Fake mustaches? Owning the most expensive headphone? Here are some things and activities that we really need to say goodbye to in 2012. Let's start fresh in 2013 by eliminating the following from our lives. If we do, we really can help the world become a better place. I promise.
- Forcing your kids to perform in videos you hope will go viral. Or even worse, staging a video and pretending your kids did it on their own. Come on, we know your infants didn't cover the entire dining room in baby powder. Remember, we're not as dumb as you think.
- Spending your entire time at a restaurant tweeting about the experience rather than enjoying it. And stop snapping photos of your meal and posting it on Instagram.
- Celebrities performing in the big screen adaptation of hit Broadway musicals. Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert. Enough said.
- Gangnum Style videos. Don't even think about gathering your fellow realtors to create one of these. It's over. Please, let it be over.
- Collecting fake mustaches. They're everywhere—on T-shirts, coffee mugs, band aids. My daughter has glow-in-the-dark mustaches on her ceiling. Why? Every time I walk in her room, I want to climb on her bed and pull them all off. Can't this trend be done with?
- Talking, posting and tweeting incessantly about bacon and kale. Why is it so cool to talk about these two polar opposite foods? I don't get it.
- Going out armed with electronic equipment. At one time, eating out or going to a friend's house meant getting together to chat. Now too many people are texting, tweeting and posting while their kids play Minecraft on their ever present, ever annoying iPads.
- Buying $300 headphones. Really? There are homeless people on nearly every main street in this country and you need $300 headphones? Please explain this to me. You know you are just pretending you can tell the difference. My husband swears his $8 purchase from CVS sounds just as good.
- Skinny jeans. Who over the age of 21 really looks good in skinny jeans? They always look so terrific on the mannequins, but not on most people.
- Bragging about your kids on Facebook. Let's be honest. Most kids don't get straight As, don't make the honor roll, don't score the winning goal. But how come every parent on Facebook posts these accomplishments about their offspring nearly daily? Someone's telling fibs. And your friends who 'like' these posts? They don't believe you either.
