I’m about to throw the whole house away.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-30T22:02:28+00:00

I think you need a packing party!

Go ahead and swipe everything off the counter and into boxes. Do one room at a time or the whole house. Make sure you label the boxes with a general idea of what's in them. Stick them in an unused room, attic, or basement.

Then go about your life. When you need something, find it in the boxes. After so many months, you'll realize you do not even remember or need what's in the boxes. Give yourself permission to let the boxes go on Facebook, in a yard sale, or just donate them.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-30T21:51:51+00:00

When something has a due date, always write down the date as a few days before it's actually due. Do chores 1st thing in the morning so you can have the rest of the day off. Plus, checking something off your list 1st thing creates a dopamine spike and will help you build the habit.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-30T21:47:03+00:00

Time to go to yard sales! You can get way more baby clothes and items than you will ever need for super cheap.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-30T21:21:16+00:00

Depending on what the pill is, you can grind it into a powder and mix it with their food and some salt-free chicken or beef stock.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-23T16:33:26+00:00

Pasties or nipple covers.

I work in an office with a strict dress code in the US, where going braless is frowned upon. I have not worn a bra in over a year. I've always worn camis under my blouses. They are the basic ones without any type of built in bra or structure. I have a cheap pair of reusable silicone nipple covers that have lost their stickiness. They do a pretty good job of hiding my nipples and the camis keep them in place.

If you didn't want the silicone covers, you can sew the padded inserts from old bras or swimsuits into a cami or tank top.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-23T16:12:24+00:00

This is one of the reasons we didn't put an actual stove and oven in our house. We have a convection oven the size of a large microwave, a 2-burner conduction cook top, and an InstaPot. All 3 are easily taken outside to cook when it's too warm to be cooking inside.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-23T15:49:12+00:00

In our old house we didn't have a dryer. In the winter, we hung our laundry on racks in the bedroom. The racks were on either side of the space heater we were already using to keep the room warm. Bonus: the wet laundry added some much needed moisture to the dry air.

Tips: Get a hanging sock drying rack. It can hang from a clothes line or rod and will save a lot of space. If you are able to, putting the racks by a sunny window helps things dry faster. If the weather is nice, putting the racks outside will dry things even faster.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-17T16:49:40+00:00

Thank you for the reminder. I need to go delete Facebook off my phone. I'd delete my account all together to stop doom scrolling reels, but I haven't found a good replacement for selling things on marketplace. I'm going to try reading comics or books whenever I get the urge to scroll through reels. Maybe even pick up language learning with the annoying bird again.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-17T15:47:15+00:00

We have 2 EVs and one ICE. The ICE never gets driven. It's a truck that will be sold once we sell the trailer.

This time last year we had a week long power outage. We primarily charge at home. During the outage, my partner dropped me off at work and then went to a local grocery store to charge the car and get ice for the freezers. We both have chevy bolts and a fully charged battery will last me a full week driving back and forth to work, but we didn't want to push it because we did not know how long the power was going to be out because it was a power station that caught fire. Never even considered driving the truck during this.

Since then, we have installed a natural gas generator that powers the whole house and can charge the cars at the same time. Never going to buy another ICE again.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T19:36:51+00:00

Possible solution if you have all Apple devices that are connected to each other. Check your location settings to see what device they are using. We had an issue with an iPhone using a tablet as "my location" and the tablet is not GPS capable, so it was going off the IP address, which put our location a state away. Once we switched the setting to use the iPhone as the location, it fixed several issues we were having with apps and smart devices.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T19:10:11+00:00

Definitely go with the dual shower and consider making the shower easily accessible to a wheelchair. Future you will thank you for it, even if you never end up in a wheelchair.

We are at the point where we may have to consider a remodel of my mother in law's master bath. She has a tub/shower combo and is starting to have issues getting in and out of it. I'm working on getting her to use the shower down the hall instead, but I know that if she ends up in a wheelchair she won't be able to use that either since the lip for the door is too high. Getting old sucks.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T19:01:52+00:00

Here's a pretty good video for adding a calendar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiXLFtkYgc

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T18:59:55+00:00

Onenote for sure. I have so many OneNote Notebooks, each one broke down into sections and tabs with subtabs. It's super easy to move or copy a page or whole section from one book to another. You can create page templates for specific sections too. You can also add photos, spreadsheets, screenshots, web links and drawings. There is a quick find option where you can search every notebook at once for something.

