Ooh, also interested in this.
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This is what we have: Pour Over Coffee Maker - Manual Coffee Dripper Cone for Drip Coffee and Espresso - Serves 1-2 Cups https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B569AA8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_RAj2L5BghRq8x
They’re all the same idea. The biggest things is to rinse right away with hot water. If you let it dry, the fines are harder to clean out. And the simple truth is, no matter how hard you tap it out, some ground will indeed go down your drain, so really not best for septic or bad plumbing.
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Thanks, I’ll consider trying it! For clogged fine mesh stuff I often find a toothbrush useful (I intentionally bought a stiff bristle one for cleaning instead of using worn out xtra soft brushes we normally use). I never found the AeroPress reusable mesh one hard to clean but that was obviously an easier shape to clean, lol.
No septic for me, and the kitchen drain line is newish PVC, already replaced the horribly clogged up galvanized line that the house originally had.
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You should be good to go then! We used ours for 4+ cups per day for over 2 years before swapping to a machine right now for baby time.
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Yeah I am catching up on your journal and just read the coffee machine debate hence why I thought to bat signal you 
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What do y’all think I can do with this?
I don’t love chalk paint, but I’ll do it if I gotta. :/.
I got it from CL for a few bucks a few years ago.
It’s perfect for my need, but in much worse shape than the rest of my furniture and decor – I have a minimalist bend so it’s one of four pieces of furniture in the living room and it’s bothering me.
It’s wood veneer.
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Oh what a gorgeous little piece!
I would personally try to sand it down, stain and seal it.
I’ve only thought about doing such things, I’ve never actually done so, and certainly not with veneer.
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Glossy cream paint, with gold accents if you’re me
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I’d sand and seal it, but the only furniture I’ve ever done that to was an all wood ikea dining table and chairs I got at a yard sale for $5 so it was very low stakes and happened to work out well
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Since it’s veneer, I’m not sure you can sand it? If not, they sell wax pencils in different colors at home stores that you can use to color in the damaged areas and it works quite well. I’ve used them on chips and scratches in wood floors and shelving. You just need to get close on the color of the pencil and you can also combine shades to get closer to what you need.
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The fill in pens are pretty good. There are sort of felt tip ones in addition to the wax, and they often have that kind at dollar tree.
You can sand veneer, carefully. But you can’t fixed chipped veneer that way.
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To me that screams wood filler to fix the scratches and chips, then some sort of paint job to finish it up. You will likely want to scuff the entire piece with fine grit sandpaper to improve paint adherence.
I’ve done quite a bit of wood refinishing and wouldn’t even think of trying to rehab that as a wood looking piece.
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Cheap and easy, looks better but not great, I’d go for the filler pens. Better results, I would do wood filler and paint like @druidessie
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I rub chips like that with beeswax and it helps a bit but not much, then I yell at them for still looking crappy. The yelling usually works.
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I only have the bare minimum knowledge of spreadsheets. You see how there are like two different tables in one here (Quantitative Community Baseline Indicators and then Communities)? What is that called, so I can look up how to do it?
Does it sound right when I do my monthly budget to list eating out with friends as “entertainment”? If I wasn’t going with someone, I wouldn’t have eaten out most of those times. When I get takeout by myself, I call it “eating out”, and keep that line separate from groceries. What do others do?
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It doesn’t really matter what you call it as long as 1) you’re okay with the spending level and 2) you categorize it the same way all the time.
We don’t do much of either form of eating out so I just lump it into our general “miscellaneous” category but if you’re concerned about spending too much (or just curious how much you do spend doing it), then by all means break it out into a separate category. Categories are all about informing you, so decide what information you want
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I name things differently ar different times, but yes, I separate eating with friends from solo takeout/lunches out, because they serve different functions.
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I have a “luxury food” pot that covers both food I didn’t plan for myself (takeout, fancy train sandwiches, buying lunch at work etc. ), and eating out. I have a separate entertainment budget for non-food things with friends, but I tend to consider these two categories together in general.
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Where are all the spreadsheet peeps?! I am not one of them