This behavior infuriates me. Most of the people on this page were and are current military spouses.
Why must they constantly degrade each other?
Why must they spend so much stinking time complaining about each other and finding new ways to judge each other?
Don’t they have anything better to do with their time?
And seriously, purses? PURSES?
Of all the things we could find to complain about the military lifestyle, you have to settle on purses?
To borrow a phrase from the highly motivating Lee Ermey, “What is your major malfunction?” Somebody forgot to take her chill pill this morning and it’s really helping her to show her behind.
Sometimes I just want to grab people up when I see these kinds of “debates” going on and point them in the direction of something worthy of their precious energy.
Some of these people will fight to the bitter death of their friendships over the STUPIDEST things, and for what?
At the end of the day, does it really matter if Suzy down the street sticks her kid’s diapers in a bag made out of old uniforms?
Is it really going to end world hunger or violence in the Ukraine to belittle the young e2’s wife who just proudly sewed an old nametape, by hand, onto her purse?
Do you really have anything to gain by playing “Mean Girls” on the internet?
Ugh.
As for my cammie purse- I haven’t carried it in about five years. A box got lost during one of our TMO moves, which included the purse, some keepsakes from Japan, a framed photo of me with my dad (which was the only one I possessed, and he has since passed) and my daughter’s first pair of shoes. It was kept in that particular box because of how dear it was to me.
It was made by hand out of a set of cammies my husband had worn to Iraq, three times, by a well-loved friend.
The purse was more than just an overly motivated accessory, which is sometimes all I think those “military spouses” were.
Except a purse doesn’t judge.
I miss that name tape purse.
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