FFS I use Oxiclean for almost everything and I never thought for this application. Thank you!

Your comment made me flash to this scene.

I had an incident with my waffle maker the other day and I was thinking of this comment. The machine was so covered with batter, I thought it would just be easier to chuck it in the sink and let it soak, but I didn’t have that kind of temerity. But I thought I know of somebody on the Internet who does.

Absolutely. I clean my sink with BFK every night. I also use it to renew my stainless steel pots and pans. After more than 20 years, they still look really good..

I was expecting some nice stainless steel containers. But you’ve got me thinking.

Every three months or so, I renew all my stainless steel cookware using BKF. Been cooking on it for over 20 years and it still looks great with almost no stains. That stuff is magical!

I wish I could figure out how to get my Vitamix blender clean. It’s just so nasty. I do the power wash thing they suggest and the vinegar soak, and it doesn’t help at all. Haven’t found anything to scour it with that won’t scratch all the plastic and make things worse. So disappointed about the lack of quality of the…

By the time that I was eight years old in the late 1980s, I was already expected to earn money to buy the things that I wanted. By the time I was a teenager in the early 1990s, my parents provided a room, food, and limited clothing. I paid for everything else. So I learned at a very young age that nice things cost…

I can’t believe that having bills to pay and wanting food in the fridge is not enough motivation for most people. Said as someone who has been working from home for herself for the better part of a decade.

I believe that because I’ve seen that with other foods. My parents would get legit angry with me for not eating eggs and making up lies about my thinking that they tasted and smelled rotten. Turns out that I’m allergic and my being so put off by them was a survival tactic by my body! I bet there’s something similar…

I grew up with parents who had huge, damaging issues with food that they passed on to their kids. From a very young age, I remember thinking, “There’s so much amazing food on this planet; why are they making me waste calories on things I don’t like?!” 

Wow. I could have written all that. Thank you for that validation!

Mexico was so easy when I get my residency visa three and a half years ago. Income requirements were so low and they gave me, a digital nomad, the visa based on retiree requirements. At last reports, digital nomads are still easily getting visas, but the income requirements have skyrocketed. I’ll be a permanent…

*gasps* I’m the same age. I stopped dating in my 20s. I was never diagnosed as being on the spectrum but very likely am, just “normal” enough to understand why I’d want a relationship and to feel lonely, but definitely atypical enough that all the rituals around dating were like a language I couldn’t master. I’ve built…

I never felt such culture shock as I did the week that I shared an apartment with a woman in Barcelona. My first night there she made herself a pot of soup. It lived on the stove the entire week. She would just reheat it every night and eat a bowlful and then put the lid back on the pot and let it sit till her next…

I used to wonder that too. After trying what felt like everything for my insomnia, I decided to try sleeping in a hammock (I live in Yucatán, where this is common). My sleep tracker will confirm that 99% of nights, I fall asleep nearly immediately and sleep straight through the night. I still have issues with sleep…

I don’t think I’ve ever so wanted someone else’s problems.

Can you please share it? Even if not, GO YOU. :)

“because then it makes me feel left out... which can then make my world feel even smaller, you know?”

I hit the jackpot this year. It was the perfect storm for my business to absolutely explode in the best way possible. The way things are going, my income is going to triple next year and I’ll be in a position to buy a house. I’m also an introvert who lives alone with her dog in a huge house with a large yard in a safe…