Spring Cleaning Tips: Part 2

DIY 5 Minutes

From: The Pioneer Woman:

Clean Your Dishwasher the Natural Way

“Did you know that you need to clean your dishwasher? You do!” says Becky Rapinchuk, the blogger behind Clean Mama and author of the new book Clean Mama’s Guide to a Peaceful Home. “Luckily, white vinegar is all you need.”

Becky recommends pouring one cup of vinegar and running your dishwasher on a quick wash, hot, sanitize cycle. That’s it!

Trade in Conventional Cleaners for All-Natural Products

Conventional cleaning products and products with chemicals that emit harmful VOCs (volatile organic compounds) are not good for you or your home. Making the switch to all-natural, plant-based cleaning products like Humble Suds will bring joy to cleaning and simplify your life with their multipurpose uses.

Three Ways to Dust Your Blinds

“Dusty, dirty blinds? Cleaning them isn’t as difficult as you think,” says Becky. “You can use a special tool, a vacuum cleaner, and/or a little elbow grease and a microfiber cleaning cloth.”

Freshen Up Your Mattress with Baking Soda

Need to freshen up your carpet or mattresses while you’re spring cleaning? Becky has a simple DIY with baking soda that you can make today. Not only does it work but it looks cute too, thanks to some lavender buds mixed in.

Clean Your Shower with a Dish Wand

Are you not exactly a neat freak until spring cleaning time rolls around? Dana K. White gets it. The blogger behind A Slob Comes Clean and author of the books How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind and Decluttering at the Speed of Life has the hacks for you. She recommends keeping a dish-soap filled, non-scratch dish wand in the bathtub and using it whenever you take a shower. Genius!

Clean Bathroom Exhaust Fan Vents with a Broom

When it comes to spring cleaning, leave no corner uncleaned. If it never occurred to you to clean the exhaust fan vents in your bathrooms, we can’t say we blame you. But Warren says it’s now or never, so remove the vents, shake them out, spray them, and wipe them down.

“If they’re not removable, use a whisk broom to clean them off,” he adds. “They get pretty dirty over the winter.”

Wash Your Kitchen Kitsch in the Dishwasher

Kitschy decor can brighten up even the most basic kitchens. Unfortunately those tchotchkes get the worst kind of dust: greasy dust. Instead of trying to clean them by hand, Dana recommends running them through the dishwasher. Talk about a time-saver!

Clean Grout Without Any Elbow Grease

Get the sparkling clean bathroom tiles of your dreams by cleaning grout without any scrubbing whatsoever. Dana discovered the most brilliant trick on Pinterest: Simply soak cotton balls in bleach and place them on grout overnight. You won’t believe your eyes when you remove them the next morning!

Declutter by Starting with the Trash

We get it: Decluttering can be overwhelming. Dana recommends breaking the ice with this simple step: Grab a trash bag and start removing trash from all around your home (think: food wrappers, empty packaging, or broken toys). You’ll be amazed what a difference it makes, and the results will motivate you to continue decluttering!

Clean Walls Quickly Using a Sock

Who needs microfiber cloths when you have old white socks? Katrina Springer of The Organized Housewife recommends wiping your walls clean with a multi-purpose wall cleaner and a sock on the hand. “This quickly and easily picks up all dirt on the walls and I find it easier to glide the hand flat over the wall,” she says.

Clean Your Showerhead with a Baggie of White Vinegar

As you may have surmised, a little vinegar can go a long way when it comes to cleaning. “It’s especially great for lazy cleaning,” says Kimberly Button, a certified green living expert and founder of GetGreenBeWell.com. “Just soak something in or with vinegar and let it dissolve the dirt and scum for a few minutes before you come back and quickly wipe it away.”

For instance, soak a showerhead or faucet nozzle in a baggie of white vinegar (using a rubber band to secure the bag) for 15 to 30 minutes. Then, easily wipe away the grime and mineral deposits that have accumulated over time.

Descale Your Coffee Maker

You may be cleaning your coffee maker semi-regularly, but when spring rolls around, it’s a good time to try descaling. This process tackles limescale buildup caused by hard water, which can affect the taste of your coffee. To keep your cups of joe tasting fresh and delicious, brew a pot with a mixture of water and white vinegar or use a professional descaler.

Clean Cast Iron Pans

There are a few household items you should never clean with vinegar. One of them is cast iron. Instead, scrub your cast iron pans with a paste of coarse kosher salt and water to remove any food bits, and then rinse or wipe them clean with a paper towel or clean cloth.

