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rangerdoubt · 10 months

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Unusual Muse Associations

i have been trying to unfry myself for the last... week? two weeks? three weeks? and alas it is not Working but while i wait for the brain cells to come back online, thank u to @silvery-bluish and @thenightdayblogger for tagging me and giving me a reason to think about Blorbos again <333

i've done miri and zoya, but i just reregistered for the shepherds of haven patreon and the test kiddo i completed the alpha with is now. a whole new character :'))

I HAVE NO IDEA WHO TO TAG so if u see this <33333 ur it. i have water spritzer to ur head. tell me things about ur kids

CAPT. VERO CORMORANT (ket-raised, circle-trained battle-mage. red-mancer. closest to blade, chase, ayla. hates going on vacation but needs one anyway.)

SEASONING: perilla leaf

WEATHER: storms. inches from getting struck by lightning. getting pelted by half-rain half-hail. either you're warm and inside, or you're out in your rainboots just Leaning Into It.

COLOR: dark, dark indigo.

SKY: red skies in the morning--she prefers to see things coming, even (especially?) if it's bad news

MAGICAL POWER: chain lightning evocation? pyrokinesis

HOUSE PLANT: philodendron gloriosum (Beeg Leef. not that she's very good with plants, she just wishes she was)

WEAPON: she has a dagger in canon, but she also likes bigger light blades like the light cavalry sabre

SUBJECT: using a very serious degree (mechanical engineering? architecture?) for very stupid reasons (blowing things up)

SOCIAL MEDIA: she would not and should not be on social media. but for the purpose of the question, she gets on tiktok and has to be Fished Out.

MAKEUP PRODUCT: contour/highlight palette

CANDY: cadbury eggs

FEAR: oh, you know, when something brushes your foot in the lake. things with too many teeth. dying alone. (being too late, being the last one standing again, having to live with the cost of your own failure--)

ICE CUBE SHAPE: can't go wrong with a classic cube tbh. if you want to get really adventurous, make them out of the drink you're going to put them in.

METHOD OF LONG-DISTANCE TRAVEL: get red to teleport her places Giant Cat™️

ART STYLE: when she draws, she does a lot of sketchy charcoal figure drawings. but i associate her with whatever toulouse-lautrec is doing with the launderess. the brushstrokes and the light. the

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: banshee.

PIECE OF STATIONERY: do the little letter openers count? if not, wax seals of various kinds

THREE EMOJIS: 🗡️🪷🌙

CELESTIAL BODY: north star

#shoh: vero cormorant #brother. there you go she has a tag #i need to pare down the tag system on this thing but yk

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fideidefenswhore · 9 months

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As Catherine recovered from the birth, her daughter was assigned to the care of a wet-nurse, Katherine Pole, the wife of one of the king's gentleman ushers. Katherine nursed Mary for the first two years of her life. The princess also had a team of four rockers to keep her pacified in her cradle and, even more necessary, a launderess. Within days of Mary's birth, a treasurer was appointed to manage the finances of her household, and she was also given a chaplain and a gentlewoman. It was a court in miniature for the tiny princess, and its personnel would become her family-- far closer to her than her parents. Unusually for a royal infant, however, there is no evidence that Mary was raised with the children of high-ranking noblemen to keep her company in her nursery and, after, her studies.

The Private Lives of the Tudors, Tracy Borman

#tracy borman #henrician #private lives of the tudors

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period-dramallama · 3 years

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A skim read of jean plaidy’s St Thomas Eve

For @thalassodromid bc this is our Niche

General thoughts on quality (TLDR)

-First off, I should give this book something of a pass because it was written 60+ years ago. Historical research, like science, Marches On.

-I skimmed it because i was not loving the style. There’s very little description, the pacing feels like This Happened And Then This Happened. With this story, you should have a sense of the stakes, the tension. It lacks atmosphere.

-This book really didn’t spark much emotion in me. I was heartwarmed and amused, but never frightened, horrified, fascinated or upset. I felt no panic when Meg got the sweat.

