Haha I love finding kindred spirits. It makes us an excellent friend to have though, we can reality check someone back to earth hard when requested. I have college friends who will still message me out of the blue to ask for a rain on their parade 
it’s a weird honor.
(I would like it to be known for the record that I CAN be fun, I just offer this service PRN if you will…)
They can be! They have them at dollar stores. But they also make a mess and are made of weird things. Epsom salts in a warm bath with some essential oils few drops of cedar few drops of lavender is my go to luxury.
Oooh that sounds nice.
I’m sure there’s also some normal bubble bath that’s fine. I haven’t had a bubble bath since… probably elementary school.
Yeah I always use shampoo for bubble bath since it takes me so long to get through a bottle of shampoo (lol - short hair and only wash it once a week). Epsom salts make me feel GOOD though, they’re key.
Eh I did one once and it smelled nice but the bath water had colored gunk in it and I just had to wash it all off me and then the bathtub later. The glitter ones seem like stealth evil.
Didn’t California have like 5 full years where large swaths of it got effectively no rain? Why weren’t the fires then as bad as they are now? My understanding is that it has rained in the last year.
Oh yeah I don’t want one with glitter…
I might just want an epsom salt bubble bath?
@JanetJackson I put epsom salts in my pickup grocery order for tomorrow.
Epsom salts are great and dissolve 100% and don’t leave weird gunk.
WildFires have 3 key aspects- fuel, wind, and humidity. Rains can sometimes make fires worse actually- the lead to more early year scrub growth, which then dries and becomes fuel. This year is the perfect storm. Early rains led to growth. Now it’s dry. Then it got windy.
That’s my understanding anyway. Snow pack Adding rains versus early scrub growth rains are timed differently etc.
I use lavender scented Epsom salt in the bath, also lighting some nice candles and turning off all the other lights makes it feel very special. To really let the decadence sink in, ask Greyman to bring you a towel fresh from the dryer when you are ready to get out. Bliss.
As a fellow parade rainer, sometimes the ingredients of bath bombs can be irritating to sensitive areas. My friend could not figure why she kept getting yeast infections until she stopped bath bombing.
I did a bath bomb from lush when I was in Singapore and it was fucking awesome. Particularly because it was a hotel tub I didn’t have to clean but also I just want to live vicariously because I want a nice bath so much.
Do bath bombs typically create clean up? Kiddo is into “mixing potions” so I was thinking maybe I could get ingredients to DIY some bath bombs for him but bathroom cleaning is not my chore and I don’t want to create more work for Mr. Meer.
it probably depends on the ingredients you choose - sparkle, oil, colour, dried flowers…
I love love love bath bombs, and when I was younger, those little bath cubes
Lush and pharmacy ones are overingrediented a lot of the time. Buy a nice hippie one with no chamomile and you should be fine.
Bath bombs at their core are Epsom salts, either citric acid or cream of tartar, and food coloring*, mixed with a little bit of olive oil and pressed into a mold. They don’t have to make a mess.
*I actually color mine with pokeberry or elderberry dye I make.
Not sure if this deserves its own thread, but are basically all “independent consultant” businesses full of bad business practices even if they aren’t technically MLM/pyramid schemes?
In the dead of winter when all of my skin has the moisture content of rice paper I use a bath bomb and it is the most wonderful thing on earth.
Lush has bath oils which are really nice too! But potentially hazardous when getting out of the tub. Sometimes I like to play with fire.
Does anyone have good tips for storing down coats without taking up a ton of space? I have 3 coats that I decided to keep even though I live in a desert inferno now and will probably never need them. I have them hanging in my closet right now, but my closet is tiny and I don’t have a dresser, so I really need the space for pants. I want to stuff them in a bin and put them under my bed, but I’ve read that’s bad…is it really that bad?