Monday Helpful Chick Tips Day

JNCis a f*cking rockstar when is comes to useful information (and switching jobs - SNAP!).

Useful tidbit numero uno: Clean out your closet and get rid of clothes you don't wear -- turn all your hangers in the opposite direction. In a year, or six months [depending on seasonality] if the hanger is still the same, throw out the garment b/c you haven't worn the item and it's time to get rid of it.*

Useful tip numero dos: The no-period pill. According to the New York Times, this is highly controversial. Really? For most women I know, your period is just a monthly "heads up" that no little swimmers have slipped past the goalie. The article states that "Doctors say they know of no medical reason women taking birth control pills need to have a period." Besides just a handy reminder that you're not knocked up, is there some non-health related reason to have a period? I don't know many women who "celebrate the period as a spiritual or natural process." It seems like most modern women are content to let periods be a thing of the past, so we can get back to slowly but surely taking over most sports, professions and real estate.

You can learn all about this at the site fewerperiods.com, which loses points for pretending to be a neutral provider of information when it is, in fact, the manufacturer's own site.

Curious to get your thoughts, gal pals. Is having a period part of the mystery and essence of womanhood? Or is that hippie bullsh*t?

*This was actually on Oprah but JNC vets Oprah and passes the good tips on to me.