-Honestly i was so bored I started wondering if maybe this is too difficult a story to tell, because i came in loving these historical figures and wanting content. How bored must the unobsessed reader be?

-Show don’t tell, Jean! Don’t tell me everyone’s very upset, show me them upset. Don’t tell me Meg loves Thomas, show their bond. Don’t tell me everyone loves Thomas for his honesty, show me him helping his neighbours.

-To be fair, there’s a lot to get through in 260 pages.

-I just love how historical fiction pulp novels have Book Club questions at the back. It just feels rather cocky, imo. Like you think your book is Deep enough for me to sit and ponder the characters. Like there was a question that was something like: “do you prefer Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn” which was kind of hilarious because the whole book it was Poor Loyal Old Ugly Katherine and Six Fingered Anne Boleyn Is A Minx And Wants Thomas More Dead

Pet peeves

-at the beginning of the book, it says “Secretly Henry VII was unbothered by his wife’s death” or something along those lines. Given that Henry VII locked himself away after Elizabeth died and his mum had to step in and rule because he stopped functioning, this left a bitter taste in my mouth. Henry VII in this book is a Mean Evil Miser so of course he can’t love or be loved by a Good Woman.

-John More jnr being described as the family dunce. To be fair, maybe the book came out before we knew he was a translator too, but STILL. Don’t put John down to raise the girls up. He is valid too.

-the language is what my old tutor would call ‘mock Tudor’. I think it was expected at the time that you had to try and make the language authentic- The Blanket of the Dark and the Man on a Donkey both use Tudor language. It really made the dialogue annoying. Lots of ‘tis and ‘twas and it was this close to beshrew me verily and hey fucking nonny nonny. Every time Alice said fuckign ‘Tilly valley’ I went AAAARGGGH. JUST HAVE HER SAY THE WORD ‘NONSENSE’. There’s a happy middle, imo, between too Tudor and too modern, and it’s quite a broad middle, you can move around a lot in it, but there are limits.

-SPEAKING OF ALICE. Her character introduction was so good- first described as ‘an authoritative feminine voice’ *chef’s kiss* she stops a fainting Jane from being trampled at Henry’s coronation, accompanies her home and cares for her while simultaneously lowkey roasting her interior decoration. But then she becomes a bit of a caricature. When Meg gets the sweat she nags her for going near anyone who might have the sweat. The book club questions say ‘there’s more to her than meets the eye’ THEN SHOW ME MORE THAN ONE SIDE OF HER. Also Thomas loves her even though she’s ‘rude and stupid’ but Meg doesn’t understand why. Grr.

-”mistress middleton will hear you [2 year old John] crying and box your ears” NO NO NO NO NO!

-also i get a 1950s Spanking Children Is Good Parenting vibe because Alice hits the Morelings with a slipper if they don’t study, and Tm’s described as too much of “a coward” (literally the word coward is used) to hit his children other than with peacock feathers.

-Utopia being described as an ideal state...it’s really more than that. I don’t like the idea that Meg and Thomas were okay with religious toleration but then Thomas became Consumed With Hate and he says “well religious toleration would be great in an IDEAL state...”

-Meg being horrified by heretic burning. Maybe the evidence of her views wasn’t yet available and so social mores of the 50s meant that writers and historians assumed that Of Course Being a Delicate Woman She Would Have A Natural Desire For Peace And Mercy. Grr.

-Too romancey. To be fair, Jean Plaidy wrote a lot of historical romances so maybe that’s just what she’s comfortable with (and these are historical figures that never get a chance to shine) but between Meg and Will, Clement and Mercy, Joan and Thomas, Giles and Cecily... it’s a bit like Pearl Harbour in that it’s hard to care about the cute romance when men are getting burned alive in the background. A good historical romance is more like Titanic: the lovers are directly connected with the Big Historical Events ongoing. Skip!

-in this book, Mercy thinks to herself that Meg would have Tm sign the oath, but Mercy would prefer tm to do as his conscience dictates...that feels like the wrong way round.

-Erasmus and Thomas More speaking in English...Doubt.jpeg.

