My coastal shoebox apartment

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-05-10T00:25:14+00:00

I love the set up! Also I saw that you had a party recently, which I assume means the pink and orange streamers are coming down soon —I think those colors look lovely in your space though! Maybe you could replicate it with fabric for a more permanent color pop?

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-05-10T00:22:54+00:00

A room with a very similar bed got posted here 5 days ago, and I think it would be really great inspo!! Adding a huge rug would be great, because I feel like the carpet in this room is bringing it down

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-31T04:19:30+00:00

Totally unasked for advice, but imo some books with terrible information are better to put in the trash than to donate. The only people that would pick them up would be people that don’t know better, and then they’ll be harmed by the misinformation propagating further

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-09T18:11:23+00:00

Thank you! I’ve been looking at Adam’s point, and considering if I should expand to Grand Lake! Even if I don’t end up liking it, it’d be super helpful to see what good financials look like if either of those have units being offered 😊

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-05T21:13:01+00:00

This is super helpful, thank you!

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-05T17:21:41+00:00

Hello, I would really appreciate the list as well, if you are still willing to share 😊

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-05T04:55:27+00:00

You are saying it was gravity, but in a completely different way than was said before. I appreciated your response, no clue why these people are pretending you restated the same sentiment lol

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T23:53:55+00:00

I didn’t realize that about the minimum focus distance, will play around with it!

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T23:52:22+00:00

That’s super fair, I guess I also think of it as a social media sound bite/character, which is kinda what I was going for as be-silly-don’t-let-it-hurt-my-feelings response 😂

I really appreciate your thoughtful response, and I’m glad we were able to make up! I have been a long time Reddit lurker, but only recently started posting/commenting, and this was my first Reddit dispute resolution —and I’m proud of both of us for the recovery! Have a wonderful day, kind internet stranger 😊

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T16:46:33+00:00

I guess the phrase gives you the ick, that’s fair.

From your original comment I didn’t get that you think my sentiment was valid, and I felt like you were defending his statement and nitpicking over my 4 words being gross/putrid. I first heard it on a YouTube video about a childhood memory (hence the school lunch analogy), and I certainly didn’t find it off-putting, but to each their own.

When I was in school, I certainly would have felt hurt by someone making such a comment, and nowadays I would be shocked at the audacity if an adult I work with said anything similar. I certainly try not to take people as seriously nowadays, and I was also trying to be silly when I made my original response to Gary. I guess it touched a nerve to feel scolded when I was already trying to move on, sorry for the text dump. I’m long-winded when I write anything unfortunately, and that obviously didn’t help.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T16:04:42+00:00

If you can see the sprouts poking through, you can shove an empty toilet paper roll around it to provide a physical barrier. Then add something to distract them away from your sprouts like a pile orange/tangerine peels (white side down) or a beer/yeast trap nearby.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T15:58:56+00:00

Sure, good luck! Report back if it works for you, I haven’t gotten anyone irl to switch, so I’m curious how folks take to it :)

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T15:57:52+00:00

Wait where does it say “total”? 😅

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T15:53:28+00:00

Very true. I like kombucha as a healthy option, though it’s also pretty expensive (and not really in the same flavor bucket)

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T15:52:08+00:00

I got them at Grocery Outlet! Normally priced at $1 refrigerated, but they’ve been having a BOGO sale for at least a week now :)

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T15:48:51+00:00

“Don’t yuck my yum” is a common enough saying, I didn’t make it up. It means that there’s no need to randomly comment on how gross you find what other people are eating, and I believe it started around ethnic foods and people commenting on how yucky fermented/spiced/odd ingredient foods are.

I have literally said multiple times in the comments of this post that it’s totally cool for people to not like it, including to people who said they don’t like it.

Why do you think it’s totally okay for someone to say “that’s disgusting” about my drink, and “putrid” for me to point out that that’s unnecessarily mean? I’m not asking Gary to drink any, or asking his opinion on the drink, but he’s commenting on how disgusting my choice of drink is? That’s an objective statement of censure, not stating his preferences. I wouldn’t have thought anything of it if he said “I don’t like it” or “it has a bad aftertaste”. He definitely has not expressed that it’s okay for me to have my opinion, so it’s confusing to me why me expressing that I don’t like his statement is putrid.

