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Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant:

Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant: My solution to rain gear wearing out is to only use them when it is actually raining. Any other time, I use a cheapo wind jacket. That way I'm not unnecessarily adding wear and tear to an item that is specially made for a certain type of weather.

Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant: I like frogg toggs for backpacking, but it is hard to beat grundens or a huge poncho for truly terrible conditions. Grundens two sizes too big are way more "breathable" than a form fitting goretex jacket.

Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant:

Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant: I use a waterproof poncho. It has multiple uses....

Human: Rain/Shell Jacket Durability As I was gluing some seams and seam tapes back on to my four years old shell jacket, I thought I'd ask your experiences before looking for a yet another new rain jacket. I've had few different jackets in the last 10 years and I've never had an issue with the face fabric's durability, not even on a 7.6 oz / 215 g one with probably 20d fabric. It's always the lamination or seam tapes that let go well before the face fabric has any signs of wear. I do use them often and under a backpack, but still, not impressed on their durability. What are your experiences like with them? Is this just the reality? Is there one gold standard ultralight rain jacket that people are happy with? Assistant: I like frogg toggs for backpacking, but it is hard to beat grundens or a huge poncho for truly terrible conditions. Grundens two sizes too big are way more "breathable" than a form fitting goretex jacket.

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant:

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: Not going to address your situation specifically since I don’t know your sleeping gear....however, my personal experience is sleeping gear is so essential and if you pack a bit more weight but get the stellar sleep and comfort you want and most likely need them it’s worth it.

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: I'd just go with a gatewood Cape and call it a day. Unless you really really want a large amount of interior space

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant:

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: Not going to address your situation specifically since I don’t know your sleeping gear....however, my personal experience is sleeping gear is so essential and if you pack a bit more weight but get the stellar sleep and comfort you want and most likely need them it’s worth it.

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: Does it help if you think of it as different tents for different hikes? Then 12 oz will seem minor if you anticipate difficult conditions, but it seems huge if you have balmy skies under tree cover.

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant:

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: I'd just go with a gatewood Cape and call it a day. Unless you really really want a large amount of interior space

Human: UL1 vs UL2: is a pound worth it? Hello, I would love some perspective. New to the forum, so if I inadvertently break any rules, please call me on it. I own a 2012 Copper Spur UL1 (44oz) and Durston's x-mid solo (32oz). I love the weight savings. I'm contemplating the new 2020 CS1 (38oz) or CS2 (50oz). Ventilation of the CS2 is tempting. X-mid has 2 doors, but I've found the inner constrictive and the footprint is large when looking for spots to set up. The locations I've set up my CS1 in the past would never hold the x-mid. Also, CS1 has withstood insane winds and hail in CO, WY, etc. X-mid had a hard time with strong wind in the Sierra Nevada. So if I do go with a 2020 CS1, I lose double doors (ventilation!). If I go new CS2, I'll get double doors and a roomy tent, but lose all that weight savings and footprint is large. Does 12 oz matter that much? Is luxury worth 12 oz? Do double doors make that huge a difference? My quilt is 1.6 lbs, backpack is 3.0 lbs. Does a large footprint really matter that much? Or should I just save all the money and stick with my Copper Spur UL1 from 2012? I welcome your insights! Assistant: Does it help if you think of it as different tents for different hikes? Then 12 oz will seem minor if you anticipate difficult conditions, but it seems huge if you have balmy skies under tree cover.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Decathlon is my first point of call budget UL in England. Nowhere else comes close to weight-saving per £ in local shops. OK, It's not made to the highest quality sp if you're looking for something long-lasting in hard conditions look somewhere else but for the occasional fairweather hiker, it's great.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: The reviews on the UK decathlon website are reasonable. See https://www.decathlon.co.uk/m100-foam-camping-sleeping-mat-id\_5591048.html Decathlon do some good stuff. I love their lightweight wicking t shirts at £3.49 and £3.99.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Decathlon is my first point of call budget UL in England. Nowhere else comes close to weight-saving per £ in local shops. OK, It's not made to the highest quality sp if you're looking for something long-lasting in hard conditions look somewhere else but for the occasional fairweather hiker, it's great.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Only experience with them is my trek 100 puffy which I have not really put through the ringer yet. From what I can tell I t’s a solid piece of budget gear, and an incredible value for the price.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Decathlon is my first point of call budget UL in England. Nowhere else comes close to weight-saving per £ in local shops. OK, It's not made to the highest quality sp if you're looking for something long-lasting in hard conditions look somewhere else but for the occasional fairweather hiker, it's great.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: It is an okey mat, especially for the price. I used it a few times and I looks durable, but I cant confirm because im an air matress guy. Is a nice foam for myog projects like backpacks, its what I use.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: The reviews on the UK decathlon website are reasonable. See https://www.decathlon.co.uk/m100-foam-camping-sleeping-mat-id\_5591048.html Decathlon do some good stuff. I love their lightweight wicking t shirts at £3.49 and £3.99.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Only experience with them is my trek 100 puffy which I have not really put through the ringer yet. From what I can tell I t’s a solid piece of budget gear, and an incredible value for the price.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: The reviews on the UK decathlon website are reasonable. See https://www.decathlon.co.uk/m100-foam-camping-sleeping-mat-id\_5591048.html Decathlon do some good stuff. I love their lightweight wicking t shirts at £3.49 and £3.99.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: It is an okey mat, especially for the price. I used it a few times and I looks durable, but I cant confirm because im an air matress guy. Is a nice foam for myog projects like backpacks, its what I use.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant:

