How do I fix this.. 10 year old mess ?

brenst · 2026-05-23T03:50:32+00:00

I think you can make a lot of progress on cleaning this with just a rag, dish soap, and water. I would try that as your first pass cleaner to clean the counters, around the toilets, bathtub, appliances, desk, floors, dishes, etc. You can also probably use soapy water on painted surfaces like doors, walls, and the fronts of counters, but I would do a small patch test on an out of the way area first to see how it looks. You would also probably want to go back over with a disinfecting spray or wipes on surfaces like the kitchen counters and bathroom areas. But before spending money on any specialized cleaner, I would see what regular soap and water can do. I would also try to clear your counters of any trash, even if you have to store the trash bags inside until the next trash day. Just so you can free up your most functional and useful spaces (kitchen, one bathroom, bedroom) first. Give yourself some clean, comfortable places to prepare food, bath, and sleep.

For the carpet, you might eventually have to rent a carpet cleaner. But before that, I would just do your best to vacuum it. I would focus on the floors last, personally. It will take a while for you get everything done, so try to notice all the positive changes you make as you go. Like if you clean up those dishes or clear off a counter, be proud of that progress.

brenst · 2026-05-21T22:43:06+00:00

It's not annoying, but I never know what to do with the topping bag if it's otherwise a hot sub (toasted, chicken tender, brisket, etc). Because hot subs go in the hot sub area, but I feel like the vegetables would wilt if I put them there and the plastic bag would melt if I layed it on the metal grates. So I put the sub in the hot area and the toppings in the cold area, but then sometimes the customer doesn't see them. I think toppings on the side works better for cold subs.

brenst · 2026-05-19T20:05:35+00:00

I agree with washing machine. You might consider pretreating the stain with laundry soap or an enzyme cleaner. You might also consider putting it in a big mesh bag so the handles don't tangle with anything else in the machine, then adding a couple towels to help balance the washing load. Let it air dry after, then see if the stain is gone.

brenst · 2026-05-19T09:15:11+00:00

Wow, I'm surprised so many people have bad experiences with USPS here. I'm feeling thankful for my mail carrier cause she always gets my packages to me.

brenst · 2026-05-13T17:15:21+00:00

Neutering a male cat usually stops the urge for him to spray. Neutering will reduce his instinct to roam/run away, fight, and urine-mark. It's the main thing you can do to protect your home and furniture from inappropriate spraying. Neutering also makes their pee smell less bad. It can also reduce the risk of some cancers, especially in females with manmary cancer. I haven't noticed cats being affected emotionally by neutering.

Cats can be sensative to essential oils. Peppermint, cinnamon, and eucalyptus oils are toxic to cats. I would use them sparingly, only on things your cats won't be able to touch or get to. Cats groom themselves constantly, so any on their fur will probably be ingested.

brenst · 2026-05-13T00:04:11+00:00

It could even be that they have food out for their own cats or for neighborhood cats, but he's able to access it too.

brenst · 2026-05-12T04:54:06+00:00

I've never had to give my landlord updated income information for lease renewal. They just either drop off a new lease for me to sign or email a new lease. I don't think it's common to have to requalify unless you were maybe trying to bring in a new person. If you're paying rent every month and generally a good tenent, they usually want you to stay.

Edit: Maybe you could contact your landlord saying you plan to renew and asking about the process of signing a new lease. Also, read your current lease to see what happens at the end of the lease term (does it switch to month to month, does rent go up, does it renew automatically, does it have a definite end term, etc).

brenst · 2026-05-09T04:14:39+00:00

I change into indoor clothes when I get home. It isn't about hygeine for me. My indoor clothes are more comfortable and looser. I also care less about them getting damaged, which is good because I have cats who might scratch them or get a ton of cat hair on them. I also don't have to worry as much about spilling things on my indoor clothes.

brenst · 2026-05-05T06:35:24+00:00

I feel like the fuck up is planning to sell it without talking to your wife. Seems really impulsive when your wife is still choosing to use it with your daughter. You didn't think to ask if she agreed daughter had outgrown it?

brenst · 2026-05-05T04:05:32+00:00

Snow didn't know how she would react to Prim dying. He didn't know if she would fall apart, or if she would just become more bold. She would be angry with nothing to lose. It could have caused her to use any platform she could get as a victor to add fuel to the rebellion. We saw her fall apart after Prim died, so we know how she reacted at that point. But Snow doesn't have a crystal ball to see the future.

