For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
IT’S GOOD FOR YOU
Sweetie pumpkin, do you want to join the Columbia Record Club?
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Buying a bright colorful wallet so I can always find it.
Same for me. Also the one I got is made out of hard plastic so my cards don’t get bent or broken(this was always a problem for me before)
How aggressively were you sitting???
I don’t even keep my wallet in my back pocket. I used to stuff my wallets with receipts, bustickets and whatnot, so I guess the strain of all that would also wear on my cards…
Ah, the Costanza school of wallet organization.
Exactly.
(They call him Martin XYZ because of the weird shape of his butt)
Well, that’s as good of an explanation for that name as any I’ve come up with, so I using that in the future. Not sure how it makes sense, but that’s okay.
It’s not that much of a chore. Once the kids are asleep, I plug everything in. The charger works great, and it hasn’t exploded yet lol.
I automate all of my bill payments. Otherwise, I might forget to pay one or two and end up paying late fees, having service cut off, etc.
My parents were terrible about paying bills on time, and we got evicted at least once before they simply forgot to pay the fucking rent on time.
Before this was possible, I’d sit down on the last day of every month with a stack of envelopes and stamps, and I’d cut the month’s checks so I could drop them in the mail a week ahead of time. Luckily I didn’t actually have to mail the rent check; the landlord lived downstairs.
When I was in college I had zero knowledge of how to cook so I relied on what my mom packed me and takeaways.
I decided to learn how to make basic stuff, like pasta, eggs, baked potatoes, etc and it saved me tons of money.
I’m not a good cook by a long shot but I can feed myself and to this day I enjoy some quality time in the kitchen.
It’s crazy to me how people dont know this.
Cooking saves so much money, its incredible.
This also makes you good dating material, for anyone out there who could use the advice 😉
Pretty great 2nd date in my experience, not a great idea for an initial date unless you know the person ahead of time. But can pretty quickly reveal if they can cook too!
Try and find a cheap deal for a meal service like hellofresh or blue apron or any other service. I didn’t want to, but my spouse did. I’ve learned some good techniques and used ingredients I would not normally use. Don’t sign up long term, just get a box or two or whatever and cancel. Once you’ve learned your lesson you can extrapolate that.
Buy two of things. If you have trouble washing something, like bed sheets, buy a second set. You can change them first, then you have some more time to wash and dry and fold the other set. Otherwise, if you only have one, then you have to wash and dry and remake your bed in a shorter time window.
Who just has one set of bedsheets anyway?
Jesus I had the opposite problem. I inherited every set of bedsheets my grandmother ever owned. A burdensome amount of cloth.
I did, before I decided to buy 2. Only had 1 when growing up.
You put it in a dryer when you washed it, or what?
Strip bed. Wash sheets. Dry sheets. Remake bed. All as soon as possible.
This sounds like a drill or sth.
But I can attest, having more then 1 is helpful
How odd. I can’t imagine owning only one set. Do you also have only one set of clothes?
Do you also have only one set of clothes?
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Do you imagine OP washes their clothes naked?
That is my point, yes. That not having a spare sheet would be as foolish as not having a spare shirt.
More likely they just never bother to wash their sheets, I guess.
I discovered this strat on accident! Blew out my favorite jeans irreperably, and my replacement pair was actually two replacement pairs. My limiting factor on how long between laundry loads is how much lunch is on my jeans and now I have a backup pair so I do laundry half as much on average.
Or actually less than half as much because the odds I have two big spills in a short window is much less than having one big spill.
I keep getting burned finding boots that I like and by the time they wear out they’re discontinued. For the first time I finally did the thing where I bought a pair, confirmed I like them, and immediately got a second pair. It was a hefty up front cost but now I’m genuinely looking forward to the same blue crushed velvet docs for the next 4-6 years
I recently got a convertible standing desk thing, with a treadmill/walking pad for underneath. It has done wonders for my mental health while at work. Reading boring real estate contracts is a lot easier to get through when I’m standing up and moving instead of falling asleep in my chair while simultaneously destroying my back/posture.
Whenever there is a small task that will take less than a few minutes, I ask myself “When else are you going to have 80 seconds?” and usually that makes me realize I should just get it done now. Sometimes I still say “tomorrow” and reminds me to pick a specific time to do the task.
I get this advice, but I hate this advice. I have a million things to do that take just a couple minutes. I never know when to stop!
That’s just it - getting started is the hurdle.
My rule of thumb for this is once I’ve begun cleaning in preparation for the other 4 ideas I have buzzing around, I write those down, finish one task and call it from there (this is usually after 2 to 5 mini-tasks that ends up with cleaning)
Bring a cardboard box to the grocery store. Checkout is fast and the checkers/baggers love it
Or reusable bags. We have some here made of fabric(Or is it cloth? Don’t know the right term) that we’ve been using for years.
Those seem to throw off the baggers. They’re set up to use plastic bags and the fabric bags break up their routine.