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: Only experience with them is my trek 100 puffy which I have not really put through the ringer yet. From what I can tell I t’s a solid piece of budget gear, and an incredible value for the price.

Human: New ultralight foam pad for $5? My dad was recently in San Francisco, and picked me up a new ultralight pad. It was $5, and weighs only 7 oz. It seems to be twice the thickness of the gossamer gear thinlight, and it is full length. It has reflective coating and is crazy cheap. I cannot find them online in the US right now, which is weird since he bought it in San Francisco. However, I imagine they will be available at some point. What do you guys think? Here is a link to the Malaysia website. I will field test it soon and give updates. It might be the Goldilocks of pads for warmer weather. I would love to know if anyone here has used it. https://www.decathlon.my/p/5591048_arpenaz-m100-foam-trekking-mattress-grey.html Assistant: It is an okey mat, especially for the price. I used it a few times and I looks durable, but I cant confirm because im an air matress guy. Is a nice foam for myog projects like backpacks, its what I use.

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant:

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: I live in Colorado, my whole life, I’m surprised every trip I take anywhere (except maybe the Winds in shoulder), at how over prepared I am for cold temps. It’s called Altitude. Take a puffy only unless you think you’ll actually hike in a 100 wt fleece or Melly.

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: It depends on how much time you spend in camp. I hiked sobo with a quarter zip fleece and was happy with that. If i spent more time in camp i don't think it would have been warm enough in the evenings towards the start (early June) or in the San Juans

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant:

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: I live in Colorado, my whole life, I’m surprised every trip I take anywhere (except maybe the Winds in shoulder), at how over prepared I am for cold temps. It’s called Altitude. Take a puffy only unless you think you’ll actually hike in a 100 wt fleece or Melly.

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: Cool thing about taking both is if it dips down low at night you can wear the apex while you sleep and probably fit the melly on your legs

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant:

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: It depends on how much time you spend in camp. I hiked sobo with a quarter zip fleece and was happy with that. If i spent more time in camp i don't think it would have been warm enough in the evenings towards the start (early June) or in the San Juans

Human: Help me with a CDT sobo layering question please! Is a Melanzana AND an EE Apex jacket redundant for a sobo CDT hike? The more I think about it, I feel like I could ditch the EE jacket. For upper layers, I would then have a button up hiking shirt, melanzana, and rain jacket. I think in camp I would just get in my quilt if I got too cold outside. Assistant: Cool thing about taking both is if it dips down low at night you can wear the apex while you sleep and probably fit the melly on your legs

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: Hello I’m 73 and doing 2-3 day backpacking. My husband is 64 4 hikes this season, more on the books Yoga for over twenty years Healthy eating Gardening forever Biking kayaking It’s all good and I am lucky

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: Saving this thread so I can read it in 15-20 years.

