Just discovered a much easier way to grind my coffee in the morning and felt dumb because it was so obvious, figure there’s some good stories out there about this type of thing out there
Preparing as much as possible in the evening, really:
- breakfast: oats in the fridge
- clothes: picking clothes and putting them on the chair
- backpack: taking out the old lunch container and other things that I don’t need tomorrow
- shaving and showering
Only quick wash with a washcloth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and go
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Saying no instead of trying to fix everyone’s problems. I’m bit handy at fixing a lot of things and I’m happy to teach people how to fix stuff but sadly most of them don’t want to learn and just see me as a tool.
Can you please fix me so that I can say “no”?
No 🙂
“I have no idea. I don’t use Windows anymore.”
Oh great !
I wAn’t you tO INsTALl OmarcHY fOr Me, I hEArd IT’s THE GeaTeSt of LInuxES.
God, Omarchy is so fucking useless. Dude at work was going on about it so I staged it up on a random machine. It isn’t an operating system: it is an AI GUI.
It lasted a good hour before I blew it out. Fucking unusable with no benefit.
Its less a distro and more some scipts that customize the Arch GUI and dump a bunch of AI shit on it.
The main issue is that it was created by DHH, the racist/transphobe/facist that has written extensively about how “brown” England is and talked about killing “vermin” like Roma.
Supporting it is causing issues for buisnesses, but shitheads keep doing it.
An alternative that I do with my parents: “I told you not to buy this locked Samsung phone filled with adware (or antivirus subscription), throw it in the trash and buy a real phone that is cheaper, I’m not helping you anymore because you don’t listen to me.”
(Yes, it’s a rant but it works)
I suffered from back pain. Until one doc recommended one of those 20$ abs rollers. Like 20 reps take 3 minutes? Boom. No more back pain. Actually had to quit a more physical job because of this.
Are you talking about the big foam cylinder that you lie on top of and roll back and forth? Or something else
I think they mean the wheel with the handles where you kneel and roll it forward and back to work your abs.
Exercising regularly and eating healthy and then experiencing the benefits of easier sleep and feeling happier is so frustrating.
The worst feeling came with the realisation that all those annoying gym junkie “you are what you eat”, “eat less, move more” douchebags are correct about everything. Now I’m responsible for my actions, goddammit.
The other week I didn’t get the fries with my normal chicken burger from the fast food place and didn’t get that awful heavy feeling in my stomach afterwards. Made me so angry.
The other week I didn’t get the fries with my normal chicken burger from the fast food place and didn’t get that awful heavy feeling in my stomach afterwards. Made me so angry.
the reason i do endurance sports is so that i CAN eat like trash
I dont eat to move… i move to eat
The realization that how we feel is directly affected by the things we do and food we eat is super frustrating.
Mainly, because I want to eat like shit and do nothing and still feel good and it just doesn’t work.
On the flip side, as someone that’s dealt with long-term chronic depression, it’s nice to know that there are literal activities that can directly counter my shitty mood. Taking a walk, petting a dog, talking with a friend/loved one, sitting in sunshine, exercise, listen to music… etc. etc.
It’s kind of like half the pharmaceutical industry has sprung up because people would rather take a pill and feel a bit better, than engage in any sort of healthy eating/exercise to feel actually better.
Very true. For that matter, the “wellness” industry in general and a lot of popular wisdom about what ails us is mostly trivial, too.
The amount of weight given to the topic of whether artificial sweeteners are better or worse for your overall health than sugar compared to the time spent on talking about the dismally low percentage of the population who actually eat enough fruit and veg is the complete wrong way around!
Diet Coke is the least of your worries if you’re not getting any fibre, people! And if you are getting enough fibre, protein, and healthy fats, the right level of calories and all your recommended vegetables, then by all means drink all the Diet Coke you want! Which won’t be much because healthy diets leave you much more satiated and naturally energetic anyway.
The reason of course is that avoiding artificial sweeteners or some purported “toxin” is a quick and easy way to feel healthier and feel like you’re doing something without actually having to think about true overall health… Allegorically, everyone’s trying to build a pyramid from the top down.
Do some lateral walks too. Trick is to push off the back leg.
A lot of good advice in the comments below, but one thing that has kept me mobile after breaking my back is stretching. Specifically, stretching your hamstrings, especially, if like me, you sit a lot. As we sit more, the hamstrings shorten and pull in the hips, which can cause back pain, it’s a cascading effect.
