I have some great furniture, but again, generosity of others. A donor paid to furnish our whole house when we built it. And I pre-inherited my mother's Amish built solid cherry coffee and end tables when they moved to Hawaii. We beat them up way more than we should, but such is life. They are lovely, though, and will last a lifetime.

So I think I just hippie leveled up. I'm making my new batch of liquid laundry detergent from soap nuts...on the woodstove. Well, it was already hot, and the kettle was going right next to it, so...

Man, I had a horrible night last night. Up until 3:30 (and I know I brought it on myself with the napping and the doing exciting stuff right before bedtime). I am so over this cold. And then when I did dream, horrible nightmares.

I'm making my new batch of liquid laundry detergent from soap nuts...on the woodstove.

Nice! Do you find that doing it this way works better than just tossing the canvas bag of nuts n with the laundry? (Or are you leeching the last little bit of saponin out of "spent" nuts?)

I think there are a lot of decent haircuts to be had at reasonable prices.

Oh, for sure. I had a great stylist in college and she worked at the Hair Cuttery! But generally, I do think that the best stylists wind up getting hired by fancier places. (But also, there is a point of diminishing returns. A $50 haircut is almost definitely going to look better than a $20 haircut, but will a $300 haircut look *that* much better than the $50 one? I'm not sure.)

I like it this way, Jessica, but I don't have any quantitative evidence either way. I just thow the nuts in the bag if I'm in a hurry and have forgotten to make soap. I do two batches from each set of soap nuts (5 or 6) and that fills a small detergent bottle, so it lasts me longer than just using the nuts each time, I think. It keeps in the fridge, but I generally don't bother.

(But also, there is a point of diminishing returns. A $50 haircut is almost definitely going to look better than a $20 haircut, but will a $300 haircut look *that* much better than the $50 one? I'm not sure.)

Yeah, after a certain point you're paying for reputation rather than skill or talent.

can you believe the soap nuts gave me a rash all over my body? I had to go back to Tide Free.

(But also, there is a point of diminishing returns. A $50 haircut is almost definitely going to look better than a $20 haircut, but will a $300 haircut look *that* much better than the $50 one? I'm not sure.)

Yeah, totally.

Man, I need to schedule a haircut.

me too.

I also need to make soap, but not from soap nut, I need to grate down some ivory bars and mix with borax and arm & hammer.

Me three.