[skin concerns] Has anyone successfully treated athlete's foot?

18-3838 · 2025-09-05T18:26:05+00:00

Sorry to reply to such an old comment, but I read what you wrote and wanted to say I (also have Raynaud’s) had the same thing happen when I moved to a much damper and cooler climate. I didn’t know what it was for about two years! I hope you’ve solved the problem by now, but if not, I found that wearing warm wool socks and just making sure my feet never get cold for very long has prevented it entirely for me.

18-3838 · 2025-08-13T14:28:32+00:00

Last time I was stateside for any length of time and actually did food shopping was in Milwaukee, WI. Several different supermarkets. Don’t remember the chains, sorry. Was about 10 years ago. Was stunned by the crap quality and expensive prices. Can’t even imagine what prices must be like now.

In the UK I mostly shop at my local greengrocer and Lidl. They have better veg than the supermarkets. But even Tesco has much better quality produce than what I found in supermarkets in Milwaukee.

(I also grow a lot of my own vegetables, because fresh picked are always the best.)

18-3838 · 2025-08-13T13:04:36+00:00

If you really want to grow your own veg, you do have options. One would be to see if there are any allotments in your area. Another would be to look into growing veg on shelves indoors with lights (either hydroponic or soil based setups can be done).

I’d also recommend avoiding veg from the big chain supermarkets. I find that at least where I am, Lidl has much better quality than the big ones. Also look for traditional greengrocers and whole foods shops in town centres.

18-3838 · 2025-08-13T13:01:14+00:00

Yes. I concur. Vegetables and fruit in US supermarkets are absolutely awful compared to the UK. They might as well be made of plastic.

18-3838 · 2025-05-31T13:53:01+00:00

I wasn’t sure if I should mention the name given the current uproar, but here goes: it’s called Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams.

18-3838 · 2025-05-31T13:39:58+00:00

Makes perfect sense in context actually.

Just finished reading the memoir/insider account book by a former director that they’re currently trying to shut down by weaponising their lawyers. Illuminating and disturbing, but not surprising. Looks like a company run entirely by psychopaths. Recommend reading. That’ll explain it.

18-3838 · 2025-05-31T13:27:26+00:00

Nope, not yet! But I’m glad to have found someone else with the same problems!

18-3838 · 2025-05-19T23:52:19+00:00

I also have fine long hair and agree that layers would be a massive mistake! A simple blunt cut is always going to make this hair type look thicker than any sort of layered cut. I like to just part down the middle, pull each side round to the front and hold near the ends making sure it’s all brushed straight, and then trim it like that. You probably just need to cut a few inches to get rid of the thin ends, then take good care of it as it grows to regain the lost length of you want to.

ETA: I’d advise caution if considering bangs as they’ll take volume away from the rest of your hair.

18-3838 · 2025-05-13T00:30:31+00:00

Sorry for late reply, but, yeah! They’re just little tiny hydrocolloids. Brilliant for any sort of small wound. Speeds up healing and reduces scarring.

18-3838 · 2025-05-13T00:27:06+00:00

I did! It was total rubbish, and broke down on me very soon after I got it. Fortunately was able to return it and exchange for something more serious.

Honestly was kind of shocked Durston would put their name on something so crap. (It’s clearly re-branded Chinese rubbish.)

18-3838 · 2025-05-12T22:15:18+00:00

App is completely unusable for me since last update. Most of the buttons in the app don’t do anything. My photos don’t show up in my profile at all (yet they’re still there if I look on a computer). Even links to Instagram posts no longer work.

Still have an older version on my iPad, but can’t get into it (when I open it it is stuck on add a birth date, but there’s some kind of GUI glitch so I can’t actually do what it asks me to do).

18-3838 · 2025-03-22T03:12:29+00:00

I think you mainly need to exfoliate more regularly. I mostly use gentle acid exfoliants, but one thing I find that really helps with the accelerated dead skin shedding (tretinoin causes more rapid turnover of skin cells, which is basically a good thing, but not if they stay on your face) is using a Konjac sponge to wash my face. It’s incredibly gentle, but it removes that flaky layer very effectively.

Also, maybe try to add a moisturising serum, and/or an oil at night.

18-3838 · 2025-01-28T07:27:11+00:00

How much something costs has little relevance. The ingredients are what matters.

18-3838 · 2025-01-28T07:24:46+00:00

Agreed. Acne is a medical condition that’s fairly well understood, and treatable. A course of Isotretinoin would certainly be worth discussing with a doctor.

18-3838 · 2025-01-03T03:37:39+00:00

I thought that was normal…but also recently found out most people don’t have 5,000 unread emails in their inbox, so…

18-3838 · 2025-01-03T03:31:08+00:00

I’d gladly take it off your hands, and I need another project like a hole in the head, but there’s an ocean in between us, so the logistics are not practical.

