Managing Our Mom’s Estate: A Home for Everything
After our mom passed, my sister and I worked together for months to find a home for all her possessions. We kept, we sold, we donated, and we hosted a “Free Sale” anf this is our experience.
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Finding Humanity at the Polls
After the 2016 election, I felt I needed to do something to ensure voting in our country remained fair, accessible, and secure. I went to Google to see how to volunteer to work at the polls, and found a link where I could apply to be an election judge in my county. I was accepted…
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What is a Grown-ass Woman?
Here on Wardrobe Oxygen, I often share real-life style advice for grown-ass women. What is a grown-ass woman? I often get this question and wanted to explain what the term means and why I choose to use it for Wardrobe Oxygen. What is Wardrobe Oxygen? I have been sharing real-life style advice on Wardrobe Oxygen…
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How to Make Your Facebook Account More Secure
I launched a private Facebook group for the Wardrobe Oxygen community. While I have managed many Facebook pages, I have never built or administrated a group before. The information provided to an admin when requesting membership to a Facebook group floored me… but then I realized the information I am provided isn’t much different from…
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Stressing About The Latest Trend Makes You Look Old
There I said it. All of you folks stressing about how to part your hair and whether you should part with your tan suede ankle booties? You look incredibly out of touch. Stressing about the latest trend makes you look old. Don’t let these so-called style experts make you look old with their marketing ploys….
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What is your Why? Turning a Rant into a Resource
As a blogger, I write about brands, topics, and styles that don’t always appeal to everyone. Heck, nothing I write EVER appeals to everyone; it’s impossible to please all the people all of the time. Believe me, over the past 19 years as a blogger, I have tried to please everyone and failed. And that’s…
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I Call Bullsh*t On Celebrity Menopause Brands
I am so effing OVER celebrity brands. We grew up with C-list actors on late-night infomercials and familiar faces from previous decades shilling long-term care insurance. Then a few industrious famous folk created products or added their name to products sold on QVC and HSN. Sometimes these celebrities created the actual products; more often than…
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How to Maintain Style As We Age
You know how folks say they got it from their mama? Well, for me, my passion for personal style is what I got from mine. My mom grew up without much, learned how to sew to be able to find clothes that fit her body and budget as a 20-something, and as a middle-class mom…
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Let’s Discuss Fashion Trends for Grown-ass Women
At the beginning of every season, I receive a lot of emails, DMs, and comments asking how to wear certain fashion trends. These questions come from those who are like me, shaped like an average woman in the United States but these trends seem to only be modeled on those who are taller, slimmer, flatter,…
