@Tadlem43@werehatrack you have two choices! Either get rid of some cats or teach them to use the toilet (yes there many YouTube videos that will teach you how to do that) then you just have to flush it all the way!
@mycya4me@werehatrack One of my cats had a urinary tract infection and now she won’t go back to using the litter box. I’d never get her to use the toilet! But I’d love to!
@werehatrack Thanks! I’ll try it! I have her confined right now with just her crate, the litter box, and her food/water, but she still won’t use it. Thank goodness for training pads!
For those unfamiliar with the term, DOOM in this context is an acronym for “Didn’t Organize Only Moved”, something which can be a relatively benign marker of haste in cleaning up for a special event, or a marker of ADHD if there’s more than one, and particularly if they’ve piled up all over. I basically have a room full of them (or I would, if all of them were in one room.) Sadly, in my case, it does not seem likely that I will be able to get access to the meds that might help, For Reasons.
From “The Sword in the Stone”* - Merlyn orders the china and cutlery to wash up:
“Excuse me a moment,” he added as an afterthought, and, turning round to the breakfast things, he pointed a knobbly finger at them and said in a stern voice, “Wash up.”
At this all the china and cutlery scrambled down off the table, the cloth emptied the crumbs out of the window, and the napkins folded themselves up. All ran off down the ladder, to where Merlyn had left the bucket, and there was such a noise and yelling as if a lot of children had been let out of school. Merlyn went to the door and shouted, “Mind, nobody is to get broken.” But his voice was entirely drowned in shrill squeals, splashes, and cries of “My, it is cold,” “I shan’t stay in long,” “Look out, you’ll break me,” or “Come on, let’s duck the teapot.”
*the book, which is 100 x better than the movie.
@chienfou My father gave me a copy of Sword in the Stone when I was in about 5th or 6th grade and it’s been one of my favorite books ever since. It has this fantastic illustration on the flyleaf:
@Kyeh I have gotten books from them before, but they are not usually my first choice because some of their scans have issues with the PDFs when images (smudges, keystoning, lousy margins,etc.) and others with bad proofing of the text conversions. But still, another potential source, especially older literature.
Your link is to html. Those are usually better.
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Internet Archive has a surprisingly large selection, including a lot of movies.
I lost my copies of the Millenium series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, et al.) to a house fire and decided to reread them and was surprised to find the original three in PDFs downloadable there. [Side note. I recommend those to anyone liking thriller/suspense type stories and who also has a strong tolerance for language, violence, and sexual situations. (Read A’zon reviews if in doubt.)]
@phendrick Huh, those are really recent novels - I’m surprised! I’ve avoided them because I can’t handle violence. I’ve heard that they’re well-written though.
@Kyeh Yes, very well written. Lots of twists and turns, but all loose ends completely tied up at the end. And better described as “psychological thrillers”. Also as “page-turners” and very hard to put down. Anyone wanting to read them should definitely take them in chronological order.
The first, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” sets the stage for the later two by Larsson. And of those three, has the least active violence (as opposed to police reports of the past). But there are a couple of current rapes, if that makes you uneasy (it did me, but it was over fairly fast). The girl, Lisbeth, is quite the formidable match for the males later on. The movie is mostly true to the book (though much abridged), but tones the violence way down. The whole series is a diatribe against male chauvinism, sex trafficking, and ineptitudes of authority. Unfortunately, all a part of our society.
@phendrick I just really can’t handle reading or seeing depictions of violence; they stay in my brain too long; I don’t know how people watch some of the movies they do. It’s too bad because this series does sound intriguing, but not for me. I think I started reading a Dean Koontz book once and just couldn’t get through more than a chapter or so. I hate it when the writer seems to revel in the cruelty and viciousness.
Set the house on fire. That will distract from the mess.
@awk Great minds think alike.
KuoH
I need to make room in my freezer. I think I’ll eat ice cream. That ought to help.
I’d be quite happy to have a house
@Mehlachi Me too. I live in 525sf, 2 rooms. I used to rent a house. So much better. And quieter.
nap
@tweezak Awesome Answer, that helps change your outlook on stuff.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@mycya4me Thank you for being my ally. L does stand for lazy doesn’t it?
Find that bad, lingering smell.
So, clean out the bottom of the frig, take out the month-old garbage, wash the pile of wet clothes…
@hchavers Yikes!
You might be better off just handing out gas masks to your visitors! 
Clean the litter box. GOT to have a clean litter box!
@Tadlem43 Here, there are four of them. And we go through 30 to 40 pounds of clumping litter per week.
You’re still right. But it takes longer than doing the dishes.
@Tadlem43 @werehatrack you have two choices! Either get rid of some cats
or teach them to use the toilet (yes there many YouTube videos that will teach you how to do that) then you just have to flush it all the way!
@mycya4me Want a pair of cats?
@mycya4me @werehatrack One of my cats had a urinary tract infection and now she won’t go back to using the litter box. I’d never get her to use the toilet! But I’d love to!
@Tadlem43 One person I know overcame that by swapping to the corn-based clumping litter for their UTI-prone cat.
@werehatrack Thanks! I’ll try it! I have her confined right now with just her crate, the litter box, and her food/water, but she still won’t use it. Thank goodness for training pads!
@Tadlem43 @werehatrack Mine loves to act like a Dog & try to drink out of the toilet. I have to remember to keep the lid down!
