I noticed these golf ball mushroom things in my yard. I’m not going to eat them, but are they OK to throw in the compost? I figured they’ll break down way faster than their pinecone friends 😅, but I have no idea if they are toxic, or if any possible toxins would affect the pile. (Maybe it doesn’t matter…?) Thanks!
I thrifted this cookbook yesterday. It’s a collection of recipes from restaurants in the same city, so it’s mainly trying to market that city’s restaurant scene.
The photography is lovely, but some of the recipes are rather useless. This one tells you how to put ice cream in a glass. I’m not a great cook but even I didn’t need this “recipe.” 😂 Another one tells you how to make chili with ground beef, beans, and the restaurant’s proprietary spice blend. ??? So helpful, right?!?
I’m not posting this as a troll. My husband wants to put together a similar cookbook for our city, which is why I got this one. If anyone has a really good cookbook like this in their collection (with recipes you can actually use!), please share!
ETA: Wow, thank you! I’ve never posted in this sub before. You guys are so wholesome and genuinely helpful. ☺️
Lately I have no patience AT ALL if it’s hot (say, 90 degrees) and I am sweaty. I don’t mean that I’m unmotivated — I mean I am angry and almost panicky. It feels like I’m in fight-or-flight mode until I can change my clothes into something much cooler, get in air conditioning, dunk my head in cold water, etc. If I can’t do one of those, I snap at people and basically lose my shit. 😞 I don’t know if this is perimenopause or ADHD or what, but it is not good. Throwing this out there in case anyone can relate.
Ok so I have a 1950s house with an 80s-ish kitchen. We actually like the kitchen a lot… but things are starting to wear out. Many of the cabinet doors are cracked, mostly from decades of people trying to shut them with the pull-out trays not pushed completely in. (Sorry for not knowing proper cabinetry terms.)
New cabinet doors + new flooring and countertops would honestly solve 90% of our issues with the kitchen.
I have heard conflicting things about refacing cabinets. Some people say it doesn’t really save you much money compared to all-new cabinets. Also, if you are painting them, you have to do it PERFECTLY, or it will look cheap and start chipping. (We wouldn’t DIY this for fear of ruining our kitchen.)
Other people say that refacing cabinets is a reasonable option, potentially with all-new doors. I’m not sure how you’d match new doors to the existing cabinet boxes, though, without painting everything. (The cabinets are dark wood and we don’t hate them. That’s an unpopular opinion on Reddit, I know.)
The manufacturer is no longer in business, so I guess these potential new doors would have to be custom made…? ($$$$?)
I’m just curious how people who renovate kitchens for a living suggest thinking about this. How do you know if refacing the cabinets is realistic?
If you had your cabinets refaced, did you love the result or was it a lipstick-on-a-pig type situation? 😬
Hi everyone. I take Adderall. Due the red tape involved in getting a controlled prescription renewed, I sometimes take it a few hours later than usual (after I pick up the new bottle). You would think the meds would just kick in later in the day, but no. If I take it at like 11 AM instead of 8 AM, I’m almost as sleepy as if I didn’t take it at all. It is so frustrating. 😞 🤬 Does this happen to anyone else? WHY does it happen?
Ok so we have had a homemade compost bin (chicken wire and pallets) for YEARS, but we never paid a lot of attention to it. Occasionally we’d add some grass clippings or eggshells or whatever, with no regard to greens/ browns. I live in 6a and we also ignored the pile during the winter, when it sat frozen and uncovered. We do have a vegetable garden, though, so not having a good compost routine seemed like a missed opportunity.
Last week I ✨ hyperfocused ✨ on compost (thanks ADHD) and decided to replace the rickety contraption with a GeoBin. I realized that the bottom of the compost area looked good aside from it being overrun with roly-polies (it was in a shady spot). I picked out the big bits of newer stuff, then shoveled the rest onto a tarp and let it bake in the sun, vastly reducing the roly-polies. Then I sifted it through an antique metal grain sifter I already had.
I know some people think sifting compost is overkill, but I was curious what I’d find. I kept almost all the stuff that was sifted out (except fruit stickers and small bits of plastic) and cut up the bigger things we had recently tossed in whole (like corn husks) to be added to the new pile. I am also collecting sticks, cardboard, etc. for the new pile to balance out kitchen scraps.
I was so happy with the result! 😊 Not bad for totally ignoring this for years, right??
Thanks to everyone in this sub for sharing so much useful info!
I always said my eyes were brown. Now I am not sure. Is this hazel?
My mom’s eyes are brown and my dad’s are blue. My brother’s are unambiguously green.
My husband’s eyes are dark brown and our kids’ eyes are brown.
I’m the only one with whatever this is. 😅
There are three separate plants in this pot. (I think they are all remnants of larger plants I killed…) The one with the solid green leaves is consistent. It has fewer leaves but they are all pretty big. The variegated ones have some big leaves and some tiny leaves at different points along the plant. I don’t necessarily think it’s bad (?), but I am curious why this happens and if it’s more likely to happen with the variegated types. Thanks!