It’s not super obscure or anything, but I want Vocaloid to get more love. Especially non-Miku voices.
okasen
joined 1 year ago
queerness intensifies
That's a good plan, it might be tricky with international transfers... but maybe I can set my mom up as a "collection point" and have her transfer money to me once it's been gifted. Though I might be overreacting about international-ness, I WILL be there in March to celebrate baby and I can just deal with American Currency Issues then.
That's a good point on internet literacy. I do have some older relatives who might not be able to figure out the weirder list sites. Or, geez, international money transfer...
I will consider starting a parent group! I'm 100% awful at reliably checking in (As evidenced by my responding to everything here a week later) but I don't mind modding really.
Haha fair enough on picking battles... I'm already prepping for how the heck I'll ensure they're well educated. I work from home, and I work a 4 day week, but even then I think my dream of home education would end me.
Yessss cloth diapering. I've been working on sewing some even (including for years before I was pregnant) because I'm extra and ridiculous. But I haven't found a local diaper service... might be smart. We don't have a tumble dryer, so everything line dries, and while sun is good for stains and disinfecting and it will be Summer... it won't be summer forever, and pulling a frozen nappy off the clothes line will only be funny once. Or twice.
God I'm so afraid of (inevitably) becoming consumerist. Even if I'm 100% prepared for the Needs, there will be a tenth, hundredth, millionth time a kid just Wants something and I will not be able to say no lol
Oh trust me, I have long since infiltrated my buy nothing groups. But duly noted regardless, because I need to start utilizing them more! And thanks for the advice on checking about recalls, I hadn't thought of that!
Oooh I like the friends taking on a role of gift..... gatekeeper? Because on one hand, it lets me maintain the surprise, but also my friends are based where most of the gift-senders would be (The US) and it'll be way easier for them to text a fellow American than god forbid texting the UK at international rates.
I also like this idea of approved companies/websites. Thank you!
That's a really good point on donating, nothing like Baby's First Charitable Donation.
I had admittedly completely forgot about birthdays and christmas. Oops. Yeah this is gonna be a long task, isn't it?
Also, thank you! And duly duly noted. I feel one step ahead now, because I also have no idea what I'm doing!
I like the "ask for advice" idea. I can ALWAYS use more advice (and it's way easier to dispose of when it's junk....)
I do hear you on not wanting to rob people of giving, it's a nice feeling and I don't want to suck the joy out of this experience for other people just for my personal Amazonian battles. I'm wondering if giving a nice card gives people the same level of joy (it does for me on both giving and receiving, anyways).
And yeah, that's fair about it being hard to beat Amazon 100%. I figure it's an uphill battle but I can at least sisyphus my way up a way meters.
I’d be down but I require my own personal bucket of thumb drives