8/20/26 - Frugal, Resume Lies, and Another Gen-Z Insult

Thursday 8/20/26

Celebrate:

International Day of Medical Transporters

International Hawaiian Pizza Day

National Accessible Air Travel Day

National Bacon Lover's Day

National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

National Hazy IPA Day

National Lemonade Day

National Radio Day

Virtual Worlds Day

World Mosquito Day

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With people living longer, plastic surgery among those 65 and older continues to grow. Each year, the 65+ crowd in the US has over 90,000 surgical procedures and over 600,000 minimally invasive procedures. Minimally invasive procedures include Botox, dermabrasion, laser hair removal, laser tattoo removal, etc.

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On social media, a woman shared: “When I was younger, my mother used to buy generic versions of things and put the contents into name-brand packages. She would refill a ketchup bottle with generic ketchup so that guests would see the name-brand label. I understand why she did this. Many items are very similar whether you’re buying the generic version or the name brand version.”

Christmas wrappings and tags. (i swear my mom has boxes we used every year since I was a kid)

Other Reddit responses to How Frugal were your parents.

We saved tin foil, flattened it out and washed it, then put it in a special container for it. I had to save my brown paper sack and use it for a week. Sandwich bags were to be used 2 weeks. A long-distance call resulted in a questioning like the Spanish Inquisition. I could fill a book. Both parents grew up during the depression, so we lived as if another one was just around the corner.

I wash and reuse Ziploc bags (as long as only vegetables were kept in them), save take-out containers that look reusable, plastic ware (we did this in college also), and cups from the drive-thru.

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Security at an airport in China heard this one morning: “Please do not open me! I’m just normal luggage!” Inside the luggage, airport employees discovered a speaker playing the message on a loop. The owner of the luggage told authorities she did it to protect her cosmetics.

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From Forbes.com, it seems most employers have caught a lie on a resume. Here are some whoppers:

• “Applicant included job experience that was actually his father’s. Both father and son had the same name.”

• “Applicant claimed to be the assistant to the prime minister of a foreign country that doesn’t have a prime minister.”

• “Applicant claimed to have 25 years experience at age 32.”

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The other day I told you that one of the latest Gen-Z insults was Larping.

Here's another. Polyester.

A recent viral video shows an 18-year-old talking about his dream adult lifestyle. "I want to wake up at 6 a.m. in my New York City penthouse, Bible study with the boys before anything else ... Blue light glasses on, deep work, house music, locked in. I'm not gonna even be doing half of the work because my Claude agent is gonna be running automatically in the background."Polyester lifestyle,” reads the top comment on one TikTok, which has racked up more than 40,000 likes.

In short, Gen Zers are using it to call something low-quality or cheap, another way to call something generic or low-quality.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day for National Bacon Lovers Day - 

The word "bacon" itself comes from an old Germanic word, bacho, meaning "back," referring to the cut of meat from the back of the pig.

According to records, competitive eating legend Matthew Stonie once consumed 182 slices of bacon in just five minutes at a charity event.

Back during World War II, meat shortages led to strict rationing in the U.S. and Britain. Newspapers frequently published guides on how to make "mock bacon" out of things like eggplant or coconut flakes dipped in soy sauce and smoke flavoring—though nobody was ever fooled.