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I made a camp kitchen!
05/26/2026

I made a camp kitchen!

My husband brought home this cabinet for me. Someone was going to throw it away, but I want to paint it red. He says it ...
05/26/2026

My husband brought home this cabinet for me. Someone was going to throw it away, but I want to paint it red. He says it is impossible… lol, we had an argument. He says to leave it the way it is, but I want to paint it. We are both waiting to hear other people’s opinions?Thank you so much

I told my installer that I wanted the brick on this hearth to be cut into so the Flooring goes into it so I don’t have t...
05/26/2026

I told my installer that I wanted the brick on this hearth to be cut into so the Flooring goes into it so I don’t have to put trim maybe just a very thin caulking. I do not want it ran up to it and then caulked. Or any kind of exterior trim like quarter round. When I told him this, he said OK but I wasn’t quite sure what he thought about it. Two other people that I had come over here they explicitly told me that they would be cutting into the brick a little bit just enough to get the flooring to slide underneath of it any tips or advice that I should make sure this installer understands?

We moved into a brand new flat. Thanks good they put a power socket in the shower. I think I can save time now and start...
05/26/2026

We moved into a brand new flat. Thanks good they put a power socket in the shower. I think I can save time now and start using the hairdryer while showering, right?

Any idea how to clean up paint bleed on textured LVP?Just pulled up the tape on new installed bench seating and noticed ...
05/26/2026

Any idea how to clean up paint bleed on textured LVP?

Just pulled up the tape on new installed bench seating and noticed this paint bleed. Any tips on how to get this up and leave a clean edge?

I know this is probably going to sound ridiculous to some people, but honestly this has been bothering me more than it s...
05/26/2026

I know this is probably going to sound ridiculous to some people, but honestly this has been bothering me more than it should 😅

Every single week, my neighbor rolls their trash bins out to the curb the NIGHT before pickup. Not early morning. Not before work. The entire evening before.

And now, like clockwork, I sit in my living room and the main thing I see outside my window is… garbage bins.

Maybe it sounds small, but it changes the whole feel of the street. The neighborhood looks messy for half the day because someone decided their convenience matters more than how the street actually looks for everyone else.

Before people jump on me, yes, obviously everyone has trash. I take mine out too. But I wait until the morning of pickup because I feel like that’s the considerate thing to do. The bins stay outside for the shortest amount of time possible and the street doesn’t spend an entire evening looking like cleanup day.

What gets under my skin is that it feels so careless. Like there was never even one thought of, “Hey, maybe other people don’t want to stare at trash cans outside their homes all night.”

And now I’m sitting here debating whether leaving a polite note would make me completely unreasonable 😬

Part of me thinks I should just let it go because technically they aren’t doing anything wrong. But another part of me feels like shared neighborhoods only stay nice when people think beyond just their own convenience.

Am I overreacting here!

This is a toilet at my mom’s house. She is almost 80 and has always kept the house super clean so when I saw this I tho...
05/26/2026

This is a toilet at my mom’s house. She is almost 80 and has always kept the house super clean so when I saw this I thought she was loosing it! However, i asked about it today and she said it was iron in the well water causing it and she’s tried to clean it but can’t find anything that will take it off. All the toilets in her house are like this but this one is the worst. Any tips for removing iron stains?

Omg I am absolutely disgusted and ashamed, please no negative comments 😥.I have just done our living rug after seeing th...
05/26/2026

Omg I am absolutely disgusted and ashamed, please no negative comments 😥.

I have just done our living rug after seeing the tips on this group. This rug is second hand so not just our filth😮☹️🤢.

I used 4 aerial liquid tablets, a cup full of vanish oxi action powder, and 2 cups of fabric softener. Cant wait to see it dry.

Oh btw extremely heavy and hard to ring out and lift.

So recently my wife and I had a little boy. I say my wife and I, however it was predominantly a 1 woman show, I kinda ju...
05/26/2026

So recently my wife and I had a little boy. I say my wife and I, however it was predominantly a 1 woman show, I kinda just passed water bottles and crushed ice as the need arose. But I digress, we decided that in an effort to save some money and because it's better for the environment, to go with reusable nappies. Today we washed the aforementioned reusables and I was struck with a bit of a conundrum, whereby I ran out of pegs in the little basket on the washing trolley.
This, as some will note, is not especially interesting, rather dull even. I however had my curiosity piqued by such an event and subsequently took to counting.
Of the maximum available line space on our hills hoist clothes line being 41,760mm but with a usable area of 38,960mm (my wife doesn't like me going too near the knots in the line as these can catch clothing and create holes (a fair point to be honest)) I used approximately 19,480mm.
Additionally I used 160 pegs to peg out 104 items (nappy shells, inserts, backup inserts, bum wipes, a travel bag for them, a pencil case sized bag which i presume holds the travel bag when not in use, 1 floor cloth and 1 curiously wet waterproof mattress cover used in case of extreme levels of dampness). This came to an average of 1.538 pegs per item that required pe***ng out.
I also recently worked out that for the reusables and their liners cost around $8.50 each vs $0.315 each for disposable style. That means you have to use the reusable style 26.98 times (without factoring in water, detergent energy and time costs) before it becomes more economically viable than going disposable.
No idea if anyone would find this information interesting or useful or even usable. But I find data and numbers to be fascinating.
Male, since 10.5 in work boots, 11 in gumboots, underground coal fitter, central NSW. No banana for scale due to the lack of them in my house currently.
Picture of the aforementioned clothes line full of nappies and their accompanying accessor

Figured I’d show a heavy bedbug infestation as well (post heat treatment). Elderly lady had been trying to treat them he...
05/26/2026

Figured I’d show a heavy bedbug infestation as well (post heat treatment). Elderly lady had been trying to treat them herself for 2 years. This is just the recliner in her living room. The bedroom was just as bad.

NYC: Neighbor moved out, and now there’s a non-stop stream of cockroaches from his apartment. Management refuses to do a...
05/26/2026

NYC: Neighbor moved out, and now there’s a non-stop stream of cockroaches from his apartment. Management refuses to do anything.
These glue traps are completely filled every two days. The roaches (and rats) are pouring out from the vacant apartment (22) next door, and the building management are ignoring my calls. This has been going on for over a month — it’s disgusting and feels like a health hazard.

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