I don’t even like succulents but those planters are gorgeous!!!
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Those are gorgeous!!!
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I’m posting the before of my kitchen so I have internet strangers pressure to actually unfuck my kitchen.
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Gotta unfuck the cat bathroom. There is litter everywhere. The bag of bags has exploded. The towering pile of reject food cans needs dealt with. Counter and sink need a good scrub. Things drying in the tub need put away. Once the tub stuff is put away I really should wash my sweaters but I think that is a job for another day.
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I love your kitchen.
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Today I
- picked weeds out of the bricks and disturbed a giant ant nest and ran away
- got the toys out of the living room, vaccumed, mopped
- normal kitchen stuff
-folded 4 loads of laundry and put 2 away
-tidied the boy’s room and my study
-scoured the downstairs bathroom sink with baking soda
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Didn’t get around to trying the steamer this weekend @Bracken_Joy. Unless by some miracle I decide to mess with it on a weeknight, it will be 2 weeks for a review 
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The kitchen got mostly unfucked. It was a perfectly gorgeous day outside(72, sunny and a tiny breeze) so I mostly unfucked my tossed together garden space.
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The key cause of chaos in our house turned out to be that we were using every flat surface in our bedroom as our linen closet instead of the actual linen closet. I packed the linens away yesterday, and even though bedroom is still packed full of stuff I have a dining room and kitchen and the stuff in the bedroom is organised. It’s all boxes of stuff for my business. Huzzah.
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Steamer review, @Bracken_Joy ! (For reference, this is what I got)
Overall, not as magic as advertised but sure, I’ll keep it. Would/will also be great for sanitizing surfaces without chemicals.
Hopes and dreams+outcomes:
- Easy way to get rid of hard water stains on shower doors? Sadly, no. It cleaned the day to day stains but the persistent ones we’ve had since moving in, not so much. Was kind of nice for the outside of the door since it deposits fairly minimal liquid.
- Window and shower door tracks, nooks and crannies. This particular model (can’t speak for others) does not have a jet strong enough to dislodge dirt, or a tiny crevice brush. It does soften the dirt but you have to fish it out yourself.
- Walls, baseboards, etc. Started taking paint off even on the low setting. Not surprising, but pass.
- Steam mop. I think I will enjoy this. Our Bissell does a nice job wiping the floor and I love that I don’t have to pre vacuum, but doesn’t go after deep dirt. This picked up a bit on low setting from the mostly clean guest bath, and a bit more from the unprepped kitchen on high. I think it loosened/picked up two stubborn residues? It does of course fail at picking up dust and debris so it requires a pre wash or vacuum.
- Clothes steamer. Haven’t tried but seems hard to mess up
- Baked on oven stains. ETA OK it’s pretty good at this. It’s not so much that you can’t clean to the same state with baking soda or smtn, but it makes it EASY.
Anything else I should try it on? Anyone have the little steamshot one or a knockoff and can comment if it’s better at nooks and crannies?
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I unfucked this room today. Most of my house is nice, I swear. But this room had gotten out of control.
So I fixed it. Didn’t take that long, actually. Everything you dread is usually worse than you fear.I wish I could remember that every time I’m procrastinating something.
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Words to live by and yet 
I need to relearn this lesson constantly. Never seems to stick.
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One of the few downsides of New Apartment is that it came with a 2000s-era built in that was too small for our TV. We’ve talked a lot about what we wanted to do with it but in the meantime it got filled with Crap. Big accomplishment this weekend was to put in shelves to house board games.
I’m thinking of eventually hanging A Art over it (I can probably do something abstract, or stretch some attractive fabric over a plywood frame) but in the meantime at least it’s usable? And Billy bookshelves can be repurposed in the future…
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That is a lot of unfuckening! Congrats!
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Update: this is 3 home depot medium boxes
I have asked Spouse to consider how we will know we have too many board games.
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I have mentally limited Wizard to the built-in shelves in our apartment. Once they don’t fit there, we cull.
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Sorry I have no before pictures but this was also a highly satisfying result:
Some of the tchotchkes will migrate as we finalize other shelving/floating shelves. Empty space to be filled with books we want to show off.
We also got a whole 10ftx10ft mess on the floor down to 1 box of “find places”, 1 box of “containers and contact paper”, and 1 box of giveaways. A big trash bag went out.
Overall very productive weekend for enjoying life in my house.
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I can take no credit for this, but Mr Meer cleaned the garage and added a shelf thing to organize this.
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Looks great!!
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Good job, Mr Meer.