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the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

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are all animals dangerous?

every animal has the potential to be dangerous under certain circumstances. for instance, a dog could bite you, a moth could distract a UPS driver into plowing through your living room window, you could inhale and choke on an earthworm.

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i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

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Here you go Catholic Tumblr, I made you a new meme format.

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lockwood and co & random message text i found

bonus:

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Am bored cus discords down so have a poll for entertainment

Reblog for bigger sample size, and I'll probably build this when the poll finishes

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"Processed foods are generally cheaper than unprocessed or minimally processed foods" sorry but in what fucking world do you live in where processed food is cheaper than non-processed. like this is a genuine question. unless you live somewhere like remote alaska where there's enormous cost to shipping fresh food (and people who say this are usually not talking about these situations), i cannot imagine this, and have not witnessed this in any grocery i've personally been to.

yes boxed mac and cheese is like a dollar but its only enough food for like 1.25 meals. most processed foods i see in the store are actually pretty expensive for how much food you get. a family bag of chips is like $4-5 now, and it's not even that filling so you're still hungry after eating half the bag in a sitting.

a can of beans, corn, half an onion, some oil, and a tin of tomatoes thrown together in a pot with spices and served with rice makes about 4-5 meals in half an hour for $5. this is a pretty well-rounded, filling, healthy meal. you know what would cost twice times as much? pre-made canned chili, not even including rice. for fifteen cents and thirty seconds, you can have a banana with a little cinnamon as a dessert. for breakfast fry up two eggs with some frozen peppers and toast, that'll be 5 minutes and $2.

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I made a bunch of dried citrus garland and ornaments this year, and if you’re looking for low-budget high-impact gift ideas for the holiday season, I cannot recommend this enough. I have had nearly all of my aunts reach out to ask me for these already.

All you do is take oranges (and grapefruit, in my case, but you could use any citrus fruit, lemon and limes included. You could also do slices of apple or other fruits, but they don’t dry as pretty) and cut them into slim, even slices. Blot the slices as dry as you can get them with paper towel, then lay them flat on drying racks, if you have them, or cookie sheets if you don’t. The cookie sheets will take longer, but will probably produce flatter slices at the end. If you want to, you can take cloves and push them into the slices before you dry them; the oranges should contract around them and hold them in place.

Put these into the oven at 200-220 degrees F (93 C), and bake for at least 4 hours. Check them hourly; it may take up to 7 hours, depending on the thickness of your slices and oven air circulation. Take them out when they no longer feel wet or sticky to the touch. 

A 5 lb bag of navel oranges was enough to garland most of this tree. All you need for that is a thick needle and some string (DMC embroidery floss works well, and is less than a dollar a skein at walmart and other chain stores). You just tie off the first orange, and then use the needle to go in and out each slice near the edges. If you’re making ornaments, check your local dollar store for bits of ribbon, jingle bells, beads or whatever else seems good to you. A hot glue gun is helpful but not necessary; all the ornaments here are just tied together. 

I have plenty of herbs drying in my cupboard, so I also used some sprigs of rosemary and lavender, plus cinnamon sticks, cloves, and allspice. Rosemary is easy to find as live plants in the grocery section, and you can trim some off without killing the plant (and then you have i n f i n i t e  r o s e m a r y). Get creative!

These smell fantastic, and should last multiple seasons if they’re dried allll the way and stored in airtight containers. (I chucked some of the odd bits into my mulling spices, which is lovely.) They’re a very old method of decorating and look beautiful even when they’re not perfect. If you’ve made these before, I’d love to see what you made!

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If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

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Bumblebee Pup

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If you’re having a bad day, here’s a parakeet in a teacup hat.

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I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

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