Kesha may have grown up and dropped the dollar sign, but she’s not all that happy about it. “Potato Song” is about burning out on adult life, and it spins a fantasy about opting out to follow your fancy: “I’ll grow some potatoes / And flowers, then I’ll make sandcastles / Then I’ll eat some cake, ’cause I want to / La-dee-da-dee-da.” Amen.

In a world of YouTube tutorials and home improvement shows, it may not surprise you to learn that some parents are getting really into renovating their kids’ playhouses. Think: painted shutters, hanging plants, jeweled doorknobs, and custom curtains, all to 1. give parents a sense of creative fulfillment and 2. cohere the aesthetic of a classically ugly toy with a considered home interior. Toy camouflage aside, do we not think the playhouse is a proxy for something else? Say, a full-sized house of the sort that the current generation of young parents watched the boomers renovate for fun? Read on.

This year happens to be The Sims’ 20th anniversary, and the think pieces are fairly devastating. In short: a whole generation of Snake People* grew up building virtual homes and knocking things against each other with no consequence; little did we know that would be the last time we could afford to exercise any of those freedoms. But, look, the game is still fun— download Sims 4!

*Millennials

Well, look at that: The Strategist’s latest feature is about the best curtains to buy for real, adult-human-sized windows. If you have a sewing machine, you can cut them down to playhouse size, or just live a little and put them up whole— the cheapest is $12.