Every day, I spend at least 5-10 minutes stretching just my legs and focus on my hamstrings. It’s kept a lot of pain away or at least within tolerable levels.
Funny enough, I was never able to touch my toes until after I had 2 titanium rods installed in my back.
I’ll bite the bullet on this one.
Maybe it’s not embarrassingly late because it was decades ago and I was a dumb teenager, but wiping your ass while sitting. Every time I took a shit, I’d stand up and then wipe.
Much easier now sitting down since the toilet seat basically keeps your cheeks spread for you.
Now just wish I had the right hookups to install a bidet toilet. That would be a real game changer.
If you have water going to your toilet you should be able to install a bidet seat. Easy peasy.
with ice cold water?
Surprisingly yeah it’s comfortable even in the dead of winter. I think it just doesn’t cover a large enough area to make you feel cold
My working theory is that the body just doesn’t sense temperature in the butthole very well, because why would it?
Why would it sense spicy? To remind you of the choices you made earlier?
It senses spicy, because spicy isn’t actually a form of taste, but rather just your pain sensors being triggered by a chemical, like for example capsaicin (chilis) or piperine (black pepper).
Wikipedia says for capsaicin:
By binding to TRPV1 receptors, capsaicin produces similar sensations to those of excessive heat or abrasive damage, such as warming, tingling, itching, or stinging, explaining why capsaicin is described as an irritant on the skin and eyes or by ingestion.
So, I guess, the butthole would in a sense be good at feeling temperature, but only for excessive/painful heat.
But also, people generally report that this problem largely goes away when they start using a bidet.
So far, the explanation that makes the most sense to me, is that you get micro-scratches from the toilet paper, and then the capsaicin etc. will really be able to irritate the broken skin.
I don’t normally put ice in it. Just regular tap water. It’s refreshing.
I’m not sure how refreshed I want my asshole to be…
You think that now. I used to make butt spray and put it in little spray foam dispensers in the bathroom. You could spray it on toilet paper to make a flushable wipe. It normally has a little lavender castille soap in it but once i accidentally bought the ginger soap and my husband complained that it was too spicy.
Oh Christ WASH YOUR DAMN ASS you baboon. Get over it.
First off, there’s thing called humor. Perhaps you haven’t heard of it, perhaps you don’t see it here. There’s also this thing called context. Earlier comments were talking about cold water. “Cold” varies from region to region. In my area it comes out at about 4° C. I have no problem washing my ass and am not a baboon. Nor am I inclined toward name-calling. I just prefer to use something closer to skin temperature than it is to ice.
Half of people wipe from the front while sitting. The other half stand up and wipe from behind. Most people in either group never find out that the other half exists.
I wanted to share a relevant QI clip for this (it was brought up by a guest, not the host) but couldn’t find it.
I wipe from the back while sitting. Am I a monster?
If you have balls, just make sure you keep them clean.
If you have a vagina, that is how you get a UTI and the practice should best be avoided entirely.
If I had a vag, I would be wiping from the front toward the back. But I have balls, so not a concern anyway. Take paper -> reach behind me (rocking forward a little as necessary) -> wipe from balls towards spine. Presto, ass is wiped without standing up or dirtying the proverbial vagina.
That would work for women too. Important is the direction towards the spine, not towards the genitalia.
You don’t need special hookups for an unheated bidet. $25 online and 30 minutes of screwing and unscrewing stuff. Very simple
You can get travel bidets for like 20 bucks or so, which are pretty much just a squeeze bottle with a nozzle. I wash mine and fill it back up when I go to wash my hands, so it’s always ready.
I’ve never used a ‘proper’ bidet, but don’t feel like I’m missing out in terms of cleanliness. Still feels pretty much like freshly showered, and certainly magnitudes cleaner than when using just toilet paper.
I got one that is just a little nozzle that fits into a used soda bottle or water bottle.
Our kids defaulted to this when they were first learning, because they were excited to see and then remembered they needed to wipe too. Teaching them to wipe before standing took some extra time, I wonder if that got skipped for you? Or your parents, who passed that on?
You should be able to just slap a t-valve on the existing water line. The bidet I’ve got came with all that.
I considered that, but the water that comes out of our well is ice cold. Not the most pleasant of sensations to grace your sensitive bits.
I’d ideally like to get one of the electronic ones that can regulate temperature and has a few different modes. But I don’t currently have an electrical outlet anywhere close to the toilets, and rewiring the bathroom isn’t high on the budget priority at the moment.
