Gotta try this one!

Wooden toast tongs. We all get the occasional toast or bagel stuck. Wood isn’t going to electrocute me, and the one I got has a magnet built in, so it’s stuck to the fridge so I don’t have to find it in a toast-related emergency.

I don’t bake a lot of cookies except around Christmas. After years of juggling pieces of parchment paper, I bit the bullet and bought a set of silicone baking mats. Wish I’d done it sooner.

Politely excuse yourself quietly to the nearest person, handle the situation as unobtrusively as possible and return with as little fanfare as manageable.

You can wear whatever you wish in the privacy of your own home. In public, your belt should match your shoes, you animal.

Not to sound equally snobbish, but I simply decided a long time ago to live my life the way that works for me and not to give anyone else a vote in the matter. And, where possible, to grant others the same courtesy.

I’d say that the only time morality would come into it is if you weren’t intending to enter the confessional until you realized you needed to fart, and intentionally went into it in order to do so.

I usually state that sort of thing self-deprecatingly. My standard Facebook response is “I’m allergic to Facebook.” It gets the point across without coming across as superior - unless they’re dead set on being offended, in which case that’s on them.

Honestly, I’d only take alcohol if it was offered, or if they specifically indicated I was welcome to bring it.

I think parents are a special case.

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.