#aging userbase

[shinesurge]

i got a pill cutter today and i'm DELIGHTED by how much this immediately improves my life but also equally dismayed about what a big deal it is to me lol

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

"you just posted cringe" I say to my tire pressure light, and it flashes and flashes and flashes

[turtles-allthewaydown]

Etsy kicked me in the teeth this morning trying to sell me dresses that are "vintage from the 1990s"

[fuckinnear]

cleaned out the garage yesterday so if anyone wants 15 gallons of old paint, 12 tubes of subfloor glue, and a broken computer monitor hmu

[rlyehtaxidermist]

i wish i was one of those cartoon characters who shot flames out of their ears every time they got mad. would be so much better at clearing out the wax than peroxide and hydrofracking

[hallaslin]

Every dmv in the state stopped taking appointments for real ids but when you walk in the meanest, oldest woman you've ever seen puts you through a wall with her mind when you tell her that you don't have an appointment (because they stopped taking them) and then you get to spend 4 hours as 25th in line

[prokopetz]

I swear a solid eighty percent of these "Tumblr's aging userbase" jokes are just people telling on themselves that they were never expected to cook or clean as a child.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

[theladyeowyn]

Dreams are just that: they're dreams. They help get you through the day.

[goddamnshinyrock]

the home-buying process is so stressful, I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that our local market is so “hot” that it’s standard to have offers due within 4-6 days of listing. (meaning you have to learn the place exists, make time to go see it, and then decide if you want to offer to pay someone an alarming amount of money for it all in less than a week.)

[ernmark]

So my roommate informed me this morning that the hot water suddenly cut out in the shower.

Which left me in a predicament, because it's the Friday before Christmas, and the chances of getting the general contractors to my place to figure out what's wrong with my water heater seems like an incredibly ill-timed (and incredibly expensive) venture.

So I employ my (2) millennial skills.

I find the fuse in the fuse box that I think goes to the water heater, I turn it off, and I turn it back on again (actually I turn off all the fuses to that part of the house and kind of hope that the water heater is among them)

I crawl up to where there's a bunch of instructions on the side of the heater and I try to make sense of them. And I find a term that I only actually know from one place.

See, there's an episode of Rugrats back when I was a kid that begins with Stu Pickles taking a shower and suddenly shrieking to his wife that "the pilot light's gone out!" because the water suddenly went cold.

Hey, it's worth a try.

So, based on the insight gained from a TV show I watched as a child, I read the fucking instructions, and I follow them to the letter.

With a water heater as old as mine, it seems unlikely that I can do anything that either wasn't about to happen already or that the contractors can't fix (or can't pry out of the cinderblock) after I fuck it up. (That hearkens back to Millennial Skill 2.5: the ability to keep calm and take nihilistic comfort in the fact that if I die in a freak water heater explosion, then I am absolved of all debt and may finally rest in an afterlife beyond the confines of this capitalistic hellscape.)

I look in the little window in the heater (did you know they have a little window in them???) and see a little blue flame, so I'm guessing that did it.

By the end of which, nothing exploded and I have hot water again.

[fallout-lou-begas]

moodboard for planning and preparing and cooking and hosting and serving thanksgiving dinner for a whole large group

[theriverbeyond]

purchased the store brand fiber gummies today because they were half the price of the ones i normally buy but they taste Bad. devastating.

[jmtorres]

i hate this problem:

which is ubiquitous with almost all laundry detergent brands. like i feel like the largeness of the cap deliberately makes it difficult to measure the useful amount of detergent even if you know it's supposed to just be a little. They want you to overfill the cup and have to buy more sooner. Deceptive packaging practice.

i have found one brand that i feel like has a reasonable size cap!

half is a regular (HE) load; full is a non-HE, huge, or very dirty load

but this gallon+ bottle is a huge amount of detergent the last bottle lasted me three years and i deeply wish I could buy slightly less at a time so i'm not hefting the whole huge thing. also if it were like 15% less tall it would fit so much better in my laundry closet (biokleen does make a half gallon version but it's still tall. if all else fails that's probably what i'm going with, it will be maddeningly like 1/8" too tall to put in the convenient place)

does anyone have a recommendation for a slightly smaller detergent option? (i brought up the cap thing because it's my weirdest least searchable requirement; i do also need HE and "free&clear")

thank you

[fullsaw]

you know you're better than this..

[rainbowd00dles]

Got a new coat today ready for next winter from the charity shop. £3! Would've cost about £50 brand new 😅 never buying new again.