But ngl that $50 feels like less of a pain in the ass than clearing my car off to commute to my old job would have been.

my old job where the plow company never came on time and the staff would have to shovel half the parking lot ourselves so we could get wheelchairs from the van to the front door

the problem with not needing to clear the snow off my car is that i forget its there and also forget that things like Snow Emergencies exist.

And that, kids, is how you get a citation for not moving your car for the plows. because you forgot it was out there and would be in the way.

just unfollowed someone on tumblr because they wanted to find the person who painted a nice dresser so they could scold them for making it look goth as hell in the coolest way.

fuck off, there’s nothing wrong with that piece of furniture being a color besides a-brown-that-wood-never-actually-was.

I just want to look at furniture that doesn’t have a hideously outdated shade of stain, bro.

I just want fun colors, or at the very least I want real furniture that sorta matches that isn’t made from mdf, without having to buy a 5 piece set for $600+ each.

are don’t-paint-wood snob operating under the impression that someday some rich antique collector will stumble across their home furniture at their future estate sale, and they will become posthumously become a ten-thousandaire?

I don’t hold some fantasy about making a profit off a thrift store antique no one saw the potential (or makers stamp) for.

I am not going to be carting furniture to multiple antique dealers trying to find someone to pay me good value for it.

you can quote me prices that antiques in good-shape go for and I will be mildly impressed but not care.

why do I care if it has a $8,000 value? No one will ever pay ME 8k for it, no matter how pristinely ugly I keep it

grandma’s china hutch is not inherently worthy of respect just because it’s old.
If it’s ugly no one wants it, and it gets ditched.
But if the hippie relative paints stars all over it, it gets used and enjoyed and stays in the family.

but GOD FORBID anyone paint it a cool color and make it into a not-ugly piece of furniture they will want to use, and keep looking nice so they can use it for many years to come.

but most ppl dont have the time money skill or workspace to do that

no, it’s gonna end up sold to some college kid on Marketplace for $30 and be covered with water rings from beer cans by the end of the semester.

these ppl dream that the antique is going to end up in the hands of someone who will diligently strip and refinish the whole thing with a color of stain that doesn’t scream 1976.

They pretend they might be that someon.

painting a restored old dresser with cool carvings black for a awesome goth look is a sin! if you are a Millenial and not-rich, nothing but boring IKEA flat-pack for you! all your furniture must be featureless boxes!

really enjoying the first snowfall of winter because I didn’t have to scrape ice off my car windshield and commute alongside people who forgot how to drive in the snow

my laptop did a weird thing last week and I slightly freaked thinking it was like dead-dead. My boss offered to buy me a replacement laptop, no questions asked.

it was fixed with a reboot and shouldn’t happen again but wow… this is what being a valued employee feels like

many months later, this girl is now 55 lbs and still has her adorable puppy face

(also, Crabtree & Evelyn’s Edamame Rice and Bamboo lotion)

but like… it’s not gossip about Friend 2, it’s just anecdotes about my life I am telling that include Friend 2 and give a lot of insight into that friend’s personality. and Friend 1 is the type to say the quiet part out loud when they think they have insight into another person.