First world problems 2021

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  1. SatayKing

    SatayKing Well-Known Member

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    Apart from this small incident, mine have fortunately reduced. Not even required to regularly monitor blood sugar levels now.

    You all can thank me later for the resultant savings to public health system. I'm viewing them as a credit bank to be used later - much like some view paying income tax.
     
    SatayKing, 24th Feb, 2021
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    They'd just open the foot for that. They wouldn't bother with an x-ray.

    Though your deceased state might explain a lot.
     
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  3. SatayKing

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    I suspect the GP is accumulating data so when the inevitable occurs, she can point to the evidence to pronounce "I didn't do it!" :D
     
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    When you're the last of the household to log into Netflix - it kicks you off for being over "screens" - and you're stuck with watching free to air
     
    Lizzie, 27th Feb, 2021
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    How many people do you have watching Netflix? One level of subscription allows two concurrent users, the next four users.

    But if you're really stuck after that, explore ABC iView or SBS On Demand. There are some really good shows on there, they just take a bit of finding sometimes.
     
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  6. Scott No Mates

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    Shared neighbourhood password. :p
     
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    The two user level - but now that hubby has found Flixxing, I'll have to up the subs
     
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  8. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    We had a company paid lunch. I feel so stuffed now.
    Just like my last company paid lunch :(
     
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    Flyspray.

    Odourless - tick.
    All natural - tick.
    Environmentally friendly - tick (questionable).
    Kills in one spray - Pffft. Nope.

    The flies enjoy it - like a spa treatment. So refreshing.
     
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    I work with someone who sold the chemicals for fly spray. You know what "fast knockdown" means ? They add a chemical that stuns it and paralises it. WILL NOT KILL anything. The consumer thinks - Its worked and stops spraying. The ******* will get up and fly around a few min later unless it cops a direct spray of the key kill factor. Found one that kills cockroaches...Cat. Havent seen one since the cat arrived. We just find dead ones.

    You want one that promises to KILL and give it a bath. Spiders. We have a rule. The bigger and nastier ones have to look like frosting.
     
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    The annoyance when one scrolls through those "best price" sites and after a bit of researching elsewhere find the exact same thing for $50 cheaper but with an ETA of three to four weeks and on further looking find you can buy O/S over $80 cheaper despite taxes, shipping, etc.

    And it arrives in less than two weeks which sometimes is quicker than a parcel being sent from Melbourne to Canberra.
     
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    I feel this way with environmentally friendly cleaning products. If it's not based on harsh, harmful industrial strength chemicals - I feel like it won't clean properly.
     
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    I had a friend helping do a final clean before new tenants went into a rental. We should have pushed for a bond clean but missed that boat.

    She is a clean queen and had all her products. There was grease on the metal light fitting in the kitchen and she tried everything in her arsenal of products and was frustrated that everything she tried was just smearing the oily dust around and not removing it.

    I handed her my Koh and she was amazed. She ordered hers that day.

    She said she’d seen FB adverts for the product (which is what prompted me to try it) but assumed it was not going to live up to the promise in the adverts.

    It is all I use (unless I need bleach or gumption). And it is safe and non-toxic, Australian product too.

    I hate even walking in the cleaning product aisle - such strong odours.
     
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    There's nothing like losing a couple of layers of skin or a lung in an effort to keep the bugs at bay.

    Better than following some people around the supermarket - such strong odours. :eek:
     
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    I found natural insect sprays and deodorants to be completely useless.

    Depending on what you are cleaning, natural cleaning products can be hit-and-miss.
     
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    Kerosine, turps, metho, sodium hypochlorite - aren't these natural?
     
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  18. wylie

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    With a history of Alzheimers, and the possible link between aluminium in deodorants and Alzheimers, I tried for a while to find a natural deodorant that worked. Most didn't work.

    But I have been using No Pong for a while now and it does work. And PiperWai worked for me too.
     
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    My wife and daughter use No Pong and they are pretty happy with it - previous natural products didn't work but this one seems decent.
     
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    Opening the tin of tinted "white" skirting board paint - only to realise that, after a full days painting skirting boards the day before, on the way home one had bought the wrong tinted white

    **note to self: pearl white is the exterior window surround colour - illusive white is the interior colour
     
    Lizzie, 6th Mar, 2021
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