#area rugs walmart

[egberts]

fig and lou are very vertical minded cats, which alana and i were honestly not prepared for. callie was so chill, she wanted to be on the ground most of the time, maybe the arm of a couch or a window sill at the absolute highest. she had no interest in tall cat trees and didn't use them at all. our first clue to get a jump start for fig and lou's vertical space should've been them scaling their cat tree the first day we got them but we didn't expect them to turn into HUGE kittens by six months old, so now we are scrambling to get heavy duty cat furniture and things like a wall climbing rug (i'm just gonna nail a $20 area rug from walmart to the wall, wish me luck) before our ten pound kittens figure out how to get onto every conceivable surface in the house

[cuckoo-on-a-string]

Surviving the Cold: Tips from an old hag

I'm hearing some of ya'll are losing power when it's below freezing. This is terrible, and I am sorry.

If you have time to prep, do it. The Red Cross has several excellent pages on this stuff. If not, work with what you have.

As someone who has survived being snowed into a house without power in subzero temps, here are some suggestions (generally useful even if your power is on):

Light candles: I suggest sticking to small tealights, tapers, or jar candles to avoid building up smoke. Keep them ON a table or tray and AWAY from anything that might dream of catching fire (remember, kids, dust is flammable... as is pet hair). These won't provide the heat a fireplace would, but they will do SOMETHING.

Don't take off your shoes unless you're putting on thick slippers: Frostnip is a bitch and I get it every other year because I'm a dumbass. Learn from my pain.

Cover windows and doors: You know those heavy carpet wall-hangings that are so popular in the northeast parts of Europe and Russia? Those bitches are functional. If you have spare area rugs, comforters, or blankets, tape or tack them over the Ice Portals.

Don't run down your phone battery: Yeah, it's boring, but don't scroll TikTok unless you KNOW you can recharge at will. I had a friend get trapped on the road and I had to organize a whole rescue posse in the dark of night. She only had enough juice for one call. That call probably saved her life.

If it's safe, spend time elsewhere: Become Walmart's resident ghost. Inspire dread in your small town coffee shop's baristas. The library always welcomes hapless ghouls. Better to haunt public spaces with hair you haven't been able to wash for two weeks and smelly clothes than become a statistic.

Layer the fuck up: Multiple socks. Fingerless gloves over regular gloves. Two undershirts, a long-sleeve concert crew neck, you highschool spirit t-shirt, that shirt your friend keeps forgetting to pick up, a thin sweater, a thick sweater, the Horror Your Loving Auntie Knitted Just For You, your old button-up, and a coat. Get a hat. Add a blanket - it's a cloak now. Be ridiculous. Make it weird. Be the junk lady from Labyrinth.

Do not drink booze: Alcohol will make you feel warm while compromising your actual body temperature. Save the schnaps for the party when the power's back.

Ask for help if you need it: Remember how I mentioned the Red Cross? If you need a warm place to shelter until the power's back and you don't have safe family/friends, they can help. Your county may also have emergency shelters in place. Those aren't just for unhoused folks. If you need them, use them, and ASK FOR HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT.

[nostalgicfun]

So, I've been trying to give my living areas a design-on-the-dime makeover to feel like an actual, authentic 90s/early 2000s house. I've been thinking about replacing the rugs as my rugs are very "Walmart in 2014," but rugs are SO expensive I couldn't justify it.

BUT THEN.

I was at the thrift store the other day and they had this huge bin of rugs for $20 a piece, and they were big rugs, too!

...But they were bound with tape and plastic so they couldn't be unfurled. All I could tell was that they were very thick/nice quality and a burgundy and beige combo, which is exactly what my mom and all family members had in the 90s/00s.

So I asked the thrift store owner if he knew what kind of condition they're in and he said they were immaculate and came from an older couple's estate. Awesome. Cool.

Here's $40. I'm putting two of these bad boys in my car.

So I buy two rugs completely at random with no idea what might be on them. I get them home. I unload them. I unfurl the first one and

IT'S A VEGETABLE RUG?????

