The Daily Rave

I'm pretty sure I've been on here for at least 20 years. I don't quite look like my profile picture anymore, but I like remembering how strong and fit I was back then, because sadly I sure ain't like that now...

I have to sing the praises of Target pickup. No minimum order and no appt time needed. The one by my place doesn’t have a huge grocery section, but it’s cheaper than Jewel (major grocery chain here) and I can get most of the stuff I like. It’s been at least 3 weeks since I was in a store and my knees prefer it. The Target by work has a full grocery section so I need to do a bigger order there for more stuff.

I think I’ve been a member (from the previous forum) in 2002ish maybe.

I think I joined the old forum not too long before it ended, maybe 2009. Then I briefly belonged to an incarnation started by PDQ (I believe that was his name), then this incarnation since it's inception.

I started on the old Forum, probably 2002 or so.

I think my time line is similar to catherine's. I hardly posted - if at all - for many years on the old forum and this one, but came and read pretty much every day.

I have a clean oven!!! circa 1988 GE electric range. The knobs for the timer and stop time and clock are broken so I used a plier to turn the timer and stop time. I didn't bother to change the time on the clock because you just have to add 3 hours to create the stop time. It was a perfect day to do it as I could keep the windows open for air as it does smell like electrical fires. It is CLEAN and shiny! I did nothing extra to it, just wiped out the bottom. The window came clean and it was covered with drippy brown stains. ALL GONE. All we've had to do with the stove is replace the baking element which was easy- ordered on line and put it in ourselves. It makes me happy every time I open the oven door!

That’s great! :)

I have never "cleaned" my oven. I do wipe it out occasionally and think about using the self-clean option, but I have a horror of things getting that hot for a prolonged period. Silly, but there ya go. Maybe I'll be brave and move the oven out into the middle of the floor and try it sometime. It's also a GE, I think from early 90s.

I think I've been on this forum - under a different name- since the late 90s. I'd been looking for a frugal home since Amy D. stopped her newsletter in the mid 90s. The only member I've met IRL is Fawn. She and her kids came to our house for dinner once when she was passing through the area. I think it freaked her out, she is one who tries for 100 items in her home, and I have way more than that in my kitchen cupboard! It was a nice visit, though.

early morning, The fear of the high heat put me off, too. But the stove is snugly in between two floor cabinets and is against a wooden back, and no problem at all. The top of the stove gets hot to the touch, but not scalding. Give it a try. But do open windows as the smell is of burning electric wires. It's such a joy to open that door-and even peek in the window!!!

That's interesting about meeting Fawn. I remember her.