-Thomas More muses on how Complex men are because there’s Proud Cold Thomas Howard who is Soft for Simple Launderess Bess Holland...yeah given the multiple colossal power imbalances in that real-life affair, I’d be very surprised if it never strayed into abuse.

-baby Meg is a lil too precocious.

-dying Joan tells Meg to look after her father, no Joan stop I love you but don’t give a six year old responsibility, I don’t care if she’s six but acts eleven, looking after TM is Alice’s job not Meg’s.

-Tm using the phrase ‘our little secret’ with Meg. The context is not abusive, but the phrase is so weighted, it’s like referring to something as “a final solution”: the famous meaning is too horrifying to feel comfortable with that combination of words in any context at all.

-Joan’s younger sister being described as beautiful and flirtatious, and the whole bit about More fancying the younger sister but going for the older out of honour. The book says that More’s fascination with joan’s sister is the reason he realised he couldn’t be a priest. Given Joan’s 16, her sister’s 15 at the oldest, possibly 14. So a 26 year old can’t be a priest because he’s lusting after a 14-15 year old girl who is attractive and who has been flirting with him. Squick.

-also no mention of erasmus at the end of tm’s life. Boo. I think a dude in the tower would think about his BFF of 30+ years who he hasn’t seen for 10+ years

Good bits

-It’s obviously unintentional, but given how the word ‘gay’ has changed, i gave a little cheer every time a character was described as gay. Cecily and John are both gay, Thomas More is very gay, and later in the book wishes he could go back to being gay again. Loving the accidental representation

-”a boy who is not worth the tossing” i have a dirty mind ok

-Joan getting something of a personality! She even feels insecure because she’s a normal person stuck in a family of geniuses.

-George Boleyn is described as being ‘a bright boy’ and later the girls joke that if they meet him they’ll probably fall in love THIS SO REFRESHING. Otoh, Mary Boleyn is slutshamed and Anne is a scheming minx so the double standard does spoil it a little.

-Thomas More makes puns! At one point Alice says “more’s the pity” and then immediately says “don’t you dare make a pun out of that. i know u will. DON’T I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR PUNS” Granted, Plaidy stresses that his wit is never cruel or mocking (Doubt.jpeg) but i think this is maybe the funniest More.

-It acknowledges the heretic burning! Not bad for 1950-something. At the end there’s a sort of Hm Thomas More Is A Complex Dude How Do We Approach Him page from H8′s POV.

-More’s father getting all misty-eyed when his son becomes Chancellor

-Henry VIII kissing tm’s forehead

-the flogging of the mentally ill upskirter being depicted

-Wolsey not being a caricature but a worldly and practical man. He’s explicitly described as “not a bad man”

-”He [TM] was no Erasmus, who, having thrown the stone that shattered the glass of orthodox thought, must run and hide himself lest he should be hurt by the splinters” not a very fair way to depict Erasmus (as he spent a lot of the last decades of his life arguing against Luther and trying to mediate between religious factions, esp in Basel) However, I like the metaphor

-Meg talking about how she and her sisters will always compare men unfavourably to their father... understandable.

-More explaining why Heretic Burning is Good Actually is done well

-Meg pointing out that More and Erasmus both criticised the Church, only it’s a bit half-baked because More never experiences any doubt or crisis over it.

-Meg being torn between the Lutheran and the Catholic men she loves is at least some conflict and stakes when it finally shows up.

-Alice standing trial for dogknapping on page 195. A Big Lipped Alligator Moment, and I’ve no idea the source (i doubt Plaidy would make it up completely, it’s so out of nowhere) but it’s fun. It feels like one of More’s ‘merry tales’

“[Erasmus] read aloud to Thomas when he came home; and sometimes Thomas would sit by his friend’s bed with Margaret on one side of him and Mercy on the other; he would put an arm about them both, and when he laughed and complimented Erasmus so that Erasmus’ pale face was flushed with pleasure, then Margaret believed that there was all the happiness in the world in that room.” my emotions! my emotions! my ship is sailing, i repeat, the ship is sailing!

