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Round the corners of the tape with scissors so nothing catches on the sock. Sounds fussy, doubles how long it stays on.

Trick for pulling numbers down fast: put a slice of watermelon or a damp piece of bread on the surface overnight. In the morning it'll be covered in mites, and you lift it out and bin it. Repeat a few nights. Doesn't fix the cause but it buys you visible progress while the moisture comes down.

Melon and pineapple are the two worst offenders in my bin. Enormous volume of water and it goes acidic within days.

Ate dinner early? Going to bed with an empty tank means your body has nothing to burn overnight. I keep a couple of hundred calories of something fatty in the tent and eat it if I wake up cold. Peanut butter, a cheese stick, whatever. Works surprisingly well.

Some people chase a second and third heat cycle by adding greens each turn. It works but it also means you're feeding the pile forever and it never finishes. At some point you have to let it just sit.

300 litres is nothing, these are usually rated in the thousands under ideal conditions. "Ideal" is doing a lot of work in that sentence though. My real-world number before flow gets annoying is more like 400-600 litres on typical mixed sources.

Same experience. My tumbler started actually working when I got lazy about it.

The clothing one is real. I used to carry two spare shirts for a five day trip. Now it's one sleep shirt that never leaves the pack in daylight and I have never once wished otherwise.

Hadn't seriously considered worms because I assumed it was a whole hobby. Sounds like it fits my situation better than either bin.

Checked and mine does a subsidised scheme. That plus a small worm bin might be the whole answer.

Completely normal and it has a name: sleep researchers call it the first night effect. Half your brain stays partly alert in an unfamiliar place. It happens in hotels too, you just don't notice because a hotel bed is comfortable enough to hide it.

It does fade with experience, mostly because the environment stops being unfamiliar. After a few dozen nights out my tent feels like my tent regardless of where it's pitched. Give it a season.

Don't over-worry about "finished". Slightly immature compost is fine as a mulch on top of beds, it just shouldn't be mixed heavily into soil where you're about to sow seeds. Spread it, let the worms finish the job in place.