I have never successfuly made it through a plastic honey bear without it giving up and leaking all over the damn cabinet. I’ll keep it in the jar and use a spoon, personally.

Agreed, I’ve had fantastic luck with Anker chargers and cables too. And nearly anything else I’ve bought from them as well, I trust them a lot at this point.

Ooh, I’d never thought of using nutritional yeast in pesto before. I have a couple of pots of basil plants, and I wanted make piles of pesto and share with a vegan buddy. This sounds perfect *and* vegan-friendly.

Definitely!

I’m moving, and nearly all of my cookware is in boxes. It is also as hot outside as the surface of the sun. Thank you for the dinner ideas... I think I can manage something like this!!

I buy the giant double bags of shredded cheese from costco and freeze one. I wouldn’t do it with nice cheese, but shredded cheese I’ve never even noticed the difference. It’s a great way to stock up and save money.

I hate the top freezer fridge units that almost every apartment comes with. They’re just small and hard to efficently organize so you aren’t just piling shit up and blocking access. Consequently, I did buy a 5 cu ft chest freezer in my last apartment, and I love it. It’s so nice to have the freedom to buy meat from…

If anybody wants to get into a really decent fountain pen for cheap, allow me to suggest the Pilot Metropolitan. I also have a Lamy Safari, and it’s given me nothing but grief. I liked my Metro so much I bought a second one.

Man, you guys have been living together in a small bedroom for 5 years, with him unemployed and ALWAYS THERE for most of it, and you didn’t kill him? I would have strangled him after about three weeks out of a pure desperate need for personal space.

I can usually find something at Target or Walmart that isn’t kid’s or expensive, but you might not find it at every drugstore. Dr. Teal’s is usually easy to find and it’s decent and doesn’t irritate my exceptionally picky skin.

Millennial here who also hates body wash, but it’s mostly because I have sensitive skin, and they’re all so ultra perfumey. The only change I made from my mom’s bar soap was to switch from Safeguard to Dove sensitive skin as it’s less harsh and not antibacterial.

I’ve been using Dove’s sensitive skin bar for years, never felt anything but clean from it.

I learned about Ninite from an IT friend of mine, and it’s now my first stop anytime I need to set up a new computer. Not that I need to do that all that often, but I always remember it and start there for my must-haves. They have most of the things I’ll want to set up, and they bundle it all up into a single click…

• First of all, what is your favorite grocery store? I really liked the Dillon’s stores in my hometown (a rebranding of Kroger, I believe). I also love Trader Joe’s.

This is neither her nor there, but as I read through these comments, I flicked on my electric kettle to make tea. And as I read this sentence about loud and terrifying wasps, my kettle began to growl and hiss. And I nearly jumped out of my skin, so convinced I was for a moment that the wasps were here for ME.

Well, I just had a flashback to third grade reading.

It’s funny to me to read this, because as a kid I loved those sorts of movies with creepy elements, like Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and here they’re being treated as kind of horror lite. But I never never wanted to make the jump to full horror. I was a wimpy kid. I watched Twister at a…

Yeah. Salt is salt is salt. It all tastes like salt. I switched to cooking with kosher salt years ago, and I preferred it because it was easier to fine tune the salt level, since it’s not as potent. Table salt is better for baking, because it’s finer and dissolves easier.

I don’t know how common it is, but my old bank had a coin counter in their lobby. Dump em in, get a printout, and if you had an account there they didn’t charge you a fee for it.

I got a box of CPAP equipment mis-addressed once. The guy’s info was on the invoice inside, but mine was on the label. I called the carrier and they picked it up.