Just some tips!

[sour_plums]

New to this community and I just thought I'd drop some tips! Some of them you may already use or they're no-brainers, but these are some things that work for me.

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• I once decoupaged the outside of a shoe box and put it in my drawer and put all my underwear in it, folded neatly. This made sure that it would be floating around while I dug for my

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[tappanga]

Welcome to H_D! I have another tip that goes along with the perfume samples: I open them and rub them on my bed pillows. It gives them a very mild perfumed scent, and with some of the samples (like a great men's scent) I actually sleep better. You can even tuck them between the pillow and pillow case.

[medamayaki]

Just wanted to say that over the counter, unnatural perfumes (even expensive ones like Chanel) tend to not only test on animals and contain animal byproducts, but contain / consist significantly of petroleum byproducts.
Petrochemicals are known poisons to the human body. They are carcinogenic and neurotoxic.

This means that if you are putting them on your pillows then you are inhaling poisonous chemicals for 8 hours a night: killing brain cells and exposing yourself to cancer causing materials. I think the scariest part of that is what we DO know points to perfume (and make up) being incredibly dangerous and what we DON'T know is just how much worse does it get when you combine multiple toxins in the human body like it's some sort of garbage petri dish.

This goes for spraying it directly on the human body too, our skin is porous and we absorb the neurotoxic petrochemicals from perfume and make up.

[tappanga]

Not to belittle your beliefs, but honestly that's a lot more important to you than to me. Everything is bad for you in one way or another, and I'm sure I do much worse things for my body that smell a little Chanel or wear a little bronzer. And regardless, we aren't going to live forever anyway, so if smelling a perfume drifts me to sleep with a smile on my face, I'm going to do it.

Thanks, though!

[medamayaki]

Not everything is bad for you and many things that are don't need to be. However, companies poison us because they know that as creatures of habit most people highly value familiar but completely superficial comforts and are reluctant to change. For women it becomes more relevant as anyone who may have a child is harming their future offspring with the choices they make now

[sicksickgirl]

Thank you for these tips! They're very helpful. :) :)

[prophet_maid]

Gonna have to disagree on the freezing the bread tip. It's great for saving money, but it wreaks havoc to bread quality. If you're not bothered, that's fine, but I consider myself an amateur artisan baker, and never ever freeze bread.

[velum_cado]

I've never noticed a difference in quality when I freeze bread.

[swingangel]

I agree - it's fine if it's something I'll toast, like English muffins, but otherwise the bread just has an off texture to it.

[cheez_ball]

While I'll agree that fresh bread has a better texture and overall quality, you can freeze bread if you're not going to eat it before it molds.

We occasionally get gift boxes from Zingermans (http://www.zingermans.com/) that have way too much bread to eat in a week so we freeze it, as per their instructions, then defrost and finish in the oven. It's still tastey and ~almost~ as good as fresh.

[lapenn]

I leave the lid of my washing machine open, and that has always worked well to dry out the machine.

I do also use a basket for undies. My clothes are all on a bookshelf, so I've got a basket for undies, one for socks, and one for jammies.

Welcome!

[southernmyst]

I'm going to third the bread idea; hubby and I have been doing that for years and never noticed quality difference between the frozen and unfrozen halves. Perhaps it's different if you buy presliced bread, I don't know; ours is unsliced bakery bread.

I will add that for me, onions that have been in the fridge rather than at room temp tend to cause less tears while chopping. And friends swear by really sharp knives to the same end (I thought ours were really sharp, but I guess not as sharp as theirs *shrug*).

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[stickykitty]

I don't know about that... I used to be a chef and my knives were professionaly sharpened weekly and I still cried when chopping onions. It definitely helps when they've been in the fridge though. Or if you run them under cold water after taking the skin off.

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[southernmyst]

Thanks for that - like I said, I'd thought my knives were sharp!

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[operatic_diva]

Thanks for the tip- I'll try running mine under water next time I'm cooking!