Dish Soap Dispensing

Since I’ve got to give props where props are due, this is not a system I myself have tried, but I think it holds great possibilities and I want to share it with people. Normative Norbert recommends:

Storing dishwashing soap in a glass bottle. This way you can’t squeeze the bottle. The advantages of this are one. Reduced soap waste.

Cooking your Food

Some people don’t get hungry until a certain time in the day. Some don’t get hungry until 9am. Some don’t get hungry until 11am. Some, perhaps those that sleep until noon, don’t get hungry until 2:30p. The idea is is that stomach/body is in a slight fasting state when it’s sleeping. Your blood is getting purified and whatnot and just because you awake doesn’t mean your digestive system is all ready to go again.

At this point, however, you may have already gotten ready for the day, and now your energy is giving you that sense that the world is out there already churning its gears and you should go join it. But you know the second you sit down somewhere, in the next few hours you will be hungry. If you’re on a budget and you can’t run to the neighborhood burrito shop you’ve got a little problem on your hands.

You have a few options at this point

1. Take a granola bar
2. Take the ingredients you’ll need to cook yourself a meal (if the place you’re going has a kitchen)
3. Go to the neighborhood burrito shop

Catching Mice

The first thing to consider in dealing with mice is to keep your household clean and keep food in the kitchen, and stored away. Having a home where the smell of food is in constant supply in all of the rooms of the house will only serve to attract mice and insects to your pad.

Once it’s discovered you have mice, there are a few approaches to take. Regular mouse traps work, but they kill. Sticky traps don’t kill, but they torture. There are friendly mouse traps that work and don’t kill, but you have to take your mouse friend outside, and who knows, if you don’t go far enough away they may work their way right back to your house. There are friendly mouse traps you can make yourself. Here are some instructions for making your own humane mouse trap.

From a systems standpoint, you first have to define your values (is killing a mouse a big problem for you?) and then proceed from there.