u/Historical-Jury1936 — reddlx

Can not putting salt in the softener damage my hair/the softener itself?

I've searched and can't find the answer to my specific question. We recently moved into a new place with a water softener. We have never had one before and our landlord did not give us any directions of how to use it so we just pretended it didn't exist.

Lately my hair has had insane building up and is really struggling. I looked at the water softener and saw it was blinking saying it needed a refill. I looked in it but have no idea what I'm supposed to see or not see in there. It made me realize that the water lately does not seem as soft as when we moved in. Regular hard water has not done this to my hair in the past.

My partner and I aren't huge fans of soft water but if not putting salt in it can cause damage to the machine or my hair, I want to know. Google says that not putting salt in doesn't cause any long term damage and in the next sentence says that it does. So idk what to believe.

Basically I have two questions

1 am I damaging the water softener by not putting salt in it?

2 is the well water that is not being softened hurting my hair?

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u/Historical-Jury1936 — 1 day ago

▲ 281 r/romantasycirclejerk

I see your "Obscene Gesture" and raise you....

Uj/ I am loving this book btw but I mean come on. Earlier a character flipped someone off with a middle finger. Why are switching it up now?

Book is Bridge Kingdom

u/Historical-Jury1936 — 9 days ago

▲ 2 r/CleaningTips

Sticker on wood, plastic backing stuck

We heard that vegetable oil was good at getting the sticky residue off but what about the plastic that is not coming off? We got a lot of it, as seen here but some is just stuck. Its the sale sticker on a wood work bench top from Lowes

u/Historical-Jury1936 — 1 month ago

▲ 5 r/Romantasy

Metal Slinger - trees in the middle of the ocean?!

I am 15% into Metal Slinger and I'm enjoying it so far except the world is making me shockingly angry. They can't be on land so they built a city in trees. Okay, cool idea. Except these trees are in the middle of the ocean, literally days/weeks on a ship to get to the nearest land. Ocean that is deep enough for ships to dock. Wtf are these trees? Cyprus trees that grow in water (like in the US south) have to be adjacent to land. Does the world building ever explain this or will I have to continue to angrily suspend disbelief? She has a crow friend? What does it eat?

Also where do they careen the ships? Are the ships just completely covered in mussels and are slowly being dragged down? Is that why it takes them so long to get to land?

I never get mad about silly world building stuff, cause ~fantasy~, but this is really grinding my gears for some reason. Please tell me this is all explained in the book eventually.

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u/Historical-Jury1936 — 2 months ago

▲ 35 r/fantasyromance

Anyone else disappointed by Sir Cameron?

I was so excited about this book but was so totally let down. Anyone else?

Ill start off saying I loved the writing. It was funny and tongue in cheek, which I adore. But that's where it ended for me.

My issues:

All of the relationship building between the main characters happens during sex. Okay fine, thats common in the genre. Except that this is a closed door romance. So I just have to trust that these characters are getting to know each and fall in love based on what happens off page?
Merulo, the love interest, has practically zero character development. He's the bad guy, he has a plan. He falls in love (off page) and is shown that there is more to life than just his plan. Then executes the plan anyway with no regard for the person he supposedly cares about. He just used the people around him without a second thought which does not endear him to me as a reader.
Am I supposed to finish this book being pro AI? Or anti- the characters/ whole story? Is this fantasy book anti-magic? I had a hard time rooting for a character whose entire goal was "get rid of magic (unicorns, elves, cool stuff) in order to bring back artifical intelligence. And yeah, some of how the magic was used (like with kids) wasn't great but that wasn't even the reason he wanted to get rid of it.

Its been like 2 months since I read it, so I might not be remembering things well but I need to know what other people thought.

{Apparently, sir Cameron needs to die by greer stothers}

u/Historical-Jury1936 — 2 months ago

▲ 6 r/LibbyApp

I waited weeks for this book. I finally got it, it had the button "read with kindle" I clicked it and the Amazon page that normally comes up said it's not available. Do I tell my library? Do I wait for another loan to come up at another library? Or will this be true no matter the library?

u/Historical-Jury1936 — 4 months ago