Clean Your Curtains with a Steam Cleaner

“A steam cleaner is one of the easiest ways to effectively clean with no chemicals,” says Kimberly. “High temperatures will kill germs and sanitize.”

Kimberly recommends using a hand held steamer for plush toys, curtains, and pillows. Just remember to do a test patch to make sure the fabric or item can withstand high heat!

Dust Off Your Houseplants

House plants need spring cleaning love too! In addition to doing your usual watering and pruning, you can actually dust off your house plants using a microfiber cloth. This will help your plants breathe better, which in turn will help you breathe better.

Buff Leather Furniture with Coconut Oil

Give your leather furniture a glow up with a little coconut oil and a clean, soft rag.

“You’ll need to apply a very thin layer, and be sure to gently buff it in over the entire piece,” says Kimberly. “You’ll notice dirt and oils on the cloth after cleaning. Let the oil absorb into the leather for at least an hour (if not longer) before using.”

Clean Your Cell Phone

Cell phones are notoriously germ infested, but most of us probably don’t clean them as often as we should. To keep your phone squeaky clean, wipe it down with a microfiber cloth, which is designed to pick up even the most microscopic particles, including bacteria and viruses. Don’t forget to power down first!

Trade in Your Broom for a Microfiber Mop

Kiss your broom goodbye! (Okay, don’t actually do that because, gross.) Jokes aside, you really should ditch your broom. “It actually moves harmful dust into the air and elsewhere,” says Jennifer Parnell, the co-founder of Humble Suds, a line of non-toxic mineral- and plant-based cleaning products. “Instead, choose a microfiber mop to collect dust and get your floor squeaky clean. I really like this version this version where you can collect dust on one side and mop with the other.”

Clean Your Baseboards with Used Dryer Sheets

Used dryer sheets can be repurposed to do a variety of household tasks, including wiping your baseboards clean and buffing water spots from any glass and mirrors around your home.

Cut Costs by Using 10% Vinegar

Holli Schaub, co-founder of Humble Suds, says her favorite vinegar hack is buying 10% vinegar and diluting it per the directions. “It’s much more cost-effective,” she explains. “Vinegar is an awesome all-natural cleaner but can get expensive when you use it for a rinse-aid in your dishwasher, fabric softener in your washing machine and so on.”

SOURCE: THE PIONEER WOMAN

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  4. Morning All!

    thanks kea for the giggles this morning!!

    Sigh…we had 70* yesterday and this morning? barely 30*, and a rain/snow mixture. It starting storming last evening and the power went off several times.

    MOTHER NATURE???? get back on your meds!

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    2. Good Morning!

      Cold today, 29*, cloudy, north wind.

      Thanks for Spring Cleaning tips. I like the tip for cleaning walls with sock. Maybe it’ll keep water from running down arm 🤔

      Also, I imagine coconut oil would work for leather jacket? 🤔

      God bless 🙏, take care, enjoy the day.

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      1. Good Morning Gina!
        cold here too!
        I assume you’re not talking about a leather biker jacket (which i have) lol. no one who rides on a Harley wants to smell like coconut. LOL…we have a reputation we need to maintain…LOLOLOL

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  8. DataRepublican (small r)
    @DataRepublican
    MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution “how-to”

    His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.

    The day after Trump’s 2016 election, Cash co-founded “The Steady State” — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an “existential threat”.

    When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden’s DHS. His own words: “we disappeared.”

    Then Trump won again. “Suddenly the existential threat was back.” The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends “Bringing Down a Dictator” — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as “a how-to.”

    Meanwhile, Cash’s company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because “disclosure would compromise national security.”

    His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active.

    I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice.

    As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

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    1. Colkitto
      March 27, 2026 6:08 am

      Reply to  JustScott

      “Balkans”. He was involved in helping Islamist terrorists 2 of whom would later become 9/11 hijackers according to the ‘official’ 9/11 fairytale, drug cartels, and neo-Nazis against the Orthodox Christian Serbs and their allies. Holocaust victim Serbian peoples…………………….
      Operation Cyclone II morphs into 9/11 so they can invade and destroy secular Iraq.
      Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits
      https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hijackers-cia-recruits/

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  9. i hope the House votes no. senate passes funding for DHS– EXCEPT ICE and border patrol

    Lisa Desjardins
    @LisaDNews
    BREAKING.

