1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
I don't know... I buy so little! I have a few donations, like a lettuce washer, that I don't use but I didn't buy them.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
I use the small frying-pan a lot, but more unique than that is the toaster-oven. I don't use it quite as much in the summer because I'll go outside to use the BBQ, but in the winter I use it all the time! I prefer it to using the big oven.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
Where I live right now is where I truly belong. I grew up here, I have friends and family here, and I plan to end up here when I get old. I travel all the time, and I plan on moving away from here for several years, but I always love coming 'home' both physically and emotionally.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
I don't know about my life, but On Killing has definitely changed my way of thinking about society and its violence.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
LEGO!!!
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.) A meat thermometer from Pampered Chef. It never seemed to work right.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Um... I guess a cutting board? I don't use small appliances enough, I have some knives I use a lot but that is silverware... I guess a pan, but probably the cutting board the most I guess.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why. Home is where I currently live, wherever that is at the time. (DH is military) however St Louis MO would probably be my pick. I grew up a couple hours out and everytime I visited I just felt I belonged there. I finally got to move up there and live for awhile and it was just great.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
No book has ever affected my life. I'm hoping this fear of flying self-help book I got might, but it doesn't seem to be so much!
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
Hard to say just one. Probably something Hello Kitty.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
-- Ah, tons of things. I had a foodsaver vaccuum packer (sold it), I still have a toaster oven that I've used maybe three times...
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
-- That gourmet Keurig coffee maker. When I was visiting Daria last fall, I was eyeballing hers, and I fell in love with it. Bought mine kind of spur of the moment, but I've never regretted it. I use it every single day. It's such a sane way to have a coffee. I only drink one cup a day, so having a huge coffee maker was not sensible for me.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
-- Not sure yet. I know for sure it's not here. I hate this city. I need to find that place, and the sooner the better! I'm thinking Kelowna BC, possibly, but like I said, the jury is still out.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
-- The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
-- the first thing that pops to mind is this multi-tiered cardboard box that my got us from the grocery store... I think it was a chip display. We wallpapered it and made it into a dollhouse.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
One of those hamburger patty press things where you form the ball of beef and put it in the press and press down. Useless. I make better patties with my hands.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
I love my mini Quisinart prep.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
Right where I am. I love Burlington - especially downtown. I don't think I'll ever leave here.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
We Need To Talk About Kevin - chilling!
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
LiteBrite
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
I bought one of those mandolin slicers advertised on TV. The plastic was so flimsy that when you pressed the potato against the blade, the whole frame snapped. Been in the trash for years now.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Beyond the cutting boards and such, I'd say it's the toaster. I like toast.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
No particular city, but I'd be happier if I lived further north. I loved living in Lawrence, Kansas, and Enid, Oklahoma. Lawrence more, probably.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
A Nancy Drew mystery called "The Secret in the Old Attic". It was the first "chapter book" I ever got. Started a lifelong love of reading, and devouring the well-written word. I still have that book. I'll never throw it away, even if I never read it again.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
There was a toy series called "Little People" -- wooden peg bodies with plastic heads. I had the village, the school, the carousel. I really loved those things!
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
Crepe pan. And steamer. To be fair, the steamer has been used a couple times but it can't be kept upstairs since I have no room in my kitchen and its parts can only be on the top shelf of dishwasher. Since they are big and bulky, it is hard to put anything thing else up there.
DH wanted the crepe pan. He has never made a crepe since getting it. But it does make good omelets.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Toaster oven. During the summer I love my toaster oven. If I could convince the DH that TOASTER ovens can toast bread, I would toss the toaster. (Seriously, he refuses to understand that concept.)
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
I am a Midwest girl at heart. And I have wanted to move down to Kansas City (probably one of the burbs) for a long time. I also adored Scotland and really liked the people there.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
I have plenty of books that I have learned from. Even fiction. However there are two that I read as a teenager that I can't remember the title of either but they both shaped things about me.
