It may sound cliché but we really can’t pass this week up without saying we are truly grateful for every girlie who’s been part of our community this year. Whether you came to a live show, opened an email, or dropped your thoughts in our inbox. Being a Group Chat Girlie is only possible because of you. We have big plans for 2026 and want to keep growing into the kind of thing you immediately text your group chat about.

To celebrate the season (and be brave enough to ask for your real thoughts face-to-face), we’re hosting a mini live show and holiday hang! A limited number of spots are open to join us on December 10th at The Bohemian: A Wine Bar in Plaza Midwood! RSVP here.

Last week we shared an “Is It Worth It” question from our Burning Questions segment. A girlie asked if she should have an affair with a hot French 19-year-old and we polled the chat. 65.5% responded resoundingly by getting caught up on the definition of affair. Which is… fair. 24% of you said 19 is just not mature enough in any country.

Some comments from the girlies:
“If not cheating, then depends on what YOUR level of maturity is and what you’re looking for.”

“Are you in France when it happens? If yes, yes. If no, no.”

🎵 Made for Millennials. This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was a harsh reminder that we are now the elder millennials, watching the artists we once danced to in the club perform for families and in-laws while we sip coffee and pretend to be shocked by lyrics we definitely screamed in 2008.

⭐ And speaking of the Parade, may we all channel the confidence of the little girl who, upon being surprised with Rockettes tickets, simply said, “I did that yesterday.”

🦃 Timothée and Kylie reportedly spent Thanksgiving together, and Kendall is proudly “100% single.”

🕺 DWTS wrapped with record-breaking viewers crowning Robert Irwin the disco-ball champ, confirming what the girlies have been saying all season: everyone really was watching. And even though Secret Lives star Whitney missed the finale, she still got to reveal her amazing freestyle thanks to Alex Cooper and the Call Her Daddy pod which had some fans saying she “broke etiquette.”

🍽️ Spotted in Charlotte. The leading ladies of The Hunting Wives Cast took a break from plotting murders to plot their drink orders while dining at Crunkleton last week.

💍 This season of The Golden Bachelor ended not with an engagement but a… promise ring. Yep, apparently men still can’t commit even in their 70s. Despite that, Mel Owens and Peg Munson say they’re still together for now.

🐆 Britney resurfaced on Instagram with a leopard-print dance video set to Adele, paired with a caption about “sadness and darkness” that suddenly pivots into a Thanksgiving joke which is… a microcosm of the millennial experience.

Carol: In a plot ripped straight from a Netflix holiday movie, my boyfriend’s parents met my parents for the first time this weekend through a very relaxed, extremely casual… three-night stay at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving.

It’s worth noting that my family treats Thanksgiving like a competitive decathlon. We host a festive dish competition, a go-kart competition, a target-shooting competition, ending the weekend with early Dirty Santa. After experiencing it for the first time last year, my boyfriend summed it up perfectly: “Your family is doing the equivalent of a turkey trot every two hours.”

To add to the intrigue of the co-mingling, my boyfriend’s family is from Hong Kong, and this was their first time staying in an American home for an American holiday. The entire weekend was as if they were walking through an immersive Thanksgiving exhibit at the MoMa.

My boyfriend served as Secretary of International Relations, keeping a running tab of things he had never had to translate before including but not limited to:

• Rules of Dirty Santa
• Why it’s called Dirty Santa and not Dirty Christmas
• If white people only eat cheese when it's cold
• Cheese as a concept
• Cheese subcategories
• Appropriate cheese-eating times and if there are cheese-eating rituals

At one point he was giving me directions in Cantonese and translating for his parents in English. The man was fighting for his life. Overall, things went well, all families and relationships remain intact.

Mostly, I learned that we eat a lot of cheese.

Here’s how my mom greeted them at the driveway:

Skylar: Black Friday’s Bitch.
💳 I was absolutely that girlie who dragged her entire family out at the crack of dawn, still half-asleep and full of tryptophan, to grab her first peppermint mocha of the season and chase those deals. The DVD bin at Best Buy hated to see me coming. The holiday pajamas wall at Old Navy did not stand a chance. There was just something about the glossy newspaper ads that made me know this was the day to buy it all. The lowest price of the season. It was like the universe was handing me a little permission slip that said, “Go ahead, baby girl. Get the thing. And that one too.”

Did I shop for my family and thoughtfully cross gifts off my gift giving list the way the capitalist holiday machine intended? Absolutely the F not. Black Friday was for me. I could get the Uggs. I could buy the MacBook (and the MAC Cosmetics). It was my personal national holiday.

Eventually Cyber Monday blurred the whole thing into a full-weekend sport, and I did age out of setting my alarm for 5am. But I still cannot resist the siren song of email marketing campaigns and unhinged online deals. I start adding things to my cart because, hello, girl math: anything over 50% off is basically free. Suddenly I’m convinced I desperately need a fleece-lined coat I’ve never seen before, and an upholstery cleaner that will obviously transform my entire home and my entire personality.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to stage an intervention and ask for my card statement. I don’t actually buy all my whimsical little wants. Usually I talk myself down once I see the price tag and remember my tax bracket. But there’s something intoxicating about that pure, delusional shopper’s confidence. Most days I’m paralyzed wondering if something is actually worth it or if I even want it. Black Friday is the one time a year I feel like, “At least I know this is the best deal I’ll ever get.”

And yes, I’m the first girlie to sit myself down for a stern talk about unhealthy buying patterns, the importance of shopping small, and Giving Tuesday. But honestly? I think part of why I love Black Friday is because I learn a little about who I could be. There are deals on things I’d never consider all year, but for this one magical day, I see a sale tag and think:
Maybe I am the kind of girlie who needs a Nespresso in addition to her coffee pot.
Maybe I am destined to drape myself in an Italian leather crossbody this year.
Maybe this is who I was meant to be. Time to hit the vision board.

Need another reason to not yet move from the couch today? Checkout these jaw dropping stories that had me clicking through to read more.

🇩🇰 The Danish Deception. Former The Bachelor alum Onyeka Ehie took to TikTok and dropped a bombshell. A fairy-tale romance gone absolutely off the rails. She says she fell in love with a 🔒man claiming to be a Danish prince and Olympic athlete… but actually? No royal lineage, no medals, just a secret gambling addiction, mounting debts, and financial damage that spread to friends and family.

🗞️ The Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza saga is officially entering its scorched-earth era. After their messy split over Nuzzi’s inappropriate relationship with RFK Jr., Ryan Lizza is now taking to Substack to publish a multi-part exposé accusing her of everything from secret political meddling to major journalistic breaches. All while Nuzzi preps a memoir to tell her side. It’s giving media-world soap opera, and every week somehow gets even messier.

Know a locally owned business that makes unique gifts to check out this holiday season? Or a non profit worth spotlighting? DM us their page.

🎁 And while we are talking gifts, here is a little easter egg for our thorough readers. What was the gift you most remember wanting for the holidays when you were younger? Reply back and let us know what it was and if you ever got it.

📩 [email protected]: send us your tips, tea, or story that deserves to be unpacked at our next live show. We know there’s already family drama brewing for the holidays.

🍸 Not a single girlie has given us the name of a place to get a good dirty martini, which feels wrong. Don’t gatekeep.

And lastly, if you have not yet, make sure you Text your group chat, send them this email, or forward them the Substack so they can join the chat.