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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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My wife and I did a quick courthouse thing because I got a new job and she needed health insurance. The plan was to do an actual wedding of some kind a year or two later but COVID and a bunch of other stuff happened so it's been on the back burner. I think we're looking at a 10 year thing now, which is nice because it's given us a lot of time to think about guest lists and such.
We have a pretty decent amount of friends we want to invite, I think we're in the ballpark of around 30
Some of those are gonna have +1s, so that gets us up to around 50 or 60
Then we have parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. and some of them have +1s, depending on the size and relationship you have with your family, that can make things balloon really quickly.
And if you're able to budget for it, it can be advantageous to invite as many people as you can, money and other wedding gifts can add up pretty substantially. That's not a major factor in our guest list, but for a young couple, maybe looking to buy a house and have kids or whatever, that can be huge.