Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

themadvix

Definitely a decent start to the month! Are those the ai evaluations? I’ve not done any yet (being a bit of a Luddite because ai has directly impacted an income stream), but have been tempted.

Cheery_Daff

Yes. I have mixed feelings, but since it's likely here to stay it would be better if it wasn't quite so rubbish 🙄

rtandon27

I've just been testing out an AI to help me with a project for work - took me twice as long and 10x the frustration - now I know why I'm AI suspicious - not like the project was a brain drain, just long and layered and needed attention  to detail.  I ended up telling the bot that if it was human I'd fire it for incompetence!

dawnybabes

These sometimes have faith in nature stuff in (and localish to you) 

https://surplustopurpose.org/search?q=faith&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Cheery_Daff

dawnybabes said:

These sometimes have faith in nature stuff in (and localish to you) 

https://surplustopurpose.org/search?q=faith&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Wow, 20 litres of hand lotion is a LOT!! I've not actually heard of them,  thanks for the link 😊

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - remember it's only a bargain if you are going to use it up! - most potions and lotions have a 12 to 24 month shelf life once opened! (There is a symbol on the back!)

I bought a 5 litre container of hand sanitizer last December that refills our pump bottles and my purse bottles - we are less than a half way through!

It has a 12 month shelf life before it starts to smell odd and is no longer fir for purpose. Luckily it was only 25% of buying individually so will end up costing about 50% by the time end of year roles round and we have to get rid of the rest.

Cheery_Daff

Ha,  don't worry,  I won't be buying 20 litres of body lotion (and I also suspect i am rather less fastidious about best before days than you, especially with things like shampoo - I have plenty of potions that are older than they should be 😂)

I'll easily get through shampoo - my hair is long and I wash it pretty often. I didn't write the date I started on the other shampoo container so I'll try to engender to do it when I start this one - it'll be interesting to see how long it takes to use that much shampoo!

themadvix

I buy the 5l bottles of shampoo… several years later and nothing wrong with it! Suspect in most cases the best before on cosmetics is just a way to make you pay more. The only thing I’d worry about it on is sunscreen.

Cheery_Daff

I've had the odd body lotion that I've won in a tombola or got in a charity shop that I've ended up keeping for years and has eventually started to smell odd. I probably wouldn't buy 20 litres of hand lotion for that reason (also where would you keep it??) 

Right, I really must stop lazing around and get yesterday's washing outside. I was going to do parkrun but I didn't even wake up til 8.45 😱😂 

themadvix

Oh agreed about lotion - I’ve had that separate (but well after the best before period had elapsed). But as I’m useless at using it consistently and also make small quantities last years, I wouldn’t buy 20l either! 😂