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I found it a couple days ago, googled it, and found out it’s horribly invasive here in Florida. Makes sense because it’s spreading like crazy over my yard and has 2+ foot long taproots. I’ve been ripping it out by hand but it’s very difficult to get the full taproots without them breaking. Google says it’ll sprout again from the pieces left behind.

I’ve got a toddler, a dog, and lots of wildlife in the yard so harsh chemicals aren’t preferred unless I can apply them in a targeted/safe way. I want this shit gone, preferably before the thousands of seed clusters ripen and bury themselves. Any and all advice is welcome, no matter how unhinged.

I’ve got leftover yeast powder from when I was breastfeeding, can this be used to brew hooch or do they bake/kill it before they sell it so that moms aren’t accidentally fermenting things?

When my parents bought the house, the yard was doused in pesticides, rodenticide, herbicides, and every type of poison you can imagine. It’s been about 8 months of waiting it out and spreading mulch (the entire yard was pure sand with pine needles on top), and the bugs are finally coming back!

There’s always some kind of butterfly stopping by, and today I caught two of them mating! My native garden is still solarizing so it’ll be a season before it gets planted, but I’m so excited that the bugs are already here and waiting!

It’s my own fault bc obv I picked wrong but I checked all the things. It sounded hollow, had a yellow lay spot, the little circle was tiny where the bloom was, not large. Now I’ve gotta figure out what to do with this big ass watermelon, I’m sure it’s too bitter to eat.

I’ve never seen honey so chunky in my life. Is it whipped?? The air pockets are.. concerning..

Not sure if this is allowed here, but it’s yarn centric so I think it’s ok?

My toddler has a sensory table and I’m always wracking my brain on what I can put in it. Then I realized, I’ve got so much yarn!

I wrapped it around my hand a bunch of times, until I had a large amount wrapped around my palm, then cut it down the middle so that the strings are about 4-5 inches. They’re long enough to clump together and be stringy but not too long to be unsafe (he’ll only play with it under supervision though, ofc). He loves it! He rolls it into a ball and hugs it, pulls the strings apart, separates it into tiny balls then mashed them together. The strings are long enough that they’re easy to pick up if he throws them, as well.

(If anyone’s worried about nice yarn being “wasted”, don’t be. Everything is dollar tree acrylic aside from a small portion of cotton from Peaches and Cream.)

The best part is, before I get in, I always ask him if he wants to shower with me. And he runs away screaming, shaking his head no.

It started off as buying nice soap to convince myself to bathe when I was really depressed, but atp I’ve found myself buying them just because they smell nice. The three I use most often are in the second picture. The bars take a long time to go through because they’re very firm, but I’m about 2/3rds of the way through my body wash (the black line is where the level is).

There’s 5 opened soaps total, the rest are completely unused. It’s not as bad of a hoard as I thought, but when I consider how long a bar lasts, it’s a very large stockpile of soap.

I think some of it comes from fear of running out, as well. I grew up being told that society would collapse any day, and that we’d have to survive through it, so I tend to hoard products I think I’d need. Soap, dry foods, meat in the freezer, etc. So even if I know I’ve got a lot, if I see something I like in a store, I grab it just in case. I’m also very likely to fall for “limited edition” products, as you can probably see.