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: Hello I’m 73 and doing 2-3 day backpacking. My husband is 64 4 hikes this season, more on the books Yoga for over twenty years Healthy eating Gardening forever Biking kayaking It’s all good and I am lucky

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: 62 and holding up pretty good. Switching to a hammock has helped. Learn to take only what you need and nothing more. keep your pack as light as you can. I have a friend who is almost 80 and I find him difficult to keep up with. Don't let age stop you.

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: Saving this thread so I can read it in 15-20 years.

Human: 40+ year old ULers, how is your body holding up? Today I went to the clinic to check up on a nagging pain in my hips that I've had for about two months now. Doctor checked me out, thinks it is some inflammation, ordered x-rays, and said that at my age (I'm 40), it's going to take longer to heal up. I had a section hike planned at the end of this month, but now on doctor's orders I had to cancel it. Sucks, but hey, gotta heal up so I can hike again in the future. I got worried and asked him if I could heal up by the spring, and he said probably, so that's something. About two years ago I went to the doctor for pain in one of my heels and found out I have tendinitis and there's not much to do about it. It's not that big a deal, it comes and it goes now, but at its worse it does have me limping and wincing in pain. But if I warm it up it goes numb and is manageable. Now with this hip thing, I can't help but feel like I'm falling apart a bit! I guess after nearly 25 years of backpacking, things like this are bound to happen. And I suppose I should remember that I'm lucky not to have had any serious injuries out hiking or any more debilitating wear and tear. All this got me curious about other long distance hikers experiences with body wear and tear. This could offer some perspective not only for us older hikers, but an idea of what's to come for young bloods. What aches and pains and injuries and conditions do you have, and how do you deal with them? What are some tips to deal with having an older body? Healing secrets? Magic potion recipes that you found out from elves deep in the woods back when they still roamed the wilds? Etc. Thanks! Assistant: 62 and holding up pretty good. Switching to a hammock has helped. Learn to take only what you need and nothing more. keep your pack as light as you can. I have a friend who is almost 80 and I find him difficult to keep up with. Don't let age stop you.

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant:

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: Yes, list the college you attended and the year you finished there, just don't lie and say you graduated and make sure you don't put down that you graduated if you ultimately have to fill out an application for a job you are hired for. reasoning: Resumes are often disqualified for having no college listed on them. And if you say you graduated, that will be disproven on a background check. Source: Me, I made both mistakes

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: I list my university as "Attended" and the dates I attended. It's not a lie and it usually gets them to look over at the relevant experience section which is what gets me hired. It really depends. I started listing it to get past initial resume screenings, but you absolutely don't need it if people are looking at your resume anyway.

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant:

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: Yes, list the college you attended and the year you finished there, just don't lie and say you graduated and make sure you don't put down that you graduated if you ultimately have to fill out an application for a job you are hired for. reasoning: Resumes are often disqualified for having no college listed on them. And if you say you graduated, that will be disproven on a background check. Source: Me, I made both mistakes

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: I have. From my experience in work my experience at varsity is valuable. That being said, I've only got jobs through nepotism.

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant:

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: I list my university as "Attended" and the dates I attended. It's not a lie and it usually gets them to look over at the relevant experience section which is what gets me hired. It really depends. I started listing it to get past initial resume screenings, but you absolutely don't need it if people are looking at your resume anyway.

Human: Should I list education on my resume if I don't have a degree? I have 7 years professional experience at this point (all at the same company), but I don't have a degree (I went to college for about 2 years before getting hired and never went back to finish my degree). Should I even bother listing education on my resume? Assistant: I have. From my experience in work my experience at varsity is valuable. That being said, I've only got jobs through nepotism.

