Really late comer. I recently found a toothpaste without fluoride - Spry. In my opinion fluorinating the public drinking water in unconscienceable. When I mentioned not using fluoride to my dentist, he was dead set against it. Course, he has put mercury in my and hundreds of other mouths plus been in favor of fluoride. So it would be quite a thing for him to change thinking on these things at this time in his career. Also he didn't know about the positive things for tooth and other health of xylitol. That really makes me wonder.

Homocebrin from the fridge every morning in the 50's. Now I'm 76 and I power-walk 10 miles and do a couple of sets of 80 push-ups every week. No scrips, but I still take a daily fistful of vitamins, oils, herbs. Thank you, Mother. ♥️ Homocebrin from the fridge every morning in the 50's. No I'm 76 and I power-walk 10 miles and do a couple of sets of 80 push-ups every week. No scrips, but I still take a daily fistful of vitamins, oils, herbs. Thank you, mother

Now that I'm retired I cook quite differently than when I worked and was gone 11-12 hrs/day. I actually cook less - I happen to enjoy going out and live in an area where it's actually cheaper to go out than cook, and you can still eat healthily or not, as you prefer. But when I do cook, I can now take more time doing it. I enjoy cooking, but having run a house since I was 12, I'm over the idea of doing 7 dinners/wk. We eat out a lot. Very seldom fast food, mostly mid- and high-end restaurants. Since we don't drink alcohol, it's cheaper for us than for most folks. We just came back from another multi-day trip through the Napa Valley (our second this year) where we had some excellent French food, and a stunning lamb burger with curried pickled onions and spicy aioli - yum! Could I have made that burger myself? Of course I could. The point is, though, I WOULDN'T have. I wouldn't make (for DH and me) just two brioche sesame buns, purchased just enough top-quality US lamb for two burgers with no leftovers wanted, mixed up a tiny amount of spicy aioli, and had the foresight three days ago to use one-eighth of an onion to make curry pickles. I don't mind leftovers, but even we get tired of eating something three days in a row. I use my separate upright freezer a lot. But there are many things that simply don't freeze well. My MIL lives with us and unfortunately, she doesn't care for many of the things we love, so I have to plan sometimes to make different dinners for her and us. Really, it makes it so much simpler to just go out and let her pick whatever she wants. She's a major carb loader, whereas I'm mildly allergic to most grains. I can eat them, but I don't want to do it every day and I can't do it for every meal. I start to have trouble breathing, from asthma. BTW, the Chinese I know would rather eat meat than fish any day, and that includes my in-laws. And they are major, big-time "snackers", whether it's the salty/sour Asian snacks or the salty/fatty American snacks. Interestingly, my DH's cousins (Boomer generation) are not as big on the French bread-with-lots-of-butter as their parents are. They are bigger on soda and McDonald's, in comparison. DH used to drink 4 liters of Coke every day - took me a while to get him off that crap. To our friends/family, shellfish rank higher in favor than fish. And the more income they have, the more they spend on meat. But if the older generation really loves you? They roast you a whole chicken to take home, when you visit. My DH's family made it very clear where he stood in the family ranks on the first Xmas we spent together. We spent 13 hours visiting every relative in town...and every single household had roasted an extra chicken just for him to take home!

Sujafr, Oh yes I hear you. Our first house was a 1902, and the house we are in now is a 1904. The first one we did stuff to over time. This one we decided to try to make perfect in one fell swoop. I think it cost almost 3x what we first estimated. Some of it due to site conditions, some due to project creep, but a lot of it GC "estimation" error. The only "new house" we've owned is our lakehouse. It was a year or two old when we bought. But you know what new houses just never make my heart go "pitter pat". Part of it is the setting; mature landscaping is hard to replicate. And that is so often a big part of the charm. I'd love to see your listings and see what the other coast (but I myself am not sure how to post a photo that does not lead back to an actual listing?)