Beware the JubJub bird

joddler

Every time I get groceries I’m always appalled at how little you can get for like, $20. I was making banana pudding so I needed vanilla wafers but the brand name nilla wafers cost $4 a box. The minimum wage in my state is $7.25/hr. My friend put it really well when he said “imagine you work for an hour and someone hands you two boxes of nilla wafers and said ‘actually this is a bit more than what I owe you’”

How are some of y’all missing the point so bad. “Shop at aldi instead” “make your own food” “don’t buy brand name” “don’t buy unhealthy processed food” It’s not about the box of cookies. This is about how minimum wage pays peanuts and has stagnated for 12 years while the cost of living keeps growing. No one wants your financial advice about how to survive on beans and rice and frozen veggies. The smartest grocery list in the world is not gonna help you budget your way out of poverty. Please get a grip for the love of god

Stardew Valley cracks me up bc like. at no point does the game even attempt to explain a game mechanic to you. guess, google or die

In Austria, we call kittens at that age “Autodromkatzerl”, which translates to “bumper car kittens”, because of the way their tail sticks up. It’s not a really common word, but a very cute one, I think

this is a genuinely delightful bit of knowledge, thank you for sharing this!! omg

@wearethegalacticsystem

Who wired my fucking house. Give me a fucking name. I just wanna talk

…we are the children of the DIYers who didn’t burn

@thebibliosphere

oh god.  I hear so many stories from customers in retail, and am so glad my parents have always believed in hiring people who knew what they were doing because it would be faster and probably cost less.

As a homeowner you gotta know when a job is beyond your skills. You also need to factor in the consequences of fucking it up.

Part of it is boomers grew up with parents who were part of this giant new suburban generation and their parents had this ‘we can do anything, we won WWII!’ attitude - and new markets like Popular Mechanics drove all the DIY stuff before safety and regulations caught up. I am quite capable of doing some serious work but it does come down to - can I do it right? Can I do it better than a pro? Will it be safe/up to code? Things like the shed I built, it ain’t going anywhere but then again - no power wired to it and it is a small outbuilding. Not like tearing out a structural wall in my house. Also hitting my 50s my body disagrees on what I can accomplish too, time does equal money and skill too, so sometimes (most times) it’s better to pony up for a contractor.

My first house, when we renovated the kitchen we found out that the ENTIRE KITCHEN had been wired with ungrounded two-prong household 6′ extension cords connected together, plugged into each other and secured with electrical tape on one end, with the other end spliced into the main house wiring.  The fact that the house hadn’t burned down was a goddamn miracle. 

My kitchen floor is cracking because someone before me DIY installed it and they didn’t put the proper base in under the tile so they continually come loose and knock into each other/break the grout. Had a professional attempt to re-tile one section where it had gotten really bad and within a month they were loose again.

She has a point

this is the sweetes, purest, most adorable thing i’ve ever seen

I played this while my cats were sitting next to me and they both immediately snuggled in harder and it was so pure

This has the same energy of that video of that woman yodeling an old traditional herding yodel to make the cows come to her

Woman who grew up on a dairy farm here. Cows LOVE music. When I was first learning to play flute, my mom would tell me to go practice in the barn so the cows could listen ( and also probably because she didn’t want to hear Hot Cross Buns for the 900th time). I would stand in the hay loft overlooking the main corral and they would all gather around and stare at me and swish their tails.