I have a strategy for getting rid of stuff without that “oh I could use that thing I just threw out last week” devastation. It’s not super handy for organizing, but it does make organizing easier when you have less stuff. Maybe it’ll help you or someone else :)

What I do is go through stuff in rooms I rarely use. That’s where the junk tends to accumulate because when I clean the rest of the house the junk without a home goes into a spare room.

When I go through that junk, I put anything I think I want to throw out (assuming it’s not just straight garbage; that gets tossed) into one box, and anything I think I want to donate in another box. Everything else either gets put away somewhere (I have a lot of dressers/shelves for junk) or goes into a box of stuff to keep, like mementos and stuff.

When full, even if it takes months to fill it, I write the date and target action (donate/toss) on the boxes. And then I let them sit for 6 months. Unopened.

The 6 months is important because it erases all that junk from your mind. If you just toss it, that stuff is front and center in your mind so anything you do will naturally use that thing as a solution. If you let that memory fade, and don’t renew it, you don’t have that problem. If you decide you want something in the box, open it, take the thing, and put the new date on the box, to restart the 6 months. Never add anything to an existing full box; this breaks the workflow. Start a new one for new junk.

After 6 months has passed without the boxes being opened, do the thing with them you meant to (donate it or throw it out) without opening it. You no longer really know what’s in it, only that you haven’t needed any of it for a long time and it’s ok to get rid of it.

Bam, ability to clean and downsize without the crippling obsession with not throwing out something you’ll need a week later.

5,6,9 only ones that really make a big difference in the grand scheme of things.

Being super strong would mean you’d likely end up doing a lot of physical activity for yourself and others, but it would also mean that your resting metabolism is significantly higher than baseline which handily takes care of the fat/weight problem.

Being taller would be fine I guess but, and I say this as a woman in the bottom 25% in height, it wouldn’t actually make any substantial difference in life, beyond being able to touch the floor in a standard chair.

Having a lot of money takes care of shopping without stopping it, As well as the followers thing (rich people are often famous, and if not they can dump some money into something to make them famous if they want) and I feel being happy over-rides forgetting your ex, cuz you wouldn’t feel bad about it.

Wolfboy and the everything factory needs to be on this list. Same mostly cute and light (even when heavy) vibe with super enjoyable characters and magic.

It should be #2 in the list imho.

Niko and the sword of light is a pretty good fit too but it’s more adventure-type.

Some days, to avoid disturbing my sleeping cats, I sleep sideways across the head of my bed curled around them. Those days I swim in a sea of pillows.

So I guess d?

Whenever I go on a road trip to a state not bordering Wisconsin, I buy a couple cases.

I can usually trade them at another brewery, often netting far more than I bring.

What’s funny is new glarus beer isn’t even that good compared to some of the other breweries in the state, it’s just exclusive and well marketed.

I had my uterus inflated with saline for an ultrasound screening before an ablation. It wasn’t a lot of liquid, but it was an absolute screaming amount of pain, and they said it wouldn’t hurt… I knew it would because I’ve had several iud insertions but they refused when I requested something, anything at all, for the pain…

I have one of those who knows her place. She’s been there for probably a year now, and I don’t feed her so she must be doing something for me.

She briefly had a friend of the same species set up shop on the other side of the shower. That one didn’t get the memo and decided to wander all over the place while I was showering, breaking the pact. That one went down the drain. The other is still there, months after that event.

Would you not just sit facing in with your feet dangling through the opening? I sure would.

I have these for all my chargeable things. Bought like 4 packs with multiple port types, so I have tons of extra cables in case some die. They are great for game controllers, phones, tablets, rechargeable keyboards, and all sorts of other shit. All you need is multiple ends, and you can use the same cables for everything. It’s glorious if you have a mix of port types.

I have a similar story from 2001, 8th grade science fair.

One of the kids had a seismograph (parents) one had some bacteria thing (probably also parents, that kid was as dumb as the contents of his petri dishes) they all looked super professional and stuff and were obviously shit from books or the internet.

I fucked around for weeks in class doing basically nothing and the night before threw together a hand written display with some info I looked up, painted a balloon and pvc pipe with paint, and stuck it on. The “project” was about the impact of static on heavy machinery and the idea of applying an insulating coating to reduce static buildup and transference on machine parts, displayed via balloon, pipe, and latex paint. Totally original idea (to me, anyway) and research and they thought it was great even tho it looked like complete shit.

time to bunker down extra hard

Is this a typo/autocorrect or an eggcorn? I really like bunker down as an eggcorn, because it makes good sense, so I hope that’s what it is (the phrase is supposed to be hunker down). :)

I’ve also been looking for that sort of thing. Only one I’ve found is electric sheep, and it’s not… idk it’s not quite as uncomfortable?

Do you know of any others I may not? 😀

Oh shit lineage was cyanogen? I used that back in the day and loved it!

I’ll keep that in mind, thanks for the tidbit!

I think that was a list of three things: neets, people who take a long time, and people living with their parents.

Because being in uni also disqualifies NEET status (Not in Education, Employment, or Training, so unemployed and not trying to gain skills to get employed)

Have you read the sword of truth series by terry goodkind? Easily my favorite fantasy series, however there are 17 books in the core series, 21 total. I was also a bookworm and it killed me waiting for new releases…

The rifters trilogy by Peter watts is great surreal sci-fi, and freely available (he released it free on his own website, as well as ebook download)

I listened to an audiobook about the history of zero years ago (can’t remember the name, might be that one). I thought it would be dull enough to fall asleep to.

It was not.

Sounds like an over engineered toilet model being hawked in a mall display or infomercial or something, imho.

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Same, but I do have a shoe box of notes (including full notebooks) my bff and I would pass to each other all day back in the late 90s. It’s full conversations with dates and everything (there were more but she had the other half)

It’s a blast reading some of that stuff nearly 30 years later.

Bring two foam weapons with you, give one to opponent, have blast.

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