You have people to bag your shopping for you?
Yes
Best of both worlds, we have reusable bags which are shaped like boxes with carry handles and enough structure to keep their shape while carrying stuff. The first store we ever got them at was Food Lion, but I’ve seen them available from Wegmans now too.
I have the regular bags from Food Lion and have been amazed at how sturdy they are.
I only recently noticed they also sell the rigid bags as well, and now I’m thinking of upgrading
Do it! My only complaint about the box-bags is that they are so damned handy they end up getting used for everything around the house and can be unavailable for grocery shopping. Also, if you’re like me and try to carry way too many groceries into the house at once (why make two trips, when I can injure myself in one?), they hold lots more at one go.
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I do this as well, but add in a 10 port USB charger and some USB cables so I can charge all my devices.
That sounds like its gonna explode XD
Do you often have like 10 usb devices charging at once??
I have a family of five. When we go on vacation, we have 4 tablets, 2 phones, 5 watches, and a power bank. If it’s summer, a rechargeable personal fan for my wife. So 10 isn’t even enough.
Whoa. At this point, I’d be so stressed from charging stuff all the time, that I would reject technology and buy a country house lol.
I just tend to buy a powerboard at whatever place I end up. Surprisingly cheap compared to the price of the journey, and a great gift for someone on the last day.
I just finished doing this too. It’s so freeing not being tied to mega corporations anymore.
Woah woah woah, the post said one small thing. This would be a monster task for me as my whole life lives in Google drive.
Nextcloud, I will have to look into that.
I have is as a docker in my UnRaid server. However, from what I’ve heard, the easiest way to get NC up and running real fast is in a Ubuntu server and installing Nextcloud from Ubuntu’s snap store. I can’t confirm that, but it seems legit, since it came from a DistroTube video in YouTube.
Yes, but actually no, if you want to access it remotely. DONT OPEN THE WEB PORTS TO THE INTERNET, rather use a vpn like wireguard to connect in to the home network.
Also, backups.
Do you need to buy a domain and figure ddns for nextcloud?
Last time I tried to use their ootb docker container it was hard to use it just from internal network.
You will probably have to get a domain, but some of the ugly TLDs can cost few bucks for a year, so it’s not that bad.
As for being able to access your Nextcloud from outside, if you don’t use it to share large amount of data often, I recommend looking into Cloudflare Tunell. It’s pretty easy to set up, and allows you to not only put a configurable firewall in front of your Nextcloud instance that you can for example geoblock traffic from other countries, but you also don’t have to deal with port forwarding, DDNS, or exposing your home network directly into the internet.
The setup is simple, you just download their cloudflared service, install it with a token generated in their web management (that ties it to a domain and tells it what port it should expose) on your Nextcloud machine, and it will automatically connect to Cloudflare server that will act as a port forward, but without you having to expose anything on your home network directly.
I don’t really access my Nextcloud from the internet that often, don’t use it to stream or share large files with large number of people, so I never had issues with it. But I’ve been told that it’s against Cloudflare ToS to use it for large data sharing, streaming or high-volume data transfers, so keep that in mind.
But it’s perfect for accessing my Home Assistant and Nextcloud when I need it.
What do you use for search?
I still am using Google and I hate how useless it has become since SEO started to become a thing in the last 5 or 10 years. Maybe I should try Kagi. Does it have location specific search results
Cool, yeah I will definitely be trying it out thanks.
more on the 10 years end of that, i remember thinking results were declining ~2011 when they decided to start being ask jeeves
Yeah, since about 2016 it has started to get really bad though. I remember when I would be looking for a solution to a computer related issue, all the top results were super useful Tom’s Hardware and AnandTech forum posts. But of course nobody does SEO for forum posts because they’re just trying to help people not make money, so instead now all of the probably AI written crap is in the top results which half the time is only barely related to what I searched
I bought about ten command hooks of various sizes.
I use one of them to hang up my jeans at the end of the day. A few more hooks use other bits of clothing I’ve worn but might wear again.
It’s separate from the hangers so it’s clear which clothes are pristine laundered, and which ones are in transition: clothes that can be worn again.
I always had an in between pile for the same reason. Clothes that weren’t freshly washed but weren’t dirty enough to wash. I like your idea of hooks. I might try it out.
Set calendar alerts for routine tasks that need to be done less frequently than once a week.
Things like washing the vacuum cleaner filters, descaling the kettle, replacing the water filter (I’m in a hard-water area), servicing various appliances, cleaning all the things that need cleaning but don’t need cleaning every week. All small things. It removes a lot of cognitive effort and makes sure those things actually get done.
This is a big one. I try to tell my ADHD teen he needs to do this because he is constantly forgetting to do things (feed his cat, pickup around his room, go out to the school bus in the morning). He’s very oppositional to change and doesn’t think it’ll help, even though he’s either on his phone or PC all day long.
Ritalin
Got me some anc headphones if you know why you may find they work amazingly