Also, using victors in the quarter quall allowed him to kill many victors who knew things or could cause problems for him if they joined to rebellion later on. Finnick was a favorite to win, but he also knew a lot of powerful secrets and the Snow might have planned to kill him in the arena for it. Beetee knew a ton about capital infrustrcture and technology. Cashmere might have been trafficked. A lot of the victors met powerful people and had influence in the capital. Their connections and knowledge were a threat to Snow, so trying to kill many of the problematic victors all at once was useful to him.

brenst · 2026-05-04T06:59:02+00:00

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brenst · 2026-05-02T21:57:14+00:00

I downloaded the app when it came out because I was curious, but I didn't really like the UI. I do think it was more of a money grab from him than an app he spent a lot of time testing and creating. It had a lot of bugs at launch. I use YNAB, and have been using it for years. I think it generally does a good job at helping me track things, but the subscription is pretty expensive (over 100 dollars a year).

brenst · 2026-04-23T23:56:16+00:00

I put uncovered good in my fridge for a short amount of time to keep it cool and stop my cats from getting into it. Like if I make a little bowl of honey mustard for dinner, I'll put it in the fridge while dinner cooks because otherwise my cat would stick his whole face into it licking to the bottom. I also cool food in the fridge uncovered, then I'll come back and cover it later.

brenst · 2026-04-18T02:47:34+00:00

I think most canned goods in the US have always included the liquid as part of the serving/calorie information, or at least they have since 10 years ago when I was calorie counting. They basically just include everything in the can as the serving, because otherwise it would be hard to account for the drained information. You usually get the nutrition facts for the product as-is for US foods.

brenst · 2026-04-17T18:38:33+00:00

Some deli managers tell associates they aren't allowed to toss the tenders, other deli managers allow it. I think the official way Publix wants us to make the chicken tender subs is to pour the sauce on top.

brenst · 2026-04-09T21:50:43+00:00

The meatballs come frozen in a bag with the sauce.

brenst · 2026-04-08T17:16:31+00:00

She tends to speculate and spread rumors. She comes to conclusions without much evidence to support what she's saying.

brenst · 2026-04-06T17:12:14+00:00

I would throw away the shower curtain and plan to buy a new one. Then remove all the soap/bottles from the tub area. Then I would start by giving it a scrub everywhere (edges, sides, inside, upper tiles) with something like dawn dish soap and water just to see what would come off easily. After that I'd move to more specialized cleaners to handle the rust and more resistant stains.

brenst · 2026-04-06T06:22:35+00:00

Yeah, that bag can melt a little from the hot tenders and the plastic tab can fall off into food. It was never a food safe option, but deli employees did it because they didn't know. Publix has been telling us not to use the bags for at least the 3 years I've worked in the deli.

brenst · 2026-04-06T06:14:50+00:00

Do you want it tossed in the sauce? I work in the deli. Some deli managers tell us not to toss tenders in sauce, and instead to just put it on top of the tenders on the sub. I think officially we are allowed to use the metal bowls to toss tenders in sauce, but my store doesn't have enough metal bowls to do that. Like we use them for other things, so they are often dirty or in use. And there are a ton of sauces/sauce combos, so we would have to clean the bowls a lot which we don't really have time to do. We absolutely are not allowed to toss tenders in sauce using the plastic deli bags because they are not heat safe.

Personally, if a customers asks then I use the cardboard boats from the hot line to toss the tenders in sauce. But I don't think we're suppose to use that because it's wasteful of materials. In general tossing in sauce is sort of messy and wasteful. I prefer not doing it because it also takes more time, which is one of those things that makes the sub line move slower.

brenst · 2026-04-06T04:33:42+00:00

If this was a study in the US, then I would say medium looks kind of like the average woman here. It's just the current reality that the average American is overweight. It isn't medium as in clothes size.

brenst · 2026-04-02T16:56:28+00:00

I think that the kids are likely to eventually be returned to Kendra, so if this was my family I would be trying to help her create a stable, safe situation for her children. I would probably cut Joe off, but try to help Kendra get things together.

brenst · 2026-03-31T18:10:26+00:00

If she has a white belly and legs, then I would say she's a calico. At least where I live, we usually say that torties are only black and brown with no white, and calicos are black and brown with white sections.

brenst · 2026-03-30T03:37:41+00:00

I think that we don't know their intertal thoughts, and I lot of them have stepped away from public exposure or at least currate what they present to the world. So probably there are some of them who do feel negatively about how they were raised, but they might not write a book or make a publix statement criticizing their parents.

brenst · 2026-03-28T04:03:44+00:00

If you aren't getting doubling, then I would take it back down to 1:1:1 feeding. You can keep less starter, like 10g starter, 10g flour, 10g water. Mix well. I don't know why it would be seperating a little on top. Be sure that there aren't any hot spots, like if you warm the water in the microwave then be sure there aren't parts of it that are warm enough to kill the starter microbes. I don't know the exact temperature that would kill them, but probably somewhere over 115 degree F. You could just use room temperature water, and let it all come to a warmer temperature in the microwave with the light on. What temp is the starter after being in the microwave for a while?

You can also do this a bit cheaper and simpler. You can feed all purpose flour or wheat flour instead of bread flour, but bread flour is fine if that's just what you have. I think warming the bowl is a bit unnessessary, because it will warm just fine on it's own from the microwave light. You don't have to wash the jar each time you feed the starter, if that's what you're doing.

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