My grandmother taught me to put an ice cube in the vase water each morning for lilies. She swore it made them last a full week longer, and she was right. It really does slow down that sad droop and browning you mentioned. The ethylene gas tip from the others is a big one too, I keep mine on the far side of the kitchen from the fruit basket now. It feels good to have a few tricks that actually work.

Same, that free course blew my mind lol.

My last kitchen reno had the same gritty slide problem, cost me half a Saturday. I test two from every box now by running them with a bit of weight, like a heavy book. It's annoying but saves way more time than fixing a whole install.

Seriously, how do those bags not just explode? I had a cheap plastic bag full of Terraforming Mars tiles and the bottom just split open one day, pieces everywhere under my couch. It's like they make them to hold the weight for exactly one car ride home from the store lol. A little bin is way smarter, I use one for all my Scythe resources and it's never let me down.

Remember my buddy who sanded a whole deck by hand before buying one?