I think it depends on whether you are swapping plans that include them, or swapping your own plans and leaving them hanging.

How well do you know them and what was the context?

I’ve found that it’s usually better recieved when I simply share something that’s true about me as something that’s true about me, and then, only when it’s either appropriate to the situation or specifically asked. Meanwhile, I go about living my life the way it works for me.

Works best if you do it before they actually start.

I read somewhere - and didn’t save a link - that Coke had one formulation, while Diet Coke had a significantly different one, even ignoring the sweetener question. While people thought that Diet Coke was just Coke without the sugar, it really is an entirely separate formula.

I know it’s not a Vesper, but I’ve been doing the gin/vodka combo ever since I figured out what Bond was talking about, and I prefer it to either one alone. And, never having had a particular interest in hunting down Lillet, I tend to toss in a dash of either vermouth or triple sec depending on my mood.

Anyone actually bought these? The reviews are pretty scathing.

Anyone actually bought these? The reviews are pretty scathing.

Bah. If you would otherwise have thrown it out without using it for anything, and you use it for something else first, then it seems to me it counts.

For things that are cost prohibitive to duplicate, consider storing a list of the items that need to be added to the travel kit IN the travel kit so you have a checklist of things you need to add at the last minute.

If you use them often, consider packing the “on deck” spare in your travel kit rather than on the shelf. When you use up the home item, move the spare from the kit to the bathroom and buy the replacement for the travel kit.

I’d add some Band-Aids to that list - especially if you can find one of those little travel packs of them that can also be refilled if you used any. About the size of two sticks of gum.

Ask her several times. She has different answers.

There’s honestly no way I’d even try this, but my first thought was a layer of parchment paper or silicone mat so you could manipulate the refrozen ice cream. Any possibility, or would that add too much insulation?

Sorry, but you don’t get your disclaimer. When you say that you’re condemning the lives and loves of millions of your fellow human beings simply for being honest about who they genuinely find themselves to be and who they genuinely find to love, you forfeit your right to announce that anyone who responds need to be…

Nothing I’ve tried creamed-cornwise, but a technique from America’s Test Kitchen to ramp up the corn flavor in cornbread was to take the corn from three ears of corn, blitz it in a blender or food processor, and then gently cook it down in a saucepan to drive off the water, concentrate the flavor, and add some flavor…

You can actually make corn stock from stripped cobs in water - and use it for making your rice, cooking your pasta, or anywhere else you use water in cooking. So it would follow that tossing the ears in while doing the sous-vide would generate extra flavor as well.

Oh, please. Properly sliced prosciutto can be folded to fit on a Ritz cracker, or even tastefully draped to mound elegantly in the center of one. Or of course, plopped on and nibbled around the edges into any shape you wish.

If you add a five minute daily walkthrough - such as at bedtime, as part of finishing the dinner dishes, or even right when you get home - for nothing more than just putting away things that actually have a home, or at least getting things into the right room - dishes to the kitchen, clothes to the bedroom, etc, and…

Now that makes sense to me.

Back before smartphones, I carried a pocket DayTimer with me everywhere. Mostly for memos and appointments and work related notes, but I included a page with exactly this idea - every meaningful measurement in my home. (And a page with birthdays, and a page with the data on things I routinely ordered by mail or, once…