Shamelessly getting TONS of bed rest at the beginning of a cold will often knock it on its head.

Shamelessly getting TONS of bed rest at the beginning of a cold will often knock it on its head.

My neighbourhood has been out of hand sanitizers for weeks (including hand wipes). The supplies of rubbing alcohol have dwindled, too.

It’s getting out the door without a paper towel that baffles me... I guess you can carry around a pack of tissues specifically for that purpose.

You know, I rent a small apartment and I don’t own a car. I don’t know what the hell I’m supposed to do if there’s ever a full-on disaster, because I won’t be able to carry all the shit we’re supposed to take with us. Even assuming I had gallons of water for x days all ready to grab and go for every member of the…

No, I don’t “have” to ask someone before I recline, but I do think it’s friendly to give them notice that I intend to recline. “Hi, it’s nighttime now and they’ve turned off the lights. I’m exhausted and I’d like to get some sleep, so I’m planning on reclining the seat a bit in a few minutes’ time. If you need the…

Here are 2 excellent BC SPCA videos on handling cats. (And whatever you do, if a cat is relaxed enough to present its belly, that just means it’s comfortable around you... it’s not a dog and is not inviting you to rub its belly!)

I used to use ChatterBlocker. It was infinitely configurable, affordable, and shockingly effective at masking chatter (hence the name). One coworker didn’t believe me until I put him on headphones - with ChatterBlocker playing at a moderate level - and spoke loudly a couple of feet away from him. He couldn’t make out…

This is the only sensible thing to do. My fave restaurant in all of town is, incomprehensibly, NOT a place my husband likes to go. Solo is just so much better in every way.

If you can find Purell, that is! Hand sanitizers in my city have vanished like snowflakes in a hot summer breeze.

Put a tablespoon or two of green tea leaves into a frying pan and heat them (dry) until they start to emit a fragrance; basically, you roast them very lightly. Green tea is wonderful for removing odours - in Japan they make fragrancers called chakouro that are dedicated to this purpose*, but a frying pan works just…

I’m not sure if this is related, but I noticed that my auto-logoff settings would reset to null every time the desktop extension was updated. This has been happening for some months (for me, in Chrome). Each time, a new LastPass shortcut would appear on my desktop. That was my cue to double-check the settings and…

That’s a brilliant idea! How do you keep them in there? Are they in an (open) glass jar, or...?

Thank you for this! I’ve been saving them for ages in the assumption they’d be useful... someday.... maybe. Now my hoarding tendency is totally vindicated!!

In my corner of the world, at least, they have one bin for paper products and another for cups PLUS lids - which are patently made of very different materials. Every time I need to “recycle” my cup at Starbucks, I waver over this unhelpfully ambiguous designation. I’m pretty sure it all ends up in general garbage,…

You could be right about the premium Nescafé ... it’s been a long time since I lived in the UK, though, so I don’t know what lines they have now.

Ooh I’m going to try this - sounds yummy.

Count me among the people who reuse plastic bags to destruction, then use them as garbage bags. I’m in a Canadian city that banned them a year ago. We’re coming to the end of our stock of old plastic bags, and shortly I’ll have to start buying plastic bags to fit in our rubbish bins... sold in cardboard packaging that…

Can’t speak for other countries, but in Japan people wear masks for several reasons:

This. I don’t get the flu shot for me, I get it for the sake of the senior citizens that I see all the time in my volunteer work (and who are sometimes fellow volunteers, too). I also share an apartment building with many tenants over 65 years old.