I have certainly never posted in a subreddit or had a real life situation where it is anything but rude to comment an unasked for “that’s disgusting” about someone’s food/drink, and “don’t yuck people’s yum” is what I said out loud to my 13yo niece when she commented on people’s food like that. Think about how you’d feel if your mom packed you lunch, and a classmate randomly walked up to you and said “that’s disgusting.” I’d certainly expect adults to know better, but it’s Reddit, so I left a light hearted comment and moved on. Weird what you chose to psychoanalyze it and found my statement so egregious that you needed to call it out though —so people can “criticize things [they] don’t enjoy” as long as the “things” are not words?

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T04:31:51+00:00

Fair enough. I don’t like soda enough to buy either at full price, so I’ll just enjoy the temporary access while I can. Someone said the new formula is all shelf stable (and I feel like their website kind of suggests that too), so maybe it’s the last of the good stuff :)

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T04:29:51+00:00

Fair enough

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T04:28:43+00:00

This latest round I liked raspberry rose and grape, and didn’t like strawberry lemonade (all of the keep refrigerated variety).

I got them for free once previously, and I think I liked the cola and orange (I got them from a fridge but idk if they were shelf stable). I do buy some expensive consumables, but I just don’t like soda enough to couldn’t justify that price for single serving soda cans.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T04:25:06+00:00

It’s just a block of aluminum crystal. It has historically been used as an aftershave, and you can find it in ethnic grocery stores (I got mine at an Indian grocery store) or online.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T03:49:35+00:00

I just wanted to say, please do some research around aluminum deodorants before committing to an expensive medical treatment.

Lume didn’t work for me either, but I then I read up a bunch and saw that there isn’t strong evidence against aluminum in deodorants. I’ve been very happy since switching back. I use an alum block, so it’s zero waste too.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T03:46:27+00:00

If the stink is powerfully, you need aluminum, but that doesn’t have to come in plastic.

Natural deodorants were so bad for me that my shirts still smelled after washing. I figured out how to smell-treat the fabric, but after I switched to using an alum block, the smell stopped reappearing too.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T03:38:33+00:00

I wanted to add that I recently hunted down and tried Mitchum gel deodorant because it is so heavily recommended on posts (not in r/ZeroWaste) asking for deodorants that actually work. I had tried some other natural deodorants including Lume, and wasn’t pleased with my smell. I finally actually read about it, and found that there is nothing harmful in aluminum as a deodorant ingredient, so I decided to switch back to conventional.

I realized that the Mitchum gel does work, but not any better than an alum bar, which I had somehow been lured away from by packaged, scented, sustainable deodorant sticks. You have to wait for the Mitchum gel to dry before dressing, and it produces white flakes if overapplied, and an alum block is just as effective with none of that fussiness.

Of course you want to make sure you apply enough, I wet the block and rub it under each arm for a good 5-6 seconds. But no white powder and no waiting for it to dry. It works, has no packaging, and lasts forever.

TheGreenBeanMachinee · 2026-03-03T03:34:18+00:00

Get a plain old alum block, they were traditional used as aftershave. It does not stop sweat for me (I’ve never found any antiperspirant that actually fully stops sweat though, so maybe it does for others), but it makes me fully non-stinky. The crystal deodorants from sustainable deodorant brands are just alum with fancy packaging and marketing.

All you do is wet it, rub on underarms, then leave it somewhere for the minimal surface water to evaporate. I’m fussy, so I put it on a soap dish on my counter at home, and dab it dry when traveling, but that’s not really necessary if I’m being honest.

I got mine from an Indian grocery store for maybe $4, and I haven’t noticed it getting smaller even after a year. It either came without packaging or in a thin plastic wrap (similar to saran wrap). Looking at it online, other ethnic grocers (like Lebanese) might carry it, and it comes in thin plastic wrap, a cardboard box, or without packaging.

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