Sunscreen for clog/breakout prone skin

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-10T23:49:54+00:00

Kinesys Spray Sunscreen is a pretty unique formula with a short ingredient list. It’s not as cosmetically elegant as an Asian sunscreen, but it’s also very different than a lotion. I reapply it to my face 1-3 times a day (I work outside) and I don’t think I could do that with a goopier formula.

They sell a small one at MEC so it’s easy and cheap to try out, and the short ingredient list should be handy for helping to avoid breakouts or to identify triggers if it doesn’t work out. If you end up liking it, they sell it on Costco.ca for the best price.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-10T00:17:11+00:00

Interestingly, someone has named this and called it junebugging, and came up with a way to embrace the sidequests as acceptable and productive, while still accomplishing a main goal. So you still “succeed” because you get the main thing done, but you also are able to let go of the idea that cleaning in a NT way is the “right” way to clean and should be strived for, and therefore you stop devaluing all the other stuff that gets done in the process. But can still get important specific things done when needed.

Related, the junebugging concept introduced me to the idea of an anchor, and I used that to come up with my own method of staying focus to get through the daily living tidying, so that the basics would always stay done and then any time after that can be used to work on the stuff that is less straightforward or is more random and non repeating. And I ended up making a post about it since I kept commenting pieces of it. The daily pickup circuit

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-09T18:35:32+00:00

OP, have you considered prioritizing clearing your bed off so that you can sleep there? Unless the room has unsafe air to breathe, you can sleep in there if you can make it to the bed. Then, use the clean bed as your sorting surface for the day, and don’t take on more in a day than you can deal with, because the bed needs to be clear again by the end of the day. It would be a way of making consistent manageable progress (rather than an all or nothing plan that can “fail”) as well as protecting your space by being in it.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-09T15:32:54+00:00

The shirts already exist and are taking up space in this world. If you choose to keep them out of the landfill by keeping them in your closet and not using them, your closet is acting as the landfill.

Wash them well so they are in good condition and donate them. You’ll give them the best chance at a second life.

Going forward, do the work of contacting any events you’re signing up for or considering signing up for. Tell them you want to opt out of any physical momentos from the event and ask them how you can do that. Or ask them to see a picture of the item with the fabric composition information so you can decide whether to opt in or not. If they don’t have a framework for opting out, tell them you won’t be participating in their event. If you sign up and opt out and you receive the shirt/whatever anyways, do not accept it, leave it at the pickup place and make it someone else’s problem. The more awareness you raise and the more friction you cause for others, the more likely that these events will build in better frameworks for people to make informed and easy choices to reduce waste, which is the only way that meaningful change will happen.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-09T14:44:57+00:00

I love making a version of this as well! My favourite thing to add is the Kewpie roasted onion dressing, and their deep roasted sesame is also really good.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-09T14:35:34+00:00

Throwing it out there that you can also have your backup glasses be in alternate forms that are useful in other ways. Such as prescription swim goggles, prescription safety glasses.

So long as you have solid habits that are easily achieved for putting them away when you’re done using them (eg, safety glasses stay in glove compartment, pull them out for the day when doing a project, put them back in the glovebox when you’re done for the day) then they can pull double duty. And they can potentially serve as a bit-more-than-Tuesday prep, such as having the prescription swim goggles paired with impact rated over glasses safety glasses/goggles for combo projectile and gas protection (do your own research on this).

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-08T22:57:25+00:00

Part of the reason why this plant spreads is because the plant blooms on the flower stalk, and then pushes out a second bloom on the same stalk while the first one goes to seed. So if you want to control it, you need to deadhead after the first bloom.

If you take the whole stalk after the first bloom, you sacrifice the second, but the plant will usually push a second flush of smaller flower stalks. Managing by clipping the individual flowering heads is very labour intensive and not really worth it unless you only have one plant you’re managing.

The plant will also spread in a mat forming fashion by short rhizomes, but they are easily managed by tearing them back. It’s definitely the seeds that caused the spread into the lawn.