I just stood there, floored. On one hand, vegetable rug. On the other hand, vegetable rug.

This is so 90s mom Tuscan kitchen. This is the rug in the dining room of your friend's house where their parents make more money than your parents and you eat spaghetti at their dining room table after swimming in their pool. This is the rug in the dining room of your great aunt's house where no one actually eats in the dining room, it's just for show and there's crystalware on the table at all times.

[s0wh4t1f1l1ft]

hii plz 2024 lift tips for walmart !! only done dollar stores since getting back into it, everywhere is so risky and i don’t 🧬

Wäłmãřț lifting tips!!

now i wont lie to you and say walmart isnt risky

ŵäłmąřț LP is typically on the same level as țæřğęț, its even rumored they share a LP database. But there are some tips to help your ŵäłmąřț l1fting trip go smoothly.

know what you want and where it is, i recommend scoping out the store a couple times as a regular shopper and making a l1st of what you want before you go. get in, get your stuff, get out!!

also with scoping out your store, look for cameras before you go on ur l1ft trip, take note of areas with high camera and employee density and what areas dont, i find that typically pet isles and random home good isles like trash cans or carpet/rug/bedding are low on cameras and employees, while areas like makeup, skincare, body and hair care, toys, and electronics are heavily monitored ESP MAKEUP AND SKINCARE!!

if an employee approaches you asking if u need help, act casual, be nice but not overly nice, ask them where a section is but not a section you plan to l1ft from or conceal in, dont ask them for a specific item unless ur planning on buying it as a cover

watch for people follwing you NOT JUST EMPLOYEES, ŵäłmąřț is known to employ plain clothes LP, if you feel like your being followed u likely are. its best to get out with what you have or even dump it if your scared you concealed infront of them!!

when it comes to concealing body concealing may be a good option if you’re going for small things and can be slick with it, when using a bag and getting bigger things i like to have a large opening in the top of my bag and hunch over like im looking at something on a bottom shelf before slipping it into my bag, slipping it in your bag while walking is also a safe option as cameras and people usually wont catch it

They do absolutely use rfids, i recommend looking at the packaging for rfids on the floor if u can, pretend ur just reading ingredients or checking to make sure its not damaged, i recommend concealing on the floor in a blind spot (as thats about the only way because at least where i am theyre strict about dressing rooms but id test your store out on a casual shopping day) and taking rfids off and checking packaging in the bathroom before leaving, open packaging or tear stuff when toilets are flushing or hang driers are going as theyre loud

hope this helps!!!

[leatherneck-70-blog]

I couldn't get over the trailer trash guy in front of me in line at Walmart. I had followed him for awhile in the store. I was so turned on by him. He had on a leather motorcycle jacket with no shirt on. His jeans are black leather and his boots were black rugged harness boots but had that glow shine to them still. Walking around the store in the grocery section. He takes a bottle of apple juice and opens it and starts to drink it down. Watching his swallowing and seeing his neck muscles and pointy Adam's Apple bobb up and down. I can feel myself getting harder. He finishes it and looks around. We make eye contact and he finishes the rest. His swallowing muscles drive me crazy. My hardness is pushing into my jeans. He looks down at my pant area. He stares for second then puts the empty bottle of Apple juice on a shelf and walks away. His handsome face and gorgeous blue eyes. Short buzzed gold blonde haircut. He has a long tongue because the next thing he eats is a banana and he's the kinda guy who his tongue pops out before he eats. Oh I'm loving his tongue. He puts the banana peel back on the banana pile and walks off. I follow him to the back restroom but stay outside. Eventually I go in and he's standing at a urinal. I go in and stand next to him and I look down as I piss. He notices me looking at his long big cock. He's not pissing. He's stroking away and moaning. I think for my pleasure. He knows I'm horny for him and he don't mind pleasuring me in this way. I stand there looking at him stroke away. His dick is beautiful. With my arm I bump him and feel the sleeve of his leather jacket. He looks up at me and just stares at me. I looks at his Adam's Apple as he swallows deep and he opens his mouth and I see that long tongue. His face reddened by his hornieness. He coughs and coughs and coughs with choke because he's swallowed wrong. Watching his tongue pop out everytime he coughs is so horny. I look down at his boots as his feet move lightly hearing the clump of them. He just keeps staring at me. He moans more and as he grabs at his leather pants as he grips them and I hear them creak. He's ready to shoot and he turns into the urinal and he yells as his load shoots out wildly and he keeps stroking to get it all out. I take a chance and put my arm on his shoulder pulling him near me as he shoots some cum into my urinal. I'm holding him now close to me as our bodies are touching side to side. He turns and looks at me. I reach with my free hand and grab his hand what has a good amount of cum on it still and slide my hand on his hand and take some. I take to my mouth and lick it and eat it. Still warm and the best taste of cum I've had in a long time. Knowing I'm tasting him is the best. His leather creaks. I look down at his dick as it let's out hot piss and he bends his head back in excitement. I touch his Adam's Apple and rub and slide my finger over it then go in for a light choke with a quick grip. He coughs and let's out a choke seeing that tongue again. I let go and he zips up leaving his dick still with cum excess cum on it and goes to the sink to wash his hands.

