olivesandpoppies
French Canadian here:
Canadian Tire is like a hardware store that also has an auto Body Shop section, small appliances like air fryers, toasters, seasonal stuff like hunting crap, yard furniture, a lot of really junky looking things, sprinkled with like as seen on tv type garbage, with super long lines, even longer customer service lines, impossible to find employees, jam packed narrow aisles and a few toy aisles. Then they have disgusting hot dog carts out front and always the worst gardening section filled with dead plants.
Think of a lame hardware store (minus the wood) mixed with a 90s Walmart meets a Biway meets a As seen on tv meets a creepy toy store meets a going out of business auto shop. That’s why we call it Crappy Tire in Canada. They used to give you specific Canadian tire dollars like dollar bills with the Canadian tire mascot on them for years and then they got rid of that. They went to this really awful points system that would give you like one penny for like every hundred dollars you spend. Most people stopped shopping there right after that.
It’s very random and all my friends from outside of Canada who have visited and been into one have all had the same reaction “what the eff is this place?” If you wanna meet all the red hats of your town 🤮, or pay way too much for stuff while you walk through claustrophobia inducing aisles, then go. If not, avoid the panic attacks and sticky floors and shop anywhere else.
I think this is where the “the call is coming from inside the home” applies.
That Dana person and Mik person do that too. Like, we know about sitting and standing and how it affects clothes. It’s boring. A great influencer called her out on this crap years ago she’s an Italian plus sized woman but I don’t follow any influencers so I forget her name.
Even gymnasts when they tilt their waist they get a crease. When I was 100LBS I had a roll when I sat. It’s skin. It’s genetics. It’s called “bodies are not marble statues”. We should celebrate what our bodies do for us (run races, fight cancer, protest, volunteer, carry our kids, care for sick loved ones, survive trauma) but holy crap can we stop with the whole “I’m a regular store size I have rolls”. Almost everyone her age does (I do), and it’s okay but it’s also very unimportant. I’ve never looked at my partner coworkers, clients or friends and thought “ew those jeans look awful when they sit” but I have felt pain from wearing jeans like hers and life’s too short to buy shitty clothes made in a sweatshop in too small of a size.
Stop buying fast fashion Sarah, and stop pushing affiliate codes on people to buy high rise “strigid” bullshit jeans that LOOK like they hurt! Even in person she’s not plus sized, and she can definitely buy bigger stuff or stuff that doesn’t squeeze, pinch or hurt her body. I wear yoga pants or leggings and comfy dresses, and if something doesn’t fit I get it tailored, take it in myself or give it to a friend. But when people say size up and she says the waist gaps, then WHY IS SHE PUSHING CODES FOR “amazing” JEANS THAT ARE BAD JEANS ALL THE TIME?
To be frank, if she spent more time focused on :
- Worrying about the bodies and mental health of women in Sudan, Ukraine, DRC and Palestine ,
- The body autonomy of women and trans kids being threatened around the world,
- Stopping partnerships with problematic brands that are anti body autonomy and misogynistic
- Recognizing her extreme privilege to have tattooed eyebrows, fake long blonde hair and procedures as upkeep (on top of two homes, $$$, white privilege) ,
Then maybe she’d stop caring about her vessel! Almost ALL of my friends bodies (who have had kids or not) look exactly like this at 40+. We are NOT out here focusing on our bodies, but we are actively calling out people like her who give us 40+ crowd a bad rep of being vapid consumers stuck in egotistical high school mentality. Also, my friends who work out, compete and train for things have super kickass physical bodies but they are OLDER! Nobody looks the same as they age. And maybe I just have a better family or friends who don’t talk about our bodies, and she’s stuck with an unsupportive spouse, family and friends who let her make this her “thing” but they really do need to tell her she’s fine, it’s a body, it’s nothing worth singling out, and that she could be more and know her worth without a focus on her vessel.
Omg!!! I saw a bunch shoved in a deck box bin (I was buying bins/storage) in seasonal !!! I was looking in them to see if it (deck box) was watertight when I saw them. So this leads me to believe a fellow snarker lives where I live 😂 (or someone wants to store them for when they are marked down?) I left them where they were.
Just buy from Aisle (periodaisle on IG) . They are awesome. They started the business in 1993 and were Luna pads back then. They’ve been in the business 30 years and can’t compete with companies like Kn*x but they are superior in every way. They’ve done incredible things and you can read about them at www.periodaisle.com . It’s a company that needs saving and deserves recognition for coming before its copycat companies.