When you’re a baby, and your parents welcome another baby, it can be tricky. Sometimes it’s hard to understand that all the attention is no longer just on you. Moms and dads often have to tread lightly when it comes to that first meeting of new siblings because you never know what might happen. We stumbled across a viral video of a big sister meeting her brother for the first time, and the reaction is one of the best I have ever seen. The tiny tot’s mom holds her as her dad brings the baby boy over for an introduction. The little girl positively squeals with joy during the first meeting. @djpv.5 She loves him so much! • • #bigsister #babytok #babyfever #babytiktok #christianfamily ♬ original sound – Djpv5 This Big Sister Adores Her Baby Brother The big sister doesn’t say a word, but her smiles, laughs, and chirps let us all know just how much she loves her new baby brother. This kind of excitement is the kind that parents want to bottle and remember forever. The look on her mom and dad’s faces is one of happiness and relief. It’s easy to see that these siblings are true besties in the making. The baby girl’s joy brought joy to millions of other people. The video has 15.3 million views and nearly 40,000 comments. People fell in love with this big sister and her baby brother. Many think this meeting was just a reunion for two old souls. “Oh baby she knew him before y’all did,” someone wrote .”She couldn’t wait to see him again.” “You can just tell by her laugh that that is two souls reuniting, and happy to see each other again,” another person agreed. This person knows that these sibs will be thick as thieves. “I can’t prove it yet but they aren’t to be trusted together,” they wrote. This story’s featured image can be found here.

When it comes to pizza, there are lots of options. For some people, the best part of the pizza is the toppings, cheese, and sauce. Others believe a perfect pizza must have a delectable crust. No matter which team you’re on, can you really go wrong? Pizza Hut understands that we all want a decision slice and for the first time in more than a decade, made a change to its crust.  To celebrate this, Pizza Hut is on the search for a Hut Crust Connoisseur. “Crust is the heart of a great pizza, and fans have been asking for more ways to celebrate it,” Melissa Friebe, Chief Marketing Officer at Pizza Hut, shared in a news release. “With Hut Crust, we’re not only introducing a new Hand-Tossed recipe that elevates a fan favorite, but we’re also offering a $10 large three-topping deal that gives people real value every time they order. And for those who live for crust, the new Hut Crust Connoisseur is a dream come true – a way to get paid for tasting and loving crust every day.” The Hut Crust Connoisseur is a Real Job with a Really Big Benefit In celebration of Pi Day, March 14, Pizza Hut will hire its new Hut Crust Connoisseur. This person will be “responsible for tasting and testing all new crust innovations to ensure they meet Pizza Hut’s iconic standards.” In addition, the job pays a $31,415.92 payment and free pizza for a year. All you have to do to apply is submit a hand-tossed pizza review to ww.pizzahutcrust.com between March 11 and 25, 2025. “Pizza Hut will evaluate submissions and select the Hut Crust Connoisseur based on the quality, passion, and thoughtfulness of each review,” according to the release. Even if you don’t want to be the Hut Crust Connoisseur, you can try a $10 Any 3-Topping Hut Crust deal at participating locations now. This story’s featured image is by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Generation X, typically the children of Baby Boomers born between the years of 1965-1980 tend to have a complicated reputation depending on who you ask. Some view them as a feral generation never to be spoken of poorly without consequence, while others view them as innovators pushing us into the future. But in recent years, Gen Xers have been dubbed the “worst grandparents” by social media users. This multi-year conversation started when a video went viral calling Gen X out for being “terrible” grandparents, claiming that they never want to help with grandchildren. It didn’t take long before other Millennials piled on to air their own grievances about Gen X grandparents. Most people criticizing the “new grandparents” were genuinely perplexed as to how they did not want to be more involved in the lives of their grandchildren. Family baking fun in the kitchen. Photo credit: Canva Kylie Muse reveals in a video that she felt neglected by her Gen X parents growing up, saying, “It’s quite a common theme for Gen X parents to be neglectful in some capacity and it’s just crazy to me how more of them haven’t learned from the past 20 to 30 years, instead of these grandparents seeing their kids having kids as an opportunity to restore the health in their relationships with their kids by showing up and helping them during the hardest transition of their lives, they would rather double down and