[utopians]

why are carpets so expensiveeee do you guys think I could feasibly shoplift an area rug from walmart

[patrochillesvibes]

Are there any possible "Sex Sent Me To The ER" scenarios with Patrochilles?😈😈

I once read a fic with a sounding incident!

And I did co-write a fic involving anal tears with @knicknocknick

I’m sorry anon, but I don’t really have the most thrilling answers for you 😔 See, Patroclus is an excellent Daddy who takes very good care of his bratchilles. Of course there have been incidents, but nothing so serious...

They both end up with quite a bit of bruising. Achilles has a preference for very hard spankings, so his backside will often be thoroughly bruised. Pat loves to manhandle Achilles and Achilles loves to be manhandled. Achilles usually has fingerprint bruising on his hips/waist.

Achilles is a biter and scratcher. Especially when Achilles gets his nails done, Pat’s back will be scratched up. Pat often sports bite marks along his shoulders. Achilles in turn will often have some beard burn along his inner thigh and in a *ahem* more intimate area.

More than once Achilles has hit his head on the headboard from the force of Pat’s thrusts, but that usually only leaves (at most) a lump.

A few times they fell off the bed, but (at most) that was more bruising and perhaps a hurt wrist. Achilles usually finds it funny and is eager to resume from this new position.

Achilles is prissy about only one thing: rug burns. He HATES them. He’s one of those crazy people with a 25-step skincare routine, so it really fucking bothers him when his skin gets irritated. Whenever Achilles is on his knees and carpet/rug is involved, he must have a blanket, pillow, or something. He will whine and bitch endlessly otherwise.

Anal tears are not common but have happened. It’s usually from Achilles saying he’s already prepped (not a lie, but it was a rushed job) and Pat believing him. See, Patroclus is big. He’s at least 8-inches and THICK. Achilles is the biggest baby when he gets a tear. He will act like he’s dying.

In my hcs, Achilles is physically smaller than Pat. He’s at most 5’8” and lithe with toned, not bulky, muscles (cross between a distance runner and a gymnast) (<- all to maintain the androgynous look). But he is by no means “light.” Being a spoiled princess, he often insists on being carried. Please everyone, let’s say a silent prayer 🙏 for Pat’s back. Pat has definitely thrown out his back more than once. Of course this never deters Achilles who will just ride Pat until his back is better.

Patroclus is extremely picky about restraints. He absolutely hates handcuffs (they’re dangerous) (Achilles got locked in a pair once bcs he absentmindedly threw away the key. No injuries, but Pat did have to go to Walmart at 2am to buy bolt cutters). The regular cuffs they use are of the finest leather and are well-padded. There will be no wrist injuries (or gods forbid ankle injuries 😱) under Pat’s watch.

