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.
Everything that takes under two minutes to complete gets done immediately. Future me loves past me now
I managed to clean the kitchen and do the dishes every evening for two weeks in a row now and it is a start to be nice to tomorrow me. If it becomes a habit, I will try to do more, but for now it is hard enough, but also so, so satisfying the next morning! Past me, today me and tomorrow me are a team!
Yeah the hardest part is making a habit. I’ve started to do a quick vacuum on the stairs once a day (cordless vacuum FTW) and it makes a big difference.
Ritalin
I went on a T-shirt wholesale website and ordered 20 navy blue shirts for a few bucks apiece. I look like this now. Get over it.
I do this with socks. Mostly because I hate taking the time to match socks when I’m doing laundry. And when I inevitably lose a sock I’m not left with one sock that doesn’t match any other sock.
Me too! The only bummer is when they all wear out at the same time and you have to buy 2 dozen socks at once. I’m at that stage right now, which is only a drag because I bought shitty socks last time and need to find a new brand.
I hear that. I just bought a bunch of Darn Tough stocks. I’m hoping they hold up for as long as I hear they do. I wear out socks really fast!
Expensive but worth it.
I love them. They fit well and feel and look nice.
One thing you can do with quality stuff is to just buy one or two every month (or however much you can afford). Assuming it’s good quality and holds up, you’ll have a good amount after a year or so. I do this with underwear as well.
Oh, you reminded me what I need to get my brother for Xmas.
What brand socks do you buy?
One time I bought Calvin Klien and they were pretty good. This time I think I got Mark’s Work wear house brand and they were crap. I used to buy one pack to see if I liked them but this time I bought a bunch and got burnt.
My friends kids all just wear mismatched socks. Apparently that’s the thing to do these days.
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Digitized all my documents
I’m just starting to do that and I’m loving it!
I don’t use a smartphone but taking pictures rather than scanning is becoming really tempting.
If you don’t have a smartphone, I don’t know what the chances are that you self host services, but, if you do, check out paperless-ngx, which is what I’m using. It’s great.
thx always interested in things like this.
There are scanning apps that automatically crop the photo, let you make multi page PDFs, and automatically upload to your cloud of choice or directly to your computer. This has made it super easy for me. I’ve tried a few and settled on the one-time paid version Genius Scan and it works well for me.
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.
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.
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
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Labelled bag clips on all the stuff in the freezer. When something runs out, the clip goes onto a bit of string, hanging from the bottom of a cupboard. Instant freezer shopping list.
Edit to note: The only weakness is that you only add things to your shopping list when they run out. The workaround is to have 2 bags of everything, though this wouldn’t suit everyone.
I write everything in my freezer down on a list with a in/out side. Once the two sides equalize I cross the line off. I also record the date on the freezer bags and the list so I eat the older stuff first.
Helps keep track and makes shopping easy.
I have ADHD, that would last about a week before being forgotten about. Organisation is definitely not my strong point.
Basically a system where the clips act as Kanban-cards. Simple and effective!
oooooh this is a good one
I stopped listening to news radio in the morning. Music is the way to go to start the day.
Big feel you on this one. There was a while I would hate-listen to NPR on my drive and realized how badly that was making me shit my ass. One day, I was listening to ‘Lovely Day’ by Bill Withers with the windows down and an older lady started dancing while I was at a stoplight and blew me a kiss. Terry Gross not giving me nothing that compares to that…
I set up nextcloud with CalDAV synchronisation and gave access to my wife. Now we have a shared calendar on all devices to plan our week.
As much as I love my own Nextcloud instance, I’m not sure that’s a “small thing” for most people. Also, now you have to secure it and keep it updated. I keep mine behind an Nginx reverse proxy and pass those logs to a small splunk instance with a dashboard to show me what’s hitting my server. With basically zero footprint, botnets and attackers have still found my server and are attacking it regularly.
Login to my server is only possible with my SSH key and a 2FA code.
The firewall drops all incoming connection attempts except from my home network.Is there anything else I should worry about?
Keeping it internal only keeps out a lot of the bad stuff. I actually have mine online, so tend to think in that mode.
