ShelfYears
ShelfYears is a shelf-life reference for the non-food things in a garage or cleaning cupboard — fuels, paints, pool chemicals, the helmet on the hook. Every window cites a manufacturer document or SDS section and the day it was checked, and says whether using it late is harmless or a safety issue.
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A near-black header and footer bracket a warm off-white page, with a single orange hairline doing all the accent work. Section headings are set in a heavy grotesque above a printed ruler rule — real measuring-tape graduations — the site’s one flourish and a fitting one. Everything under it stays plain: a hairline-bracketed spec card for gasoline, a stripped table of sealed and opened windows, and white cards each stamped with a small registration circle. The four verdict badges in green, black, olive and red carry the ranking, so a reader scanning for the dangerous shelf finds it before reading a sentence.
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