dirt bag style

I just cock each ear up to the shower and let the water run through the inside of it instead of using qtips. can't abide by earwax

my ears start to itch if i don't clean them

^^^

You can clean the outside area and just inside the ear canal with a q-tip but don't push it far into the ear canal or you could puncture your eardrum. I have a punctured eardrum (from something else) and believe me, it's not fun.

I have a punctured eardrum (from something else)

the mod of TMI has spoken.....

hmmmmmmmm I don't know if I want to contribute to this thread

my bathtub is very dirty

when they shut down my flushing water supply earlier this year for a month I would only flush the toilet in my flat twice a day - once before a number 2 and once after

it's ok, flushing every time is a waste of water

Agreed. You don't need to pee into a bowl full of water, you just need a rinse when you're done, basically. The different flushes for #1 and #2 people are onto something.

i got one of those bleach+blue tabs for my toilet bowl and then i was immediately afraid that my cat would drink the water. it says the water isnt harmful to pets on the thing, but how can it be effective at bleaching and also not harmful to a cat's innards? anyway, all my contribs to this thread would be pet-related and car-related, i keep my actual apartment pretty clean (except for waiting to clean up the hairballs)

on that note i am cleaning out my car for the first time since moving to this apartment (Feb 2009) and i found an entire box of cds and books that I never moved in, and a tupperware full of lunch from ages past

You have a thing you put in your toilet?? Pretty sure that's the opposite of dirt bag!

My toilet bowl is full of black streaks/specks that I think are mildew?? Weirdly enough it's not showing any other signs of erm, use, it's perfectly clean and white otherwise, but the mildew colony is going to be drawing up a Declaration of the Rights of Spores any day now.

PS: people drink chlorinated water all the time from any municipal water supply, so your cat's innards should be at least as safe as yours...?

at any rate, i am keeping the toilet lid shut 24/7 now lest he poison himself. yeah, the toilet bowl drop-in thing was not meant to be dirt bag; as i said, i keep my apartment very clean. all my dirtbaggery is car-related, and a result of pet ownership (stuff like everything i wear being covered in cat hair)

if i had a camera i would post pix of my laundry pile to this thread.

I'm actually pretty neat in my apt. My car is where it all goes to hell sometimes but I'm trying to be better about that.

I'm trying to start taking one item in from my car every time i leave it to go into my house

oh hey that is kind of an awesome idea that i might try!

i probably read that tip on some bullshit oprah magazine or something

but it does work

My cat pukes up hairballs so much that sometimes I can't be bothered to clean them up until they have dried.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 3:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

oh god i know how that is!

now that my kitty's shedding her winter coat, she's licking up more hair and thus producing more hairballs. yechh.

― I have a big tv with blue ray's (latebloomer), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 2:13 PM

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i should prob start treating my car not like shit, since for the first time in my life i am driving one that was built within a decade of the present

of course then i will just replace "dumb garbage in a pile in my car" with "dumb garbage in a pile in my house"

dumb garbage, can't do anything right

I need to donate a shit-ton of clothing to charity so I am forced to do laundry more often than once every 6 weeks.

I have a suitcase and several boxen of stuff for the Salvation Army already packed and ready to go and I CANNOT SEEM TO LEAVE THE HOUSE TO TAKE THEM THERE. Granted I have no car and will have to roll/carry them several city blocks but still.

Also my whole apt is like 525 square feet so I do NOT HAVE ROOM to be leaving shit lying around.

I have lived in my apartment since April 1 and still do not have a trash can or trash bags. At the moment I have been putting refuse into tiny plastic grocery bags on the floor in the corner of the kitchen. It's disgusting.

am0n don't even step to me with that shit i have a persian

there's not getting around the hairball

NO getting that is

just ate a mcdonalds burger :(

there's not getting around the hairball

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Faster_pussycat_kill_kill.jpg

terrible!!!!

(tho i have considered it)

I'm sad for that cat So undignified.

I'm not sure if I haven't showered in 3 or 4 days

I collect my beer empties b/c you get 3kc (about 15 cents) for each bottle you bring to the store and it's only 14kc for a beer. The only problem is that I'm lazy so the bottles collection always gets pretty big before I finally bring it to the store, so usually about half the bottles have horrible smelling mold residue at the bottom when I dump them out into the sink before putting them in a bag.

a friend who's moving away gave me her huge 3-drawer dresser - i have somehow just lived for 8 years using, like, plastic bins and, well, surfaces for non-closet clothes, which caused dirtbag situation. drawers fill up fast tho. why do i have so many stupid socks

i don't really use a dresser either, i will someday
i just dumped out some really really old food from the refrigerator, and i am eating tofu that "expired" a month ago

the best way to become an extreme dirtbag is to live by yourself

i was thinking of this thread last nite when i was making myself some delicious mojitoes at my desk. didn't have a knife for the lime so i pierced it once with my keys to extract some juice: i call this "the grunge squeeze".

this thing is due for a revive

i have somehow just lived for 8 years using, like, plastic bins and, well, surfaces for non-closet clothes

I am up to about seven years on this, but my house now has a lot of shelves in the closet I have been using as impromptu drawers

I have wrist braces on both arms (lol broken wrists) so I have been using mostly paper plates and doing a half-assed job of rinsing out glasses. Thinking of switching to red plastic cups that I have a surplus of. Clean laundry sitting in a stack because folding is difficult. Lawn unmowed. I've been using those wet hand wipes they have at bbq joints to wipe off my fingers.

I think I just kicked a couple condom wrappers under my bed instead of picking them up this morning. Kind of scared my stairs have cat hair tumbleweeds. Car smells vaguely of spilled Red Bull.

I'm sad for that cat So undignified.

one of my two cats has an extremely dense coat. If not for the kitty-cat buzz cut, both of our lives would be completely miserable in the dead of summer. He is def willing to forsake fashion for comfort & his coat is pretty much completely back to normal w/in a few months.

light is out in my bedroom so ive been sleeping on the half-couch in the living room w/ a crate for my feet bcuz i have high ceilings & moving shit around in my room to replace the lightbulb would take too much work

there is nothing more conducive to dirt bag style living than knowing that you're only gonna be in the place for 3 or 4 months

i've actually managed to get super-organized and clean since i started this thread - to the point where i'm bordering on adrian monk type behavior - but since i got puppy it's definitely back to DBS

my fridge:

3 large bags of carrots over a month old
1 empty jar of salsa
1 less empty jar of salsa
1 tupperware of moldy leftovers
1 carton of shriveled up mushrooms
1 dried up half onion

little else

so many banh mi sandwich crumbs in my work keyboard

I brought some q tips to work cuz my keyboard was starting to freak me out.

I didn't feel like doing laundry so I washed my socks and undies in the sink

yeah, i tip mine over and tap out the crumbs every now and then its always a little depressing