but something has changed either in me or in the users here. The level of idiocy and time wasting on such mundane and inconsequential things has gotten to me.
Agreed, and I am starting to feel the same as you. I love the MMM blog, but the forum is wearing down on me. Reading about women reusing cloth towels for wiping after number 1 (disgusting and unsanitary) etc. The information is interesting and new at first, but now it's just a circlejerk between holier than people trying to one-up each other about how much more extreme they are when it comes to being cheap frugal.
ha ha You were the only poster I found holier than thou on that thread.
I use tp but I don't think it's up to me to judge others who are trying to be kind to the environment. And yours was the ONLY nasty, judgmental comment on that thread.
Yeah, I was such a NASTY person for sticking up for the nice mother in law. So happy to see you come here and find me just to berate me. Get over yourselves, and thank you for proving my point.
BPA made three posts on this thread before yours. So he's stalking you? I'd be done with this forum too if I started with the perspective that everyone is a holier-than-thou jerk and that every post that I didn't agree with was a personal attack on my own lifestyle or decisions. Seriously, why are you the judge of others habits? If it doesn't affect you, then how can you get so upset over it?
Maybe you should consider your OWN online tone and how it causes others to react to you. Starting on the defensive is a terrible way to enjoy any online interaction. I would say YMMV, but that seems to be your exact mileage.
For the record, I was referring to a different post altogether. Believe it or not there are multiple people here who think not using toilet paper is the norm.
So what? Do you believe in online cooties?
Didn't realize you all were on the same team here. I don't look at the usernames and track each person's comments individually, I just read the text and respond, regardless of who's writing it. I only noticed that this guy was on the other post because he brought it up.
I don't know why you guys are saying things like I "attacked" the OP on the post. Once again, it sounded TO ME like she was attacking her MIL and was offended by her MIL's kindness. People, her MIL was gifting her toilet paper, paper towels, and aluminum foil, because she thought that was the nice thing to do for her new daughter in law. I must be the only person here with a kind mother who would be thoughtful enough to do the same. I felt like OP was unjustifiably talking bad about her MIL without thinking at all of the other person's position. But again, I'm the asshole for pointing this out. You're the 3rd of 4th person to tell me so. I guess that's what I get for going onto a forum about frugality and trying to stand up for such wasteful things like using a renewable resource in our daily lives.
I thought if I stopped commenting on that other thread, it would be done and people would get over it. Nope, moved along to a different thread and agreed with the OP and here you all are trying to point out how I'm "imposing my way of life on other people" because I think it's weird to not use toilet paper. I don't recall telling the OP she MUST use toilet paper, hell I didn't even suggest anything near to it. But I'll say it, OP should have shut up and graciously accepted the gift from her family member. You folks on this website and this forum are in the minority. Most people don't agree with what you (we) are doing. But treating other people like shit for not agreeing with you is not going to get people to see your point of view.
That being said, I'm out. I can't fucking stand the arrogance of people like you in real life, and I can't stand it online other. I'm going to go wipe my ass now with some TOILET PAPER and I sincerely hope that one of you is offended by it. Then I'm going to drive my happy ass to the store in my pickup truck and buy some more. If you're looking for me you can find me on reddit.com/r/frugaljerk. This post describes this forum perfectly:
http://www.reddit.com/r/frugaljerk/comments/1ctu1l/another_fat_cat_throwing_away_luxury_what_should/