u/Connect_Rhubarb395

I spoke with a lesbian today who is a conservative, who votes right wing politically, who is working while her wife is a SAHM with their kids, who has never participated in a Pride and think they are weird, who has never been at any LGBT+ venues, and whose main hobby is to collect HP merch.

I literally had to stop myself from just gaping.

Some of this is of course fine. It is everything together that had me scratch my head at how someone can be a lesbian and somehow at the same time be the straightest conservative in existence.

I meant party cracker.

I know it exists, but I can't remember the name of it (Yes, it is ironic. No, I am not making a joke.)

Example: "The pull-bang things" because you can't remember that they are called party crackers.

I was given a whole crate of books on my topic of choice. They are just what I want, right time frame, decently valuable ... and the person who owned them died in their home, and it was some days before they were found.

The books have a faint, sickly sweet smell of death. The dead person was in another room from the books.

How do I get that smell out of the books?

As for advising me to chuck all the books in the trash because they were near a dead person, I am not freaked out by it. The books aren't a health hazard. They just smell a little. Like how thrift store books also have a certain smell.

I have my backpack on my back and moving while commuting for about 1,5 hours every day.

I decided to try out rucking by just adding a little weight to my everyday backpack. I started at 3 kg (bag, contents, and a 1 kg weight).

Every time I can't feel the weight on my back at all, I add 1 kg more of weight.

I am now up to 6 kg (13,2 lbs) and I literally can't feel it. I am still surprised by that.

So if you want to try out rucking but don't think you have the time, or think that it probably requires heavy weights, try it out like this.

I work at a grocery store.

In the year I have worked there I haven't seen anyone buy just those two items, together.

It made me wonder if it was 12 years since he went out to buy them, and only just now made it to the store.

Tl;dr

What would you bring to live in a different place for a year? You can bring what fits in a standard car.

At the end of the year, you go back to your old place.

(For simplicity's sake: You can only buy food and other consumables during that year).

My friend's dad died, and he is going to go back there and stay for probably a year while sorting everything of his dad's out (emptying and fixing the house up to sell, and selling a business).

Because he will be gone for quite a while, he has decided to to stuff his SUV with his matress, his gaming setup, and other bits and pieces.

The dad's house is gross, so he will bring kitchen stuff, too.

He will leave the rest of his stuff and come back to it. (We are going to pack it all together in one room and have a short-term roommate instead of him).

That got me thinking about what I would do in that situation.

It isn't the: "If you could only keep 30, 50, 200 items or what you could fit in your car, rhen what would it be?" hypothetical.

He still has all the rest of his items and will come back to them, so he doesn't have to make hard decisions about what to keep.

It is *You have a carload of your things in a different home for a year, and then you go back to your home. What do you bring?*

It made me think differently, about which items are important to me day to da.

I am always looking for ways to become more mindful of my attachment to things.

I realised I would bring my hobby items for a year, but not my books. Even though I love my books more.

If I were to move permanently, I would bring my books.

But in my everyday life, I use my hobby things much more to occupy myself and feel good about creating.