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: GitHub **webhooks**. You can commit -> push from your local machine (laptop) and GitHub will automatically force a pull from your target machine (where those files are hosted). You basically never pull, that's done right after the push.

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: I don't know why Boone said this yet, but having your code in GitHub and developing on your local machine is great I think. I would just automate the deployments (I personally use Ansible for that). That way you don't need to have daemon running on your pi or have it reachable from the internet like with GitHub actions. That way updating your PI would be just one command and would be reproducable. So if e.g. you switch pis at some point, you just rerun your Ansible play and away you go.

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: GitHub **webhooks**. You can commit -> push from your local machine (laptop) and GitHub will automatically force a pull from your target machine (where those files are hosted). You basically never pull, that's done right after the push.

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: Why not simply set-up a Gogs or Gitlab on your Pi ? Or do I get it wrong ?

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant:

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: I don't know why Boone said this yet, but having your code in GitHub and developing on your local machine is great I think. I would just automate the deployments (I personally use Ansible for that). That way you don't need to have daemon running on your pi or have it reachable from the internet like with GitHub actions. That way updating your PI would be just one command and would be reproducable. So if e.g. you switch pis at some point, you just rerun your Ansible play and away you go.

Human: I work on my NodeJS app from my laptop, push changes to GitHub, then pull from my local server computer. Is there a better (more automated) way of doing this? At the moment I'm working on my server-side NodeJS app on my laptop. I got a Raspberry PI that's serving the NodeJS app for the rest of the house. But in order to get updated files from my laptop: I push changes to GitHub, then I need to connect to the PI via SSH and *git pull* the new stuff. Does anybody know of a better alternative? Maybe something more automated. I'm sure I'm complicating myself here. Not sure how to describe this question, so it was difficult searching for similar quesitons. Thanks! Assistant: Why not simply set-up a Gogs or Gitlab on your Pi ? Or do I get it wrong ?

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant:

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: Why didn't you use git tho?

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: You can use the way back machine to get some of the code back. https://archive.org/web/ But yeah kinda your fault imo. Through false assumption/ bad practices. From the clients point of view, hosting to expire does not equal all files to be lost unless you warned them of that as that's not a common thing to assume.

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant:

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: Why didn't you use git tho?

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: I don't know the law of your country but I'm Italian and I have some friends working as freelance webdev. They always gave the client a full copy of the source code of the site with a full document on how to deploy, what environment variables to set and so on. You should do that just to be safe.

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant:

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: You can use the way back machine to get some of the code back. https://archive.org/web/ But yeah kinda your fault imo. Through false assumption/ bad practices. From the clients point of view, hosting to expire does not equal all files to be lost unless you warned them of that as that's not a common thing to assume.

Human: Who's responsibility if client did not renew their hosting/domain, then a year later they want to have the site back up? I have an old client from 4 years ago (first client). They didn't inform me that they didn't want to continue their site due to covid late last year, so they didn't renew. Now, they want to get their site back up and running since things are opening up again. But their previous domain name was bought by someone else after they didn't renew. With that said, all the files, backups are now gone when the hosting expired. Was it my responsibility to keep a backup of the files? I relied on the hosting server to do the backups, which it did very well until expiration. I told them that they should have informed me that they weren't going to renew their hosting so that we could make a proper backup of the files that they could keep. The files that were on my computer got lost when I had to reformat when my HDD got corrupted. Just wanted to know where I sit in this. I don't mind building their site again given I'll be using a better programing language framework than what I used before, but I'll have to charge them. Assistant: I don't know the law of your country but I'm Italian and I have some friends working as freelance webdev. They always gave the client a full copy of the source code of the site with a full document on how to deploy, what environment variables to set and so on. You should do that just to be safe.

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant:

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: The "filler" scenes are what make the impactful scenes impactful. If they're not there then your emotional scenes have no emotion. If they're written badly then your emotional scenes will read as bad too. You can't have payoff without set up. Simple.

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: If the scenes you’re excited about are the ones with interesting conflict, you may actually be better off writing those first. Once written, they may give you a better feel for your protagonist and what you want to do in the overall arc of the story. IANAPW, so take this with a grain of salt.

