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I opened the dryer door and "POOF " a roomful of feathers.

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎08-07-2022 02:22 PM

          So much for a net laundry bag protecting a down and feather pillow from bursting in the dryer. Check out the dryer filter.  🙂

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          5 times I've  cleaned the filter, vacuumed the floor and inside the dryer as much as possble. 5 times. I used every bit of my energy planned for another portion of a larger task.

 

I'm sorry I put dark clothes in the same load. Most of the feathers are gone now, but, the dark clothes are covered with feather dust. I'm washing just the clothes alone to see if that fine dust can be removed.

Another unplanned time wasted error.

          If I were still a smoker, I would likely had 2 cigarettes in the time between each of those 5 cleanings but, I don't do that anymore. 

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.