July 2012
7 posts
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Something's lurking in the kitchen...
I always try to avoid the really nasty dishes, the ones that have stuff caked all over them. I think I’m convinced that if I do the rest of the dishes and leave them with soapy water in the sink then somehow they’ll be easier to clean later on. Usually it just creates a backlog in the sink where dishes get piled on top of the really gross one no one wants to clean, and it tends to be a...
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Unfucked my dog
My dog is nearly 15, incontinent (and in diapers), blind in one eye, going deaf, and a sweetheart. He transitioned through the move remarkably well, considering he’d lived in the other house since he was 12 weeks old.
We deal with his incontinence by keeping him in reusable diapers with “feminine napkins” as liners, which is a remarkably good system except he ends up smelling...
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Keeping up the motivation
So much of my energy has been focused on moving over the past few months that now we are finally moved in and most things are unpacked, it’s felt like “good enough.” Except it’s not. It bothers me.
Today I tackled the pile o’ spices. No photos, but I took them from the piles of tupperware boxes into the drawer where they are going to live. (Which will make baking and...
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Dusting with chronic pain & an asthmatic in the...
My partner has asthma. I have chronic pain. It’s important that we (usually I) tackle the dust bunnies regularly or she can’t breathe and needs expensive medications.
Her family has all kinds of high standards for dusting involving using a special vacuum cleaner that’s really heavy and a damp rag. All of this requires too much energy of me, and so for years neither of us ever...
Unfuck Your Habitat: habitat unfucking with... →
ellydwerewolf:
hey so the app seems really cool (from a distance, unfortunately, droid user here) and i am all for good habit forming and such
which is why i would like to ask if anyone has any practical tips for cleaning with chronic pain?
mine keeps me from moving around a whole lot at…
http://keepingitunfucked.tumblr.com/post/27760926505/unfucking-with-chronic-pain-tips
Made a...
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Unfucking with Chronic Pain: Tips
Keep the cleaning supplies you need for each room in the room, so you don’t have to use extra energy to go and get the cleaning supplies. That way if you’re standing in the bathroom and thinking, “The sink is dirty,” you can just pick up a spray bottle of vinegar and spray it down, then wipe. Then you are done for that section, no more.
I will literally clean one thing in...
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Making your bed every day makes you a good...
I’ve been making my bed (almost) every day for the past 4-5 months or so. This past week I went to visit family, and I set a good example for the kids in the house by making my bed every day. I’d like to say that I made a good impression. Even so, it felt really good not to be a total slob in someone else’s house - and for that already to be a built-in habit, not something I had...