@werehatrack I guess you are needing More. I have ONE very spoiled Rescue male that has been has been fixed! He LOVES to be picked up & cuddled!
@Tadlem43 @werehatrack I thought you had more than 4 cats. Like about 8-10 of them. I have 4 and don’t use nearly that amount a week.
@Kidsandliz @Tadlem43 Eleven cats, four large litter boxes.
Why am I missing peace, and how would doing any single chore restore peace to me?
/showme a robotic vacuum doing the dishes
@mediocrebot
/image The Jetson’s Robot maid Rosie
/showme a robotic vacuum doing the laundry
Dishes. Need clean water glasses and there’s only so much you can do at one time so there’s a clear endpoint.
@Salanth just drink the beer straight out of the bottle!
Lock the door on the way out…
@2many2no If I didn’t have the cats, I would be sorely tempted to use The Near-Universal Solution To Personal Problems.
@2many2no @werehatrack
@2many2no @DLPanther I believe you have my stapler.
Feed the cats.
@OnionSoup
Trick question as my house would never be a disaster.
Mop the floors
Arrange the clutter into neat piles.
@macromeh Or you could buy more organizing containers with lids and fill them up. Then the clutter piles are disguised as something else.
@Kidsandliz I see that you understand the way of the boxes of doom.
Deal with anything stinky.
Put clutter into D.O.O.M. boxes.
@jitc The ADHD is strong in this one.
For those unfamiliar with the term, DOOM in this context is an acronym for “Didn’t Organize Only Moved”, something which can be a relatively benign marker of haste in cleaning up for a special event, or a marker of ADHD if there’s more than one, and particularly if they’ve piled up all over. I basically have a room full of them (or I would, if all of them were in one room.) Sadly, in my case, it does not seem likely that I will be able to get access to the meds that might help, For Reasons.
Some say that a large propane torch makes short work of getting rid of noxious weeds. I find that it has many more uses than just in the yard.
From “The Sword in the Stone”* - Merlyn orders the china and cutlery to wash up:
“Excuse me a moment,” he added as an afterthought, and, turning round to the breakfast things, he pointed a knobbly finger at them and said in a stern voice, “Wash up.”
At this all the china and cutlery scrambled down off the table, the cloth emptied the crumbs out of the window, and the napkins folded themselves up. All ran off down the ladder, to where Merlyn had left the bucket, and there was such a noise and yelling as if a lot of children had been let out of school. Merlyn went to the door and shouted, “Mind, nobody is to get broken.” But his voice was entirely drowned in shrill squeals, splashes, and cries of “My, it is cold,” “I shan’t stay in long,” “Look out, you’ll break me,” or “Come on, let’s duck the teapot.”
*the book, which is 100 x better than the movie.
@Kyeh First link to come up in a search:
https://swannpond.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/1/6/29162135/swordinthestone_book.pdf
“Mrs. Swann’s English Class”
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Also available on internet archive, for anyone worried about embedded malware. And it will read it to you, in multiple voices.
https://archive.org/details/t.-h.-white-the-sword-in-the-stone
@Kyeh
Always loved The Once and Future King. Excellent read!
@chienfou My father gave me a copy of Sword in the Stone when I was in about 5th or 6th grade and it’s been one of my favorite books ever since. It has this fantastic illustration on the flyleaf:
@phendrick You can get it from Project Gutenberg:
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/whiteth-onceandfutureking/whiteth-onceandfutureking-00-h.html
@Kyeh I have gotten books from them before, but they are not usually my first choice because some of their scans have issues with the PDFs when images (smudges, keystoning, lousy margins,etc.) and others with bad proofing of the text conversions. But still, another potential source, especially older literature.
Your link is to html. Those are usually better.
…
Internet Archive has a surprisingly large selection, including a lot of movies.
I lost my copies of the Millenium series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, et al.) to a house fire and decided to reread them and was surprised to find the original three in PDFs downloadable there.
[Side note. I recommend those to anyone liking thriller/suspense type stories and who also has a strong tolerance for language, violence, and sexual situations. (Read A’zon reviews if in doubt.)]
@phendrick Huh, those are really recent novels - I’m surprised! I’ve avoided them because I can’t handle violence. I’ve heard that they’re well-written though.
@Kyeh Yes, very well written. Lots of twists and turns, but all loose ends completely tied up at the end. And better described as “psychological thrillers”. Also as “page-turners” and very hard to put down. Anyone wanting to read them should definitely take them in chronological order.
The first, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” sets the stage for the later two by Larsson. And of those three, has the least active violence (as opposed to police reports of the past). But there are a couple of current rapes, if that makes you uneasy (it did me, but it was over fairly fast). The girl, Lisbeth, is quite the formidable match for the males later on. The movie is mostly true to the book (though much abridged), but tones the violence way down. The whole series is a diatribe against male chauvinism, sex trafficking, and ineptitudes of authority. Unfortunately, all a part of our society.
@phendrick I just really can’t handle reading or seeing depictions of violence; they stay in my brain too long; I don’t know how people watch some of the movies they do. It’s too bad because this series does sound intriguing, but not for me. I think I started reading a Dean Koontz book once and just couldn’t get through more than a chapter or so. I hate it when the writer seems to revel in the cruelty and viciousness.