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Laundry

Putting the recipes here since I’m tired of having to search for those two posts on it by @prismatic-bell and (gonna say) @awfullydull.  Especially with how hard tumblr has made it to try to get to posts now.  (ex: I could not get to the posts to link them here for some reason, even though I could find them to reblog.  They will be directly after this post on my blog and are tagged laundry.)  Definitely go check them out though for all the other info and some laundry stuff I personally didn’t need.

Laundry detergent:

1 cup Borax

1 cup washing soda

½-1 cup grated bar soap (laundry bars like fels naptha or standard bar soap like ivory)

 - mix together, then use ¼ cup per load.

* For daily use during regular washing

Laundry Stripping

½ cup Borax

½ cup washing soda

½ cup grated laundry soap

- mix together and dissolve in necessary amount of warm water to submerge clothing, then soak clothes at least 8 hours, 12-24 is better.

- wring out (or do a spin cycle in washer), then wash as normal. 

* For use around once every 2-3 months or so to deep clean

(note: can sub powdered laundry detergent for laundry soap according to some other recipes I found)

Spot Treatments

Grease: Dawn dish detergent + a toothbrush to scrub

Blood: hydrogen peroxide

Ink: alcohol (rubbing or vodka)

- spot apply only to stained area and let sit 5-15 minutes before regular washing.

* as needed for stains

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Here's a picture of my derpy cat being a weirdo, you're welcome

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i understand loving axolotls theyre really beautiful, but keeping them as pets is not ethical. theyre a critically endangered species, not only because of their habitats being incredibly polluted, but also because of them being trafficked so you can keep them as pets. like do the math, theyre readily available as pets to you, yet critically endangered according to the iucn. instead of buying them as pets please consider donating to mexican organizations (x) that specialize on their restoration. theyre endemic to mexico and yet it seems that theyre mostly kept in fishbowls around the world. and if you can, take a look at the upcoming national axolotl museum.

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I published my journal/life hacker on Amazon!! I could not be happier right now!

#journal #success #goals #business

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Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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Hello! I would like to warn everyone of an experience my roommate and I have just had, in case I can prevent it happening to anyone else. Or, you know, if anyone knows a lawyer who could advise us.

My roommate has a queen size Nectar mattress. Friday night, she spilled some water on the bed and took the cover off to air dry. She unzipped the cover, and a flame retardant sleeve (that we hadn’t known was there to begin with) made of woven fiberglass began shedding small fiberglass particles. They were airborne. The whole room and everything in it is contaminated, and there are few surfaces elsewhere in the apartment that don’t have at least a little. Nowhere on the mattress’ tags or on the Nectar website does it say there is a fiberglass sleeve. In fact, it makes a big deal of how there are five components: top of cover, three layers of foam, bottom of cover. Nothing about the flame retardant sleeve there. The label on the cover doesn’t say you can’t take it off, just that they suggest you don’t. It does not mention fiberglass as a material found in the mattress at all. The website even has a page explaining that you CAN take off the cover and wash it, if you must, just that they suggest you don’t. No real reasons given. No mention of fiberglass.

Our apartment is sparkly with fiberglass. We have had to drop money on a HEPA filter vacuum that could safely remove some of it, and on new non-permeable mattress covers to contain the worst of the source. We have had to garbage-bag up almost everything in her room. No amount of runs through the laundry seems to get it all out of clothes, and we have to thoroughly wipe out the washer and dryer drums every load. All her pillows were ruined, the chair in her room, her clothing, some expensive bras, a nice area rug, and I’m sure there will be trouble on the horizon with our landlord regarding the carpet, even if we do vacuum it as well as we can.

Lilly has been having nosebleeds, before the mattress was unzipped, but the worst one I’ve seen yet was the one that evening. She’s been sleeping on it almost a year, and it could have begun coming through the fabric cover. Nosebleeds are a sign of fiberglass inhalation.

We have contacted the company, and their response was honestly insulting. We were told that we shouldn���t have taken the mattress cover off to begin with, and that it can no longer be covered by the 365 night guarantee, despite us having had it for under the full year. I have just now, after three days trying, finally spoken to someone willing to look into our case, so here’s hoping we’ll get even a fraction of what we are, frankly, owed.

It really feels like there could be some sort of lawsuit here.

In fact, there is one, with a situation nearly identical to ours but with a different company. This was the first hit when I searched our problem online.

https://topclassactions.com/…/zinus-class-action-says…/

Anyway, if you have a Nectar mattress, don’t ever open the easily accessible warning-label-free zipper! If you have had it under a year, and it’s in its original condition, it can still be returned. If you were planning to get one, maybe don’t! A lot of the foam-mattress-in-a box types have the fiberglass, though most of them disclose the presence of the fiberglass rather than hiding it like a dirty secret. Make sure you do a search for mattresses WITHOUT fiberglass as a flame retardant.

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Friends and followers please please take a moment of your time today to submit a comment on the United States Fish & Wildlife's survey https://www.relistwolves.org/comment-action on re-listing Gray Wolves as an endangered species. You don't even have to be a U.S. citizen. This has been a really hard 3+ years of legislation for wolves, especially considering Idaho's "Kill Bill" of 2021 which authorized the cull of 90% of wolves in the state. Wolves are a critical species in our ecosystems & there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that they are not the threat that many communities perceive them to be.

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reblog to give the person you rb'd this from a hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows

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Both were filled at the same time with the same water, only one had oysters.

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At the hub of the dispute is Lake Okeechobee – one of the nation’s largest lakes, the wellspring of the Everglades and the freshwater heart of South Florida.

For 6,000 years, excess groundwater has spilled over the southern rim of the lake, nourishing the Everglades before draining into the Florida Bay. To make way for the cane fields, engineers raised and fortified the lake’s southern shore, funneling all that excess groundwater through an array of canals, levees and pumping stations into two rivers that then dump it into the sea along Florida’s east and west coasts.

This cleared the way for the cane fields, but choked off water to the rest of the Everglades. It also infected the two rivers and South Florida’s coastlines with toxic algae.

Even more fearsome – it created a ticking time bomb in the form of a seeping dike that, should the right storm come along, could lay waste to everything and everybody in its path.

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This is art! 😍

Link to the thread so you can take a closer look at the photos

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Ecosia is great because while I'm sure I'm on 250 watch lists and on, most likely, at least one No Fly list. At least I am planting trees for every 45 searches, it doesn't matter if it's about how a sea cucumber can digest through it's bum or "how do I know a sweet potato is baked" immediately after.

#web search #ecosia #plant trees #cabinet of curiosities #curiosity

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The United States is a dystopian fiction impersonating a real country, you can't change my mind.

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I hope I find someone that loves me the same way Stephen Colbert loves his wife ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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#squirrel #this is so funny #community #and they talk about Florida