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captain_aggravated ,
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At my parents’ house, the shower bucket. At my house, the kitchen jug.

The water heater is at the other end of their house from the bathroom. My water heater is in the middle of the house, the kitchen is on the end. It takes awhile for hot water to reach their shower/my kitchen sink and dishwasher. So, in order to not just waste that clean if cold water by running it down the drain, we catch it and use it for something. I use it to water my vegetable garden.

Basically I fill my watering can from the cold water that comes out of the hot tap before I start my dishwasher.

blindbunny ,

My partners say I’m weird and wasting time but my shower bucket is how I remember to water my plants. Is the shower bucket empty? Guess I watered the plants 👍

DillyDaily ,

Growing up with stage 4 water restrictions, the shower bucket and kitchen jug was a standard in our state.

The kitchen jug was used as potable water, we’d keep it handy for boiling pasta. The strained pasta water would be cooled and used to flush the toilet.

The shower drain, and laundry drain was connected to a grey water tank which was used for watering plants and the toilet cistern (which had a brick in it, because even though we already had a duel flush system, every drop counted) I remember having to swap to special shampoo to avoid ruining the grey water.

Occasionally dad would reroute the shower hose because he was just having a “quick rinse” (eg, no soap or shampoo) and he’d fill a separate drum that he’d then use to wash the car. Washing your car was banned unless you used grey water.

We still occasionally got a fine for using too much water for a household of our size.

As a kid I didn’t really understand that this was an environmental issue, we kept it up long after the water restrictions were lifted so I thought it was just dad being frugal.

So when I moved out I just continued with my water saving habits, but it turns out water is really cheap when there isn’t an active drought, and living in a share house with 10 other people who didn’t have the same water saving habits quickly killed the shower bucket and kitchen jug.

Now that it’s just me and my partner, I should reintroduce the shower bucket. My plants would love it.

Cysioland ,
@Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml avatar

A mop in the hallway because my dumb but lovable doggo can’t take a sip without spilling most of the water onto the floor

GBU_28 ,

Seriously some dogs have the order of operations wrong.

Sip, swallow. Sip, swallow.

Some dogs finish and are like

Sip, swallow. Sip, walk.

DudeDudenson ,

Mine swallows but gets it’s chin soaked in water and drips all over the hardwood floors every time

Texas_Hangover ,

I have one that picks up a mouthful of food, takes it around the corner, drops it on the ground and eats there. We’ve just gotten used to it.

DudeDudenson ,

Our dog used to flip the bowl to eat from the ground till we just started feeding it in a plastic flat dish where she could move them out of it with her paws a bunch at a time.

Now she’s gotten to be an old woman and she’ll eat anything out of anywhere lol

Hadriscus ,

We have fully furnished poop cutlery

Wage_slave ,
@Wage_slave@lemmy.ml avatar

my youngest brother had a lazy stick. It was a broom handle and a ruler taped together with a couple of chop sticks mixed in to help hold the two together. To avoid getting out of bed, he fashioned this up to turn off the lights in his room. Inspired by Homers broom in the episode of the Simpsons where he gains a ton of weight to go on disability.

This stick did the trick and even could turn the tv on and off.

Twenty years later, my brother is currently on a diet and losing a lot of weight. All the weight is post stick and much later in life, but we have a laugh about it every now and again.

AntiOutsideAktion ,
@AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net avatar

Please say this isn’t normal.

I recently discovered my father was unclogging toilets for god knows how long with the toilet brush. Like stabbing and twisting. Better than a plunger he says.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Not normal, but also smth I did as a kid who hated pooping and did so once a week at times

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I have a few of these.

Most fitting of these is a tabo. No need for a bidet when water just needs motion. The last time a stranger saw it, they were a child who I had to stop from drinking from it.

A Wii U. The most underrated console of all time because it was only successful enough to make a dozen games on it, yet here I am using it everyday. Hijackers never gonna seize a Wii U.

A hammock. People will always ask me why I have one just lying around in the home, but the truth is at times it’s more comfortable than a bed.

A garage. You might be thinking “that’s not so bad”, that is, until you learn I don’t drive (or rather I took lessons but was like nope) and wouldn’t put a vehicle in there anyways (add to that I witnessed a house catch on fire because a car caught fire because of badly mass produced batteries). It’s mostly for other peoples’ vehicles, but it’s only been used for a handful of nights. For the majority of the time, it’s for storage, especially as it has a second attic.

The biggest poop knife equivalent of all though? A Lemmy account. People discover my Lemmy account from DeviantArt (when they finally decide to look up the username) and they ask “what do you do on there when you got Reddit too”. And to them I say this. But seriously, one does not hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for (provable but it takes a long time) and not expand one’s horizons.

comrade_pibb ,
@comrade_pibb@hexbear.net avatar

Wii U rules, hammocks rule, can we be friends?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Of course. The only big regret is a Wii U can’t load my Discord server where one may find me and where all are invited (recently added a Lemmy lounge).

dm_me_your_boobs ,

Pickle fork

raubarno ,

This one is a real thing.

