Comments on: New Life

By: Marijke

Marijke — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:58:18 +0000

After much shower curtain research and a year-long stint with a cotton cloth curtain, I bought some thin white poly ones from fred meyer and they work perfectly. I will send you some if you want!

By: Matt O

Matt O — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:03:33 +0000

we have a washable shower curtain. I think it’s nylon or polyester or something, but it’s not particularly thin and doesn’t have a problem with water getting through it. We also have a cloth (probably cotton?) curtain on the outside that might soak up any water that does get through, although honestly I don’t think any does. I prefer it so much more to plastic because, as you said, you can just throw the liner in the laundry every week and it doesn’t get moldy.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:26:44 +0000

We had the same problem w pineapple guavas! SO MANY, and they rotted so fast. The only solution we found was to go out every day, no exceptions, and pick them all up. I also routinely spent summer weekends on a ladder picking the baby pineapple guavas in a vain attempt to head off the deluge. It sort of worked.

Compost: buying a length of chicken wire or other wire fencing and bending/pliering it into a cylinder makes a pretty cheap & easy bin.

Shower: we have a nice fabric curtain on the outside and a plastic one on the inside. Sounds extremely 80s with peach swags everywhere, but is actually, uh, white. If you occasionally wipe down the plastic one w vinegar or diluted bleach solution it works ok.

Putting the router on a timer sounds interesting but potentially too expensive for the amount of use it would be getting. Re movies: assuming you have a DVD drive, you can always get them from the library.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:51:08 +0000

What if you DID get internet but you only set the router to be on during certain hours of the day?

https://support.opendns.com/entries/25628804-can-I-set-my-netgear-to-have-a-time-block-example-8pm-to-5am-