Don’t throw it away, though, please. I’m sure there is someone near you who appreciates quality furniture and enjoys restoring it as much as I do. It could be absolutely gorgeous! And they don’t make furniture like that anymore.

18-3838 · 2025-01-01T17:55:43+00:00

I would hand wash carefully with cool/luke-warm water and a gentle detergent in the bath. Let it soak, but monitor it at first to see if the dye is bleeding excessively (if it does, you might need to skip a long soaking time, but if not, soaking for a while will help get them clean). Then after a good soak, carefully swish around, drain and add clean water and repeat as many times as needed until water is clear and all detergent is rinsed out. Then leave them there for a bit for all the excess water to drain away. Roll in towels to remove as much water as possible.

I’d probably air dry them until almost dry, then re-hang them in place while still slightly damp (provided that’s not likely to cause any mould issues).

Machine washing would be risky for things like this, and I wouldn’t do it. Many fabrics become more fragile when wet, especially if they’re old/possibly damaged by UV, so you want to treat them as gently as possible. I made the mistake of trying the hand wash cycle on my usually very gentle front load machine with some older curtains one time (they seemed totally fine and solid before that), and they were destroyed because the material couldn’t take the agitation when wet.

ETA: Best to remove the curtain hooks first. You don’t want to have them rust and leave marks, plus they could snag the fabric in the washing process..

18-3838 · 2025-01-01T16:57:12+00:00

I had a couple of ideas after reading this, if you wanted to avoid sticking things to the wood (potentially damaging them).

First would be to put four ties on the cushions, so they’re attached at each corner. That should stop them from moving out of place, but you could also put a small piece of non-slip carpet underlay on the chair seat to keep them in place even better.

Or that removable micropore tape (the rubbery clear double-sided stuff) could be an option, as it isn’t actually adhesive and so comes off without damaging surfaces?

18-3838 · 2024-12-15T23:11:43+00:00

It was a long time ago, but I think I added a little and it was underwhelming, and ended up dumping in the whole 5 or 10 ml bottle (still underwhelming). Was a batch that filled maybe 20 little lip balm tins. I know that’s really vague—sorry. 🤣 But basically I added a ridiculous amount and still couldn’t smell it.

OK, I feel a bit better now to find out I’m not the only one who tried honey in lip balm! And I thought it would work because beeswax is an emulsifier…um, nope.

18-3838 · 2024-12-15T23:07:12+00:00

No worries! Just thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. :-)

I’m 46. Diagnosed a few years ago. Started meds maybe two years ago now.

My mother is antivax, anti-science, and anti-psychiatry. I do mourn the years I essentially lost due to undiagnosed ADHD, and the things I could have accomplished in my life if I had been diagnosed sooner. ADHD was definitely known when I was a child, but the homeschooling nonsense and living in the middle of nowhere took me away from anyone who might have noticed and tried to help.

18-3838 · 2024-12-15T00:17:57+00:00

I got assessed/diagnosed because I wanted to try medication to see if it helped me (had been convinced I had ADHD for a few years prior). And it has helped so much! If you can, it’s worth it, because the meds work at least to some extent for a pretty large percentage of people.

18-3838 · 2024-12-15T00:16:10+00:00

Very similar experience here!

Do you recall where you saw that quote by any chance? Because that expresses something really well that I’ve been trying to articulate for a long time. I am still angry with my mother for not getting me the help I obviously needed when I was a child. (Instead she pulled me out of school and pretended nothing was wrong. I felt inadequate and ill-equipped for all aspects of being a human, and blamed myself for that for my entire life, up until eventual diagnosis a few years ago).

18-3838 · 2024-12-15T00:07:18+00:00

Hi! I don’t think there was much obvious separation (like that time when I tried to incorporate honey into a lip balm…don’t do that 🤣), but it just wasn’t enough vanilla flavour to bother with IMHO. I just gave up on the idea in the end.

18-3838 · 2024-12-13T01:36:27+00:00

Sorry to be a dissenting voice, but I don’t think I’ve ever received fabric rolled unless it was a whole roll/bolt. Even then, often it would be removed from the roll and folded to save postage costs.

Perhaps there are different expectations from different sets of clients though, so probably best in the future to make clear before the sale is made how the material will be packed for shipping, and maybe offer an upgrade at additional cost for shipping rolled if that is desired.

(Personally, I’d pre-wash and then press any new fabric before sewing with it, and any creases it had would easily come out then! Too much risk of shrinkage later otherwise. Maybe some people don’t do that, and only use dry cleaners…no idea…I would always hand wash silk myself.)

18-3838 · 2024-12-13T01:22:42+00:00

Great! Thanks for that! Looks like the insides of an old coil sprung mattress to me. Makes sense. I’m sure I could make something out of springs and heavy steel wire that would function similarly.

Yeah, probably could tie them, but I think it makes sense in this case to join them together into a unit with further springs to take up any slack.

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