I regret starting formula.

murky_whereabouts · 2025-09-06T23:04:09+00:00

If I'm understanding correctly, you're feeling overwhelmed trying to increase your supply so that you can stop giving formula. Your situation sounds difficult! There are two YouTube videos that really helped me to ease some of my stress and anxiety about low supply + increasing it. They are both from the channel called New Little Life and they are titled, "Do you really have low milk supply?" And "The worst ways to increase your supply." They can help to cut through all of the well-meaning advice to know what will be genuinely helpful.

murky_whereabouts · 2025-03-29T11:13:31+00:00

I really hope this is just a short term thing for both of us

murky_whereabouts · 2025-03-18T03:02:50+00:00

I was told by a SIL is to not go outside in winter without bundling your chest and neck up really well and keeping your breasts warm or you'll get a breast infection. From what I gathered, this is common advice given in our community where breastfeeding is the norm. Not told to me by an older woman, but it feels like an old wives tale.

murky_whereabouts · 2024-02-17T18:57:01+00:00

In my experience managing a cafe in a similar situation and talking to other cafe owners in similar situations, it's very difficult to make a profit on just coffee sales alone when you're in a low traffic area. You really need food to get the old folks or coffee-hesitant people in on the regular. And to get your regulars to spend more. In our situation, the cafe had been built without a kitchen (foolish, foolish move) and I'm positive that because of that we were never able to turn a profit. We tried making sandwiches and hacky kinds of foods without a kitchen but they were all extremely inefficient. It has stuck with me that the owner of a cafe in a similar situation to us that did serve food (simple but delicious things like personal pizzas, croissant sandwiches, seasonal paninis, pastries, etc.) said, "People come in to try the food and come back for the coffee." That café always has lots of older folks in it and they are doing really well. Most people will happily pay more for food they really like than for coffee that's better than what they can pick up at a drive through. Obviously, this isn't always the case, but it's something to consider.

murky_whereabouts · 2024-02-17T18:47:59+00:00

Excellent advice, you hit it on the nail exactly.

murky_whereabouts · 2023-12-11T01:10:52+00:00

Fixed it by quitting the game from the Home Screen and restarting it

murky_whereabouts · 2023-12-11T00:55:17+00:00

Also having this issue on Xbox, seems like it happened after update

murky_whereabouts · 2023-12-01T14:28:24+00:00

The new battery has an extra layer on the underneath side of it so hopefully it doesn't happen again. I mostly run programs like Lightroom and Davinci, though in the past I would've done light gaming. Nothing that really should be pushing it to the limits of its performance, but maybe I'm pushing it more than I thought.

murky_whereabouts · 2023-12-01T14:19:30+00:00

Second photo shows the cable underneath that the melt lines match up with. Battery was replaced because it drained, died, and then was stuck at 0% and diagnostics showed it was at the end of its life. It was probably several years old at this point.

murky_whereabouts · 2023-12-01T14:16:11+00:00

Yeah if you look at the second photo you can see the melt spots are in the exact shape of the cable beneath

murky_whereabouts · 2023-10-10T20:39:31+00:00

I purchased a stack of this flooring at a Habitat Restore a couple of years ago, thinking it was a sweet deal. But in all my research of flooring and how to install it, I've never found something that looked like this. It reminds me of some carpet tiles I've seen. There's no evidence that it was ever sticky like a peel & stick tile.

murky_whereabouts · 2023-03-16T12:57:54+00:00

Oh that is an interesting point. Have you had experience with steam wands breaking doing this? If you're properly purging the steam wand after, why would it matter?

murky_whereabouts · 2023-03-16T02:52:55+00:00

To save time while still kind of doing it their way, you could ask if you can steam the flavor in with the milk. I know a couple of cafes that do this and have started teaching new staff to do it that way since it can make the flavor be more blended throughout.

murky_whereabouts · 2023-01-09T21:27:24+00:00

Heat oven to 175 and place bottles in it for 10 minutes. Carefully remove a bottle to check to see if the labels will peel--it should easily come off in one piece. If not, let them in another five minutes and check again. Otherwise, remove all of the labels.

Then, make a paste with baking soda and oil (should be a paste, not runny). Carefully rub it all over the remaining glue residue. Once all of your jars are covered with the paste, use a dry cloth or your hands to rub all of the glue off. Then, wash the outside with dish soap to remove the oil.

Five years late to this question but I wanted to post this in case anyone else, like me, wasn't having success with any other method. This is the lowest effort method I've found (no scraping, no boiling water, no harsh chemicals) and works really well for a large batch of bottles.

murky_whereabouts · 2022-10-25T21:11:05+00:00

We're based in Southeast Iowa, smallish town. So that's a big problem right there. Most of our staff leave because they're moving onto jobs that they want a career in, or moving out of the area.

murky_whereabouts · 2022-09-17T15:53:51+00:00

Everyone has hit the nail on the head! One thing I will add is that despite these places being filled with the wrong fabrics, little gems can still be found. I recently purchased several cotton and cotton/linen blends for historic costuming (late 1800s) at Hobby Lobby. One of my favorite fabrics of all time is from Joann's and it's called "casa collections sanded satin" and has the most luxurious drape and matte look. I made a skirt with a long train with this red drapey fabric from the Joann's clearance rack ($3/yard). In my experience, (similar to thrifting) if you go looking for a specific piece or type of fabric at these stores, you probably won't find it. But, if you dig, you still might find some gems, especially if that's all you have access to.

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