OT The Home Isolation Thread- What are you doing?

Not a fan of the french press. I find it sour/bitter. Also its a bitch to clean the damned thing without fucking up your sink/garbage disposal.

I loved the aeropress the most. Just can get a little messy at times.

I used to hand grind my beans like a fucking hipster.

 

If it tastes sour you are making it too hot. I taught the wife to boil 80 percent of the water needed and add the other 20 percent room temp water to cool it just enough not to burn. I read that people use thermometers and shit but that's too much trouble.

We use stuff from trader joes and all of it ends up fabulous.

Bought a stainless steel version on amazon for 35 bucks in 2017 and it is like new. The glass ones break easily.

 

How the fuck do you clean that shit?

Those grinds really do a job on your garbage disposal.

I do the water right before the boiling point, same as teas.

 

I also like the Moka pots. those work great, but I left that back in oregon, its a bitch to always get espresso grinds.

 

Goes in the garbage. Dump the grounds in a dirty bowl lined with 2 thick paper towels. Twist it up like a knap sack and goes in the garbage. Thirteen gallon febreze smelling garbage bags that I tie shut.

That big bag goes in a 50 gallon bin that Republic picks up in Friday. That bin is marked with our address so that some asshole doesn't take it and leave us a filthy one that they just dump their trash straight into.

Some people are gross. Then they want to leave their cans outside all week because they smell.

The wife and I fill a garbage and a recycling bin/can each about 50 gallons every week.

Then I see my neighbors with 3 kids only putting one can out every week and I just imagine what the inside of their house looks like.

Yuck

 

I used to have a really nice Capresso grinder/brewer and it made great coffee. Then I switched to tea for 7-8 years and gave the Capresso to BG. After awhile I needed to switch it up and have coffee at times. So I went out and bought a Chemex. You have to pour the H2O over it manually but it makes even better coffee than the Capresso. and the filters with grounds go right in the garbage. Chemex is a great way to go and takes up much less space that an electric coffee maker of almost any brand.

 

I have a family of 6 (4 kids) we fill a 64 gallon garbage every week. My wife sweeps, mops, vacuums daily and has a checklist for cleaning other things either once or twice a week.

Im not sure how to judge if you think that makes our house dirty or not lol.

I personally find with the kids, “clutter” is more of an issue. Have to go round up all their stuff every single night.

 

I'm not sure what size ours are. Either 45 or 64 I believe. The garbage is full every week and the recycling is half full at least if not more.

I am sure your place is fine if she does all that. Clutter is in the eye of the beholder. I think my wife's plants are clutter but I know they are good to have in the house.

You can't judge a house by the outside that is for sure. I delivered furniture for a bit in my early 20s. I went inside huge homes in nice neighborhoods that were nasty and little dumps in crappy hoods that were beautiful inside.

 

What I love about living in an apartment is the mystery hole at the end of the hallway you just throw the garbage into. Unlimited dumping!

 

Yeah I learned that real quick. I accidentally hit that little valve deal and I thought I was a goner!

 

I believe they have machines that simulate drip coffee. I had one like this, that made fantastic coffee but I gave it to my neighbor since he didn't have a coffee maker and was just going to the leasing office everyday to get free shit lol

 

I think my kids have about 10x the amount of toys and craft supplies that any group of kids need... Thats clutter lol

 

This is the one I got. Don't remember paying this much for it,



who knows what I'll get next.

 

I bought a new TV because my kids and wife were stealing the good one, and the one in our room was / is older. So my response was screw that Im getting my own.

 

This. I grew up in the family heating business, and when you pulled up to a house you never, ever knew what you would find inside. We lived in the Creston Kenilworth ‘hood and we’d bug my dad about moving to Eastmoreland. He’d just laugh and tell us how they might be “house rich” but that we’d be surprised at how many of those folks couldn’t afford to furnish those houses.........or afford the oil bill required to heat them. It was driven home as an adult by a cousin who sold higher end real estate. He’d say the same thing. When my kids were young and playing youth baseball there used to be a set of ball fields in the heights of West Linn, surrounded by McMansions. They looked great from the front, but from behind (as seen from the ball fields) it was obvious that many of them could barely afford furniture......and the window “treatments” in the rear of the house were usually bedsheets. Those folks made a tony impression from the outside but I have to wonder how many times they invited their neighbors in. Give me my well maintained, well heated and cooled and nicely furnished 2000 ft2 “hovel”.......

 

TVs are so cheap. Its crazy

 

Yes

 

Did you work for Big Pharma?