• Acetaminophen: A painkiller with the same active ingredient as Tylenol. This is surprisingly easy to overdose on so be careful not to take any more acetaminophen.

• Cough suppressant: This reduces the urge to cough, which is useful for dry coughs which do more harm than good.

• Expectorant: This makes your mucus thinner so it can be coughed up more easily. If you have a lot of mucus in your lungs, you may want to cough more so mixing this with a cough suppressant is counterproductive.

• Doxylamine: An antihistamine that can make people drowsy. This is only found in NyQuil and its copycats. DayQuil does not have an antihistamine.

• Alcohol: Literally just booze. A very small amount (up to 10%), but it's not something people should be consuming by accident. Not all cough syrups have this so check the label.

You'll get better results if you use these things separately.

• Take acetaminophen or ibuprofen as needed for pain and fever. Follow the dosing directions on the bottle (you can take both).

• Take cough suppressants for DRY coughs, because they don't do much beyond give you a soar throat. Sip water to keep your throat moist.

• Take expectorants for WET coughs, to get gunk out of your lungs.

• Take whatever antihistamines or sleep aids work for you. This varies dramatically from person to person.

I'd pay a couple bucks to get more popcorn without walking away from the movie.

Your drawers should be easy to sort through without taking half of the contents out. Opening your cabinets should never cause a Crapalanch. You need to leave some room to rummage through your containers.

If your storage bins are so full that you need a flashlight and a map to find anything, you have too much stuff. And no, person who follows a hoarding support group, the solution is not more bins.

I'll start.

• If you have a food dehydrator, an alligator chopper can be used to quickly cut dried food into uniform pieces. It's not just for fresh produce.

• Potato ricers are great for squeezing water out of shredded cucumber for tzatkiki.

• Magnetic knife racks can also hold measuring cups and small metal utensils. Some can be mounted on the underside of cabinets.

• A keurig can create very hot water for making instant ramen.

• Potato peelers can turn an entire carrot into thin shreds for salads, or make very thin slices of cheese.

Farmer's markets near me are starting to sell big bunches of dill and parsley. I'd like to upgrade my spice drawer.

Should I be dehydrating them at a lower temperature to preserve flavor?

• Hobby supplies don't bring you any joy if you don't use them.

• If you have to spend half your free time organizing your hobby supplies, you have too much crap.

• If you enjoy buying stuff instead of using it, you've already extracted all the joy out there your stuff. You can safely get rid of it.

SCP-033 is an 11th integer in addition to the regular 0-9 that we're used to. It's existence proves that there's a mathematical mistake at the bottom of physics that the rest of reality is built on top of. Writing down the math which proves 033 exists melts reality.

SCP-𝕐 is the set of all non-existant numbers. If any number is associated with it (for example by calling it SCP-5789) that number stops existing. It must occasionally be "fed" by deleting a random extremely large number that we hopefully won't need or it will potentially delete a lower and more important one.

What would happen if we fed SCP-033 into SCP-𝕐?

Your challenge today is to get rid of something that you could use, but won't because it's too annoying to clean or maintain.

• Clothes with special washing instructions

• Old rechargeable devices that need to be recharged a little too often

• Any kitchen gadget that you don't use because it's not dishwasher safe

From the Home Depot website:

> Although a ceiling fan doesn’t cool air, the right ceiling fan direction can make a room feel much cooler than it is. In summer and hotter months, your ceiling fan blades should rotate counterclockwise. When fan blades turn counterclockwise, they push cooler air down in a column. This creates a “wind chill” effect. To maximize this effect, run your fan at its highest speed.

> A high-speed, counterclockwise ceiling fan direction can let you increase your thermostat 4 degrees and still be comfortable. Using a counterclockwise ceiling fan direction can reduce your energy costs up to 30 percent. Most times you can change a ceiling fan’s direction to counterclockwise by flipping a switch on its motor.

> Tip: Stand directly under the fan and look up. If the fan is moving counterclockwise, you’ll feel a rush of air.

• Homemade tomato sauce is cheap. Onion, garlic, salt, oil, and a lot of crushed tomatoes. Saute the aromatics and cook down the tomato.

• If a pump bottle won't let you get the last drop and can't be easily opened, water it down by submerging the tip in water and pumping it into the container.

• McCormick pepper grinders can be refilled by submerging the plastic part in near boiling water. The plastic will expand and pop right off. (Or maybe get a reusable one that isn't releasing microplastics into your food)

• Cough syrup has 3 functions. You're probably better off taking them as separate medications.

> - Acetaminophen: A painkiller with the same active ingredient as Tylenol. This is surprisingly easy to overdose on so be careful not to take any more acetaminophen.

> - Cough suppressant: This reduces the urge to cough, which is useful for dry coughs which do more harm than good.

> - Expectorant: This makes your mucus thinner so it can be coughed up more easily. If you have a lot of mucus in your lungs, you may want to cough more so mixing this with a cough suppressant is counterproductive.

• You are probably under-using your freezer. I regularly freeze: citrus juice/zest, bread, nuts and seeds, cheese, bulk spices, precooked meat/beans, vacuum sealed veggies for soup, minced herb/aromatic ice cubes in oil, butter, blended strawberries for smoothies and salsa.

• My rule for not overdoing it at Costco: I buy in bulk if I've purchased at least that much in regular quantities. The only way to know for sure that you can eat 50 pounds of rice is to have already eaten 50 pounds of rice.

• Use an adblocker. Ads make you buy more unnecessary crap, even if you think you're not paying attention. The good ones are:

> - uBlock Origin for Firefox (PC/Android)

> - uBlock Origin Lite for Chrome

> - Private DNS AdGuard for Android (phone-wide)

> - PiHole for your home WiFi (network wide so it works for smart TVs and such)

• Chili can be extremely cheap and healthy if it's mostly beans and tomatoes. Beef should be there for flavor, not protein.

• Google Voice can give you a free second phone number for signing up to loyalty programs, spam accounts, etc. If that doesn't work for whatever reason, Red Pocket has a voice/SMS only plan on Ebay for $30/year.

Assume every single anomaly is canon, even if they conflict.

Off the top of my head:

• SCP-2828 - A vestigial organ behind my ear with antimemetic shielding

• SCP-3368 - Due to the ongoing HB-Class Beepocalypse scenario, my brain is made of bees

• SCP-8900-EX - The concept of color has breached containment, and I got some on me

• [[Numbers Lie]] - I'm hallucinating about 70% of everyone I think exists because of a meme implanted in my brain last time they activated 2000

My vote is for SCP-1796 which, without spoiling anything, describes what it feels like to be redacted.

Honorable mention to Nobody who would probably be considered antimemetic if he were written today.