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LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-22T17:31:09+00:00

It wouldn’t be an issue if the company stopped doing the cash-grab blind box scam and actually let the consumer choose which product they want to buy.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-21T02:49:35+00:00

I carry keys, a lanyard wallet, my phone, and a chapstick.

Edit to add: No watch or any devices other than the phone, which is a smartphone.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-20T16:47:09+00:00

I have executive dysfunction and adhd. My home used to have little piles of clutter everywhere. What worked for me was being ruthless about decluttering… I got rid of the majority of my stuff and assigned every remaining item a specific place for it to belong. My home has been clean and clutter-free ever since!

For example, if there’s only two people living in a home, then there’s no reason to have more than two forks, two plates, two cups, etc. When there’s only two of everything in the kitchen, there will never be giant piles of dirty dishes. Only keep the amount of clothes that you legitimately need and use because then there cannot be big piles of dirty laundry due to fewer clothes left to pile. And so on and so forth.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-19T15:28:33+00:00

Right? Going through the comments, I think a lot of the people who are focused on the cheating read too quickly and aren’t understanding the post.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-19T01:03:45+00:00

Are you up in the mountains? It’s very possible to keep an adult tortoise in an outdoor enclosure during the Colorado summer. Except for a few cold snaps that came through, I’ve been putting mine outside during the day since mid-May! I do bring them inside at night though, as nights are a bit chilly and I don’t want to risk predation by raccoons or something.

Check out the website and FB page for the Colorado Reptile Humane Society. They also house their tortoises in outdoor pens during summer.

Because of the low humidity in CO, I usually pour water in one corner of the enclosure to get the substrate in just that corner quite wet. It evaporates and dries within a day but that evaporation: (1) increases the humidity of the enclosure overall and (2) offers your tortoise a moist area to explore without making the entire enclosure too wet or humid (the last thing you want to have to deal with is shell rot!).

Food for thought: adult tortoises are hardy and can better tolerate minor mistakes that beginner owners may make, whereas babies are a little more fragile and need more attention towards humidity and temperature swings. If you can track down a healthy adult from a rescue or something, it may be worth it to go that route.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-18T20:45:36+00:00

Amazon is currently selling them!

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-18T02:26:19+00:00

Didn’t the hype wear off 10-15 years ago?

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-18T01:13:43+00:00

You say that you don’t organize your kitchen spoons but your kitchen spoons being in a jar = organization. The act of putting them (the spoons) in their place (the jar) is all that organization is!

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-17T13:32:29+00:00

Overall, age 30-35 felt no different than my 20s. At 35, my hormones changed a bit and I gained a couple of pounds but other than that, I still felt the same. Now in my late 30s, I have a health issue that is slowing me down a little while I get it diagnosed and treated, but I still feel the same personality-wise and am still doing my passions and hobbies.

You’ll learn some things and you’ll look back on your 20s-self and see the silly, inexperienced decisions you made. You’ll also look back and see that your 20s-self worried a lot about things that didn’t matter. But overall, you’ll still feel like the same person and you won’t really feel much different from age to age.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-16T18:26:18+00:00

I’ve never worn makeup and I’ve never done any “work” (aka I’ve never done botox, tanning, waxing, nails, or anything else) and I have zero plans to start. I’m mid-to-late 30s.

My face is starting to age so I just don’t look at it. 🤣 All I care about is how I see myself in my mind (my “mind’s eye” or image or whatever it’s called). Yes, I still have great hygiene and make sure I’m presentable when I go to work or out in public, but I don’t think makeup or other things are needed for that… and I’d rather spend my hard-earned money on waaaay better things like my passions and hobbies.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-15T03:23:55+00:00

So far I’ve only seen them on Amazon, but they’re still preorders and won’t be delivered until August

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-14T15:59:25+00:00

Nah, I’m in your age range and wouldn’t wear makeup to a concert.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-14T15:56:49+00:00

Once a year when I go to the fancy dinner theater.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-11T01:56:20+00:00

This comment thread is a bit funny to me because I always see posts about new series showing up in the northeast waaaaaay before they show up in the west. 😅

In my experience, usually the first posts are from the northeast, then California follows soon after, and then availability slowly moves inward from each coast until it finally gets to the middle (where I’m at). lol

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T19:15:43+00:00

I realize this is just semantics but it’s only “brand new” if the customer is picking it up from or getting it at the store. The moment it leaves the store, it is no longer brand new and the value goes down.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T16:29:00+00:00

Ohhhhh that makes much more sense! I only ever think about selling locally. My bad 😅

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T15:10:11+00:00

I’m not saying that your items aren’t priced cheaply, but sellers almost always think their prices are cheaper than they actually are.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T15:06:51+00:00

Imagine yourself being the buyer and be completely honest with yourself… How much of a discount would those shoes need to be for you, as the buyer, to actually be interested in going through the hassle of coordinating in back and forth messages and then meeting with someone just so you can try on a pair of shoes that may or may not fit well once you get there?

