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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 5h

It's like you were here!

Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 5h

I think I'll be okay, thanks. I am pretty cut up and I got a good smack on the head but I'm just now processing it because my first priority was to frantically clean up all the glass. I didn't get my tea, either.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly, a little bit, yeah. I also have no mugs or bowls.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 6h

If you don't like me, I have a gift for you:

I reached to a top shelf for a tea mug and the front shelf supports broke sending all my mugs, bowls, and a few glasses down onto my head before shattering all over the counter and the floor. Thank God I was also barefoot and have stupidly curious cats.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 8h

I wouldn't have responded but Deer asked what people thought. I'm just a poor ass white chick with no network. I also give money to an Indigenous Christmas drive which is totally separate from Toys 4 Tots. That money also ends up in Walmart's hands. Idk how there's a right answer in our system.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 8h

My son is grown but this year, like every other year, we'll buy a couple toys at Walmart (which we can't afford) and we'll drop them in the donation box so a Trump voter's child isn't punished for something that is not their fault. That's my whole take and I'll leave it at that.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 8h

the rich kids. This affected him and his siblings so much that he got teary-eyed as a 50 year old man while telling me this story. I won't ever advocate for causing permanent psychological harm to children. Where I live, big box stores are it. Even if they weren't, most other things cost too much.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 8h

I'm very biased about this because my dad grew up poor, like depression era poor. Sometimes they lived in dilapidated old buildings provided by the railroad company which made them luckier than a lot of people. My dad hated Santa because he couldn't understand why Santa brought all the gifts to...

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 9h

I agree. A lot of families are losing SNAP for November (at least) and I think compounding that with "Santa hates you because he's boycotting Dollar Tree" just sounds like a pile of misery.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 10h

I have 2 sets! I also have Teaberry and Chiclet. (Baby pics because they currently never hold still). When in doubt, I check their back feet. Chiclet has a gray blotch. We call it her Chiclet foot.

Twin sister gray cats. Chiclet is strangling Teaberry just a little bit.

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 10h

I did not!

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 20h

❤️

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Nettie Bergin @nettie.bsky.social · 20h

I do!

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