🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

We’re moving apartments and it’s a REALLY great time to trim up all the stupid stuff we haven’t touched in years. heh

Cardboardception!

Would explain why there were that many reindeer, though. lol

I’ve found the occasional box handy, but not many until it’s time to move. We had a stash of something like a dozen folded flat and out of the way, then we got bankers boxes because they’re not too expensive and they’re a really nice size for some heavy things, and then we got some plastic rubbermaid containers because they work better for some lighter items.

The rubbermaid containers will actually be more of a pain to deal with since they don’t fold flat, but at least they stack. So I figure we use the top-most container in the stack to store a spare blanket and clothing that we want to keep packed down most of the time, and that’s pretty space-efficient. And then flatten the boxes and have that somewhere on a shelf or stacked next to something out of the way.

I guess the good news is that with all the stuff everyone has around in storage, we won’t run out of stuff this time. Food? Maybe. Stuff? Definitely not. hehe

That would be awesome. :)

It’s funny. I used to read lots of older books when I was growing up. A couple of centuries ago, it was considered wise to hang on to things like cord or string, just because they could be useful. Of course, back then, we had so much less stuff floating around. Now we have problems with hoarding stuff that might some day be useful. (And too much stuff in general!)

Distracted, but on the stories - I was remembering a parable (a story from a book geared towards schoolchildren) of two boys, one of whom opened a package tied up with string carelessly and threw away the string and paper wrapping; the other boy carefully untied the string, removed and folded the paper. The payoff was that the one who saved it made something useful out of it later, whereas the boy that wasted those things went without. Of course these days… while it is good to reduce, reuse, recycle, when it comes to hoarding, a lot of times it’s more healthy to throw away than keep…

My brain skipped over “herder” the first time and I was very very confused.

Terrible way to get your fibre in… lol

Break it down, fold it flat, store it. They’re handy when you move. Shipping tape to set them back up and seal them for the move.

Just don’t hoard. If you don’t have space or you have more than you need, trim your stash down.

Sorry to avoid your specific question, but just a little comment that I’ve found the enamel/ceramic coated cookware to hold up extremely well and work well for me.

But I cook my eggs on a nonstick griddle I have - cheap from Walmart, like $15.

In general, if your eggs are sticking, you are not letting the pan heat up before you cook (typically non–nonstick metal pans/skillets need this), or you’re just not using enough fat/oil. It doesn’t take a whole lot, but you do need some.

I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)