Baby boomers don’t seem to realize the value of a $20
I’ll use my parents: let’s say they were born in 1960, near the tail end of the baby boomer era. In 1980, they use $20 to buy their essientials like groceries and paying bills. That’s fine.
Skip ahead to me. I was 20 in 2014. Let me show you how little their $20 is actually worth because of inflation.
$6.65.
6 dollars and freaking 65 cents.
There’s not much you can buy if you’re trying to shop like a “regular” person and not just penny pinch, bragain hunt, or want to eat semi decently (so avoiding the cardboard known as “great value” and avoiding mcD $1, $2, $3 and $5 menu).
$20 in the 1980s was worth something. Now, it ain’t shit.
The older generation needs to stop forgetting this thing known as inflation
The other day at the mall i saw a 15 year old sitting in a Claire’s piercing booth and it took every fiber in my being to not just grab her and take her to the actual, clean and sanitary and not guaranteed to fuck up your ears tattoo shop literally next door. Like I was frantic. Snakes manifested in my house
Piercing guns almost ALWAYS cause infections
They hurt more because they jam dull jewelry into your ear
Needles from a professional are designed to allow for minimum damage thus less pain.
The people working there literally have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and just guess it with a 1 hour training video vs a professional who trained under a mentor for at least a year and has a passion in the craft
They use bad metal for healings (copper, silver, etc) that can irritate ears. Surgical grade steel should be the only thing in your healing piercings
They put them on way to tight, causing swelling issues. Swelling is normal and piercings should be large enough to allow for that
They give you shit aftercare advice and cleaner (literally just buy saline solution at Spencer’s or hot topic for 8 dollars at the most and don’t touch them at all)
If done on cartilage it can LITERALLY SHATTER YOUR EARS
Please if any young girls in your family want their ears pierced take them to actual professional and don’t trust piercing guns. If a professional says your kid is too young (I.e a fucking baby) then trust their professional judgement. It costs more but you are getting essentially a art piece from a highly trained professional who knows what they’re doing vs a part time min wage employee who had 1 hour training on how to pierce ears.
I literally wrote an entire essay in college why piercing guns should be banned with pictures and my professor told me she was so interested in my topic and had no idea and even googled the topic herself out of curiosity and was horrified on the amount of damage they case
I am a licensed piercing professional and this is all sound and accurate advice. Get your piercings done by a licensed professional at a reputable shop. Not at the mall kiosk that uses piercing guns. Not by your friend who ordered a kit off of Amazon.
Association of Professional Piercers Aftercare Guide:
I refused to get any of my kids’ ears pierced until they would be able to make the decision for themselves. I can’t tell you how many people gave me shit for not taking them to a walmart kiosk or the mall to get them done. I nearly came to blows with my ex-mother in law over my refusal to get my eldest’s ears pierced that way.
My eldest daughter asked why her ears aren’t pierced yet, and I explained that I wanted to give her the choice, because I was taken to a Claire’s at about 11 years old, and had them done with a gun. Which hurt so much, I didn’t want her to be in pain like I was. I promised her that if she wanted them done later in life, I would take her to the piercing parlor and hold her hand if she needed it.
I didn’t tell her that my mother and the sales associates held me down to do it, or that it took about 3 years for my ears to stop seeping fluids (not counting the scars around the piercings, or my metal allergy that started after I got them done.)
Don’t fucking do that shit to your kids, especially little babies, I heard one person say that they wanted to get their newborn’s ears pierced at the mall, and I had to leave the area before I was arrested for stealing the baby away like the Evil Witch everyone thought I was to raise her as my own.
though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita.
Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.
“Why should the coast’s vote count more?” BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY A DEMOCRACY.
…..men always quiz me when i claim to like something they like too. cause in their minds i’m either a.) lying to appeal to them/gain their approval or b.) only capable of having a superficial understanding of the subject and they need to “expose” me
i’m back at my ancestral home (lowe’s) and I just watched a very burly man in a lot of flannel carry a potted orchid SO TENDERLY across the parking lot
A sentence that starts with “i’m back at my ancestral home (lowe’s)” has to work really hard to make the end of that sentence equally as amazing and by god you’ve done it
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