Miscellaneous Adulting

Welcome to the page where we try to break down basics in a wide range of subjects to make your life a little easier. Taking the first step into the unknown can be nerve wrecking, but so rewarding. There’s a lot of stuff you aren’t taught by parents or schools that would make your life a lot easier and lot more interesting. This is our ever-growing compellation of learning how to Adult!

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First Apartment Kitchen Gift Guide

Someone’s first kitchen is incredibly exciting. It represents a newfound freedom just to simply create the things that make you happy. Unfortunately, furnishing a kitchen is one of the most expensive stocks to build up in a house. This is a gift guide that specifically goes hand-in-hand with celebrating the end of dorm-life, starting fresh in a new city, or just general housewarming! These are all things I’ve found myself without in a new place and that took me a lot of time and money to collect. If your loved one is starting from scratch, these are some small contributions we recommend!

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Beginner Coffee Lover Gift Guide

Getting into at-home coffee making is a fun and exciting way to occupy your mornings while avoiding the $5-9 price tag on an excellent cup of coffee. The only problem is that it can be difficult to know where to start. In this comprehensive gift guide, we’ve discussed everything that would’ve made our lives easier when we made coffee our pandemic hobby!

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5 Zero Waste & Free Plant Fertilizers

I don’t know about you, but my potted indoor plants don’t have the surface area to sustain an entire sheep for rotational grazing. Instead, I supplement my green children with fertilizers. Until recently, I used the generic Home Depot indoor plant fertilizer. To be fair, it worked great. But one day I ran out and didn’t want to go to the store, so I started doing some research on some DIY fertilizers and here are my favourites!

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Finding a New Doctor in a New City

Throughout the years both my partner and I have learned how to make our lives a little easier when it comes to finding new primary care providers or new specialty providers. Finding care shouldn’t be difficult, so we’ve compiles our top tips and tricks for getting help and navigating health care!

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Autumn Decorating on a Budget

When I got my first apartment, the first thing I wanted to do was decorate it for every season just like I’d seen in different shows, Youtube videos, and Pinterest boards growing up. I had no idea the giant cost that it would entail and as a student I didn't even have the budget to buy into it. In my mind, a few throw pillows and random pumpkin/leaf things would be easy and affordable. Nope, not at all the case. So we started to figure out how to get around the struggle of seasonal decorating while having 1) not very much storage and 2) not having a large budget.

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Beginner’s Guide to Apartment Hunting

Finding a new apartment, especially for the first time, can be a daunting task. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the things we wished we’d known when we were house hunting the first time! This breaks down all the big stuff into to bite sized pieces, along with our Apartment Checklist to help you know what you’re looking for during any tours you might be taking.

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Where to Find Fun & Affordable Pots

I remember when I first started getting into houseplants, and the first time I realized the cute pot I’d picked out for my succulent was about twice the price of that succulent. I was floored. Since that time I’ve started compiling a list of sources that keep my planting from being an expensive hobby and maintain it as just a medium expensive hobby.

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5 Best Bathroom Plants

Besides being just plain pretty, plants are extremely versatile in the bathroom. With the high humidity levels helping you keep them alive, in the last few years more and more people have been actually putting plants in their showers.

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