You know, I used to do layout and design for a weekly trade paper for a living, and I can't figure out how that mistake could possibly happen unless someone copied the URL to send someone else, forgot, and pasted that one by mistake. And then no one checked the copy. Which, stupid. It should never have made it out of the office.

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You know what's funny, the no-money-talk philosophy is so deeply carved into my soul, I'm reading this entire conversation from the hall, even though I told my own salary (of course, it was 9 years ago).

When Teppy's salary specifically became a topic, I thought people were pretty gutsy to be speculating on whether she made more or less than they'd suspected, based just on her saying she was an editor and her friend made 3x as much. Now, I didn't skip over any posts intentionally, but I had to go back to see that you posted your salary at all, Tep. The only salary I remember is Allyson's and that's because she posted it first, so it struck me. Everyone else's is gone gone gone from my brain. I can't even tell you who else did post their own salary, even though I know lots of people did. My brain is refusing the information, with lots of harsh whispering like, "Cindy, that is NOT your business."

We can never, ever, ever retire.

Don't get me wrong. I am ridiculously comfortable. But when I look at my finances, I'm terrified: they depend completely on having two computer-industry salaries. Pretty fragile, that

I hear you, Betsy, and we're on one tech salary albeit from a Financial Services company.

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What bugs is the, "we'll/I'll pay." Just makes me feel like a leech.

Leeches do not drive to their friends' homes with Draino and macaroni & cheese simply because their friend needs it and can't go out and get it.

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I live in Nowhere, Maine and I have a roomie. If she moves to London as planned, it'll be $680 a month.

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I want to know where and how Lilty lives.

Not Lilty, but I'm pretty sure the answer is, "In Maine, with a roomie."

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Hee!

Verbatim. If I hadn't gone back and added the "Not Lilty" at the beginning, we might have been sharing a post number.

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And here I am, completely wanting to share mine and I figured out I'm not supposed to.

So. Vagueness and sliding sideways, my rent is $650 now and I'm currently without debt.

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Rent: $0 ($285 in utilities)

How's that work?

I've been thinking I may change it to just Lilty, though.

Oh, no, you'd lose the delightful contrast between the madcap lilt and the prosaic cash! Plus, it looks funny in Verdana.

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So, anyway, we're thinking pretty hard about moving, possibly building (straw bale!) so we'll need to up our salaries by about a grand a month.

If you do straw bale, I totally want to come out and help you because I want to learn how this is done. I'm fascinated by it. Or in other words, I'd be free labor.

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I can't figure out how that mistake could possibly happen

The company's name is Fairchild. I bet it's a .com vs. .net or .biz thing, or possibly their URL is something like fairchild-dresses.com and fairchild.com is porn. They should have checked the URL before they sent the ad out, but I can imagine situations where that wouldn't happen.

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Edit: Oops, I misread. Fairchild is one of the magazine publishers. The dress manufacturer is Studio 17. Here's adrants.com on the subject:

While no one's talking, we're guessing the URL may have been studio17.com (a redirect to [link] which is, most assuredly, a teen porn site. Very not safe for work.

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