cube trays for instant flavor boosts in soups and pasta.
- Volunteer your way to free produce: Groups like the Society of St. Andrew organize “gleaning” crews, where volunteers harvest leftover crops from farms. You get to keep some of the bounty while the rest goes to local food banks.
- Pick up a rotisserie chicken: It’s already cooked, tasty, and versatile enough to stretch into several meals.
- Soup it up: Soups are budget superheroes because they turn simple, cheap ingredients into hearty, nutritious meals. Toss in beans, grains, and seasonal veggies.
- Shop at the right time. Grocery stores often mark down bakery items, meats, and produce at specific times of day; sometimes slashing prices by 30-percent or more.
- Host potluck nights.
Second Date Update: Declan calls us about Soraya. They met on Bumble and decided to walk through Golden Gate Park together. They even grabbed some dumplings afterward at one of his favorite hole-in-the-wall places. It was simple, but he thought it was romantic. Soraya has disappeared and he needs our help to figure out what happened.