CmdrShepard ,

Works great for those pesky stuck ball joints

sibloure ,

We had an “automobile hairdryer.” On school mornings after I took a shower and was being driven to school, I would lean my head up towards the dashboard and have the A/C blowing full blast to finish drying my hair. I would do this every morning in elementary school. Probably not very safe now that I think back on it.

Hubi ,

I used to do a very similar thing on my way to work. I got out of the shower, combed my hair back and drove to work with the heat cranked to max and the air duct pointed directly at my face. When I arrived I just ruffled my hair with my hand and had a perfect and indestructible style for the day. I never managed to get a good result with an actual hairdrier lol

guyrocket ,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

I used to use a 500 cc hairdryer. My motorcycle.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ayyyy same but then comes the dusty season

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Wait I thought this was normal???

MrShankles ,

My school bus driver would yell at me to get back to my seat

dumptruckdan ,
@dumptruckdan@kbin.social avatar

Face scrubber. I was given a small crocheted dish scrubber - sort of like these - made from very soft tulle. It's too soft to be effective on dishes, but it works perfectly on my face.

tetris11 , (edited )

We have the expression “look to the freshness of the shit you eat” in our native tongue. Its used to express disbelief at a situation. As far as I know, only our family has it.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Love that this is all you have on your profile. The only comment/ post.

tetris11 ,

I tried joining a while back but it didn’t let me in. Today, to my surprise, it just worked. Been prowling a whukd

Daevan ,

In my kitchen I have a drawer full of salt next to the gas. Pretty convenient! It’s also divided in 2 sections with coarse and fine salt.

gazter ,

I’m picturing a whole drawer, is that correct? Next to like a gas cylinder?

oldfart ,

Next to a stove, if im understanding correctly

Daevan ,

It’s a Little wooden drower maybe 30cmx30cmx10cm divided in two for fine and coarse salt that Is situated under the kitchen cupboard on the right of the kitchen hood

Che_Donkey ,
@Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml avatar

as someone who cooks and cleans out the (bottoom of the) utensil drawer quite regularly this gives me anxiety

Sir_Fridge ,

I saw a video of someone having a flour drawer which seemed even weirder to me. Also it really looked like a cocaine drawer.

Harpsist ,

Yoga swing.

Anytime an adult asks what it is and I explain. They always - always always - assume its a sex swing.

Which, admittedly it could very well be if the wife wasn’t so damn unwilling.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Then why do you have a full body gimp suit next to it?

HurlingDurling ,

Oh that? No no, that a errrr… a yoga suit

PurpleTentacle ,

The ball gag is for the “Ommms” not to bother the neighbors …

_dev_null ,
@_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz avatar

I was like “oh what is the last word going to be?!”.

CADmonkey ,

Which, admittedly it could very well be if the wife wasn’t so damn unwilling.

And here I am, being told by my wife that I will need to add tie-down rings to the bed I designed for us.

SeemsNormal ,

I have poop-tongs. I live on a boat and my dog poops on the deck, so I throw them off by using poop tongs. I keep them separate from where I have my grill accessories.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Now youre just mixing the poop knife and the frog tong mate

Cavemanfreak ,

Wait, what’s a frog tong??

jackie_jormp_jomp ,

It’s exactly what it sounds like

Omega_Haxors ,

Switch them up for a little extra flavor.

mojo ,

How the hell do u live on a boat

poldergeest ,

Come to Amsterdam, we’ll show you how

MummifiedClient5000 ,

But don’t be gross, bring your own poop-tongs.

1847953620 ,

Justpoopytings

Aux ,

Plenty of people live on boats in the UK. Some boats can be fancy AF. Or very cheap. UK has an advanced man made canal system covering most of the country. The water is still there, there are charging stations, toilets, gas refills, etc available to boat dwellers. Canals were previously used for goods transportation across the country, but now we have trains, trucks and planes for that, so canals are now used for living and recreational travelling. And fishing ofc.

quinkin ,

I have an internet pencil.

Getting reliable internet through the house while renting crappy houses means I end up using ethernet over power bricks.

Every couple of months they will fail and need to be power cycled but the switches on the power point are occluded by the EoP brick without enough room for my fat fingers.

I would just grab any pen or pencil to use as my switch flicking tool but they are constantly purloined by my children so I keep a special internet pencil on my desk.

epyon22 ,

Maybe not for every room but I have been using moca over coax and it is way faster and more reliable than Ethernet over power.

bobs_monkey ,

As long as your house has decent rg6 coax, I had a place with rg59 and those moca adapters worked like shit. Also make sure that filter is in the right place!

Devi ,

I have a car clock pencil, it lives in my car sunscreen pocket and it's used twice a year when the clocks go forward or back.

Qwaffle_waffle ,

Check out a short power plug cable, been a lifesaver for those bulky power blocks.

IMongoose ,

We have a pvc pipe cutter that is used to cut up frozen small animals, like quail and mice, for our raptors. It works really, really well.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Now this is what i’m talking about lol

Risk ,

The Rodent Reductors - for Raptors!

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