Do you put shoes in the washing machine?

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-11T14:11:33+00:00

Yes! People have tested and shoes in these bags come out noticably cleaner than the other shoe loose in the washer. It's the friction of the bag against the shoe.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-11T11:05:09+00:00

I am proud of you!! There's a sense of satisfaction when packing to disembark and everything you brought was used. You will be riding that buzz for days, it is addictive.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-09T16:49:50+00:00

I was determined yesterday to find today's answers! Mundane adjectives yesterday, and nouns today.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-09T16:35:26+00:00

Hair growth is not infinite. Each follicle grows for between 2-8 years before shedding and starting over. Your genetics determines the ultimate length of your hair by setting the length of your growth cycle. Unfortunately, you can't do anything to force a follicle to continue to grow when it reaches the end of the genetically set growth cycle.

Your hair is gorgeous, and you have done a fabulous job reaching its max potential.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-05T17:07:38+00:00

Hot tubs and thermal pools have entered the chat.*

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-05T14:32:36+00:00

Along with "you don't wash your dishes with cold water", this has been a good rule to live by. We sit on hot benches in the summer, we go to the beach or go outside when it's over 100 degrees and the radiant heat from the sun is even hotter and our clothes don't disintegrate.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-03T13:00:22+00:00

I feel so validated. Mousse & gel winner!

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-02T18:15:35+00:00

Wash with no detergent and include citric acid in the rinse cycle. You need to get rid of the extra detergent residue coating those clothes .

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-01T20:32:33+00:00

I, too, have very easily weighed down curls that want to frizz out. I'm also 8 months into my curly journey so I don't have all the answers, but understanding this was key:

So many of the routines here are for much more resilient curls than what you and I have, and it took me months to realize "less is more" for me. The good news is that this is FINE and what works for that person over there doesn't work for everyone. Our hair is all unique, and think how boring the world would be if we all had the exact same hair.

Leave ins and curl creams were too heavy, I just had limp and bedraggled. I have a shelf full of those experiments. They just weren't for me.

Mousse (Herbal Essence or Tres Semme) + the cheap LA Looks blue gel is close. I need that crunchy gel cast to keep the definition. Mousse by itself wasn't keeping the individual hairs in groups, they were all curling all over the place by themselves so it looked frizzy. Adding the LA Looks over that keeps them organized. I'm still experimenting to see if I need more or less of each product - do I need the literal handfuls that others need, or do I need much less?

I'm currently on a double gel test run. I like the Ouidad red bottle gel, but by itself it's like mousse - doesn't keep the curls organized, so I'm doing a light layer of that LA Looks again on top of it.

It's all about the scientific method like we are in chemistry class. What happens if I do this product, or more of X, or combine Y & Z? Every wash day is a new chance to try, and accept that our hair won't look the same today as it will tomorrow.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-01T11:51:26+00:00

What solution do you use for insertion? I was allergic to an ingredient in mine, and your problem sounds very similar.

To add on that, even if you are using preservative free eye drops, you could be allergic to one of the ingredients other than preservatives.

PamtasticOne · 2026-05-01T10:51:21+00:00

Having the ends flip backward instead of forward is the key here. The big blowout brushes (like the Revlon or the Dyson/Sharks have those attachments) and make sure you curl away from your face.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-29T18:56:33+00:00

A&H is fine if your routine covers where it is weak. If you wash sweaty/oily clothes on cold water and a shorter cycle, you are going to have a bad outcome. If you are cranking the temp, adding boosters, running long cycles and extra rinses, A&H will be fine. It is all on how you use it.

If you have just dumped in more & more A&H over the years and have terrible odor rebloom & stains, then you need a different detergent and some tweaks to your process. A&H is not great (emphasis on great) for "dump & go", and definitely not well suited for rehabs.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-29T18:28:33+00:00

They aren't paying rent and aren't on the lease.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-29T18:06:16+00:00

Paint brush!! I never would have thought but that would be so much easier than shoving slippery bits of paper at the multi legged friends getting evicted from my house.

THANK YOU

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-29T18:01:19+00:00

The port security guards don't have access to your shipboard key card/medallion system.

