Most chargers have that schedule function buried in the app, and it's stupid easy to miss. Setting mine to start after 11 PM cut my monthly charging bill damn near in half once I actually took five minutes to look. Check your utility's time-of-use rates and match the timer to the cheapest window, that's the whole trick.

Wait what, FIVE years?? Girl I would have lost my mind way before that. Purple ends on a paying client is my actual nightmare, I can't even imagine the panic in that moment. But honestly this makes so much sense now that you say it, the ends are like sponges and the roots are basically straws that need all the help they can get. I had a similar lightbulb moment with bleach, I always did the midshaft first and then the roots last, but it took me three years to realize I was over processing the mids every single time. The day I finally started sectioning by porosity instead of just going bottom to top, everything changed. Good on you for sharing this, I bet a ton of people are about to have their own mind blown right now.