I come from a family that believes that “We are too poor to buy cheap things” (a quote from my great-grandmother). While we are far from poor, the idea of buy it once, buy it right, is something that my parent’s instilled in us.

If you are in Canada there are some good online discount retailers, and I’ve even found decent deals on Amazon.

I managed to score a set of Henkels knives off my parents (my rich white millenial privilege is totally showing), which made a huge difference.

Also, I’m in line to inherit my mother’s collection when they “get too heavy” for her to lift, although I expect that with her weight lifting regime that won’t be until she is in her 90s (she is 61 right now).

I'm 31 and unmarried but I've been slowly accumulating Le Creuset and All Clad pans because I figure even if I don't get married I deserve the good pans.

This is going to make me revist some of my fave fic before the show starts, most noteably the series where Scully is a sucessful pedatrician and Mulder made a killing in the Markets and the meet randomly in at a department store in NYC in the mid 2000s or 2010s.

This has always worked for me!

All this makes me think is that I need to watch Slings & Arrows again ...

This song shows up in my favorite playlist, and I usually play it all the way through no matter the time of year. Love BNL!

Check out Switched on Pop’s recent episode on The Beeb. It will justify your mixed up feelings ... http://www.switchedonpop.com/?p=419

My aunt always spoke of the three Bs of parenting — bribery, blackmail and be embarrassing.

And The Middleman!

I had a roommate who had lived in LA and loved Sushi who introduced me to Tamari and I’m very, very grateful although I’m not GF or anything.

Where in Canada are you? My dad is currently involved in the town discussion in Parry Sound (north of Toronto on Georgian Bay) about fluoride in the town water supply. He didn’t realize how crazy and rabid the anti-fluoride people are, so didn't go the first meeting. He is attending the meetings now to serve as the…

There is only one, single, romance author I want to watch on my tv and that is Joan Wilder.

One of the best sentences, and most Texas, sentences I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing was “All y’all, get y’all’s Cokes now”. And yes, people who call it coke are the worst.

Labs are so stupid. My cousin had a chocolate Lab she named Turbo (first bad decision), and he wagged his tail so much and beat it against so many things he wore the hair off the tip. In the winter it would get try and he would spray blood everywhere as he wagged.

When my cousin got married last year, his now wife’s speech went on for 30-40 minutes. We realized we had a problem when she was 4 pages in and made a comment about not even being halfway there.

I feel ya, if I want a taco my closest choice is a Taco Bell 90 minutes away ...

I think it takes some time to understand the awesomeness of Bulk Barn, so don’t ditch the husband, yet.