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My cuticles & areas around my nails always look crusty and peely. Even after moisturizer, cuticle oil, trimming cuticles, etc. I also feel like my fingers look dry and wrinkly like an old person even tho I am only 26.

What are ways that will help me improve this?

Thank you

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During a recent long heavy rain storm i went into the basement to do a load of laundry and heard water running through the sewer pipes. I thought it was weird because no one flushed the toilets or ran water or anything like that.

I then realized it was the sump pump connected to one of the pipes that i think comes from an upstairs toilet.

I didn’t think that was good so i googled and researched and yep it’s not code and is actually illegal apparently because this can overload public sewer lines

The previous owners of this home were landlords and this is just one of the MANY things that were done not to code or “landlord special” that we (my husband and i) discovered after moving in that our inspector missed.

I thought about it and i think the reason they routed it to a sewer pipe is because directly behind the house where the pump is, there is a dug platform thing that they used to have a hot tub on, but we converted it to a patio space. It’s like 3 feet away from the foundation. I assume they didn’t want to put the sump pump discharge through there because it would need to divert and go around the platform?

So, how would we go about fixing this? I would prefer to have it to code so in case if we ever have a sewer problem in the future, insurance or somebody from the town won’t say it’s our fault because the sump discharge is connected to it.

Can a sump discharge pipe have turns in it? Because we would have to route it around the patio thing. I’m not a plumber and I’m not a super handy person. I work a desk job but I am constantly worried about things needing to meet code and safety standards. And i keep finding more and more things in this house. This being one of the more recent issues.

Thanks, sorry for the long read

Tldr:

previous owners connected sump discharge to sewer pipe. I want to correct this but I’m not sure if i am able to because directly behind the house foundation is a patio that’s in the ground - we would have to do a few turns in the discharge pipe to get it far enough away from the foundation. Should we hire a plumber to fix, or can we DIY it to save money?

It’s a nightly routine with her and my husband, but this is the longest she’s held on lol. Her name is Navi.

I’m looking into adding valance rods for my bay windows. I found this image as inspo on google. However I can’t wrap my head around how the curtain goes on seamlessly between each window. Because where the rod gets fastened to the wall, the curtain can’t slide over it. So how are they doing it so the valances hide the rod?

Am i stupid? can someone help me figure it out 😭

$749,000 for a 2 bedroom 1,200 sqft house in the flood zone with schoharie creek frontage built in 1960, rickety siding and old windows, a little over 1 acre. A 3 season residence, not even a year round home

when you have to write a 5,000 word passage in the description to try and justify the price, that may indicate it’s overpriced by 10 miles

typical seller mentality “i know what i’ve got”

to put it in perspective, a much nicer 4 season updated house with schoharie creek frontage, 8 acres, built in 2004, sold for $340k in march of 2026. not even that accurate of a sold comp but that house is better than this one listed for 750k

I’m tired of this real estate market

thanks for reading my complaint

He said i could post this

Primer is on & cured (pics are from when i first primed it but its been two weeks dried now)

I want to do something fun. I plan on painting it with acrylics & then sealing it with an outdoor protective topcoat.

Was thinking a wildflower pattern but my husband suggested doing spiraled colorful dots. It’s for a family member’s garden and she said i can do whatever with it.

Have been searching for “outdoor teddy bear garden statue diy painting” for inspiration and most results that come up are AI generated, so I’m stumped.

Anyone have any fun inspiration they could share?

screenshots from a local apartment website that i thought were funny lol

Its like over 20’, something from the previous owners, or builder. Why they put the dryer outlet and stuff there when the vent is all the way in the back i dont know. Home was built in 2004

How do we clean it so we dont die? Do those long brush kit things work for this? Or is there a different way?

No idea if the previous owners ever cleaned it either because looking thru the vent from the outside its nasty

We’ve lived here for a year so far, new home owners so all this maintenance stuff is new to us. But we didnt realize that a long dryer vent was an issue until i did research on how to clean them

Thanks

He is a domestic abuser, she and her children seem to be victims of him? This kind of creates a strange scenario. I feel bad about this situation specifically in the screenshot but at the same time making that shit racist comment abbot a deceased child is complete TRASH behavior and they deserve everything terrible coming to them for that.

However it makes me think she absolutely knew what account she was posting on and perhaps did it intentionally to destroy her husband’s reputation? Or as a means of finally being able to divorce/get away from him? As fucked up as that comment was and obviously that’s no excuse for that vile behavior.

But, no woman & mother deserves this type of abuse from her husband even if she’s a shitty racist terrible person.

Again, not trying to minimize the situation of how this business is unhinged and destroying themselves and how that racist comment from the other day was vile and disgusting, but this screenshot I think gives some interesting context?

What are your thoughts?

This whole thing is a major shit show on so many levels.