They’re not into rope play (they tried it once and Achilles had a panic attack from like a PTSD thing), so no rope injuries thank goodness.

Achilles is really into breath play, of course, but Pat’s a doctor so it’s fine. Mostly Achilles just enjoys the feeling of Pat’s palm around his throat. HOWEVER unrelated to breath play, Achilles has blacked out from an orgasm as well as fainted during scenes. The fainting was from not eating enough. Pat’s a doctor, so he was able to take care of him. Pat too has blacked out from am orgasm on more than one occasion (the first time it happened Achilles got very scared and had a panic attack).

Probably the most “extreme” injury was when Pat broke his nose. It was one of those infamous bathroom incidents. Let’s just say that some vigorous thrusting led to some bottles of body gels getting knocked over which in turn led to Pat tripping and smashing his face into shower tile. Pat was able to fix himself up, so no ER. It really freaked Achilles out tho to the point where he almost fainted. For a few days after they had to be very careful with kissing which made Achilles very anxious (he did a lot of fretting over Pat).

Achilles is a big fan of beach sex (not Pat), but rarely is it an enjoyable experience for either of them. Which Achilles always conveniently forgets despite whining for days afterwards about rashes from the sand and having to douche to clear out sand in most unfortunate places. Sand has gotten under their foreskin too. Ouch.

Speaking of outdoor sex...

Mosquitos adore Achilles. Once they went hiking and a quickie on the trail was ruined by mosquitos (at first Achilles was really into Pat slapping him, but he prefers to get slapped on the ass not other bony parts of his body) Achilles was an absolute miserable bitch for the rest of the day due to the itchy bites and ruined orgasm.

They once took a holiday at a lake house. There was a little private dock for a rowboat and two kayaks. A quickie on the dock led to Achilles getting a splinter in his ass. Pat found it hilarious. Achilles found it humiliating and was so upset with Pat.

There was also a most unfortunate incident with fire ants. That was also on a hike. Their selection of a spot for a picnic lunch was poor and made worse when dessert turned into sex. Thankfully the number of bites were manageable (the tears Achilles shed was probably worse).

And now for the one time where they did actually go to the hospital:

It was their anniversary. They’re both healthy and robust, but Achilles’ stamina is a bit higher than Pat’s. It’s never usually a problem. Except this was a very special anniversary and, naturally, they planned to spend most of their anniversary fucking. Achilles gently suggests maybe trying Viagra which he just so happens to have brought with him. Because it’s in a prescription bottle, Pat assumes he got it from his doctor. He didn’t. He got it from a random hotel employee. Let’s just say it was a special concoction similar to what male porn stars use (in Achilles defense he honestly thought it was regular Viagra). Pat noticed by hour 5 something was up, and by hour 6 he was in the ER from the pain of an engorged dick. Pat had never been in such pain in his life. The drs and nurses were laughing at the 'stupid tourists'. (Achilles did not see the danger in the situation and was not at all happy about leaving their hotel room. He believed that more orgasms would solve the problem.)

Thank you for the ask! Do you have any hcs on this?

[argyrocratie]

"A great deal of the offshored industrial production at the other end of the extended supply chains celebrated in People’s Republic of Walmart is actually carried out in comparatively small job shops that would be more efficiently collocated with local market areas. The technology at the actual point of production, in such cases, is modest in scale and best suited for local or regional production. But it’s enclosed within a corporate institutional framework of extended logistic chains through the framework of copyright, patent, and trademark law which gives corporations a legal monopoly on disposal of an outsourced product. The only reason the facilities in China aren’t all producing identical goods directly for the local market, and selling at a price without the trademark and patent markups, is the enclosure of decentralized production technology within a centralized corporate legal framework. And the only reason the production facilities making goods for people in Iowa are sited in China instead of in Iowa is that the labor there is cheaper.

(...)

