When I start with not-liquor and desire to end up with liquor. I usually just run to the liquor store. Doesn’t even take hours.

We invested in a bunch of smaller (like 6 x 9 or so) cutting boards, and use those rather than the big one, unless we’re cutting or carving something huge. I still cut multiple vegetables on a single board, but that way, I can cut up raw meat and drop that board in the sink or dishwasher, grab the next one, and keep…

Honestly, the idea of putting every single ingredient in a separate bowl always struck me as ridiculous. I admit to being a good cook and having no problem with keeping track of multiple dishes cooking at once, so I don’t begrudge anyone whatever works for them.

We bought a Brimnes. It was probably the most complicated IKEA item we’ve assembled, but it’s a storage bed. It took longer and was more unweildy than most, but it’s a storage bed, not an end table.

How to Make a Paper Fortune Teller

These days, a LOT of a car’s critical electronics is lower in the car than the interior carpeting. If the interior got flooded, chances are good that important electronics did, too.

Everything we’ve bought does. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to install themselves.

We love our SodaStream. At this price, it’s definitely worth it.

We love our SodaStream. At this price, it’s definitely worth it.

If it’s OS X, then it’s Oh Ess Eccks. If it’s something like OS 10.12, THEN I’ll say OS Ten.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I swear I read recently that the “don’t refrigerate your tomatoes” thing only applies while they are ripening, not once they are fully ripe. We have little control over store-bought, but extending the life of one’s own backyard produce by refrigerating them after they’ve reached…

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.