    The Senate just passed funding for most of DHS for the rest of the fiscal year.

    The bill funds all but ICE and *Border Patrol*

    This was by unanimous voice vote.  It now goes to the House, which is still in town and can vote later today.

    The bill contains no reforms. It comes after POTUS pledged to fund TSA, removing a key pressure point.

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  10. the author is correct: the dems WILL do this again and again. THUNE is a weak “leader” that needs to be GONE.

    FTA

    Here’s what nobody wants to say out loud: Democrats just demonstrated that they can shut down critical portions of government for over a month, watch airports grind to a halt, and still walk away without conceding a single policy point. They will absolutely do this again. They will do it harder next time, with better messaging and more coordinated pressure. They learned exactly what they needed to learn from this fight.

    https://discernreport.com/republicans-cave-on-ice-and-cbp-funding-to-get-dhs-mostly-funded/

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  11. Just The News: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his department will add President Donald Trump’s signature to U.S. currency in honor of the country’s 250th birthday. The move will make Trump the first sitting president to ever have his signature on U.S. currency, and it will be displayed alongside Bessent’s signature. It will replace the United States’ Treasurer’s signature, according to the New York Times.

    “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Bessent said in a statement. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”

    U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach also supported the change, describing Trump as the “architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival.”

    “Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved,” Beach said.

    The announcement regarding the president’s signature comes a week after the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin that will bear Trump’s likeness for the nation’s 250th birthday.” 

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  12. EXCERPT: “The White House has recently announced that two new major drug companies are joining the TrumpRx platform, bringing the total medications offered to 54 – amid skepticism among naysayers saying the drug-discount site would not be beneficial. 

    Since the initial announcement of the program by President Donald Trump in February, TrumpRx.gov has expanded significantly with the recent integration of products from two additional major pharmaceutical manufacturers, Amgen and GSK. 

    The additions include key treatments such as Amgen’s Amjevita (a biosimilar for conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and ulcerative colitis); Aimovig for migraines; and Repatha for high cholesterol, alongside GSK’s respiratory medications including Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta and Relenza for influenza. 

    “President Trump is delivering on promises to ensure American patients no longer pay high prices to subsidize low prices in the rest of the world, something the political establishment did not believe was possible,” the White House said Feb. 5 in announcing the additions. 

    The platform now features a total of 54 discounted prescription medications available from six participating companies overall. The website offers an updated catalog, price comparisons, and an option to sign up for notifications about future expansions.

    As a result of the drug availability on the site, many Americans are experiencing substantial and immediate reductions in out-of-pocket expenses for a variety of essential and high-cost therapies now accessible through TrumpRx.gov, resulting in a tangible impact on affordability, one of Trump’s hallmark issues…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumprx-website-sees-steady-growth-prescription-offerings-proving-maha

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  13. Just The News: “Organizers of the No Kings” protests say they have planned over 3,000 peaceful ” events nationwide this weekend, with a protest in Minneapolis expected to be the movement’s flagship event.

    Organizers did not indicate how many people they expect to turn out for the events, but expect it to be larger than June and October’s protests. Five million Americans protested in major cities last June and seven million protested at “No Kings” rallies in October, according to Axios. 

    The rally in Minnesota is expected to be the most prominent with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen scheduled to speak or perform at the state Capitol in St. Paul. 

    “America is at an inflection point. Our communities are hurting. People are afraid, and they can’t afford basic necessities,” American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said in a statement. “It’s time the administration listened and helped them build a better life rather than stoking hate and fear.”

    Protests are expected to occur in major cities such as Chicago, New Orleans and Charlotte, North Carolina, along with more rural and conservative areas in states like Florida, Kansas and Pennsylvania.”

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  14. Just The News: “President Donald Trump announced Thursday afternoon that he is extending a pause on striking Iranian energy plants by another 10 days at the request of the Iranian government.

    The president said the extension will now expire on April 6, at 8 p.m. Eastern. The suspension of strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure was previously scheduled to end Saturday.

    “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.”

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  19. Burning Bright

    “What’s really going on in the Strait of Hormuz? When is a War not a War? Can you truly Escalate to De-escalate? I’m glad you asked….

    From where I’m sitting, and as I have been writing for some time, Trump has rapidly cultivated the American Mandate to remove American interests from the Western Protectorate, because it is incapable of protecting anything, and all it seems to be collecting is losses.