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant:

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: The "filler" scenes are what make the impactful scenes impactful. If they're not there then your emotional scenes have no emotion. If they're written badly then your emotional scenes will read as bad too. You can't have payoff without set up. Simple.

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: I plan things a lot, yet I understand scenes the best when I write them and a lot of the time they change then. I write them in order so if I change a scene (and it appears to have more/less than I planned, and sometimes even different conclusion or a new character or something), I can adjust the rest to it. Of course, sometimes I understand I want to change the past for a scene to work, but it happens less (abd I can do it in the editing if it's not super important)

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant:

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: If the scenes you’re excited about are the ones with interesting conflict, you may actually be better off writing those first. Once written, they may give you a better feel for your protagonist and what you want to do in the overall arc of the story. IANAPW, so take this with a grain of salt.

Human: Writing a book one scene at a time, or writing up to the scene you want to write? Hey guys, this is something I've struggled with for quite a while, actually. If you're confused at all by the title, I'll elaborate a bit. I'm sure most of us know the top-down view on writing, versus the ground-up take. Basically, writing the world first, and then telling a story in it, versus those who know the story they want to tell beforehand, and write the world to accommodate that. I'm personally more of a ground-up type of writer, but with this comes something I'm not sure is a bad habit or not. Basically, I have specific scenes that I want to write dependent on how I'm feeling. When motivation strikes, and I find myself really going over detail after detail in my head about a specific chapter or even scene, I tend to write it right then and there, even if I'm no where near that point in the story yet. On the other hand, sometimes I write purely chronologically, and build it one chapter at a time to finally get to the scene that had been burning a hole in my mind up until that point. I have written multiple stories that I use on method or the other in, but don't know which I prefer. The problem I often experience with the first one, is that everything I write in between those scenes feels like filler to get to that point. As a result, I feel like there's extremely powerful writing (in my entirely subjective, not-so-humble opinion of course) interlaced with... *okay* writing, I guess? Again, in my not-so-humble opinion, I think I'm a pretty good writer, so I can *make* the filler and fluff between those scenes work, I just don't think it's nearly as good. Conversely, when writing the other way, there's definitely more consistency in the quality of the work, but by the time I get to the big gut punch scene I had in mind, I've lost the feeling of it, or the specific wording I wanted to use. I feel that this leads to a higher average quality in my work, but nothing that (I think at least) really stands out. Have any of you ever experienced this, and if so, which one do you think is better overall? Assistant: I plan things a lot, yet I understand scenes the best when I write them and a lot of the time they change then. I write them in order so if I change a scene (and it appears to have more/less than I planned, and sometimes even different conclusion or a new character or something), I can adjust the rest to it. Of course, sometimes I understand I want to change the past for a scene to work, but it happens less (abd I can do it in the editing if it's not super important)

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant:

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: Maybe it’s because I write fantasy, but I always find that giving my braid a quick tug seems to do the trick.

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: It happens to me I get excited and enjoy the heck when I'm in the zone. So it's normal I just call it being in the zone

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant:

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: Maybe it’s because I write fantasy, but I always find that giving my braid a quick tug seems to do the trick.

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: You mean you play with your hair when you should be writing, realize you're distracted, then buckle down and start writing? That's not a weird habit, and that's not"flow".

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant:

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: It happens to me I get excited and enjoy the heck when I'm in the zone. So it's normal I just call it being in the zone

Human: Weird habit when I enter a flow state in my writing Has anyone else noticed a strange association or behavior when you start to get in to (or right before) flow state with your writing? For example, I have caught myself scratching my head, braiding my hair, twirling the ends of my hair around my fingers. It annoys me as I do it so frequently when I should be writing. Any ideas what this is about? Assistant: You mean you play with your hair when you should be writing, realize you're distracted, then buckle down and start writing? That's not a weird habit, and that's not"flow".

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant:

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: Think about how your characters interact with the setting. Also, how the setting makes them feel.

