This could be an appliance, a general life principle, whatever!
A bidet. Now, now, hear my out. I was like you once. My butthole was always raw and itchy and dirty. And who can blame me? I was rubbing paper on my asshole! DAILY! SOMETIMES MORE! I was a mess, folks. But then I found purification. I found hydration. I found spraying my asshole with water! And my life was transformed. No more itchiness. No more skidmarks. In the shower of the bidet, I was cleansed.
No, but seriously, wash your butthole. And don't just spray and be done, shift that booty, get all the angles. You will be amazed at how much less negative pooping becomes in your life if you've got like sensitive digestion or something. Spray it down, dab it dry with TP and unless you've got a serious case of all day diarrhea or something most of your butthole related issues will be solved.
I just want to say, if you buy one and if you hook up the hot water, do NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use the plastic tubing included for the hot water. Use metal tubing. The hot water tube melted and flooded our house! Thank goodness due to my partner being home and quick action we were able to mitigate the damage.
Do your research on brands and don't use plastic tubing!!
Holy shit, that didn't even occur to me. Some people complain about cold water, but idk, it doesn't bother me. Typically i find a bit of a cold splash on my ass refreshing after what I just put it through. But I suppose if I was up north where it gets really cold, it might be another story.
God, we're moving out in a month, now I'm paranoid. The water valve underneath our sink in won't fully close anymore so I can't uninstall myself unless the whole apartment complex loses water for some reason - we're just leaving it for the landlord to deal with (it was a fairly cheap bidet), but I'm prob going to lose some sleep over this, since we're leaving for a vacation over the 4th....
I second this. Biggest drawback is how much more travel sucks once you get one, because you'll have to revert to TP :(
Seriously. I'm getting a damn travel bidet. I can't handle paper anymore. Getting too damn old.
Being forced back into the office has been a nightmare for just this reason honestly.
I’ve been having some serious poop issues lately, where I’ve been pooping like 4 times a day and my butthole gets absolutely raw even with my nice TP. I should consider getting one of those
life changing, seriously. Even better than wet wipes. Just removes all the friction out of the equation.
You gotta dab it, don't wipe. If it's still breaking apart you made need some better paper. I use charmin (i think) and don't typically have problems, but my friends have some bargain bin thin stuff and it breaks apart pretty easily. The bright side of having to use more expensive paper is you don't use as much. I've thought about using a plain hand towel that I would just wash regularly, but I'm not at that level of trusting my butt's cleanliness yet. I mean, it's not any different than showering after pooping and using my regular towel to dry off, but in my head it's weird.
Put very little effort into things unless you personally believe they're important. You can half ass most things and that's more than good enough.
I'm struggling with this right now because I've basically forced myself into a role at my current job. They were handling things so poorly before I got there that it was only a matter of time before the company was shuttered.
At least I've gotten everyone like $10k raises because of my changes
Yeah, it's nice because I have essentially total control over everything now and an in a position to take demands to the boss. Which has given us all massive negotiating power seeing as how my demands always stem from systemic changes in payrates and benefits and I'm in a position where the company literally can't function without me and the code I've written.
It also sucks because I'm now having to do the work of 4 people just to maintain our production and keep everything liquid.
Still think it's worth it having brought 9 people from poverty wages to living wage.
I like to use mine to heat water for lentils or rice when I'm impatient, they're great.
Walk or some kind of moderate exercise every day makes life easier emotionally.
Waking up super early in the morning. I can take my dog for walks and not have shitty neighbors mad dog me for her pissing in their grass. No line and freshest bread at the bakery. I can bike down the middle of the lane without fear. It's quiet, so I can concentrate when I'm listening to theory. Waking up while it's still bright outside is a trip. And as an unapologetic drinker, it's always fun to wake up at 7 in the summer and not know whether to run for the bus stop or run to the liquor store.
Shit lasts two days tops
This has never been my experience, it always ends up becoming a dried white hunk of poop after weeks and just sits there til it rains for 3 days straight or it turns to dust
You're going to get me in fights, comrade. But I like your tactic. I'll use it.
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also sticking to this as much as you can is super helpful
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Edit: Secondarily to this, a Volcano vaporizer. It's so much better than other vaporizers that it's not even really comparable. The bag system allows you to get an entire bowl's worth of green hits--it tastes so much better than smoke, and every hit tastes the same.
I’ve been thinking of getting a dry herb vape, I’ve heard good things. They’re kinda expensive tho
Yeah, that's the downside. I hate to advocate for a single brand, but I bought a Volcano knockoff once and it was terrible, the bag it came with melted when I tried to use it, and the whole thing died after only a couple of months. By contrast my current one has been going for I think like 7 years now (I had to replace a switch recently, but it's otherwise working just fine).
I've got the POTV One Vape, it's like a hundred bucks and does the job right. If that's in your price range.
I bought a Fury 2.0 two years ago and have been really happy with it so far. It's way better for your lungs since you don't inhale nearly as much toxic fumes, has basically no odor, and a single bowl can easily last you 3 or 4 sessions since you can set the initial temp low and then slowly bring it to it's maximum after a few days. It's only a hundred bucks, and I've probably ended up saving money in the long run because I don't need to go to the dispensary as often. I will say the one thing I've noticed with it is that the high it gives you is different from what you'd get by smoking. For a positive, I've never had dry eyes or a dry throat when vaping, but it also doesn't get you nearly as high as you would be when smoking, and it's definitely more of a head high than a body high.
What's the top thing you do or use to make your life easier?
A :bottom-speak: , presumably.
Serious answer is an Instant Pot/pressure cooker. I've can't count how much time I've saved over the years by just tossing a bunch of shit into one, pushing a button, and having dinner ready half an hour later with zero human effort expended.
Terminating weird intrusive thoughts by imagining a nuke going off in my head seems to work sometimes.
This is gonna sound woo-woo as shit, but I imagine that I'm sitting on the bank of a river and those intrusive thoughts are meant to just float on past me. I don't know where they came from, I don't care where they're going, and I don't have to interact or do anything with them. Just observe their passing.