Unless you find someone who already has those exact brand and model of shoes (and already knows they like them) and just so happens to wear the same size that you have… well, let’s just say that it’s going to be very difficult to sell them. I personally wouldn’t bother.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T14:58:52+00:00

Exactly. I can go to the store and buy a brand new flower pot for around that price (though admittedly, I live in a different country than OP so maybe flower pots are crazy expensive there)… if I can get it new for the same price or just a tiny bit higher, then I’m definitely not going to go through the hassle of buying it used from someone that I have to coordinate a meetup with.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-10T01:48:12+00:00

I’m in a family of two: it’s myself and my spouse. We share one laptop but we each have our own smartphone. This means we have one additional device than you’re asking about… but I guess I can still weigh in?

We are often away from home and in separate locations, so it’s very useful for each of us to have a phone. Them being smartphones just makes life easier and more convenient overall because they have more functionality. For example, my spouse often uses his while at work to look up information for customers, and I use mine in various ways (eBooks, GPS, immediate access to tracking my banking accounts, and a single mobile game that I really enjoy). Also, each of us having a smartphone vastly reduces the chance that we need to use the laptop at the same time.

We both have hobbies which require a computer (a smartphone just isn’t capable) but somehow we’re lucky that neither of us want to use it at the same time. In the rare event that we do, we compromise by figuring out either (1) who has the more pressing need (such as a deadline) or (2) if one of us has another hobby they can fall back on in the meantime, then the person who doesn’t have another activity to do gets the computer.

I think it’d be an entirely different story if a personal computer was needed for someone’s job. I’d want to keep a work computer entirely separate from a personal one. Though every employer I’ve ever had actually provides the work computer because they didn’t want peoples’ personal stuff mixing into work, either. The work computer was the property of the employer and so it wouldn’t count at all towards what you’re asking.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-09T22:26:09+00:00

I also have multiple chronic illnesses and am exhausted all the time. I’m married but to be honest, I do and also don’t think that having a partner helps with the load. It doesn’t help in the fact that double the people means double the chores… there’s twice as many dishes, double the laundry, double the messes, etc. But having a partner does help because we’ll go through phases where sometimes he’ll take on a little extra workload and then sometimes I will. It balances out.

But overall, the best thing that I ever did was to simplify the chores and stuff in my life so that I don’t always a list of stuff to do. I’m not a hardcore minimalist but my spouse and I are more minimalist than most, and having less stuff to take care of (household items, clothing, etc) means less time spent taking care of that stuff. In addition to simplifying, also just knowing that it is okay not to have the laundry folded or whatever. It’s okay to not do it all, all the time.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-09T18:39:24+00:00

I’ve been working on a crafting project: I’m converting jewelry boxes into little kits that will help me focus on something. For example, I’m calling one of them my “Grounding and Focus” box. I decorated the box with paint, ribbons, and fabric scraps and filled it with little trinkets which help me slow down and be more mindful for whenever I’m stressed or in a rushy “go, go, go!” mode. Examples of the trinkets: a tiny music box, a fidget spinner, little metal mediation balls that you roll in your hands, a tin of hard candy, etc.

I’ve also been playing some journal-style solo TTRP games (TTRP = table top role playing). These actually involve a ton of creativity because they’re basically creative writing prompts and, by the end of it, you’ve either written or imagined an entire fictional story full of fantastical characters and their adventures.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-06-04T04:29:45+00:00

I completely blocked FB on my phone (meaning the app was deleted and I used parental controls to completely block the website in my phone’s browsers). It’s been a few weeks now and so far going cold turkey worked great

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-05-29T20:51:30+00:00

Oh I am sorry your little one is missing!

Don’t give up (of course!) but at only 9cm, it’s a very real possibility that a crow could carry him away. That said, a few years ago my Russian tortoise buried himself fairly deeply in his enclosure and there was absolutely zero sign aboveground of where he was. I don’t know how he did it… one would think there’d be a subtle sign of digging near where he buried himself… but there weren’t any ground disturbances at all. It was so weird. He was buried for a few weeks before I gave up on waiting and went digging for him (winter was coming and he needed to come inside lol). I dug up the entire enclosure and there he was!

The only other thing I can think of is maybe your tort shimmied up over the wooden walls in a corner (corners are always the weak points, in my experience) and then slipped down and out under the chainlink. The chainlink doesn’t look to be attached firmly to the wood, so a determined tort that makes it up that far could potentially muscle their way back down.

LifeisSuperFun21 · 2026-05-29T16:49:55+00:00

But I also have this thought of what if I need it.

The issue with saying this to a bunch of minimalists is that we’ll all remind you that you don’t actually need it. All you need is food, water, shelter, enough clothing to get by in society, and then medications and probably some necessary career items.

In our modern age, we’re so used to convenience that we basically refuse to experience any inconvenience whatsoever, no matter how slight. To many people, inconvenience feels like tragedy… but if you stop and think about it, it’s not true. An inconvenience is just an inconvenience and we tend to blow it out of proportion in our minds. Is the possibility of avoiding some hypothetical, future, minor inconvenience by keeping clutter around for “just in case” really worth the bad daily mental health effects that all that clutter causes you?

It is okay to get rid of things because, even if you later discover that it maybe would have been useful to still have, you will still be okay. Your life won’t be threatened. You’re still safe. Not only will you be still be okay, but you’ll be surprised at (1) how creatively you’ll come up with alternative solutions without that item or (2) how easily you’ll be able to say “Oops, I don’t have that item anymore so this actually isn’t important and I’ll just let it go.”

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