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@monkeym24 Today I saw a house with one of those graduate lawn signs for a preschooler and thought that's a little excessive. We have a 5th grader moving to middle school and an 8th grader moving to high school. They call them promotion ceremonies, and there are no caps & gowns. The...

@firsthandsemiuniversalist They do make a lot of money! Our middle school PTO uses the lawn signs as a fundraiser - $25 for a sign, which pays for the 8th grade class trip, semiformal dance, and last day of school breakfast. We got the sign for our kid because we didn't want her to be the...

@freddie11 In the US in a public school, the physical contact would result in a suspension if corroborated by other students, witnessed by staff, or if the attacker admitted to it. Whether it would be an in-school or out of school suspension would depend on a number of factors, including if the...

@jjhyt7 Just paid $600+ for our dog - it included the year's supply of Heartgard Plus and Bravecto and three vaccine boosters (bordatella, Lyme, lepto), but it was still a hit to the pocketbook. Our vet requires running a heartworm test and checking for tick-borne diseases at every annual...

@sunflower232 When we had one or both kids in daycare in our HCOL area, we lived paycheck to paycheck and put emergencies on credit cards because every time we climbed out of debt something else went wrong. We weren't going on nice vacations (or any vacations), out to eat, etc. We didn't (and...