One was a fiction book about a dog that was left in a vet's office and the owners died while on vacation. (The Nursemaid or some such) It gave my compassion toward animals another nudge up. And reminds me that we need to make arrangements for our beloved pets.
The other was a book I read about a girl with anorexia. I believe it was a fiction book. This was before it was too well known and I used it and non-fiction books to write a report. About 7 years later, I ended up being friends with and living with 2 gals who had eating disorders. I can't say I helped cure them, but it did give some insight.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
Younger, the tin barn and red tonka pickup. As I got older, one cousin and I use to play a board game called Park and Shop. (We started making our own rules, but it was still fun.)
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
I had an expensive juicer for a while. It was such a PITA to clean and we had to drink the juice within a couple of days or it went bad. I actually lost it in a move but it's for the better.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
I use the toaster oven a surprising amount, even though I would guess they are considered passsé now. I make my own french fries in it and do lots of veggie and fish patties.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why. Ithaca, NY. I lived there on and off for over 10 years and always felt at home there. Lots of progressive folks, beautiful scenery and my alma mater!
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life. Walden by H.D. Thoreau. I keep coming back to the chapter on economy over and over.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy. I had a dog on wheels on a string that moved it's mouth and tail when you pulled it. Weren't those simpler times?
ETA - HAHA gingerzing - you and I posted at the same time about the toaster oven!! Too funny!!! And that book is The Visitor. I read it over and over as a kid. I tracked it down and gave it to my nephew but it doesn't have a fancy cover - I don't think he's read it!
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
Omelet pan with two parts hinged. It just never comes out right.
Also, bread maker. I got it for next to nothing on sale, but the mixes are expensive and finding recipes online is a PITA!
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Got a coffee maker when I ordered coffee from Gevalia. The buttons are a little skewed now (5 years or more on), but it is programable and I make coffee or tea in it nearly once a day.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.\
The desert Southwest - West Texas, southern Arizona. It is where I grew up, I understand and adore the weather in that area, I always had great times on vacations throughout the area and made friends easily.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
As a child, Harriet the Spy - she was alone as I was and always trying to find things to occupy her mind. I felt an immediate kinship with her.
As an adult, nothing truly comes to mind that stands out.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
A metal doll house gotten with Green Stamps which dad and I put together. Gosh, I had that stupid thing for almost 10 years.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
This is more DH's domain than mine. He gets these brainstorms about healthy eating and then gets bored with them after a few weeks. We have a very expensive blender/juicer he bought that got used every day for 2 weeks and now just sits on the counter getting in the way. Same for the deep fryer he bought that we ended up selling at a garage sale for just $10.
As for me, I bought a sandwich-cooking machine (I forget what it's called) for $5 at a garage sale, never used it, and then sold it at a garage sale for the same thing I paid for it.
I have 2 wrought-iron cookbook holders that I bought thinking I'd use them all the time, but they don't work. At all. They don't work on paperbacks or hardbacks.
I also have a potato-chip maker that was missing a blade (which I didn't notice until after I bought it. It's now in a box to be donated to a thrift shop.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Probably the tea kettle, our pampered chef knives, and the big rectangular plastic containers with lids that I use to make jello shots.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
I don't know. There are a lot of places I've lived, and a lot of places I like. I don't really think this way, I guess.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. The whole trilogy, actually: Ishmael, My Ishmael, and The Story of B. I rave about this book all the time, and yet I've never been able to convince one single person to read it, not even DH. I did get my book club to read it, but half of them hated it.
5. Name your favorite childhood toy.
Gosh, I don't remember. I liked my Barbies and some of my other dolls, I liked my stuffed animals, I liked to draw, I liked my Etch-a-Sketch. I can't think of just one toy though.
I did have a huge inflatable Neil Armstrong that I was really into when I was little.
Dana Wrote:No book has ever affected my life. I'm hoping this fear of flying self-help book I got might, but it doesn't seem to be so much!
If it's by Erica Jong, it probably won't help you with flying...