compromise their relationship with that next generation. All for the sake of hyper-individualism and pride.” @kylies.muse Gen x grandparents and their beloved empty nest ? just say you hate having a family ? #grandparents #grandparentsoftiktok ♬ original sound – Kylie | Wellness + Lifestyle The critique coming from the younger generation is not lost on Gen X, and they started coming out in force to respond with such vigor you’d think John Hughes had just announced the re-release of The Breakfast Club. It would seem that some of the people complaining of the lack of involvement have not considered that Gen X could have valid reasons for not immediately jumping in to take on grandparenting in the way some expect. A man by the name of John S. Blake gives a candid look into why Gen X was neglected as children and, in turn, became hype-independent at an early age. “As a Gen X who’s been on this earth long enough to have some hindsight I can tell you this, being independent at a young age is not a flex, what it actually means is capitalism is so brutal that our parents were forced to neglect their own children to stay alive. My generation was struggling so much that we had to leave our children unattended in order to produce enough so that we could afford to exist,” Blake says. @blackfluidpoet Replying to @ellens0061 #foryoupage #homealone #fyp #foryou ♬ Slippin’ – Re-Recorded – DMX But perhaps one of the most heart wrenching explanations comes from an elder Millennial who goes by the name Amazing Dea. In response to another Millennial who asks about Gen X being let off the hook, Dea shares, “Being as though you look like you might be a younger Millennial, let me go ahead and enlighten you. Generation X and older Millennials had to live through more than just this pandemic. We had the crack epidemic, we had the AIDS epidemic and let me tell you something, it was scary as f***.” Dea went on to explain that there were apartment complexes burned due to high populations of people with AIDS living in them and how they would witness people go from being completely normal to being addicted to crack in a matter of weeks. It seems that depending on socioeconomic status, Gen Xers lived wildly different lives with the common theme being growing up entirely too fast at an extremely young age. Three generations smiling by the sea. Photo credit: Canva Another person kindly breaks down the confusion over why Gen X isn’t rising to the occasion of being award-winning grandparents. In response to the criticism she replies, “We grew up in a different time, first of all. A lot of us, meaning me, Gen X, I was raised by boomers. A lot of us did not get raised by our grandparents. We were like the feral kids, like by 7 and 9 years old we were actually babysitting our brothers and sisters, alright.” The woman explains further in the video that Gen X doesn’t want to raise their grandchildren or simply be babysitters, that there’s a difference between expecting grandparents to be involved and expecting them to be babysitters. @that1crazy72 Let’s take it a step further. You share DNA with your grandkids they are part of you not everyone gets the privilege of being a grandparent so if you are one take that as a blessing #genxgrandparents ♬ original sound – That1crazy72 In many of the response videos shared by Gen Xers, they certainly seem to love their grandchildren and children alike, but there’s a discrepancy in expectation. The consensus of the forgotten generation seems to be that they had adult responsibilities much too early, were exposed to adult life experiences at a young age, and were often left to their own devices for long periods of time while also being told that their voices didn’t matter. While the argument seems to be around their lack of involvement as grandparents, they appear to be saying that they want to enjoy the freedom they didn’t have as children, while being valued as a person and not a babysitter. In many follow up videos, Gen Xers gushed over their grandchildren and how they loved when they were around. It’s just that they draw the line at raising them. Maybe for some, their experiences with their own childhood isn’t enough to move Gen X out of the “worst grandparents” category, but for others it provides much needed context. This article originally appeared last year. 