Lean production guru James Womack observed that “oceans and lean production are not compatible.” Simply shifting inventories from giant warehouses of finished product or intermediate goods to warehouses disguised as trucks and container ships isn’t really reducing overall inventory stocks at all. It’s just sweeping the batch and-queue bloat of Sloanism under the rug. The outsourced component manufacturers “are located on the wrong side of the world from both their engineering operations and their customers… [in order] to reduce the cost per hour of labor.” To properly apply lean principles it is necessary “to locate both design and physical production in the appropriate place to serve the customer.”49

In his Foreword to Waddell’s and Bodek’s The Rebirth of American Industry (something of a bible for American devotees of the Toyota Production System), H. Thomas Johnson (an expert in lean accounting) writes:

Some people see lean as a pathway to restoring the large manufacturing giants the United States economy has been famous for in the past half century…. The cheap fossil fuel sources that have always supported such production operations cannot be taken for granted any longer. One proposal that has great merit is that of rebuilding our economy around smaller scale, locally-focused organizations that provide just as high a standard living [sic] as people now enjoy, but with far less energy and resource consumption. Helping to create the sustainable local living economy may be the most exciting frontier yet for architects of lean operations.

So except in a few cases like geographically situated mineral resources, microprocessor production, and the like that require long-distance shipping for genuine technical reasons, most of what goes on in the logistic chains Phillips loves so much is just waste production. And that’s a lot of waste production. To put it simply, Walmart’s and Amazon’s increasingly automated inventory systems and just-in-time global logistic chains achieve “efficiency” only in a relative sense. To borrow a phrase from Peter Drucker, they’re the most efficient way of doing a very inefficient thing that ought not to be done at all.

(...)

Capitalism is not in crisis because, as per the orthodox Marxist model, its productivity so great that it undermines capitalist relations of production. It is in crisis because it has chosen models of technological development and organizing production that are unproductive in terms of how efficiently they use inputs. Capitalism is a system founded on extensive growth — that is, on the addition of ever larger quantities of resource inputs, inputs which are artificially cheap and abundant because of the enclosure of land and natural resources. Now that we are in the age of Peak Oil, and approaching the age of Peak Coal, Peak Gas, and analogous limits to a wide range of other material inputs, capitalism is experiencing a crisis of extensive development.

Post-capitalist transition is not simply a matter of celebrating mass production factories and global logistic chains as the “colossal forces of production” Marx wrote of, and saying “Thank you, capitalists, but we’ll take over from here.” Those mass production factories and global logistic chains are the prime examples of the kinds of inefficiency created by a system that treated material inputs as artificially cheap and abundant and pursued growth by throwing more of them on the pile instead of using existing inputs more efficiently."

-Kevin Carson, “We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate” (2019)

[abrushwithdeath]

((Hey, everyone!

I wanted to give an update on things while I have some time! I'm okay, I'm still here, and I've got no intentions of fully leaving! I've just been very, very, busy and incredibly stressed out, so on my days off, I've mostly just been... relaxing and playing games or watching youtube or reading because my brain refuses to cooperate with me long enough to get more than a couple paragraphs of writing done... if that ^^;

Now, to give a more thorough update for anyone who's curious about how soul crushing retail jobs are and why, exactly, I've been having a terrible time of things lately... (This is gonna be long, so feel free to skim or ignore it entirely):