Honestly the cold water is not an issue. I was concerned about it when we installed ours but even the first time I used it I was like, “Oh that’s fine what was I worried about.”
I’m obviously not the butthole police but in my opinion/experience cold water should not be a deal breaker.
The dishwasher should be run when it’s convenient, not when it’s full.
I run the dishwasher so it’s finished at least an hour before I start dinner. So when I start cooking, 1. all the dishes are clean, and 2. the dishwasher is empty. This will save you so much effort if you can just learn to run the thing half full once in a while.
I used to feel that the dishwasher should be full for efficiency, environmental reasons, water bill, and such. Then, I added a water flow meter to my Home Assistant setup.
A full dishwasher cycle uses 4 gallons of water.
Four. Gallons.
Yeah, run that thing when you need it.
There IS electricity, but… it’s also not much. I think I calculated a total cost of about a quarter for mine last year or so… so yeah, I don’t run it because of the ADHD, not because of the cost :)
I should calculate it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if my water flow sensor uses more electricity in a year than the dishwasher. It’s very low-current, but it’s on 24/7.
For comparison: that’s flushing the toilet about three times or showering for about two minutes.
Some of us live in places with drought issues.
For comparison, my daily shower, with a low-flow shower head, uses 12 to 13 gallons. Hand-washing a large item, like a cooking pot, can take several gallons.
Yep, these days washing dishes by hand almost always takes more water than using a dishwasher
I always hear that but I’m not convinced. If I don’t rinse my dishes till their pretty damn clean then they come out of the dishwasher dirty. Been like this on every dishwasher I have used, at my house, at my parents house, at my SO’s house when they got a brand new one, at my friends house I can go on I have a decent sample size. If you count all the rinsing and a wash cycle I highly doubt it’s less. Plus when I wash dishes by hand I usually have several to do, and use a warm container of soapy water for my sponge. Besides the quart or 2 tops in my dish bin, it uses the same amount of water to rinse the suds off if not less than is necessary to rinse dishes before they go in the machine due to the sponge scrubbing. Maybe all 5+ dishwashers ive used are just shit 🤷
Do you live somewhere with very hard water? That fucks up powder dishwashing detergent IME, but the enzyme-based works fine for me in hard water probably 98% of the time. It has trouble with caked on peanut butter, but I blame that on the angle it was put in usually. If you used enzyme based and don’t have hard water then 🤷♂️
My water quality fluctuates but usually around 55ppm, so not terribly hard. I do use some I believe enzyme based tablets for dishwasher and their ok but if it’s caked on from yesterday or anything more than a few thousandths thick it seems to struggle. No matter what peanut butter and the dishwasher don’t mix gotta wipe that butter knife off 🤣
It does work out in my household to run it in the evening or early morning, which aligns with my energy concern’s ToU pricing. It also works out that it’s usually the coolest at night, so venting the steam into the house either isn’t as bad during the summer or helps out in Winter.
I run mine before going to bed, so I’m not waiting on the heated drying to finish and I have fresh plates and untensils in the morning.
Dishwasher at night or very early morning. The power costs are lower.
on your billing plan, maybe
This plus hand washing cooking stuff while cooking (when possible) make cleaning up after meals a lot less dreadful. Just having mixing bowels and other prep stuff out of the way makes it easier to wash wooden spoons and large items like mixing bowls that doesn’t go in the dishwasher reasonable after eating.
mixing bowels
Remind me never to eat at your house.
Never eat at my house 😉
In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.
Edit: someone beat me to it, haha
Also, if you sort your silverware before starting the dishwasher, unloading will be faster
I find the sorting works well enough that I don’t even bother with taking the basket out. Though my dishwasher and utensil drawer are just a pivot step away from each other, so ymmv.
I did this until I found out that spoons were spooning this way and some of them weren’t clean afterwards. So now it’s planned chaos again.
If you have a detachable faucet, you can stretch it over to fill your coffee machine directly.
The cheap version without a fancy faucet is if your coffee machine is close enough to do that while turning on the faucet, the wire from the coffee machine can probably also reach over the sink, so you can hold the coffee machine under the regular faucet.
Instructions unclear. Operated coffee machine in bathtub. Died.
Assuming your coffee machine is directly next to your sink, and that you don’t filter your water first
You just need better aim, skill issue.
…oh my god…
Years eh?
Pausing for 5 seconds before opening the fridge to plan what I need to get saves time and electricity by only having to open the fridge door once.
