Wholesome Wins·
CHIVE BY CHIVE
A Redditor documents a 70-day chive-cutting ritual, posting daily updates that show a modest pile and steady persistence rather than grand harvests.
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Seventy days into a chive-cutting campaign, the payoff was a tiny pile on the counter.
The Reddit post landed with a title that made the mission plain: "Cutting a couple of chives almost every day until this Reddit says they're perfect. Day 70." By that point, the poster had been at it for more than two months, snipping a couple of chives nearly every day and bringing the results back to Reddit for judgment.
Day 70 did not arrive with a dramatic harvest. It came with a small pile.
In the body of the post, the author kept it blunt: "It's a small pile today sorry I didn't have a lot to work with." No big reveal, no overflowing bundle, just a modest amount of cut chives and a quick apology for the limited material. The update fit the rhythm of the project itself, short, repeated, and steady, with each day's contribution adding a little more to the ongoing experiment.
The title made clear that this was not a one-off kitchen task. It was a sustained daily routine, a chive-by-chive process stretched across 70 days. Each post in the sequence had been another small step toward whatever "perfect" would mean in the eyes of Reddit, and this latest installment kept the format intact: a day number, a fresh cut, and an update on the pile.
What Day 70 offered was not abundance but persistence. The author showed up again, posted the latest result, and explained why there wasn't much to see this time. The chives were still being cut. The pile was still growing. Just not by much today.