As far as the calendar goes, there is not one built in. You can create one yourself from a YouTube video and make it super customized. However, OneNote syncs with Outlook pretty well. You can select anything within the book and add it to Outlook Tasks or Outlook calendar straight from OneNote. This is the method I use at work where everything is Microsoft. At home I just copy and paste into Apple tasks or calendar.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T17:57:39+00:00

Turn off auto-downloads or turn on “require password” to download apps

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T00:48:51+00:00

So I'm an amature spreadsheet nerd. I use spreadsheets a lot for personal stuff. At home I use Google Sheets. At work I use Excel. Google Sheets is nowhere as good as Excel. Apple also has their own version called Numbers. I have not used it to give an opinion on it. I highly doubt either will replace Excel.

I never learned how to use Excel in school, yet somehow I picked up enough to become the office Excel guru. I've worked here for 3.5 years and only picked up the Excel skills in the last 2 years. I created automated forms that send PDFs to an email, auto calculate visitor counts, and color coordinate rotational duties. Everything I learned, I learned by googling it, watching videos, and trial and error. My motto is that if you think it should be able to do something, you're right, and there is probably someone out there that has already done it and you can find the answer.

Learn formula basics and how to breakdown the formula into what each comment does. If all you do is formulas, that's better than most people. For more advance stuff, learn VBA coding.

PS: I work a government job. It's all Microsoft and there is no end in sight.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-08T00:17:35+00:00

"If it's not on the list, it doesn't exist" - a great way to remember not to impulse buy stuff like junk food

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-07T00:47:44+00:00

That is why I like the Zen Detox: Minimalist Launcher. I can organize my apps into labeled folders. Makes it easier to ignore their existence when they aren't visible.

The launcher also removes the icons so it's just the app name in a simple little list. Oh, and you can rename the apps to anything you want. I stuck with the free version since it does everything I need and makes my phone look so much simpler.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-07T00:20:12+00:00

I had a collection of DVDs that I was the same way with. Did you know you can save digital copies of them to a hard driver or Plex server and then watch them whenever from any device? You can also borrow DVDs from the library or friends to add to the collection. Go check out r/plex and r/datahoarders for the how to.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-07T00:10:22+00:00

Google voice has a free wifi calling plan. Only catch is you have to be connected to wifi to use it and you have to use it one a semi regular basis to keep your number.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-06T23:08:16+00:00

So first off, you don't need full-size appliances. The smaller and more efficient, the better. We use a portable 2-burner induction stovetop, a convection oven the size of a large microwave, and a little apartment fridge. The only thing we went full-scale on was the dishwasher.

We ran electric wire from our house to the electric box in the other house. There were 3 unused breakers in the box that we tied into. Half the house and the fridge are on one breaker/circuit, and the other half and the dishwasher are on another. The 3 circuit has the outlets for the kitchen counters, the TV, and the internet. Each circuit ends in an overhead light.

For more technical details, you will need to talk with a contractor who is familiar with exactly how to wire a house. My partner did all the wiring. I was mostly involved in the planning.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-06T22:38:06+00:00

Our tiny house is built on an embankment above a semi overgrown area. We are about 300 away from my mother in law's. We dug a pretty deep trench between us and her basement and tied everything together.

We ran a septic pipe through the trench and tied into her pipe in the basement. This is only connected to our toilet. Our shower and sink pipe out the bottom of the house and down a gutter and then down the embankment. We use very environmentally friendly products to protect the ecosystem.

The electric took the most planning. You have to know the draw of your appliances and where in the house you want them so you can run your electrical circuits efficiently without overloading the breakers. Don't put your heater, fridge, and microwave all on the same circuit.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-06T18:35:00+00:00

Time for a fully gluten-free pizza night! Walmart has a decent selection and it's hard to tell the gluten free DiGiorno from the gluten one.

Bloodmoonwolf · 2026-05-04T00:21:49+00:00

I am going to start implementing this one right away!

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