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A cleaner home in a matter of minutes.
When the Work From Home era began, many of us got excited at the possibility of being able to maybe, juuuust maybe, keep our home a little cleaner by doing some sprucing up in between productivity sprints. But alas, reality has set in.
Instead, there’s the constant distraction of messes that need to be cleaned up, items that aren’t where they should be, piles upon piles of stuff that seem to appear out of nowhere. All of this goes double for WFH folks with kids.
And being more aware of clutter is no doubt one of the main reasons why cleaning hacks are all the rage on social media. Besides the fact that there’s just something so primally satisfying about watching stain removal.
One super easy hack, created by a mom and therapist who goes by @aestetically_ally_ on TikTok, is being hailed as the “ultimate” decluttering method, particularly for moms. (But really, this could work for anyone).
"It hit me really hard."
A father of 2 who recently sent his last child off to college had the new reality hit him like a ton of bricks while visiting the supermarket. The realization came when he saw parents picking out Halloween pumpkins with their kids and he was at the store alone.
“I used to pick out pumpkins with my kids,” Jeff Pearlman said on TikTok. “And I'm here and I see dads and moms with their kids in the cart and it used to be me with my kids in the cart. And, it actually hit me really hard, that the house is empty and little things that you take for granted as a parent. Taking your kids to the supermarket.”
The future is bright!
Victoria Lamar founded Securing Degrees when she was just 18 years old, to help other students be able to go to college debt-free.
She was raised by a single mother who instilled the importance of pursuing a higher education but knew early on the financial challenges of it. By the time she graduated high school, she had secured about $3 million in scholarships and offers.
Since then, Securing Degrees has helped over 4,500 families secure over $25 million in scholarship funding.
Victoria’s dedication to helping others is why she’s the Taco Bell Foundation’s 2024 Ambition Accelerator recipient. In partnership with Ashoka Change Makers, the program supports young people with bold ideas for creating positive change in their communities.
Learn more at TacoBellFoundation.org
Another “passenger behaving badly” story takes a huge twist.
User u/takeme2themtns recently shared a nightmare travel story in the r/Delta subreddit:
Stories of "entitled parents" desperately trying to get other passengers to switch seats go viral all the time. But a recent thread on Reddit shows why we don't always get the full story.
"In typical Delta fashion, they just switched up our seats and placed my toddler in a row away from us," they wrote. "Booked three seats ... in comfort plus months ago. Now, several hours before the flight we get notifications that our seats have changed. They put wife and me in exit row seats and the toddler in a window seat a row away."
With no way to fix the seating snafu digitally, the OP would have to rely on the Gate Attendant or even Flight Attendant to make a last-minute change — which would force someone else on the plane to move.