-”Meg, this is one of the happiest days of my life. it is a day I shall remember on the day i die. i shall say to myself when i find death near me: ‘the great erasmus said that of my daughter, my meg.’”

-”So the King likes verses!” said mistress middleton, her voice softening a little.

“Ah, madam,” said Thomas. “What the King likes today, may we hope Mistress Middleton will like tomorrow?” Do I smell... flirtation...

-”His face was pleasant and kindly, [Alice] concluded....She would like to feed him some of her possets, put a layer of fat on his bones with her butter.” Does this version of Alice have a feeding kink I definitely think, in this ‘verse, Tm and Alice are 100% having sex.

-John Colet’s in it, though described as tm’s confessor (who i think was actually grocyn or linacre)

-Alice clearing a path for a fainting Jane with “Stand aside, you oafs.” alexa, play X gon give it to you.

#historical fiction #warning: very very long post

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goannkent · 5 years

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I’m claiming the title of group launderess. I wash my watercolours and wipe my oils. This was an atrocious bunch of flowers now much improved.

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onpossiblestories-blog · 4 years

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on caretizenship & doing the laundry.

“A society organised around the shared needs of human bodies would be a very different society from the one we know now.” ~ Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?

What do you think citizenship should entail? It’s a big question, right? (Political) philosophers have picked over its entrails for millennia, and I think are yet to come to agreement. People have fought and died for the right to have it, and only since the second half of the 20th century with the decolonization, civil rights, gay liberation, and feminist movements has it begun to extend to humans beyond the ideal Man (ie) white, European, middle-or-upper-class.

However in the last decade, there has been an onslaught of neoliberal reforms: making jobs more flexible and less secure in search of profit leading to the rise of a precarious class; the transition from a welfare state (where all citizens are entitled to benefits and support) to a workfare one (where some benefits are reliant on one-size-fits-all back to work schemes or mandatory unpaid labour); the dwindling availability of affordable, let alone social, housing. The post-war ideal of citizenship is being replaced by one in which the individual is entirely responsible for themselves, in spite of the fact that structural injustice makes certain lives into perilous obstacle courses. The citizen is responsible for making their own way, for finding a job even if there are none to be had, for making money and standing on their own two feet. The designation of citizen is one to be grateful for: it marks a person out as belonging to the geographic area in which they reside, it is quickly turning into a privilege and not a right as the recent case of the Jamaica 50 highlights. Is this really the kind of citizenship we want to stand by?

In amongst this mess, scholar Maribel Casas-Cortes (2019) documents a creative alternative way of belonging which was developed by Spanish feminist activists. Termed “cuida/dania” — in translation “caretizenship” — it’s about centring social relations of care, building solidarity and support between all people whilst paying attention to the effect of privilege hierarchies, and basing belonging in the small and everyday rather than on the scale of the nation-state. She locates it in the specific example of “Precarious Offices”, which were set up by feminist groups to provide information and support for those left out of traditional union organising. I think this idea could (and already does) extend well beyond the traditionally political and activist, and I’m going to explore another site in which caretizenship is enacted — through my voluntary work on the night shift at a London homeless shelter.

It is 4am, and I am folding someone’s washing. The other washing and drying machines chunter gently around me, and the laundry door is hanging half-open. I’m drinking ridiculous amounts of tea to try and stay awake, but it’s not really working so I’ve decided to keep busy with all the chores that need doing. It’s mostly the laundry at this time of night, but later I’ll deal with dinner’s leftovers, lay out breakfast for the early risers, and organise the crate of Pret a Manger’s surplus food we get delivered for people to take for lunch.

Doing the laundry is an entirely ordinary part of everyday life; social anthropologist Sarah Pink writes about it extensively, but most of her work is about laundry in the space of the home. What happens when it’s not in the home, done by the person who owns it in a launderette, or performed as part of the capitalist exchange economy? Since the figure of the launderess largely went away in this country with the invention of washing machines, I think that laundry has become quite an intimate task too. This could also be tied up with the increasing individualisation of Western society. Perhaps I say this from my particular position as a white, middle-class woman but I was taught by society that other people aren’t supposed to see you as a messy, vulnerable, dependent body — they aren’t supposed to see what goes on behind the scenes unless they’re a friend or a family member. As an individual, it is expected that you present a polished façade to the world and get on with being a good, working citizen.

