December in Alaska, problem with pens at my home is its heating season, heaters dry out everthing in the house, including me when I sleep, to pick up a dry pen is a given (dry air or Ozone or both?), we store pens in those plastic sealable food containers (rubbermaid containers)
So I leave out a pencil, dang was doing a Suduku puzzle and the darn rubber eraser was harder than Chinese Algebra.
As for women shrinking the hell outta stuff, my electric bill used to be nuts,
My old whirlpool drier had a Super Atomic Death Valley Dry Button that the Ex-Strife never failed to hit, super dry to point
fabic would rip easy (drier rot) what clinched it was brand new bed sheets that were tearing after the second washing, then I bought a new maytag that had a
sensor dry function lower electric bills, and bedding and clothes lasted 5x longer after the Ex-Strife flew off on her broom.
Sensor dry has to be one the greatist features ever put on an electric drier, imagine adding a moisture sensor to the drier discharge duct? Ex-Strife kept messing with the drier setting,
the lint trap would be packed with fabric fibers heat roasted off my clothes in a drier with a sensor dry function . . . Why?
Yup I fixed the wandering drier setting problem
Yup my clothes all fit tight, 2020 was the year all my fat clothes became my skinny clothes.
With the Ex-Strife gone, the only home appliance I can blame for this tight clothes situation is the kitchen.
After Ex-strife blasted off I got better at cooking!