You need at least two ponies. They’re herd animals.
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Hahahahahahaha hahaha PDM you are the best!
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Thank you @PDM for all of the affirmation of objects of desire this afternoon. I definitely had a good giggle reading down the thread 
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It still amuses me so that I created a thread to encourage spending on a finance and budget forum.
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and it works!
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It does. Not a moment after seeing my desires approved, I was online trying to find what I wanted and now have a list of options.
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I was waiting for @PDM to approve your ponies but here’s your approval:
This approval also covers any costs required to house and feed your ponies, and to bribe spouse if necessary to obtain agreement on getting ponies.
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It’s ok, I’ve decided I do not want them, or anything involving sheepskin. I may have decided to make thrummed socks instead.
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Oh I didn’t even think about that aspect.
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Holy shit I’d never heard of thrumming before. Mind.blown.
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@PDM I didn’t either, until I started looking at them (and alternatives) and then started thinking…
@diapasoun The really stupid thing is that I have known about it for a long time and I have 4 (I think?) skeins of Cascade 220 worsted (2 different colors) I could use doubled (I need to check some patterns) and I have 3 or 4 batts of hand painted wool I never got around to spinning, some of which might work (I have a Merino in purples, a Rambouillet in greens, and a Falkland in muted rainbow, so I could probably use whatever colors I wanted to for the thrums I think there is probably enough (the Cascade 220 is dark green and dark purple (2 of each). Plus I have almost a pound left of brown (natural) Shetland. I have had all of these for literal years and have never gotten around to using them.
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Cute sandals for summer that will go well with cute summer dresses.
Probably these:
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Instagram is trying to sell me many things that I want. A witchy subscription box and a hoodie sweatshirt dress and a T-shirt with the opening of The Haunting of Hill House written on it.
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Are you the reason that spooky underwear is all up in my targeted ads right now?
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Yes please. I want the experience the girl in the video is having.
I want a giant rain showerhead. I’m getting one next year and it will be amazing.
I worry our water pressure isn’t good enough for that.
How much does a house cleaner cost? How does it work? Do they only do routine stuff like floors bathrooms etc or will they do like, cleaning your blinds and other deep cleaning or does that cost extra?
House cleaning
I think it varies. When I booked through a cleaning service, the cleaning they did was pretty rote (floors, bathroom, etc.). If you wanted deep cleaning you had to specify it upfront.
Our current cleaner for the past 3-4 yrs works for herself. She was one of the cleaning service cleaners who later mailed us a flier several months later. She takes a ton of ownership over making our house nice (to the point of mild furniture/decor rearranging which has been comical a few times but mostly great). Each month she does basic surfaces (floors, bathroom, kitchen, beds, etc.) but also usually picks 1 or more deep cleaning tasks like first floor windows, fridge deep clean, soak the exhaust fan filter, etc. She just chooses what to do, which takes an additional mental task off our plates. She is really really amazing at her job. Out of guilt & appreciation we pay 50% over her hourly asking price (but don’t tip) so it’s $30/hour x 4 hours. To keep costs reasonable we have her come once a month; spouse and I vacuum our first floor and wipe the bathroom floor/toilet once a week.
ETA: I suppose in either case you’re paying for extra time for deep cleaning.
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We’ve had a cleaner for about 5 years. She works independently and came recommended by a friend. She does the regular maintenance cleaning stuff but is also excellent at recognizing and doing periodic deep cleaning stuff. She probably does one bigger project cleaning thing per time. Honestly she’ll notice something needs to be done before I do most of the time.
She comes every other week and charges $120/visit (but she hasn’t raised her rates ever so I just started paying her $132, figuring a 10% increase was overdue. We do a bigger tip/gift at the end of the year and then very occasionally if she tackles something remarkable. (Like the time when she was here alone and Boy Dog puked all over the carpet)
We had a service for a couple months while she was out with an injury. The service was much more just the basics, more surface cleaning. They charged a little more, but not much.
The big advantage to the service is that they were in and out in about an hour, where our solo person will spend most of the day here (which is more disruptive now that Howie is working at home). But she is awesome in so many ways that it’s worth it.
We are in a pretty medium COL space so I’d expect prices to be higher where you are. We also have a ridiculously big house, though.
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