At the shelter, the façade necessarily has to crack. Laundry as a social relation begins to involve more people. Guests aren’t actually allowed in the laundry because of health and safety and protocol, so they have to hand us their dirty clothes in a bag and we put on loads of washing throughout the night. Though you don’t think about it when you’re getting on with it, doing a stranger’s laundry is an act of care and trust on both sides — this manifests itself, for example, when some female guests request that only a female volunteer does their washing. In a wider sense it matters too. You handle people’s underwear, their smelly socks. You get up close and personal with this reality that other people have messy bodies like yours. You fold their clean stuff neatly into a bag, and put armfuls of warm, dry towels back on the shelves; you care. You have to.

Caretizenship, in my head, is like this. It’s about working at the small scale, building connections with people who are not your friends, doing what you can to make someone’s day better. It’s about listening to our fellow humans and their stories when they want to talk. It’s about, for once, not being yourself or an individual, but being a node in a network of support and trust that extends beyond the ones you might build out of choice. Because when the traditional ideal of citizenship crumbles and the state actively works to fracture communities rather than support them, caretizenship (especially across demographic divides) is what we need to start enacting.

For me, right now, being a caretizen is doing the laundry at four in the morning and greeting everyone with a smile. What does it look like for you?

written by eliza

#citizenship #caretizenship #social justice #laundry #volunteering #academia #society #community

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idonotknowhowtoo-blog · 5 years

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How to Avoid Moths, According to Laundry Professionals

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Sweatshirt season is officially upon us, but with the coziness comes a pesky concern: do you have moths? Are they laying eggs on your cashmere sweater right this minute, promising to chew tiny however irreversible holes into your

clothing? Perhaps, but prior to we enter into what to do about it-- due to the fact that there are things to do that do not include odorous mothballs-- it helps to know what moths are performing in your closet in the first place." There are two various kinds of moths that damage textiles: webbing and case-bearing clothes moths," says Meredith Wilcox-Levine, an expert textile conservator at Fabric Preservation Workshop. Both kinds of moths consume fabrics, however the latter does something called grazing, chewing at a leading layer of fabric without leaving a hole. They also are both more of an annoyance in larval kind, instead of in winged type. Wilcox-Levine describes them as "tiny, nearly transparent caterpillars," discussing that they consume protein to prepare for metamorphosis. " at the point where larvae are large enough to be quickly visible, they will already have actually consumed away at your favorite items [ in order] to reach that size, "states Corinna Williams, co-founder of the Brooklyn laundromat-slash-coffee store Celsious. If anything, searching for the cocoons can at least verify that it's moths, and not wear-and-tear, triggering the holes. That makes handling the problem a matter of avoidance and obliteration. We asked 4 experts-- Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Boyd, co-founders of laundry items brand The Laundress, Wilcox-Levine, and Williams-- about how to hinder moths, and how to evict them( and avoid them from reproducing) if they've currently resided. How to avoid moths

" data-word-count= "99" > To prevent a moth invasion, Whiting says you ought to initially discover what they like to eat, and what they can't eat. "Moth larvae generally target clothes made from animal fibers such as silk, wool, cashmere, angora, or fur, and products that consist of keratin, the fibrous structural proteins found in our skin and hair," she says. There's one beneficial exception: "Moths can not eat through cotton," Boyd states. For that factor, she and Whiting advise storing vulnerable clothing in breathable cotton canvas bags with zipper closures, and to avoid plastic or cardboard that might trap wetness and create moth-friendly damp environments.

Home Fundamentals Natural Cotton Canvas Zippered Sweater Bag$

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Household Fundamentals Cotton Canvas Under Bed Clothes and Linen Storage Bag.

$ 20. at Amazon.

For longer garments that get kept under the bed or in drawers.

The Laundress Hanging Storage and Garment Bag.

$ 32. at Amazon.

