Three Important Points to Remember When “Kondo-ing”

...ms, it will be impossible to keep them organized, and this will inevitably lead to a relapse.” This is exactly what I’m faced with at my mom’s house: boxes of neatly filed away stuff that was never used and that occasionally spilled out during her lifetime. These possessions became a burden, a time-sucking sorting task that claimed many hours of the last years of my mom’s life. This has sparked a, perhaps, overly emotional reaction to quickly get...

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Saturday Tweets: Mostly Bikes

...ps://t.co/JIaxK2yETq — Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) February 24, 2018 Dramatas Urbanae: Photographer’s 10-Year Study of a Single Public Bench | Urbanist – https://t.co/WRsZZe0Xs1 — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) February 23, 2018 Another one for the hexagon series. Many arms king with casual footwear. pic.twitter.com/XD6M6OlltK — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) February 21, 2018 "Science and reason is the best we have" is a statement that is both pseud...

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Solve Your Measurement Problems with a Construction Calculator

...ectrical work add-ons but the free version is good enough for most simple, homesteady projects. In addition to handling those pesky fractions, the basic version also does metric conversion. It will also help you calculate your sheet good needs. I added the carpentry module since I’ve found myself doing a lot of incompetent carpentry these past few months. I’m old enough to remember the failed attempt to convert the U.S. to the metric system in the...

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Saturday Tweets: One Crazy Week

...er.com/ozXQVBakqN — Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) October 30, 2018 How Lead Ends up in drinking water: https://t.co/pr0hW1Wdll via @cenmag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 31, 2018 Waking up early won’t change your life—but it’s awesome for capitalism https://t.co/2OqJFVmtqC via @quartzatwork — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 30, 2018 https://t.co/Wh3tiVA2ng | Hundreds of teeth found in Downtown Valdosta wall — Root Simple (@rootsimple) O...

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Why I’m Growing Vegetables in a Straw Bale

.... Growing in straw bales is also a great solution for folks, like us, with lead contaminated soil. The drawbacks of straw bale gardening are mainly environmental. You have to buy bales and nitrogen and import them in a CO2 spewing vehicle, unless you have a generously sized cargo bicycle. And in my last straw bale garden some of the tomato plants showed signs (a lot of leaves and not a lot of fruit) of too much nitrogen. On the other side of that...

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