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Sometimes you have to spend money to save money, and people who live a budget-conscious, frugal lifestyle have perfectly mastered how to do it. In a Reddit post, member jul_on_ice posed the question: “What’s one small upgrade (under $50) that saved you more money than you expected?” They continued, “Talking about small wins that compounded over time over one thing that made a drastic difference. Frugality is often about not spending but sometimes investments can pay off. Maybe something that made work easier. Made life better. Made you more comfortable. Or something bought once that replaced lots of things you once had to spend on.” Fellow frugal people had lots of money saving hacks to share. These are 35 things that frugal people spent less than $50 on that have saved them lots of money. “Vacuum sealer. I’m single and most shopping/recipes are four or five meals for me. Often I would have food waste because I no longer wanted the food after the third meal. Now I cook, have the leftovers I want, and vacuum seal the rest in portions. Keeps the food fresh and saves room in my freezer.” —mercfan3 “Don’t rent the modem/router combo from Comcast. Just buy your own.” —Dove_of_Doves “A couple of incredibly mundane purchases that I should have made years earlier: having extra sets of measuring spoons (~ $3 per set) makes cooking so much easier; a digital cooking thermometer (~ $15); and a tire inflator that plugs into the car’s cigarette lighter ($35) so I can top up the tires at home, rather than trying to find a place with a working air hose. ETA: A french press ($20) and electric kettle ($25). Have used the same french press for more than a decade, and get better tasting coffee without buying filters or K-cups. An electric kettle is surprisingly useful.” —Taggart3629 “$9 3-cup rice cooker.” —CeleronHubbard “Popsicle molds. I live in the desert and we eat so many popsicles. Making them myself has saved money and they’re healthier.” —Adventurous-Fig-5179 “Dropped cable, kept internet only. Pay for separate Netflix and Disney and all total we save $35 a month over the cable bundle. We did not watch 90% of the channels included. Definite win for us.” —GarudaMamie “Adding an over-the-air antenna. Is a great addition to cutting that “cable tv” cord. It is much easier than you think.” —williamtrose367 “We got a renter friendly bidet and it has saved us SO MUCH in toilet paper usage.” —Specific_Wait_8006 “We went with cloth diapers when the kids were little it saved us a bunch and kept a bunch of garbage out of the landfill. Once they were potty trained we were able to sell a lot of them.” —Responsible-Charge27 “Maybe not a quantifiable dollar amount of a change, but I switched my mindset from “Unitaskers are bad” to “Unitaskers are acceptable if they do the 1 thing better than anything else”. Example: Those plastic pulled pork meat claw things are not better than a fork for the task of shredding meat, but a good mandolin slicer is much faster and probably safer overall than a knife, and rice cookers can cook rice exceptionally well, even if that’s all they do.” —Ryutso “Needles and threads. You can fix anything material with small rips or tears. I’ve extended the life of clothes, bags, and kids stuffed animals by years.” —baldbutthairy “I know this sounds crazy, but realizing I could buy more than one of something (e.g. bath mats, reading glasses, chargers, etc.) I had to really work on changing my thinking around this due to past financial challenges.” SomeTangerine1184 “Second hand slow cooker. Money saving meals made from cheap tinned foods: daal, chilli, casserole, soups.” —Ambitious_Ad1844 “Anything like this is usually an inexpensive household repair that I waited too long to do. Replacing loose door handles, fixing a leaky faucet, repairing the drip line from my A/C. Little cheap things that just made my life… better.” —gogomom “My aeropress has been a ridiculously good investment. It’s much more portable than a french press. I have it with me now while I’m travelling and I can access a good cup of coffee using the hotel kettle.” —mrjasong “I am a freezie human and nowhere is that more apparent than on airplanes. So I had this ‘warm fuzzy’ vest for wearing on the plane with a tougher outer fabric and a soft fleecy inner. I paid a seamstress to add an invisible zipper to one of the seams on the inside of the vest and now the gap in between the fleece inner fabric and the tougher outer fabric is what in the 1920s would be called a ‘passthrough pocket’ or modern hunters might call it a ‘game pocket’. But you know what else? It’s now my personal item and I wear it on the plane, Scott-e-Vest style, but cheaper. And now because of that, I can fly more budget airlines because I have less luggage-as-in-bags.” —heinfamousj “The jury is still out, but I recently made the switch to rechargeable AA batteries. I’m optimistic this will save me money as I use AAs in my camera flashes and go through a lot of them. It’s not a purchase, but rather a process that I think is going to help a lot. I put everything on my 2% cash back credit card and pay it off at the end of the month. Recently, to get a better handle on my daily spending, I decided on what my monthly credit card bill goal should be. Divide that number by 30 and I get my daily spending goal. I then created a spreadsheet and track how much I spend each day and have a column with a running total for over/under. It’s motivating to look and see ‘Hey, I’m $XXX under budget so far for the month.’ The daily goal is high enough to account for things like gas in my truck, haircuts and groceries.” —No_Blueberry_8454 “Yearly paper planner. No more missed rendez-vous or deadlines, no more late fees. I tried going digital, but it doesn’t work for my ADHD brain. I just snooze the reminders and forget about it. Until it’s too late. So I went back to paper, and it’s worth the $12-ish per year to me.” —Duck__Holliday “Bought a dead battery Dyson vacuum on Facebook market. Did the Ryobi battery upgrade. Got cheap 8ah Ryobi battery off ebay. Got a cheap Ryobi battery Charger off facebook market. Total all was about $50-60 and it works great.” —antsam9 “Dying my hair at my hairdresser rather than at home. No more stains from the home dye. No wrecked towels, clothing or hair.” —JoyCrazy “If you drink a lot of soda or sparkling water, a Soda Stream can help you save. Just the CO2 canisters comes out to about $0.11 for 12 ounces vs paying about $0.50 per can of store bought soda. What gets you are the syrups… that can bring the price up to $0.40 ish per 12 ounces. So to be extra frugal, you could make your own fruit syrups and skip the store-bought stuff. Make a simple syrup (one part sugar, one part water; boil on the stove) and add lemon or lime or orange juice or whatever… I’m sure there are recipes all over the internet. And boom, homemade La Croix. It’s an investment to start, but saves over time.” —Drooly_Cat_1103 “Somewhat location dependent but if you are in a dry climate like me and rely on humidifiers running 24/7, buy a cheap water distiller on Amazon (I think mine was like $60 but close enough, you might even find one under 50 if you look/wait for a sale). Distilled water gets pricey, but not using distilled water will junk up your humidifier with minerals which is both a bitch to clean and can eventually cause problems with the function. Save yourself the trouble. Also useful for steam cleaners, mixing your own cleaning sprays from concentrates, misting bottles, etc. At least if you have hard water, anything where you are repeatedly putting a lot through a very small line, distilled is preferred to prevent mineral buildup.” —ilanallama85 “I got a Walmart+ membership (got it for $49, it renews at half off the $99 at anniversary). I get free shipping, so when I need something small (like shampoo), I don’t need to run to the store. I’ve used Walmart+ so much more than I ever used Amazon Prime. It costs less, and I find I buy less random crap with Walmart+ than Prime.” —sbinjax “Three inexpensive manual coffee makers: Bialetti Moka Express pot, Bodum French Press, and V60 pour over. Bought all 3, virtually new, at the thrift shop for under 20 total about 5 years ago. The Bialetti makes an espresso-like cup, the Bodum is rich and strong, and the V60 makes a softer, smoother cup of coffee.” —zeitness “Not sure this will ever meaningfully ‘pay out’ on the investment, but a timer switch for the bathroom fan. I have ADHD and benefit from as many “set it and forget it” items as I can possibly get. Now I can set the fan, have a shower, walk away, and it’ll turn itself off after a decent airing-out, and I don’t end up walking by the bathroom 4 hours later like ‘how long has the fan been on??’ Less electricity used, less wear and tear on the fan, less conditioned air lost. Is it more savings than the amount I spent? Probably not for a long time. But it feels better!” —Kitchen-Owl-7323 “A shutoff valve to go above the shower heads in my kids’ bathroom’s so I can limit the flow. We have high water pressure and my kids universally put the faucets at max flow. I used the valves to cut the flow in half. The water pressure is still great but now they use half the water and the hot water now lasts through all six of our showers. I haven’t calculated the savings but I know we are using much less energy in water heating and much less water.” —nottherealme1220 “A $30.00 pair of very high quality sharp scissors bought at a sewing machine store 20 years ago freed me forever from paying for haircuts. One YouTube video showed me how to trim & maintain – done. My brother bought a clipper set for $20.00 at the same time and does his own cuts. All that money gets plunked into savings!” —VulcanGreeting “i switched from some fancy expensive work boots id been wearing to some 18 dollar shoes with 10 dollar insoles i got at walmart. i added the extra insoles on top of the existing ones for extra comfort. this saved me however how much i would have spent for my foot pain that was nearing bad enough to warrant medical attention. these are seriously the most comfortable shoes i have ever owned, i even wear them outside of work, on hikes, just going out on a wet day. over a year in and the extra insoles might need replaced in a few months but the shoes and their original insoles (the ones on bottom) are holding up perfectly. I’m in a better mood at work now too.” —cccameronnn This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated. The post Frugal people say these under $50 upgrades saved them more money than expected appeared first on Upworthy.

