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Swagaru t1_ja8sy8p wrote

Your fiancé has the right idea for keeping a clean house.

Generally it takes a minute or two to keep things in a clean condition (loading the dishes as you use them) versus taking longer when you wait to do a “deeper clean” (waiting to load dishes until the end of the day).

Plus cooking in a clean kitchen is just so nice lol

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DoinItWrong96 t1_ja8qlho wrote

Spouse just got me a heated mattress cover and I love it! Went from being piled so high with blankets that I could hardly move to having a sheet and comforter like a normal person (spouse likes to sleep in a cold room). Might you, this is meant to go under the fitted sheet. Make sure yours is too or there may be a fire risk.

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AndyTroop t1_ja8pba7 wrote

Three part improvement over a standard overhand bow:

  1. u/evoic's good idea - two passes for the overhand knot instead of one. When you cinch that down it will actually stay put. This is called a surgeon's knot and it's LPT in all sorts of situations.

  2. Make the bow the opposite way of the overhand knot. This turns the whole thing into a square knot. The end result is the bow "ears" hanging pretty, too.

  3. When you go around your bow "ear", do that twice. The double bow will hold a lot better.

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radieck t1_ja8optv wrote

Scholarly work should not use Wikipedia as a source but the sources wiki uses can be a great starting point. I 100% agree.

I used to tell my students that Wikipedia is great for general information since the site has clamped down on the whole editing process, and made it much more difficult to add misinformation without sources.

For non-scholarly work, Wikipedia is amazing. It’s the end all, be all of all arguments and general information about organizations and people. I think because schools say you can’t cite it, many people don’t trust Wikipedia. I’d trust it over most news sites (except AP and Reuters).

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