Comments by "Tinerfeña" (@Islas_Canarias) on "Levi Hildebrand" channel.

I bought my first pair of Doc Martens in 1985 aged 15. When I turned 50 in 2020 I bought myself a pair with pink laces for my birthday. I've been wearing them only during winter (a 3 month period) so they will last a while. It was a nostalgia thing for my 50th.
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I'm 53 years old and NEVER hung out at the mall. EVER. I was always anti-establishment and the mall represented the man and I wasn't buying. I hung out at the library. I'm still a bookworm today. I'm reading George Orwell's 1984 at the moment. PS: We have a TV show called The Gruen Transfer here in Australia.
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Ever since I put my son in cloth diapers in 2008, I've stopped using toilet paper. I use cloth wipes for myself (yes, even for number two's). They are easy to use, easy to clean and I save hundreds of dollars a year at the supermarket. I use white microfibre cloths, soak them in a bucket with napisan that I keep next to the toilet, then wash in a 30 minute cold wash with more napisan and finish rinsing with vinegar & eucalyptus oil in the rinse water. I wash them with a load of underwear to save on washing. I also don't use any commercial household cleaning products either. I rely on vinegar, bicarbonate soda, lemon & eucalyptus oil, isopropyl alcohol, water boiled to 100 °C and dishwashing liquid to clean my house. During Covid I laughed when I saw the store shelves empty of toilet paper. I was walking home one day from the shops and a friendly council worker stopped to have a chat to me. When he complained about toilet paper I explained my method to him. He was shocked and said he couldn't use it. I just laughed and continued to walk on home.
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To improve/increase your digestive enzymes to maximise the amount of nutrients your body absorbs from the food you eat, just drink 1 cup of decaffeinated green tea with 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar added 30 minutes before each meal (3-4 cups per day). Green tea is also an antioxidant. Just make sure the vinegar you buy states that it has the "mother" on its label, otherwise its worthless nutritionally. Make the tea ahead of time, allow it to cool before drinking it. After you drink one, immediately prepare the next serve and simply allow it to sit and cool in time for your next meal. This trick is especially important for anyone over 50 years because as you age your body becomes less efficient at absorbing all the nutrients from food and thos is the easiest (and cheapest) way to improve that. Apple cider vinegar also helps with stomach acid reduction, if you suffer from that, along with improving weight loss. You're welcome. 😀
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I'm 53 and have been working out since I was 20 years old and have never set foot in a gym. I've always had a home gym that I updated over the decades. Gyms are a waste of money. I suggest to anyone gullible enough to sign a gym membership contract that you open a separate bank account exclusively used only for your membership and transfer the monthly fee into it yourself manually every month. That way, if you do decide to stop going, the gym doesn't have any access to your real bank account and won't be able to milk you dry until the contract finally expires and you can cancel it. YOU control access to your money, NOT the greedy gym corporation. When you decide to stop going they won't be able to charge your real account and you can safely close the second one and walk away.
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Fact. By the time a child is 12 they are capable of preparing a three course meal. So, get them started early on their culinary skills.
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I adopted two strict rules about 25 years ago whenever I wanted to bring an item into my home. The first is that for anything new coming in, I had to get rid of something old. This would force me to think twice about buying whatever thing it was I was looking at because I had to decide on the spot what existing item I had to get rid of to make room for it. This rule worked 90% of the time and I still keep the in/out rule today. The second rule I adopted is having a place for every item in my home AND keeping the item in its place at all times. (A place for everything and everything in its place). A useful idea is following Maree Kondo's maxim "does it spark joy?" when deciding whether to keep an item in your home. If it doesn't, then toss it out or donate it.
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India is the number one country in recycling. They have a whole entire industry built around nothing else but recycling. Clothes, bottles, lids, paper, straws, books, tires etc. Just google it and be amazed! Also, I trained in fashion from 1995-1997. I obtained a patternmaking/grading qualification. My teachers told me half way through that I wouldn't have a job to go to once I graduated. They were right because once I graduated clothing manufacturing had already moved offshore to Asia. So, after 3 years of training in a skill useful only to myself and my family, I had to go back to school and retrain. This time, as an accountant. Now today, this job is being taken over by AI. I'm close to retirement age so I don't really care anymore. Because of my knowledge of fashion and fabrics, I choose to only wear natural fibre clothing. This means only cotton & linen is summer, only merino wool in winter, leather for my shoes. I have a minimalist capsule wardrobe so I don't wear many different clothes day to day. I take care of my garments and they last years and years. I can also mend them if a moth makes a hole in anything.
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My husband has a very well paid job with Visy Recycling recycling plastic bottles for re-use. We bought a Brita water filter from Aldi to filter our tap water and drink out of glass bottles. Easy.
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