    This is Sovereign Disentanglement in action, the realization of the Trump Doctrine and the revival of Pax Americana, all at the expense of Globalism itself, not just as an Actual framework, but as the threadbare story meant to translate it to the Collective Mind.

    By contrast, our so-called Enemies — the Sovereign powers I have long referred to as the ‘Villains we Need’ for the current story arc — are playing an entirely different role in the central narrative Trump isn’t caught in, but is actively managing on multiple fronts—and layers of reality—at once.

    Russia continues to facilitate critical energy routes through the very chokepoint under siege, China-linked shipping maintains safe passage while the legacy media obsesses over missile exchanges, all while Iran itself appears to be undergoing a form of precision disentanglement, with its most destabilizing elements (narratively or actually) being removed through operations that wear the mask of escalation while serving a deeper strategic function.

    These actors are not existential threats in the way the old paradigm demanded we believe. At least, not to the new American Golden Age. They are rather the disruptors forcing the system to reveal its contradictions while accelerating the transition toward a multipolar order defined by cooperative competition rather than centralized control.

    This is the Reverse Hegelian Dialectic in action — fifth-dimensional narrative warfare at its most refined, and it is the true heart of the Multipolar War the Sovereign Alliance I first named in 2022 is waging against the Globalist Hegemon.

    The Globalists present their engineered problem: perpetual Middle Eastern chaos and cascading energy shocks. The public reaction follows: American economic pressure translated into the overwhelming mandate for energy independence, an industrial renaissance, nuclear expansion and revival and technological breakthroughs.

    The synthesis that emerges is one they never anticipated — the very accelerationist framework that was always embedded within the Trump doctrine, and which his 2025 Executive Orders have already laid both the foundations and the fuel to bring about in a transition FOR the ages and OF it.

    (From ‘The Iranian Knot,’ if you fancy a much deeper and more autistic dive on chaos that is anything but.)”

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  24. “The section below is for my friends in Virginia -GET OUT AND VOTE NO FOR REDISTRICTING! Early ballots are available now at:

    • Your local General Registrar’s Office (always available)
    • Plus satellite sites (libraries, community centers, government buildings) depending on the county

    Never forget how the Democrats and MSM play bait and switch… this image is from the WSJ in Sept. 2025. And look where we are now – Virginia. Within two months of Spanberger becoming governor, xtreme tax measures, xtreme gerrymandering, second amendment gun rights removed, blocking (ICE) programs, and more.”

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      1. They do it better than the R’s! I’m back from Norfolk. Kinda busy today at WM but not as bad as it will be on the week-end! Still sunny but only 51. Just after I got my groceries put away, Wheezer showed up to eat. I dumped a bunch of tuna on top of what dry food was left. He’s definitely missing some teeth in front.

        I decided to double up on the bean soup and spaghetti sauce so I’ll have some on standby in the freezer in case a couple of teen-agers show up! LOL

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  26. Just The News: “FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked by an Iran-linked group, according to a report. The hacker group Handala Hack ​Team published photographs of ​Patel and his purported ​resume online, Reuters reported. The group said on its website that Patel “will now find his ​name among the list of successfully hacked victims.”

    The newswire was unable to immediately ​authenticate the emails that Hanadala published​, but a sample of the material uploaded ‌by ⁠the hackers appears to show a mix of personal and work correspondence ​dating between ​2010 ⁠and 2019.

    A Justice Department official confirmed to Reuters that ​Patel’s emails were compromised but ​did ⁠not provide any additional details. The FBI and the ​hackers did not immediately respond to the newswire’s ​request for comment.”

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  29. DataRepublican (small r)
    @DataRepublican
    Hello Senator Thune,

    At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

    Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

    You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

    You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

    You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

    Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

    Let’s be precise about what you did:

    1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
    2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
    3. You punted to reconciliation. “Good possibility,” you said. Not “we will.” Not “guaranteed.” Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year’s bill with no certainty of future funding.

    The precedent you set:

    You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

    But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

    • Voice vote to avoid accountability
    • Empty chamber to avoid debate
    • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
    • Immediate recess to avoid questions

    You’ll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won’t bend them to win one.

    What you’ve actually accomplished:

    Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

    Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

    And you’re out here tweeting about how Democrats are the “Defund the Police” party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
    The question you should answer:

    Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

    Why couldn’t it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

    You know why. Because you didn’t want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

    Here’s my message: We saw it anyway.