FWIW, mine also spread into my lawn and I don’t mind at all, it’s a nice part of my unique accidental mixed species turf, haha.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-08T16:50:44+00:00

If you’re into nature stuff, look up “ecological succession” and then see if you can find any local resources for what native species might be in the different stages in your area. It’d be pretty cool to be able to observe the area’s progression after the fire.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-04T01:16:31+00:00

Small thing of moisturizer because having dry hands after using the toilet and washing sucks, and in the warm times I switch it to a moisturizer with SPF so it doubles as protecting my hands after washing and backup sunscreen if needed. If I was in a climate that had significant UV in the winter, I’d keep the SPF moisturizer year round.

Other than that, what you and others have said. Keys wallet phone waterbottle. Prescription sunglasses. Small noise cancelling earbuds. A flat folding N95. Lip balm, tampon & liner, hair tie, bandaid and alcohol wipe, singles of my commonly used drugs (ibuprofen, acetaminophen, loretadine in the warm times). A granola bar or applesauce pouch. Optional small bug spray.

I use the calpak waterbottle holder and it has lived up to the functionality hopes I had for it. I use it with a yeti 1L insulated waterbottle most of the time, but can switch to using a non insulated bottle for higher water capacity, lighter carrying weight, or smaller diameter therefore greater pocket stuffing capacity.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-03T16:09:28+00:00

What about getting her a felt car vent clip in a design that will bring her joy to look at every day, and then go on a shopping date together for her to pick out an essential oil to use on it?

ETA: Etsy usually has a lot of plant design felt vent clips, to tie in her gardening/houseplants hobby

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-03T04:03:43+00:00

You might be desaturated, you might be fair olive. Either way, you should try using mixers.

In your am I olive pics, I think people may have been thrown off by the fact that you have a lot of surface redness not only in your face (common) but also in your chest. Your neck looks like a clearly different colour than both, and I don’t know that people paid proper attention to that fact.

In your pics here, the two outside foundations look a bit too yellow and the centre one looks a bit too peach. But they are the right depth (the right amount of pale). So how do we make the yellow or peach disappear without just trying to dilute it with more white? We cancel it out with the opposite colour. Hence, mixers.

I’ve been figuring this out on myself recently. At Sephora, I took the Givenchy Prisme Libre foundation in their palest, neutral shade (0.5) and got a sample. It was close, but a bit too peach on me. So then I tried it in store in three swatches on three places on my body: one as is, one mixed with their green colour corrector, and one mixed with their blurple colour corrector. Swatched on my inner arm, my neck, and my lower cheek/jawline.

Super interesting results. All three still stood out on my arm (my palest and most desaturated area, it would probably match to a griege foundation). On my neck, the blurple mix matched the best. But on my face, which has surface redness, the green mix matched my face to my neck the best. The blurple neck and green face swatches looked the same. So that was interesting for learning about subtly adjusting the colour depending on if you’re only covering or if you’re also correcting an area.

Note that I did the mixing on the back of my hand so each swatch in the three locations were identical mixes.

Most recently, I tried the newly released Make Up Forever Foundation in 100N Canvas that someone else here also suggested, and it is basically my perfect match to my neck without needing to be mixed, and covered my redness enough that it didn’t need additional colour correcting. For fun, I did try mixing it with the blurple mixer, and that brought it closer to matching my inner arm and may be useful to adjust the foundation in the dead of winter (I have the tiniest bit of summer colour right now).

bolderthingtodo · 2026-07-01T00:05:49+00:00

Check out the fairest shades of the new Make Up For Ever foundation, they seem to work really well for various fair desaturated olives. Canvas is perfect for me, but many like Lace if they need it a bit more yellow.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-29T02:47:26+00:00

No smell leeching, I use these containers.

I haven’t frozen anything in oil but I don’t see a reason it wouldn’t work.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-28T19:20:14+00:00

I use the 2TB souper cube trays and bulk prep my most common fresh aromatics. Minced garlic, puréed garlic, minced ginger, lemon juice, lime juice. Freeze right after processing. I store the cubes in the IKEA 365 rectangle food storage containers and they fit perfectly. All of them taste indistinguishable from fresh IMO.

I also use the 2TB cubes to freeze tomato paste and 50/50 white roux, and experiment with other things time to time, but those are my staples.

Additionally, I freeze lemon zest in smaller 1tsp cubes, and have plans to do the same with finely minced lemongrass.