Basically- I work at a retail store where we sell a lot of home decor and furnishings (including outdoor furniture) and such. Bed Bath and Beyond went out of business and they were literally like just down the street from us which means that, now, we're the biggest retailer of that kind of stuff in the area... which wouldn't be so awful if that didn't mean such a MASSIVE rise in our inventory levels the last month or two. The worst part? We were informed just last week that our inventory is only going to grow even further in the coming months. Which is especially annoying for me because, as the soft home coordinator (meaning that I'm the lead for the section with dec pillows, throws, all bedding, bath, curtains, rugs, etc) my inventory levels, specifically, have gone up the most drastically. I've already had just over a 33% increase in bedding, alone, and closer to 40% for JUST outdoor pillows compared to what I had last year (other sections have seen about a 15% increase, to give you a comparison), and, as I said before, it's only supposed to get worse from here. The biggest issue with that is that we're a store that is on the smaller side- like, we're a retail chain store, yes, but our actual, physical, space in our store, specifically, isn't that big. And we were already running at almost full capacity BEFORE the increase in product. Our sales haven't gone up much to cover the increased inventory levels, either, so we've got a backroom full of back stock (in our store, we aren't supposed to have ANY back stock, mind you- it's not like walmart or something, we're meant to get EVERYTHING out that we get in each week before the next truck) and we have nowhere to put it. We've done intensive markdowns every week for the last month. To put it into perspective- our markdowns are usually one half of the store one week, then two week after that we mark down stuff in the other half (markdowns usually take a day and a half with 3-4 people doing them, but it's been a 3 to 4 day process every week currently with even MANAGEMENT helping to get things marked down). The last 2 weeks (and the first of these 4 weeks, too) have included full markdowns in my sections, specifically, because they're trying to sell stuff to make space for all the extra inventory that I'm getting in... but nobody is buying the marked down stuff either, really, because we just don't have the kind of sales to keep up with this. It was chaotic before, but now we're literally at Christmas levels of inventory (which is, as with most places, the time when we get the most stuff in) but without the sales levels that we have at the holidays.

So what I'm saying is- work has been super stressful and everyone, especially in lead positions (my position and higher) have been all but ripping our hair out trying to figure out what to do with everything because there's WAY too much stuff and not enough sales to make up for it. I usually have one aisle and a couple B-endcaps of markdowns that then sell down to be just the one aisle. Currently, I have an aisle and a half, 9 B-endcaps (which is all of my back endcaps except ONE), a bedding fixture, the last 4 foot section taken out of 4 different aisles, a half wall (between 5 and 6 feet tall, 16 feet wide) and an 8 foot section of the back wall that are all JUST markdowns from my section alone. That is THAT much space that I don't have to put out new stuff (and they're sending 2 trucks a week instead of just one now). To make matters worse... our store doesn't count marked down stock as "inventory" so they don't account for the space that it takes up when sending things (aside from the one aisle for each section that's designated as clearance)... which is just... so fucking stupid??? We've also got to start thinking about holiday inventory coming in because we're supposed to be getting Halloween stuff early next month.

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So... TL;DR: Retail sucks and I'm not paid nearly enough for the stress that I've been under lately from work ^^; So me not being around much is literally just because I've been exhausted from work. I'm really, REALLY, hoping that my vacation next month will be enough to help me relax a bit. I'm not going anywhere- I just needed to NOT be at work xD

With all that said- I'm sorry for not being here much. It's just been a lot. I've mostly been reading or watching stuff on my days off because my brain cannot and will not cooperate with writing. In good news, though- I've been re-reading and annotating my copies of the Hunger Games books because I know the prequel movie is coming out this year, and it's been kind of making me want to write (which is how I got that one reply done the other night xD). So HOPEFULLY that'll continue to help!

In the meantime, thank you to everyone who has been patient with me. It means a lot to know that I can come back here and still have a few people who will want to write with me <3 Ya'll are fantastic and I love you so very much <3

Take care and I'll try to get to a thing or two tonight or on Friday when I finally have another day off!))

[travelingtheusa]

ARKANSAS

2024 Nov 1 (Fri) – A cold front has rolled in.  The temperature this morning was 51 degrees.  Brrrrrrrr!  We did laundry this morning.  Sheba has been having a hell of a time with constipation.  We have been giving her the stuff the vet gave us (laxatone).  It doesn’t seem to be working.  She gets in the box or outside and digs and digs and digs then squats but nothing is happening.  Finally, after a week of trying to go to the bathroom, she did it – ON OUR BED!  I get so mad when she does things like that.  She will leave a poop on the rug or one of the chairs around the RV.  We indulge her because she has such a hard time going to the bathroom.  At least the little turds are like rocks and don’t stain anything.  They are small and rock hard.  It must hurt just to pass them.  Until yesterday when she crapped on the bed.  Then it was loose.  Of course.  It was in a most inconvenient place.  Am I ranting?

