I love stationery, handwriting, fountain pens and coloured inks, so a thank-you note (for me) is an excellent excuse to have fun communicating with friends in a way that’s become rare nowadays. I look for a card that I’m reasonably sure they’ll enjoy (maybe one that reflects an interest of theirs), and keep the message…

Can you reframe this as useful data collection? I mean, any time I’ve ever budgeted, I started by tracking my spending without trying to control it. That way you know more clearly where your weaknesses are, and where the money goes when you’re not thinking about it.

Here to tell you that while everyone’s mileage may vary, my experience and that of several friends was the opposite. It’s as though the libido gets turned way up in a final, pre-menopausal solar flare.

Matthew Rhys is the neurotic everyman through whose eyes we see Mr Rogers. He has a lot more screen time. (And he acquitted himself reasonably well, but Tom Hanks is who you remember.)

Hmm... What if more than one person wants the same item? First to touch it takes it? (I have some items my friends would love to have, but I’m a little scared doing this would spark a feeding frenzy.)

I am a night person and would sleep in every day if I could... even though I quite like getting up early once I’ve done it. 

It must have been a while back. The above page says (underneath the Scanner section): “Donation: Sorry, donation is no longer possible. PayPal arbitrarily cancelled my account.”

Mid-sized city in British Columbia, but same thing here because rental apartment kitchens here tend to be tiny and cramped :(

P.S. Since many people are praising their electric kettles, I’d like to give 5 stars to this sweet little workhorse: the Cuisinart CPK-17 Programmable Kettle. Programmable simply means it has 6 preset temperatures you can choose from. I use them all (gyokuro likes a lowwww temperature, we drink a lot of oolong, our…

Thanks for this!

This is one of those times I wish Canadian Netflix mirrored American Netflix more closely, because Betty White: First Lady of Television isn’t showing as upcoming yet. *sobs*

It had never occurred to me that some people might not regard kettles as a standard kitchen appliance. We use ours at least 15 times a day.

That’s good advice if you and your friends are sensible enough to use the subject line wisely.

My husband’s best friend has a job that pays irregularly, and three times in the past couple of years he’s asked us to spot him a couple of thou so he can make his rent. To be fair, he’s always paid it back within a few weeks or months. But — he also insists on continuing to live in a luxurious apartment building with…

Also, please don’t do what my husband’s best friend firmly believes is utterly hackerproof: pick a simple English word (e.g. skeleton), add a simple number to it (skeleton1), then just bump the number up every time you’re prompted to change your password (skeleton2).

Came here to ask this too.

It’s a Wonderful Life is really a horror movie too.

Up here in Canada my fave has been ROYALE® Original Mega Rolls (the “9=24" set), but I haven’t seen it anywhere in months now. Wrote to Royale Canada to ask if it had been discontinued, got no response.

Up here in Canada my fave has been ROYALE® Original Mega Rolls (the “9=24" set), but I haven’t seen it anywhere in…

“When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the third kidney in your pelvis.”

every clam you bake
every corn you crake