$ 32. at Amazon. The Launderess likewise makes its own line of canvas storage bags, including this hanging bag for gowns, coats, or other garments you 'd prefer to access quickly.

Whiting encourages against using mothballs, which she says are" are harmful and leave irreversible, poisonous odors."( Plus, we all understand they smell horrible.) She likewise cautions versus cedar wood obstructs or chips, which can leave persistent oil spots on fabrics or trigger acidification damage. Instead, she advises lavender pouches that can attach to wall mounts or get tossed into drawers. "Lavender has actually been utilized for centuries for its bug-repelling homes," she says. "It has terpene substances that are stated to help keep moths away," she states. When it comes to what terpene compounds are: the linalool, linalyl acetate, cineole, and camphor in lavender are what's thought to help push back moths, in addition to other pesky pests like mosquitoes. The latter 2 compounds are thought to have insecticidal properties. Those are also discovered in rosemary, but at lower levels than in lavender, which is why we're discussing lavender (and not rosemary).

ElizabethW Lavender Wall Mount Sachet.

$ 18. at ElizabethW.

Whiting particularly likes these fancy linen-encased lavender items from San Francisco brand name ElizabethW.

$ 14. at Amazon.

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This 12-pack of lavender sachets is another( economical )choice.$ 32. at ElizabethW. Pouches will work for drawers, too, but there's likewise the alternative of a lavender drawer liner.

$ 20. at Saks Fifth Avenue. Lavender oil is a great idea for frightening clothing moths, too. Williams recommends hand-washing" susceptible garments" with a few drops of natural vital lavender oil at the end of the season. The oil can also re-scent pouches that have actually faded in time. Typical Good Linen Water Glass Bottle, Lavender.

$ 18. at Walmart. $18.

at Walmart.

" data-editable=" text "data-uri=" nymag.com/strategist/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjpbiokgs004r3h5v43aq5tb9@published" data-word-count =" 14" > Or, Williams says to deal with post-laundry clothing with a spritz of lavender linen water.

=" text "data-uri=" nymag.com/strategist/_components/clay-subheader/instances/cjpbip2jt004u3h5vuc6fex7q@published" > How to get rid of moths. If you suspect that moths have actually already entered into your wardrobe and laid their eggs, there's still time to evict them and spare any leftover sweaters. Williams suggests first washing garments either by hand or on a wool setting in the cleaning machine utilizing detergent formulated for protein-based fibers, in order to eliminate the larvae.

Tangent Garment Care Delicate Cleaning Agent.

$ 12. at Finnish Design Shop.

$ 12. at Finnish Style Shop.

This is the one that Celsious stocks. (It's also Eileen Fisher- approved.)$ 10. for 2. at Amazon. =" text" data-uri=" nymag.com/strategist/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjpbj180w007m3h5vo9hw13ef@published" data-word-count=" 100" >" If you desire to include an extra layer of security, location one scent trap in your closet to draw in male adult moths and avoid them from procreating," Williams states. Pheromone traps are non-toxic, sticky traps that lure and kill adult moths with the synthetic aroma of a mate." This kind of trap is the method to go, rather than a cheaper, sticky' catch-all' trap," says Wilcox-Levine. And you only require one: "Moths can identify the pheromone from hundreds of feet away, so positioning more than one can really puzzle them and simply make them flutter backward and forward," Williams states. To top that off, you can constantly try fighting the moths with extreme temperatures: Williams then recommends straightening out dry products, due to the fact that the heat can eliminate any larvae still clinging on to fibers. Alternatively, anything that can't be ironed can be frozen:" Place plagued products in non reusable, airtight bags to keep them in the freezer for a couple of days," recommends Boyd. In order to truly eliminate moths of all ages, particularly the cocoon-protected larvae, Wilcox-Levine says you'll need something cooler than the chill levels of a house freezer. Instead, you'll need to put moth-infested items in a sub-4 degrees freezer, for a duration of a minimum of 2 weeks. GET THE STRATEGIST NEWSLETTER In fact bargains, smart shopping advice, and special discount rates. By sending your email, you consent to our.

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