      I called a couple of campgrounds and made reservations for after the Branson caravan.  I also called one of the campgrounds in Michigan to reserve 20 campsites for next year.  The clerk called and told me how much (it will be $115 a day for 4 days!).  I then called HQ and had Melissa call them with a credit card number.

      At noon, we drove to the town down the road and got fuel for tomorrow’s trip.  We stopped at what would pass for a strip mall where Paul got fuel, we had lunch, and we were able to pick up a few bottles of liquor.

2024 Oct 31 (Thu – Halloween) – A very powerful thunderstorm rolled through overnight.  The first thunder bolt hit like an explosion and woke me from a sound sleep.  It poured heavy for a while but lightened to slower rain by the time we got ready to leave.

      We pulled up stakes and got ready to go.  When I checked the lights, we had no brake lights or blinkers.  We pulled out of our campsite and parked over on the side.  Paul pondered the problem for about an hour.  He checked fuses, connections, and plugs.  Finally, he just cleaned the pins on the plug connecting the truck to the trailer (we had lights on the truck).  That gave us our lights back.  Given the rain, we did not want to get on the road without at least brake lights.

      We were finally on the road at 11 a.m.  It was a 4 hour drive through the Ozark mountains.  We pulled into a WalMart in the town before here to get some groceries.  The campground is not close to any towns.  We arrived at the Ozark View (also spelled Vue) RV Park in Omaha, AR, at 3:30 p.m.  The campground is laid out with 3 or 4 tiers cut into the side of the mountain.  We do have a great view of the valley below.  Unfortunately, there is very little color this year.  We have noticed that all across the country.  The fall colors just haven’t been that bright.  Most of the trees around here haven’t even turned color and those that have are composed mostly of brown leaves.  Very disappointing.

2024 Oct 30 (Wed – Caiden’s birthday) – Our grandson turned 11 today.  We gave him a laptop that can do animations.  He has a youtube channel where he is already creating animations.  I hope this launches him on a lucrative career.

      We drove to town this morning for breakfast at the Blackberry Café.  We saw it on our trolley ride yesterday.  The food was very good.  Then we walked to the trolley stop to see what time the trolley would come by, intending to ride it across the bridge to Little Rock proper.  It wouldn’t come for another 20 minutes.  Instead of waiting, we got in the truck and drove to the Historic Arkansas Museum.  We paid for a tour of historic buildings.  Back in the early 1900s, a woman campaigned to save 3 city blocks of original buildings.  She envisioned them staying as the city grew up around the area.  She was a good visionary!  Then we went into the museum and walked around.  All the displays were about the crafts people made, pictures they painted, and other artifacts they created.  It didn’t hold much interest for us.

      When done at that museum, we walked down the street to the Old State House Museum.  It was the first capitol building in the city.  Although it has 3 floors, we were only allowed to tour the first two.  There were very comprehensive storyboards that wound through various rooms telling the story of how the state of Arkansas got started and all the shenanigans that took place among the politicians.  When the building got too old and small, it was abandoned for a bigger building.  The old state house was used for several purposes, then just closed up.  The city finally did a renovation and opened it as a museum.

      We walked back to the truck and drove around.  For a capitol city, it seems very empty.  There is not a lot of traffic or activity, other than construction.  It looks like they are trying to fix the city up.  There are many old and crumbling buildings and the streets could use some smoothing out.  We never saw one homeless person.  Then we stopped at Wendy’s for lunch and returned home. 

      I-30 runs right through the city and it has been a major construction project for years.  It looks like they have just finished it.  The deck and roadway are brand new.  They are still working on cleaning up the entrance ramps. 