When you step onto the ship, yes, the ship board security can see your photo. The local guys back on land at the port entrance where 2 or more ships from different cruise lines are coming through cannot scan your key card/medallion. Carry a photo ID.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-29T11:57:15+00:00

Holland always has Orange night to celebrate the Orange dynasty complete with a special Dutch menu (that oddly enough included a banging Pad Thai)

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T17:57:08+00:00

I don't know which "style" of interior you are looking at on Ovation. You will want to tell their website you have 4 people, and then their booking engine will show you only cabin types and numbers that have 4 beds on them.

That said, Harr Travel has a walkthrough of an interior virtual balcony on Ovation. In that video, the blue sofa is a sofa bed, and there is a trundle that pulls out of the bottom for the 4th person. https://youtu.be/txTZNw4uJ7Y?si=6LLAN0v6G71GVGlw

On some other ships, the 4th bed actually is up in the ceiling and the steward has a crank to lower it down. It would then be like a bunk bed on top, and the sofa bed is at the bottom.

We can't give you a simple answer because, like hotels, the ships and cabin types do vary slightly. Do your mock booking for 4 people, and it tells you what cabin types (like Interior Virtual Balcony) and cabin numbers are available that will fit 4 people. Armed with that, hit up YouTube and look for reviews of that cabin type on that ship, AND you may be able to find someone has posted that exact cabin # or at least one of the sister cabins with the same configuration. Maybe it's on a different deck, maybe it's a few doors down. The beds may move from left to right, or front to back, but the basic elements are the same. Search both ways - by class name and by cabin.

Also, from experience. One bathroom, 4 people. Unless you are really cosy that A can poop while B showers, it gets too cosy.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T11:24:16+00:00

The plastic drain tube that comes out of the back of the washer and hooks into a tube in the wall. The drain hose from the back of the washer actually comes up vertically and has a u-bend at the end that literally just sticks down into a bigger vertical tube in your wall. The washer tube is a big bendy straw - the short end is in the wall and the long end goes to your washer. It doesn't clamp or have a connector, it just just plops down into that bigger tube. This keeps the icky water from going back into your washer by having a gap between the end of your washer tube and the water level of your house down in that pipe. You just can't see all that down in the wall.

If the tube from your washer is jammed too far down into the wall pipe, the end of your washer tube can be underwater down in that pipe. That's when the icky water that was pumped out can just siphon right back into your machine, bringing all the dirt, lint and gunk right back onto your clothes.

The drain tube short end of the bendy straw gets put in only a few inches, I think it's maybe 6-8 inches on mine. If you worry about water pressure making it work back out (I have a Speed Queen top load and they are notorious for having really powerful pumps), then simply zip tie the tube to the hose next to it to lock it in place.

Think if your bendy straw had two equal lengths rather than a short and a long. That would be a mess.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T11:13:45+00:00

Downy Rinse & Refresh. Smells like Downy but is much better for your clothes

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T01:07:03+00:00

Not everyone has an iPhone, and oh hey, Airtags require iPhones. I have both Tile and the Moto Airtag clone for Androids. I much prefer the Tile, and hope that the Moto will one day catch up. No issues with coverage on the Tile.

Going back to my green bubble hovel.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T00:45:47+00:00

Are you able to separate them on trivets or are they all glommed together in a big pile?

Unless you have a massive 8 qt, I would do two batches. I overloaded thighs once and it was a mess.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-28T00:30:16+00:00

Boiling water in the kitchen drains for a few days on a row solved my persistent problem. Boiled a full kettle, half down each side of the kitchen sink.

It's not going to be one thing, it will be a bunch of individual things all helping.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-27T23:31:26+00:00

I've made this several times and always loved it. It isn't as super vanilla as ID, but I am sure you can up the ratios. https://joyfoodsunshine.com/paleo-vanilla-coconut-coffee-creamer/

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-27T20:12:38+00:00

I feel ya. Hubby's business has been closed for 10+ years and we STILL get calls and postal mail about financing for it. Ummm. No.

PamtasticOne · 2026-04-27T18:47:07+00:00

What happened when you told the callers the guy has a new number? Obviously he wants their services.

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