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omensThe cat is at the dentist today. Her estimate is sitting at 2600$ before any cosmetic wart removal so she is gonna stay in her loveable swamp hag state :P everyone think good thoughts!
In other news, has anyone else's world been rocked by McCain no longer making frozen juice?? It was the cheapest way to buy juice with the least fucking plastic. ;_; and now, we've discovered that the finish dishwasher tabs are only being made in the pod type now, no little block of compressed powder! The pods fucking suck! I only had to pull a blanket out of the dryer with plastic pod shit dried on it once before I was like, no, these suck, actually, give me the powder back. Or the time they all stuck together into a giant jelly mass in the canister because humidity exists.
(We have the juice now (by which I mean liquid laundry soap - I heard it called laundry juice once in a reel and it became our vernacular), which is beside the point, because the washing machine in this house has a reservoir, which is very convenient.)
Anyway, Kelly found a different brand of powder diswasher tabs and was fighting with the wrapping on them, and then we realised that the wrapping is "dissolveable" .................I will use scissors, thanks. This dissolveable plastic is the worst. Compost bags are another one - we switched to the paper ones and haven't had a single problem with them.
This has been Old Lady Rants at Plastic, ig, and Doesn't Think About the Cat.
I'll think about this cat instead:
When you ask your cat for help to escape death but your death is actually very warm and cozy???? (This is Lightfall by Tim Probert and it is DELIGHTFUL.)
In other news, has anyone else's world been rocked by McCain no longer making frozen juice?? It was the cheapest way to buy juice with the least fucking plastic. ;_; and now, we've discovered that the finish dishwasher tabs are only being made in the pod type now, no little block of compressed powder! The pods fucking suck! I only had to pull a blanket out of the dryer with plastic pod shit dried on it once before I was like, no, these suck, actually, give me the powder back. Or the time they all stuck together into a giant jelly mass in the canister because humidity exists.
(We have the juice now (by which I mean liquid laundry soap - I heard it called laundry juice once in a reel and it became our vernacular), which is beside the point, because the washing machine in this house has a reservoir, which is very convenient.)
Anyway, Kelly found a different brand of powder diswasher tabs and was fighting with the wrapping on them, and then we realised that the wrapping is "dissolveable" .................I will use scissors, thanks. This dissolveable plastic is the worst. Compost bags are another one - we switched to the paper ones and haven't had a single problem with them.
This has been Old Lady Rants at Plastic, ig, and Doesn't Think About the Cat.
I'll think about this cat instead:
When you ask your cat for help to escape death but your death is actually very warm and cozy???? (This is Lightfall by Tim Probert and it is DELIGHTFUL.)
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Date: 26 May 2026 04:58 pm (UTC)I'm amazed at the idea of frozen juice. I've just Googled it, and every day is a school day in these parts.
But, hard agree about the sucky plastic pods. I hate when I have to fish slimy plastic stuff out of the dispenser compartment because part of the pod has stuck. And yes about having a package merging together before.
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Date: 26 May 2026 11:46 pm (UTC)PODS ARE THE WORST!!! I felt so validated when you agreed! lolol we are outnumbered for sure.
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Date: 29 May 2026 02:22 am (UTC)I had heard about frozen concentrate juice being discontinued, but I had forgotten about that!
Honestly, it feels like so much rah rah capitalism actually just breeds fewer and fewer choices. Certain options just get dropped from the market entirely. "Competing" companies just seem to race toward the middle, making their products increasingly indistinguishable. Raw ingredients for certain things stop being available, and can only be found in pre-formulated mixes. There's a whole aisle of deodorant, but it's all the same basic formula in five different kinds of packaging and ten scents each.
And of course it's ALL PLASTIC.
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Date: 3 June 2026 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 June 2026 07:15 pm (UTC)