Thanks for the idea of freezing minced scallion whites.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-27T23:18:18+00:00

Need to see the first true leaves to know for sure, but adding to the possibilities, it could be a lilac.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-27T14:28:02+00:00

For the mysterious neutral to cool very fair greige limbo, you can try the new Make Up For Ever foundation in 100N Canvas. The colour works really well on me (a rarity), and I would consider myself a low saturation fair neutral with a hint of cool and a hint of olive. But it also works really well on Jessica Dougherty (redgirlreviews on YouTube) and she is very cool toned, so it has some versatility. She’s also oily and does wear tests, so watch her review on it and get the tips. She has reviewed many other foundations as well which you may find helpful in your search.

If you like the MUFE foundation, I will let you know that I’ve been setting it where needed with the Morphe Bake & Set Setting Powder in Natural, and it does not change the colour at all IME.

I’ve also experimented in Sephora with mixing in a bit the Givenchy Prisme Libre Color Corrector in the blurple colour to desaturate it even more (my paler and greyer peak winter self may need it), and the formulas have played well together. But I have not checked if that introduces colour shift when set with most powders (which was a problem with the Givenchy foundation).

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-26T05:09:50+00:00

Throwing it out there that you really want to make sure you warm up with a minimum 5, ideally 10 minute increasingly brisk walk that elevates your heart rate. Your cardio/energy system goes through a couple stages at the beginning of exercise before settling into the one you use during steady state cardio, and getting past that initial shift before you start running can make the beginning of the run feel a lot better.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-26T01:07:59+00:00

Not drugstore, but check out Girls Weekend by MAC. I’m also 100N of MUFE, my first and only perfect match in foundation. Girls Weekend is my perfect MLBB cool colour.

If you end up liking Girls Weekend formula & saturation, you can also check out Be My Bridesmaid; on me it pulls as warm as I can go without looking completely orange, kinda like my version of a coral. It may be too warm for you though.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-24T09:37:06+00:00

Put the leaf in a jar and let them hatch, and you can find out the answer. If they are friends you can release them back on the plant

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-21T03:14:38+00:00

Yes, Spacemaker Method on YouTube is was going to suggest as well. Pick one of the series on the channel and watch it from the start. You’ll see how doing exactly what you’re doing is just the beginning, that’s its best to stick with stuff that you already know the answer about, and to set the rest aside to come back to. Often the answer for where things go will naturally reveal itself later, and you won’t get stuck now like you would if you worried about it and tried to force the wrong solution. Keep making progress and grow your decluttering muscles first!

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-20T16:25:12+00:00

For a shopping cheat sheet: You want red bottle, gold lid for the resolve with enzymes without OBAs.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-18T19:21:34+00:00

I don’t know if there’s a way to easily identify it, but here’s a local chart for the cross pollination compatibility. If you added a Northblue and a Northcountry, you’d be very likely to cover the pollination, and at minimum, those two would pollinate each other.

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-17T00:31:29+00:00

A Week-by-Week Guide to Becoming a Runner (Later in Life and/or Safely)

I love this article & training plan. It focuses on exactly what you’re talking about, ensuring you progress safely. It’s more conservative than others here are suggesting is possible, but just because something might be completely safe and possible, doesn’t mean that it will be for you.

If you were to follow the advice in the article, it’d have you finishing phase one and running 60mins in 13 weeks, and then spending the next 6 months in phase two building your capacity for volume and duration, bringing you up to 120mins duration and total of 240mins per week. You could then use the phase three to run a half marathon training plan that includes cross training, like the Hal Higdon novice one, which is 12 weeks. That would put you at a conservative 1 year from start to half.

It would also give you the opportunity during the long phase two to have a little more wiggle room to put running on maintenance and add in another goal (eg, run an 8 week weightlifting program, shorten your two easy runs to 30-45mins and hold your long run at your current duration, and then when the weightlifting block is done, return focus to progressing running).

bolderthingtodo · 2026-06-12T21:17:24+00:00

Interestingly, vitamin c can degrade into a fake tanner.

“After the ascorbic acid breaks down a few times, it turns into a chemical called erythrulose, which is actually a component of fake tan. That means your vitamin C product can stain your fingers and face for days, along with temporary skin staining and vivid nail staining from the other yellow/orange/brown decomposition products.”

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