2024 Oct 29 (Tue) – We walked into town for lunch at Skinny J’s (it was about 3/4 of a mile).  It was an interesting place and the food was decent.  During our walk around, we saw a trolley (they call them streetcars).  Walking over to the information board, we saw that it was free and ran through both North Little Rock and Little Rock proper.  So we got on and rode the entire route.  The driver was very informative and told us about a lot of things around both towns.

       One of the interesting things was a large mural on the side of the building.  It was a picture of dogs.  When I asked about it, the driver said that North Little Rock was kind of a seedier side of town and the Little Rock people used to describe the area as Dogtown (meaning to be derogatory).  However, the north guys said, “Yeah, we like dogs.  We can be Dogtown.”  So they happily adopted the moniker.

      Another thing we saw on our ride around was a museum and the Old State House Museum.  We will go back there tomorrow.  Later this evening, we walked across the President Clinton River Bridge to see if we could get a nice picture of the sunset.  Sadly, all the buildings were in the way and there were no clouds to show the color.  Maybe tomorrow.

2024 Oct 28 (Mon) – We packed up and left Yazoo City, MS, at 9:25 a.m.  We had an uneventful 4-hour drive to North Little Rock.  We have stayed here at the Downtown Riverside RV Park.  Our campsite is right on the Arkansas River as a back-in with a full view out our back window.  We have FHU.  There is a laundry here.  We did not have to check in to the office upon arrival – our packet was in a pocket outside the office on the deck.  There are 5 bridges right here on this section of the river.  You can walk across two which used to be railroad bridges but have been converted to pedestrian bridges.  The one closest to us goes over to the William Clinton Presidential Library and Museum.

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Your New Place

Part Three

Thrifting

Heading to the thrift store, charity shop, or rummage sale is probably one of the first things you think of when you get a new place. Here's what to focus on when you get started...

Lamp

Improving your lighting might be the #1 best thing you can do for your room. Even if you have an overhead light, you will want a smaller lamp by your bed to help you wind down at night, or in case you need to get up in the dark. Sure you can use your phone for navigating in the dark, but a bedside lamp is kinder to your eyes and more cozy. Don't worry if the lamp or lampshade isn't exactly your style. Get something that works and is a good size for your space. You can diy some changes to the aesthetics later.

Wastebasket

You need somewhere to put rubbish, and you don't have to use a boring plastic bin from Walmart. The thrift store is often a great place to find something to use as a wastebasket. I've found some really fun options at thrift stores including planters, large popcorn tins, buckets, baskets, crocks, etc.

Sheets/curtains

Basically, you need fabric. It doesn't matter what it's original purpose was, you just need fabric in a color or pattern that you like. If you get a big flat sheet, you can use it for curtains, maybe make a pillow case, and cover a cushion for the floor or a chair. You can hang it from the ceiling as a room divider. You can use it to cover cardboard boxes to make attractive little storage containers. You can decoupage it onto furniture or jars. Rag rugs aren't terribly difficult to make and you can use any fabric cut into long strips. The possibilities are endless.

Milk crates

Milk crates are one of the most versatile things for a new place, if you can get your hands on some. You can use them as bookshelves, shoe shelves, a nightstand, a little table or desk, put a cushion on top and it becomes a seat or footstool. There are some really fancy things you can do with milk crates, but even without doing anything to them, they're darn useful.

Other things to look for :

Shoe shelves

Rolling storage carts

Over the door hooks and shelves

If you don't have a closet, try to get your hands on one of these:

A couple notes on thrifting soft items such as pillows, cushions, stuffed animals, rugs, upholstered furniture, etc.

If bedbugs, lice, or fleas are a big problem in your area, thrift stores might not even stock soft items at all.

If that's less of a concern in your area, proceed with caution. Check for unwanted stains or smells (mold, smoke, pet smells, etc) before you buy. Don't assume you can get rid of a bad smell or stain.

If the item can safely be washed and dried in the big machines at the laundromat, do that.

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