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Rosa, Thank you for this recommendation. I don’t know if I’ll read it or not, but it took me down an interesting rabbit hole of books that have won...

Do you still add oil to food? One thing I read said yes. I see an air fryer as being good in preventing aerosol oils and particulates floating...

I love the schtick of Kim and Penn Holderness. Here is Kim with her new air fryer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hyuMqeLf7_o

All upper cabinets will have glass fronts. But likely, just faux mullions. Getting real, honest to god mullions costs about a million dollars...

Well, I can’t say that I liked the stove wall with all the implements lined up on it. That looks messy to me. So I am not replicating that one.

I think I might own this for ten years. It is possible. I will say that the unit with the few cabinets had no trouble selling. It was beautifully...

Wow, pomegranate juice stains like anything. Rip sweater. cant say I have ever cut a q tip in half. Guess maybe I wont after reading your...

This is a clean looking wall. Perhaps the “white” aspect helps. My cabinetry is light blue. I was really on the fence about a cabinet over the...

Aww, good new on the cat front.

So now DH and I are in the thorniest part of condo renovation, designing kitchen cabinets. I knew we would clash on this big time. We are. This...

It is primer, not top coat paint.

I will see. My idea of using electric kettle is to keep DH out of the tiny kitchen, away from the main microwave oven. There is room for 1 person...

DH does the same for water for our house plants. About the $210 worth of paint —it’s wonderful because that paint is not sitting around our...

DH was giddy this week because he took 7 gallons of primer paint from the alley where our neighbor left it. This neighbor was cleaning out his house...

Pharmacists have a high level of microbiology training. It is weird when one of them escapes that mindset. But then, there are plenty of M.D....

my city’s public health department put out a very carefully worded statement about park playgrounds in summertime. They did not say playgrounds are...

Speaking of textile purchases through Amazon, I just ordered my second twin size comforter. I absolutely love the one I got a few weeks ago. I get...

The Miss Read books are classic cosy village books, around for decades. I have not read one myself. I do like village/neighborhood books set in...

yes, and thanks.

Hmm, this means another thing to sit on the counter of my tiny beverage center. Not sure about that.

I do look at where it’s being shipped from And avoid those Chinese vendors.I’m resigned to most of the crap I buy being made in China, but I don’t...

I don’t know why we dont snowdrops around here. Our early flowers are crocus.

so a major question is can we, as old retired folks, wait probably two more minutes for the water to boil or get near boiling? But here’s...

Haha kettles. Not kennels.

I’m resurrecting this old thread because I’m considering buying an electric kettle. It’ll be a while before I buy it, but I need something for our...

early on in the pandemic, Senator Rand Paul recovered from Coronavirus in his family home’s basement while keeping away from the rest of his family...

It is pretty likely I will spend multi thousands on a stove. But I DID consider buying a Magic Chef stove simply for the name. I live next door to...

I have been such a Carrie Consumer in the past week. My main task has been identifying a stove for this condo. Normally I hate shopping for...

oh the high school sports news is BIG in Hermann! The girl’s volleyball team is always tops in the state, and my across-the-street neighbor kids play...

The bits of eBay selling I have done recently needs packaging. I go outside to our alley communal dumpster and pull packaging materials from the...

The demise of big city newspapers is one of the astonishing things of the past 20 years. Two of my relatives were trained in journalism and worked on...

Like everyone else, we took no trips this year so we’re certainly saving on travel. But there sure are a lot of Amazon boxes finding their way to my...

DH gets the newspaper each morning and an online subscription comes with that. The city newspaper is useful for local events. I don’t read it though....

Cute baby tog, nice spice rack. Great winter accomplishments, all.

Pieces of a Woman. This is a theatrical release, so my mention probably should go on our film review board, but I saw it streaming on Netflix so...

Oh haha, yes! Makes me glad not to have a teenager! No spoilers! It was a good little piece of fluff. I need to add: the length these parents...

I probably won’t have an answer for you for a year. I plan to drape it on my day bed in my condo. But yeah I wonder if it will be wrinkly beyond use...

I don’t know how to respond to the question of why sheets are so expensive. I’m not sure that they are necessarily. It depends. I read somewhere...

We have never had a thread on this forum about ice fishing. never! Wow, interesting!

What a great post! All of the isms tied to simplicity, summarized. Based on your explnation of essentialism, yes I think that’s where I am right now.

I can only think of dramatic films that show “back to the land” living in a largely negative light. So, the message isn’t good for this thread I...

The recent classic in this topic is Affluenza. I havent watched it myself because I consider it a been there,done that concept.

Similar for me, but with a slight change: I want to arrange my life toward simplicity, and that includes an absence of obligations that bore me. ...

sounds wonderful!

And now, I will put myself in forum jail for 4 weeks. This is just for the Simple Public Policy forum, no others. This isn't a flounce it is jail...

Sure, forums with the purpose of educating about racism certainly would encourage questions, it is an educational environment. That’s their purpose,...

yes. Egg rolls are deep fat fried, speing rolls are rolled up in a softened wrap.

Not my intent.

Geila, so sorry. I hope you find thoughtful political commentary that enlightens you to reasonable attitudes of those on the right. It is out there...

Tammy left because she considers others here racist, and she does not wish to hang out with same.She gets to make that determination. I have...

I kept this thought OUT of those other threads for the purpose of not introducing a thought that might be unpleasant. Give me some credit, ‘kay? ...

she didnt leave due to “strife.” Did you read her words?

I wont dump DH due to his vote for Trump.That idea is ridiculous to me. I would be more concerned if DH took Covid precautions lightly. He does...

Once every 3-4 years I make battered onion rings. So, those are out.

Yowza, that is moving quickly. If dear DH and I were to divorce, we Would not be able to do it that quickly. I Imagine we would be wrangling over…...

Looking at your poll in November, 5 people said they would vote for Donald J. Trump. So, you want to hear from 3 other people? Tradd already said...

Lest I be disparaged as a science denier, Let me state ip front that OF COURSE I will get this vaccine when my turn comes. But, I have some...

yes, when the money shows itself, the ideology disappears. Lurking underground or gone entirely, who knows. funny how that happens.

I do not mean to be a smart aleck here I really don’t, but I’m going to ask in a general way: is there ever any large scale medical issue that...