If that’s accurate, you’re only out your premiums. But do they put $7500 in your HSA, or is their employer contribution to premiums $7500?
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Good question, they put $7500 in the HSA.
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Okay so follow up question is do they contribute to premiums at all?
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Yeah! My out of pocket for premiums would be about $100 for our family of 3. The other option is a regular PPO that would be $300 out of pocket for premiums.
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Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
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I don’t blame you for thinking there’s a catch 
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This seems fake.
I thought things were good with Husband’s plan where he pays $57 in premiums and his work puts in $25 into the HSA every 2 weeks.
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For me and my kids, my health insurance premium is $106/pay period, and my company contributes $2000/yr to my HSA.
Not quite as amazing as yours, but still very generous. $7.5k a year into your HSA is so awesome!
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Bra-wearers, especially those with band sizes >40 and cup size <DD, where are we getting bras?
Based on some target experimentation I think I’m about a 42Cish (40 C too small in all areas, 40D tight band correct cups, 42 D good band slightly gaping cups), which is not a common size in store. I also maybe have high shoulders? Or low boobs? Straps completely loosened sometimes still dig in. I also hate underwires like crazy.
I’ve generally resorted to band extenders but they tend to make the straps sit too wide in the back and then they fall off my shoulders constantly.
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This is perhaps more philosophical of a question than this thread is geared to, but…
Have you ever felt like you are in a holding pattern, waiting for your real life to start? Like things you are doing are building up to something, and once that something happens, then you'll actually be living? How did you stop feeling that way and live your actual life?
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Ugh. Bras are so inconsistent in cup design and strap positioning. I wear sports bras almost all of the time. I like racer backs to keep the straps from sliding down my shoulders. Right now a lot of there have floating foam pads in the cup area - these somehow will float out of the small access hole, or fold and migrate somewhere weird within the bra. But the cups do mitigate the uniboob issue from some sports bras). Puma sports bras are working well, I can get them cheap at Costco (online, maybe in store).
I used to wear underwires, some were okay, some were uncomfortable and became “emergency” bras (when everything else was dirty). Eventually all of them had a wire poke through, then I pulled the wires out and wore then as wireless.
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I don’t even care about uniboob, I just want my underboob to not stick to the skin under my underboob and to not be wildly uncomfortable.
I hate the floating pads. Why even bother. Just sew them in or don’t include them!!!
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I struggle with this on and off. Usually for me, it means something is unbalanced in my life and it’s a cue to address it. That sounds like I am good at that, but it can take a hot minute to get to the point of actually making changes.
How to combat it when you can’t make changes/changes are long term, Oro’s experience:
- Be observant. Go on walks and look for little bugs or interesting leaves or pretty clouds. No music, no podcasts, just paying attention.
- Write in a journal every morning, by hand
- Be a little silly. Add googly eyes to things, or decorate your food goofy, or send weird pictures to friends.
UG I should do these things.
ETA: basically, root yourself. You are here. You are now. This is your life. Pay attention in little ways, and it’ll help you pay attention in bigger ones.
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Oh hi! This is me right now.
I have tried a few things:
- I try to not talk about work outside of work anymore. Work isn’t fulfilling me right now so more talking about it doesn’t bring me joy!
- I’m trying to focus on positive things in my life and talk and think about them. Even little things like a new word my kid learns or a cute skill.
- I am trying to be more silly. Both with kiddo and with husband. Like flicking water at husband while doing the dishes or scaring him as he enters a room, or randomly demanding more kisses. Trying to laugh more even if it feels forced at first.
- lots of the 5 things I see, 4 things I hear, 3 things I feel meditations to bring me into the current space
- limiting dreaming or talking about the future unless it feels helpful. More focusing right now and trying to set our evening conversations around “what is something you loved about today, what are you looking forward to this week, what did you struggle with today, what are you nervous for this week” and limiting the timeframe of conversations.
- trying to plan one reason to leave the house in each weekend day. Even if it’s just to a park. Or bringing a new activity to do with the family
- changing my scrolling time to physical puzzle books. My brain is mush right now but word searches have been the right level of engagement for my brain. Bonus when kiddo comes up and wants to “help” and draws all over the page.
- husband and I have started telling eachother what we really appreciate about the other right before bed. Something as simple as “thanks for doing the dishwasher today or making me smile with X thing, etc” to notice the small daily work we both put in to making the house run
I’m not there perfectly yet but these small things have helped.
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I really like this and it would bonus, improve a connection that I feel is lagging right now just because our quality time, aka after baby’s bedtime, is shorter rn because I basically go to bed right away lol
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yeahhhh nature. who is she?? I miss her
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I think it floats so you can position it where you want it (or need it). This will go out of style. Or you can pull the pads out. I have some without pads because one pad had escaped to Narnia.
I have found that Fabletics sports bras do no not work for me (not tight enough across my chest while the band is plenty tight, and the fabric is slippery so things were sliding and moving around), and Champion sports bra (one style) didn’t work (plenty tight enough, but that forced boobs to the middle so uniboob, but then sweaty cleavage).
You can always try going to a place for a professional bra fitting, but I am not sure that those help you with other (cheaper) brands.
For those of you that make broth, how do you store it?
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Plastic deli containers from takeout. Easy to measure that way too as the standard sizes hold standard amts.
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Then freeze?
I use mine immediately for soup, otherwise I freeze it.
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