CFS - that's it. Mine was much older, though. A hand-me-down several times over. It was actually made of wood and just the feet were plastic.
ozarkmoon Wrote:Also, bread maker. I got it for next to nothing on sale, but the mixes are expensive and finding recipes online is a PITA!
I have a bread machine that I got from a friend who was moving back to Austrailia. I can't make bread in it to save my life. Have tried recipes and at least one mix. All have turned out to be very hard door stops.
However, I have a recipe for cinnamon rolls that for some reason ONLY works if I mix the dough in the bread machine (obviously roll it out and bake in the oven as rolls) Let me know if you are willing to give it a try.
Cats- I think that was it. I vaguely remember asking about it on the board. I think I got my copy from RIF booksale eons ago.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
its like a wine cork replacement thing-useless. Much easier to put the original cork back in, but having to do that is rare because we usually only open a bottle when we have company, and the bottle gets finished pretty much every time.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
Either the microwave or the coffeemaker.
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
Chicago-love the seasons and culture. I've liked other places I've visited, ie Tampa, Seattle and DC, but they just felt "off" somehow. Hard to describe, but definitly didn't feel like home.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
Well, if I can be non-ficition, it was my first psychology text. It made me change my career goals.
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
Pretty much any stuffed animal. I really didn't play with dolls or barbies much, but my collection of stuffed animals was awesome.
1. I don't actually buy stuff for the kitchen because I can't cook. But someone gave us an ice cream maker two years ago we've used once. Too much trouble when we can just go out and easily buy some gelato.
2. We use our juicer very often and love it.
3. London. I've never before or since been so happy living somewhere as I was there. I felt comfortable, accepted, and amazed. The longer I stay away, the sadder I am.
4. Several books have had great impacts on my life, but one that comes to mind is Confederacy of Dunces. I've read it several times, the last time I read it I was living in New Orleans and desperately wanting to get the hell out of there and I cried at the end of the book.
5. Star Wars action figures.
1. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought thinking you would use it all the time, but you either have never used it or found it was a useless piece of junk. (You can name something you've already thrown out.)
Probably the full size food processor. We just don't cook enough for it. I have a small one that we use more often.
2. Name one thing in your kitchen that you bought or had given to you that you use the most often. (Silverware and everyday dishes don't count!)
The toaster oven. It's totally basic and low tech but you can cook just about anything in it
3. Name a country, state, city, or area that you feel is your true home. The one place you feel you truly belong, and explain why.
I've never really felt like I fit in anywhere. If I found a place it would probably be in Europe.
4. Name one book that has truly affected your life.
Crime and Punishment. I was in 4th or 5th grade and it was the first adult type book I've read. It was wonderful and introduced me to Russian literature and culture
5. Name you favorite childhood toy.
My horses. If I couldn't have one in real life at least I could have imaginary ones.
I think I want to try breadmaking. I just put a request on Freecycle for one. I don't want to buy one... chances are, I'll use it once and that will be that. LOL You never know, though.
Jo Wrote:I think I want to try breadmaking. I just put a request on Freecycle for one. I don't want to buy one... chances are, I'll use it once and that will be that. LOL You never know, though.
Our breadmaker makes bread that's hard as a rock. It's never been good.
anastasia Wrote:Jo Wrote:I think I want to try breadmaking. I just put a request on Freecycle for one. I don't want to buy one... chances are, I'll use it once and that will be that. LOL You never know, though.
Our breadmaker makes bread that's hard as a rock. It's never been good.
Harumph. I like my bread soft.
I was so profoundly disturbed by the loaf of frankenbread that didn't go mouldy despite having spent more than a week in my hot moist van on the road trip. Ugh ugh ugh. Bread should not have those characteristics. It also should not have HFCS as the second or third ingredient.
Here in Canada "sugar" or "glucose" is a main ingredient, which is fundamentally the same thing.
Just found out my sister has one I can have. Yay. I'll try it. See how it works.