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: there's nothing wrong with being dialogue-heavy. if description isn't your strong point that's fine.

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant:

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: Think about how your characters interact with the setting. Also, how the setting makes them feel.

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: Why’s it have to be prose? Sounds like you’d prefer writing scripts.

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant:

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: there's nothing wrong with being dialogue-heavy. if description isn't your strong point that's fine.

Human: how do I get better at describing the setting? So although I started writing as a teen, I've recently tried getting back into it. One thing I've always struggled with is descriptive scenes. I feel my strong suit is more character interaction and dialogue. I'm just looking for some advice or perhaps what you guys do when you struggle with this if you're in the same boat. Thank you and happy writing! ✍️ Assistant: Why’s it have to be prose? Sounds like you’d prefer writing scripts.

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant:

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Glass does not result in microplastics.

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Throwing away glass should be illegal on a federal level 😤 I also live in a city where we don't recycle and it's depressing lol.

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant:

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Glass does not result in microplastics.

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Is using glass an option and then reusing or repurposing it?

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant:

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Throwing away glass should be illegal on a federal level 😤 I also live in a city where we don't recycle and it's depressing lol.

Human: If you live in a place that doesn’t recycle glass, Is it better in this case to use recyclable plastic instead? Rather than glass that has to be thrown away? Assistant: Is using glass an option and then reusing or repurposing it?

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant:

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: I know this is by no means zero waste, but we save our napkins from the occasional take out (mostly A&W) and use them for grease when needed.

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: To wipe out grease from cooking pans I use newspaper or used napkins.

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant:

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: I know this is by no means zero waste, but we save our napkins from the occasional take out (mostly A&W) and use them for grease when needed.

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: I have cut up old shirts.

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant:

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: To wipe out grease from cooking pans I use newspaper or used napkins.

Human: How do you replace paper towels for grease? I’m still using paper products to clean up grease in cooking and handiwork situations. Anyone have good alternatives? Assistant: I have cut up old shirts.

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant:

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: About 12 years ago my sister asked me to take her old artifical tree to the dump as she'd upgraded. She'd been using the tree since the late '90s but there was nothing really wrong with it. Needless to say I took it home and I'm still using it every year. Real trees are fine but my house is too warm for them and they don't survive very long.

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: I have a 6ft fiddle fig that we decorate with some lights, tinsel, and put an angel on top. Goes from being a nice indoor plant for 11 months of the year to a no cost, no waste Christmas tree that only gets better with age!

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant:

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: About 12 years ago my sister asked me to take her old artifical tree to the dump as she'd upgraded. She'd been using the tree since the late '90s but there was nothing really wrong with it. Needless to say I took it home and I'm still using it every year. Real trees are fine but my house is too warm for them and they don't survive very long.

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: I'm a big supporter of keeping a small potted tree. Not as fun to decorate, sure, but it becomes kind of like a pet.

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant:

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: I have a 6ft fiddle fig that we decorate with some lights, tinsel, and put an angel on top. Goes from being a nice indoor plant for 11 months of the year to a no cost, no waste Christmas tree that only gets better with age!

Human: What is better: plastic Christmas tree, reused from year to year, or actual tree? Obviously no tree is best and but if you had to choose a tree to decorate with, would you reuse a plastic tree for the rest of your life or rather buy actual trees? I feel like this is a little bit of a debate in sustainable communities, and would love to know your opinions on the matter! Assistant: I'm a big supporter of keeping a small potted tree. Not as fun to decorate, sure, but it becomes kind of like a pet.

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant:

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: I wear UVA clothing, hats, sleeves, scarves, etc. it’s really cute, doesn’t leech into your skin, and is infinitely reusable. Also not sticky icky. Check out Coolibar and similar brands. Bonus: Most clothing is already UVA blocking to a large degree. The stuff made for this is simply a little more blocking and also breathable to be comfortable in hot days.

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: All Good sells some in metal jars. Also, their plastic bottles contain PCR and are recyclable. My local refill store does refills of All Good. If there's a refill store near you, maybe they'll have some sunscreen on tap. Good luck!