The only recommendation I would make it, keep it updated. This goes for all software, you never know when a bug or vulnerability is going to turn into a bad day.
Bitwarden.
I actually can’t understand how most people live without a password manager.
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I just give up after 3 tries and click “forgot password”.
It isn’t about the convenience of remembering passwords, it’s about changing all of your passwords to something unguessable, and having a different password for every individual website. Something like
sC6vht8q!J#yZgHfmUq9p#%V2GqFrv96Wqy@$BrNxmmdtLM^aUWrSSTTsYnnLac8C9YPN*bUZxVTqkmy6Y!5!pm9qE7BRJ9nE
Is impossible to remember, but it’s also impossible to brute force or guess.
I got a freezer for the garage and I shop at Costco
Where I grew up there was a program where you’d sign up for a waiting list. Then when the county police encountered a deer that’d been injured but not badly mangled by a car, they’d put it out of its misery and send it to a local butcher. You’d pay $50 to the butcher and end up with a huge amount of packaged venison.
We kept a freezer in the basement just for that. It would fill the freezer.
I carry a Leatherman Squirt PS4 in my pocket every day. It’s tiny and doesn’t add bulk to my pocket but is super handy and I use it all the time. Has spring loaded pliers and tiny scissors, a small straight blade and file, and both a flat Phillips head and broader flat screwdriver.
I bought a $3 mini hook knife for my keychain off Aliexpress. I was tired of getting my pocket knife or Leatherman confiscated or stolen “for security reasons” at ever increasing (and surprising, like libraries, bars) venues. The majority of my needs was to cut open boxes and plastic packaging anyway. It’s the size of half a stick of gum, pops open with a button, and only the inside of the hook is sharp, making it pretty safe for wet hands. The handle is part carabiner clip. Not sure how long they last, since they get confiscated, but at $3 each, I don’t care. Keep it on my keys. The clip makes it easy to take off my keys if I need to leave it behind, but if I end up getting it stolen, meh.
It cuts through cardboard really well, and also opens that hard plastic packaging, burlap sacks, plastic strapping, and that weird material large dry dog food comes in.
Why is it surprising that you had a pocket knife confiscated at a bar?
I have never been to a bar with any kind of security search beyond checking my ID. If it is a ticketed event, sometimes there’s a cursory patdown. In those cases you have time while waiting in line to put your knife somewhere they won’t pat down, or go hide it in a bush.
I bought a $3 mini hook knife… The majority of my needs was to cut open boxes and plastic packaging anyway.
That’s a good tip! I have a Gerber Dime on my keychain, and I’ve found that the “retail package opener” is the tool I use by far most often. Luckily, mine hasn’t been confiscated yet.
I make my work lunches for the week on Sunday night. It saves me the trouble of making a lunch every night of the week.
I leave a roll of trash bags in the bottom of the trash bin, so it’s where I need it when I need it - instead of taking up place elsewhere or getting lost. I do this for all trash bins. In the kitchen, at the toilets, at work, in the garage etc.
Also, with all the different sorting these days, I’ve decided not to sort the plastic, paper, glass etc. at the source, but just use one big container for all the clean stuff. When it’s full, I’ll take it out and sort it at the actual trashcan outside which is the place where it actually needs sorting. There’s no need to keep 5 or more different trash containers under the kitchen sink to be emptied separately.
We do this for work trash but not for home trash
I leave a roll of trash bags in the bottom of the trash bin
That seems like it would work real well until one of the bags leaks gross stuff all over it.
Any gross stuff that could leak in my trash goes in the freezer, and stays frozen until trash day.
I like my freezer not to be full of garbage, plus it doesn’t freeze instantly, so could leak on my food in there. No thanks. Or do you have a dedicated garbage freezer?
Can confirm, visited someone who had exactly that happen while I was there. He was a bit flustered.
I learned to tie some knots. The canadian jam knot and the constrictor basically replaced zip ties for me
This reminds me of a r/coolguides post on many different knots. I should find that one and start practicing.
Edit: I just found this website. It shows animated knots.
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.
