So you buy a nice two shelf bookcase but it’s wobbly and you know it won’t hold much. I’ve recently gotten one and my solution was to put L-brackets on it. After installing about 8 of these brackets at the cojoining parts of the shelving, it is now completely stable and ready for use.
Here’s an unpopular one that will have people huffing and puffing with righteous indignation.
Go vegan.
Your food will keep three times as long and you will not even need a refrigerator. I speak with 20 years of experience of living mostly solo in small apartments. Not having to deal with highly perishable and pathogenic food at home is a major convenience.
Veggies are not immune to spoiling nor pathogens. What is your diet made of besides legumes and beans?
Grainy things, quinoa, oats, nuts of varied types, dried fruits. Things in jars. Sometimes prepared salads that I buy the same day.
Eggs. Because I am not actually vegan! But it’s the only exception at home. And I also eat out a bit, and sometimes even eat meat!
None of this invalidates my point: domestic veganism is a way to simplify one’s life, ethical issues completely apart.
Do you have any tips for keeping lettuce and other leaves such as spinach form spoiling too quick ?
Lettuce is hard admittedly. Personally I don’t eat it. It’s mostly water, not very nutritious, and also a pretty good vector for pesticides given the edible surface area.
Spinach should keep for 2 or 3 days. Do as they did before refrigeration: put it in a dark, dry, cool (low) place. Shop regularly in small quantities - people alone in apartments tend to be in big cities where this is possible.
Buy some area desinfectant and regularly use it on the bathroom floor and toilet seat.
The first is to prevent warts under your feet, the second is against infektions like akne or your skin. Works pretty well so far.
Be carefull not to accidentally pour the desinfectant INTO your toilet, it might react with something. Use a paper towel to hold the chemicals instead.
Do not do any plumbing or electrical work yourself unless you are a plumber or an electrician respectively.
Consequences for mistakes can be extremely costly and/or deadly. If you rent, it’s your landlord’s responsibility to get that stuff handled. If you own, just pay the tradesmen to do it right.
I disagree. You probably shouldn’t rewire your house yourself but changing out an outlet/switch or installing a water softener are extremely easy tasks that would not be worth hiring a contractor for. There’s quite a lot you can safely do on your own as long as you educate yourself and triple check everything.
I agree. There are tons of resources out there that will tell you how to do it and typically they come with plenty of comments from other people telling why the particular example is wrong. From there you should be able to piece together a lot of the common mistakes, and understand how not to make them. If you can’t understand the why to any of them, perhaps it isn’t something you should be trying yourself.
Empty the lint trap on your dryer every time you use it.
If you have a dishwasher make sure there is no food clogging the drain every now and then.
Better yet, completely rinse everything off of the dishes before putting them in the washer.
Don’t do that; modern dishwashers already do an amazing job of that, so you’d just be wasting water and effort, which defeats the whole point of dishwashers in the first place.
If anything, just scrape any solids into the trash with a utensil before loading your dishes into the dishwasher.
Biodegradables in the trash?! That’s even worse! I just hand wash and use the dishwasher as a dry rack.
Look for your nearest merch closeout/buyout store for things like cookware, tablewear, sheets and blankets, etc. I’ve basically stocked half my kitchen with stuff from Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, and each pot and pan was less than $15. idk if there’s a Canadian or European equivalent, or if that store exists there, but look for anything that advertises closeouts, buyouts, excess merchandise, or unsold merchandise