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant:

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: I wear UVA clothing, hats, sleeves, scarves, etc. it’s really cute, doesn’t leech into your skin, and is infinitely reusable. Also not sticky icky. Check out Coolibar and similar brands. Bonus: Most clothing is already UVA blocking to a large degree. The stuff made for this is simply a little more blocking and also breathable to be comfortable in hot days.

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: https://www.target.com/p/badger-sport-mineral-sunscreen-in-a-tin-spf-40-2-4-fl-oz/-/A-80164248 Comes in a tin, very greasy though and leaves a bit of a white cast(and I’m super duper pale).

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant:

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: All Good sells some in metal jars. Also, their plastic bottles contain PCR and are recyclable. My local refill store does refills of All Good. If there's a refill store near you, maybe they'll have some sunscreen on tap. Good luck!

Human: Anyone know if there's a good zero waste sunscreen? I know know that various companies make sunscreen sticks, but what if they remove the plastic and made it into a bar? Is there any good sunscreen bars or any product that does not use plastic bottles or deodorant sticks? I was able to find tins, but that's the closest I've found. Assistant: https://www.target.com/p/badger-sport-mineral-sunscreen-in-a-tin-spf-40-2-4-fl-oz/-/A-80164248 Comes in a tin, very greasy though and leaves a bit of a white cast(and I’m super duper pale).

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Felt and cloth bunting/signs. Fun cloth table cloths. Reusable thrifted plastic cups and plates + silverware Kids cloth napkins Thrifted colored or fairy lights

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: I have some fabric bunting that we put up each year for every birthday. I then have a big roll of recycled brown paper and cut a big number out of that to stick up on the wall with the bunting.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Felt and cloth bunting/signs. Fun cloth table cloths. Reusable thrifted plastic cups and plates + silverware Kids cloth napkins Thrifted colored or fairy lights

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Bunting. We have paper bunting that’s been kicking around since my now 7yo’s 3rd birthday. It comes out for every birthday. I plan to buy or make some fabric bunting at some point and use it for every holiday.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Felt and cloth bunting/signs. Fun cloth table cloths. Reusable thrifted plastic cups and plates + silverware Kids cloth napkins Thrifted colored or fairy lights

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Kind of a weird one but if you have a less specific theme you can try to find a small matching stamp and stamp the edges of paper party plates (I used the target recycled ones). Worked out awesome for last year's rainbow Mickey theme. Doing the same thing with butterflies this year, found them here

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: I have some fabric bunting that we put up each year for every birthday. I then have a big roll of recycled brown paper and cut a big number out of that to stick up on the wall with the bunting.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Bunting. We have paper bunting that’s been kicking around since my now 7yo’s 3rd birthday. It comes out for every birthday. I plan to buy or make some fabric bunting at some point and use it for every holiday.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: I have some fabric bunting that we put up each year for every birthday. I then have a big roll of recycled brown paper and cut a big number out of that to stick up on the wall with the bunting.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Kind of a weird one but if you have a less specific theme you can try to find a small matching stamp and stamp the edges of paper party plates (I used the target recycled ones). Worked out awesome for last year's rainbow Mickey theme. Doing the same thing with butterflies this year, found them here

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant:

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Bunting. We have paper bunting that’s been kicking around since my now 7yo’s 3rd birthday. It comes out for every birthday. I plan to buy or make some fabric bunting at some point and use it for every holiday.

Human: birthday decor ideas I'm looking for some birthday decorations ideas that can be used year after year. This is also a post for other parents to use, so I'm adding my own thoughts as they come too. I have random, double sided old scrapbook paper that I'm going to cut out to make a happy birthday banner, so that'll cover a variety of colors and themes. Assistant: Kind of a weird one but if you have a less specific theme you can try to find a small matching stamp and stamp the edges of paper party plates (I used the target recycled ones). Worked out awesome for last year's rainbow Mickey theme. Doing the same thing with butterflies this year, found them here