Cheapness phenomena

1) Buying the cheapest electric kettle means the water can taste a little plastic-y. This can be addressed by, each time you use it, dumping any leftover water from last time into a glass, and putting in fresh water.

And then the old water can be re-used the next time - letting it air out for a while gets rid of the plastic smell/taste.

I don’t know why!

2) I ordered this sweater on eBay in gray; it showed up Halloween-orange. This problem cannot be addressed by airing the sweater out, so I’m hassling an eBay vendor for a refund yet again.

Also, the branch is just painted on there and is definitely going to start peeling off. Sometimes there is no excuse for my cheapness.

3) Am manufacturing certain of my Christmukkougatsu Solstice gifts using raw materials purchased inexpensively online. This is actually going pretty well, I think.

I didn’t go so far as to buy a bunch of mica and stuff and try to duplicate the boutique mineral cosmetics elongated-tito wants, though I did think about it. I could have used the extra components to start my Dwarf Fortress makeup line.

Math.

I smell like cat litter because the box in which the cat litter came was messed up, and I got some on me. The litter was $7 rather than $10 because the box was damaged. $3 is thus equal to the experience of involuntarily smelling like cat litter.

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*convinces self not to throw in adrafinil with l-theanine order, that’s probably not a good idea*

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*unwisely looks at comments on article about the murder of DeAndre Joshua, spirals into shaky despair for fate of humanity for whole fucking evening*