    Stop hiding behind “Democrat obstruction.” You’re the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

    Own it.

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  30. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg HOLY CRAP! Rep. Chip Roy just said the House GOP is BLOCKING the Senate’s DHS Democrat compromise, replacing it with something better

    The bill has no ICE funding, and people are livid

    That means senators better come back in town, NO VACATION.

    “What the Senate just sent over to the House is so laughably bad, we’re rejecting it out of hand!”

    “They sent over a bill that’s not going to fund ICE and Border Patrol and stand with the great men and women who are defending our country!”

    “We reject that. We’re going to stand alongside our law enforcement personnel. We’re going to have a full-throated debate.”

    “We’re deciding what we’re going to do. But suffice it to say, we need to stand with those who are standing up for us to defend our country. We need to fully fund them.”

    “We need to consider voter ID and other things to make our country safer and better. But we’re not going to move this Senate bill. We’re going to move something better and send it back to the Senate. We have to!”

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  31. Rubio calls out zelensky without actually calling him a liar. ukraine will NOT get security guarantees UNTIL there’s a peace. Russia says no peace till they get Donbas, but Rubio explains that’s for ukraine to decide. but we won’t get involved until there’s peace. we will not be joining this war.

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  34. This is odd…..”Tiger Woods involved in FL roll-over car crash” – Fox announced there will be a news conference about it @ 5 PM. Yet there has been nothing posted on Twitter or anywhere else from his contingent. Hmmmm……

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  35. EXCERPT: “Remember the good old days when the only religious ceremony you’d expect to see in Texas would be a baptism? But this is Denton, Texas, in 2026.

    • Pouring milk into rivers in India is a celebration of birth called Chhath Puja.
    • Pouring milk into rivers in America is a blatant violation of the Clean Water Act passed by Congress in 1972.

    (But I somehow doubt anyone in this video was in America back in ’72 to know that.)

    Denton, just north of Dallas, has many nearby waterways, including the Elm Fork Trinity River, Lewisville Lake, Lake Ray Roberts, Denton Creek, Grapevine Lake, and Buck Creek. Indians have been criticized across America and Canada for polluting, pooping, and washing in local waterways like these.

    Many more examples: https://notthebee.com/article/watch-indian-group-illegally-pours-milk-polluting-texas-river-during-hindu-ritual

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  37. Maserati has one of the best corporate logos

    Ammo Burn and Brass Rain

    Double Turret

    Comfortable Chair

    Extraordinary Entrance, and a bit spooky (I think it’s cool!)

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  38. Watching and waiting for the eruption

    Scratching That Chin

    Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno laughing that they get paid handsomely to do this.

    Run

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  44. “Move over “Cocaine Bear.” Brazilian scientists have discovered traces of nose candy, caffeine and painkillers in sharks swimming in waters around the Bahamas. These “blow-fish” aren’t getting hooked on purpose – it’s the fallout from an uptick in marine pollutants, per an a-jaw-calyptic study published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

    “Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are increasingly recognized as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in marine environments, particularly in areas undergoing rapid urbanization and tourism-driven development,” the researchers wrote while describing the troubling shark-otics trend.”

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  46. “The colorized picture above is of the first-ever self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly No. 2, located in Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1916. Clarence Saunders opened his first store on September 6, 1916. 

    The newer store revolutionized grocery shopping by introducing the self-service model, where customers walked through aisles and gathered their own items in baskets, rather than asking a clerk for goods. 

    This new store layout was the forerunner to the modern supermarket, featuring patented fixtures, turnstiles for entry, and employee uniforms. The unusual name was reportedly chosen by Saunders to pique curiosity, and the model was so successful that it quickly expanded into a major chain. 

    This is the priginal B&W print:

    The format of all modern supermarkets is based on the Piggly Wiggly plan of self-service. All good things that come to American shoppers were brought to them first by Piggly Wiggly:

    • First to sell foods by the self-service supermarket system which is originated in 1916.
    • First to provide shopping baskets and check-out stands.
    • First to price mark every item in a food store.
    • First to give shoppers more for the food dollar through high volume/low profit margin retailing.
    • First to use refrigerated cases to keep perishables fresher longer.
    • First to require employee uniforms.
    • First to design and use patented fixtures and equipment throughout the store.
    • First to franchise independent grocers to operate under the self-service method of food merchandising.”

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