This assumes that I remember what the fuck is in there
For me the issue is that opening the fridge is a Men in Black memory flash thing. I go, “get milk!”, *opens fridge*, “… why did I open the fridge?”
Ooh pickles!
As someone with severe ADHD, I found some page-sized… well… they’re whiteboard on one side and magnet on the back so they stick to the fridge. And some dry erase pens have magnets.
Of course, this assumes I keep THOSE up to date, but I sorta do. :)
2 things.
- Brushing my teeth in the shower
- Sitting on the toilet backwards so I can use the tank as a table.
Yeah, this may work for people under a certain height. I think my knees are gonna hit the wall.
You must have a very small shower (or a very large toothbrush)
You got it, the second one.
wait. so you want our things and your not going to tell us the better way to grind coffee.
Me method has been to buy the cheap maxwell house breakfast blend pre ground 😬 I guess I have poor taste and low standards … Hard to disappoint!
I mean I don’t even like cofee. my wife has practically cut it out so we just have her emergency cafeine hit supply on hand.
I too will give no secrets without recompense.
Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn’t have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans…
- Working with git instead of 10 folders called “version x”
- to read faster I first had to learn to read at all. I was always only scimming and skipping words and since I focused on retention and understanding I started to read better.
- or more general: I need to invest time to improve/ get good at things. There is no shortcut and talent alone only gets you so far. A nice body comes from putting work in. Learning languages comes with practice. Etc…
- listening to my body (still not good at it tho) and rest when I feel tired. I’d feel urged to do something and can’t rest and end up burned out and need to rest anyways – but with brainfog and wasting my rest time on my phone or youtube…
Putting clothes I want to change into later/the following day in a packing cube. It saves going through drawers and the closet to decide what to wear when I’m trying to get my brain going or distracted.
I have a clothes valet for this, my husband uses a chair. The advantage of my valet is that it has 2 rails - one for my “semi-clean”, I-can-wear-it-again clothes, one for clean outfits I’m planning. Even faster than having to fold and fit stuff in a packing cube 😉
I do this too! Except instead of rails and valets, I have a chair and a floordrobe.
I just bought all matching clothes (so 10 of the same shirts, 5 of the same pants etc) and dress like a cartoon character, the same every day. It goes hard, it really does cut down on decision fatigue, and I always look great, because I’m always wearing my coolest outfit.
I have a Buick Century. If you push the lock doors button with the door open, it beeps three times at you and doesn’t lock the doors, as if to say that’s an invalid operation while the door is open. Press it again, and it locks the doors.
Turns out, if you press it once, get the beep code, shut the door, the car shines the headlights, corner lights and reverse lights for about ten seconds (so you can see to get in the house in the dark), and then when it shuts those off, it locks the doors. Why not just fucking lock them, I don’t know.
If flossing is hard because it’s difficult to get the floss between your teeth, then you need braces.
Ever since I got braces, for one, I smile with my whole mouth now, and for two, flossing is a quick 30 second in and out procedure that helps keep my breath smelling better.
My parents got me braces for my top set, and they’re super easy to floss, almost never had a problem with them. Had to wear a brace stretcher thing at night that hurt and was awkward, so they took pity on me and got me a retainer for my bottom set, which I lost almost immediately, twice, and then POOF like magic, they stopped giving a shit about fixing my teeth lol
So my bottom set of teeth is a horror show, is super difficult to floss, and gets mad cavities. I shoulda just got both done up by braces at the same time. Kinda weird they didn’t now that I think about it 🤔
I had braces top and bottom, teeth nice and straight around 16. From 17-25 I never went to a dentist (I got sick of waiting over an hour past my apts and stopped going to dentist and doc altogether…) then at 25 right before coming off my parents health insurance my bottom teeth started getting sore. Like all of them, and they were crowding again. Fucking wisdom teeth just about undid 50% of what the braces fixed. Got those out, yet to have a cavity at 30 🤞 but my top teeth are easy to floss and I always pull shit out of the top set when I floss nightly. The bottom set is a pain, one pair of teeth I have to fight to get the floss in. But I almost never have anything between my bottom teeth due to how damn tight they are so kind of a double edged sword there lol. Also, don’t be a dumbass and go to the dentist and doc annually ❤️ I was young and foolish and managed to get largely lucky…
You might do well with one of those online dental places like Smile Care Direct, even though I think Smile Care Direct is out of business, but there’s others that have taken over.
Knockoff invisalign will get you 95% of the way there for like 40% of the cost.
