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Everything’s okay since I changed the name over there to my store name rather than my first and last. Just checked and none of my listings are showing up anymore when I google my name, but thanks for the tip.
If the watcher who purchased from the offer you sent originally clicked on your listing through Ebay’s promotion of it, you’ll be charged the PL fee.
So sorry to hear about your Dad’s passing. It’s good that you were with him and are able to be there with your Mom.
A: The traditional pronunciation of “-lived” in a compound is with a long “i,” but current dictionaries say the vowel can now be either long (as in the noun “life”) or short (as in the verb “live”).
Just looked it up after reading your post. I heard Alex Trebek pronounce it with a long i on Jeopardy once and was astounded. I know he NEVER gets anything wrong and I’d always pronounced it with a short one. Sounds like both are now considered acceptable.
I opened this topic expecting sentimentality. Instead, I got sh*t!
Great story! I remember a similar scenario when car pooling some kids home from school back in the day.
I know nothing, but just wanted to say How Freakin’ Cool!!!!!
Good luck with your cache!
Great idea to change your first and last name to the store name. I just used an alias with the same initials as my real name, but I think I’ll change it again and do what you did.
I just googled my name(s) again to see if my store showed up any more and it’s already gone, at least from the first page.
Never noticed the label thing. I’ve only sold a few things on Poshmark so far, but I’m really just getting started there. I’ll take a look if/when I sell my next item.
Thanks for the name change suggestion.
Some friends and I rented a house on the beach in SC last year. There were white towels, washcloths and bedding, but they also had dark colored washcloths and had a note asking you to use those for makeup removal.
As an aside, if there’s going to be college debt, it should be the student’s debt, not the parents’. Student has the rest of his/her life to pay it off. Parents should focus on paying down their own debt and funding retirement accounts. If there’s money left over and they want to help student pay back debt after college they can, but they shouldn’t be on the hook for it.
I have three kids who all graduated from college. We live in a fairly affluent town in New England where people are college snobs, but neither my husband or I came from that background (we grew up in Chicago/suburban Chicago).
Husband went to community college for two years and then a state school in Illinois to complete undergrad. Went on to have a financially successful career which allowed me to be a SAHM (my choice) and him to retire at 60.
We told our kids that we’d pay (most) of the cost for them to attend a state school and if they wanted to go out of state, they’d have to take out loans for the difference. See the world on your own dime when you’re finished with school. All (and I mean all) of their peers went to out of state schools. Mine chose state schools. We told them they’d be financially responsible for half of their meal plan as well as books and spending money. Wanted them to have skin in the game.
Also told them that we’d give them a 50% kickback for any scholarship money they earned which lowered our out-of-pocket costs. Oldest got into Honors Program and had free tuition for four years. Middle got a small amount of scholarship money. Youngest got some scholarship money and was an RA for two years which covered room and board.
They all worked full time every summer as well as part time on campus during school year to cover their financial responsibilities.
They all graduated with no debt. Our grand total out of pocket for the three of them combined was somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000. They’ve all been gainfully employed since graduation.
Middle son is now 30 and will get his graduate degree from Harvard next week. He took most classes on line and commuted two hours each way to Cambridge for a few. Worked full time the entire time taking one class each semester (6 years). His total out of pocket cost for the Harvard graduate degree will be $6,000. Two different employers covered the rest.
Oldest (daughter) is currently working full time while getting her MLIS graduate degree online from Kent State. She’ll graduate in December and the library where she works is paying 90% of her graduate tuition/fees.
Youngest son is successfully pursuing his passion in music working at a recording studio in NYC. That career started with getting an internship foot in the door that was directly related to an on campus job he held (nothing to do with his degree).
I’m not at all sure that the university environment today promotes a whole lot of maturation. IMO, it’s more like a four (or five or six) year suspension of real life responsibilities.
Just say no to college debt.
Haven’t researched it in a long time, but there used to be no way to get a signature on international shipments unless you used Priority Mail Express, which is generally cost-prohibitive.
Think I fixed it. In your Poshmark profile, it asks for both your store name and your real name. Apparently that profile info is public. Changed my “real name” in the profile to an alias. Hopefully, except for cached stuff, that’ll stop it from happening.