Nostalgia is all about remembering how things were in the “gold old days.” But sometimes, upon further reflection, some things really sucked in the past despite how rosy our colored glasses made them look. Boomers and Gen Xers are reminiscing on the things they really don’t miss from the 1980s and 1990s. Over on Reddit, member pizzagamer35 posed the question to Boomers and Gen Xers: “What is something you do NOT miss from the 80s-90s?” Boomers and Gen Xers had plenty of throwback experiences and products they are happy to never come across again. These are 30 of the most nostalgic responses from Boomers and Gen Xers about things they don’t miss about the 80s and 90s. Saved By The Bell Laughing GIF Giphy “Long distance phone bill.” —gohdnuorg “Having to wait until after 7pm or whatever so you could call your long distance friends because it was free after that.” —raz0rbl4d3 “Answering the landline and having no idea who’s calling. Just raw, unfiltered anxiety.” —Fit-Interview-3886 “Not having GPS.” —recrysis “Smoking or non smoking and still be in the smoking section.” —Less-Lengthiness4863 mothers day smoking GIF Giphy “Using those Noxzema pads to burn and dry out my pimply face. It had a smell, too.” —poizon_elff “Waiting for JPGs to load one line at a time.” —timmayd “Those hair ties with the two giant plastic beads on them that EVERY mom used to tie up their daughter’s hair in pigtails. God forbid she lose her grip on one while she was already ripping your soul out through your scalp.” —Honey-Badger-90 “Third degree burns from metallic seat belt fasteners.” —JLMTIK88 “Not being able to use the internet if someone needed the phone line to be free.” —Joshawott27 Girl 90S GIF Giphy “Satanic panic.” —Historical_Spot_4051 “Buying a CD and realizing all the songs suck, except for one, maybe two.” —11B-E5 “Batteries and flashlight bulbs. Holy crap they were crap. I still remember seeing the little LED light on our shitty car radio and asking dad what kind of light that tiny dot was. He told me it was a diode and diodes kinda ‘last forever’. I immediately wondered why the hell we weren’t developing that tech.” —snoozieboi “Shoulder pads.” —Thin_Apartment_8076 Mc Hammer Dancing GIF by Jukebox Saints Giphy “Ordering pizza by calling the restaurant and yelling your order to a guy in a noisy kitchen. Missing an episode of your favorite TV show (or forgetting to tape it if you had a VCR) and not being able to see it until summer reruns, or maybe never.” —Imaginary-List-4945 “Terrible contact lenses.” —MandatoryMatchmaker “To contribute something small: manual computer defragmentation. It took several hours and you couldn’t do anything else.” —rena-vee “Pay Phones that gave you limited talk time.” —Aggravating-Iron9804 Season 3 Marge GIF by The Simpsons Giphy “Gym class. Boys were expected to know how to play sports. My dad taught me how to fix tractors and cut firewood, but he didn’t teach me sports because no one ever taught him. The gym teacher didn’t teach us sh*t. When we f*cked up or didn’t know what to do, the jocks would laugh and the teacher would join in the fun.” —Fluffy-Cupcake9943 “The ‘heroin chic’ body type.” —Heartbreak_Star “Panty hose.” —Kitty-haha “Aqua net=hair that absolutely did not move! And you could see little hairspray bubbles .” — IAmTheBlackStar1979 “Having to rewind VHS tapes like it was a part-time job.” -—Repulsive_Corgi_6187 Animated GIF Giphy “Waiting by the radio for your song to play so you can record it on tape.” —mycrml “Serial killers. They just can’t exist at the same level anymore. Plus we got all the lead out of stuff. So now people are 100% normal. 100%.” —PrimeNumbersby2 “Manual roll up/down windows in cars.” —Human-Average-2222 “Carpeted bathrooms. someone shared a bunch of pictures of them on some nostalgia account and i could smell the pictures through my phone .” —GoblinHeart1334 “Busy signal on the phone.” —crjconsulting This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated. The post Boomers and Gen Xers share 30 things they don’t miss from the 80s and 90s appeared first on Upworthy.