What was the biggest mistake you've found at a grocery checkout?
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Comments (66)I known people in the refrigeration business (they see the real gross stuff) and in the restaurant business. My own brother was a cook for a very well known Bay Area chain for 19 years. My son is good friends with the head chef of a very high end San Francisco restaurant. I've been in many a restaurant kitchen. I'm also the type of person who sees things around me that most people miss. Believe me if some of you really saw/knew what goes on in the restaurant biz you would never eat out. Some of the priciest places can be the worst. Some dives can be the cleanest. It all depends on the owner and management. Larger areas haven't got nearly enough food inspectors to keep up. Even when citations are given they only have to fix them for the recheck and then most places know the inspector won't be back for a year or more. It really comes down to the ethics of the owner/manager and cook who runs the kitchen....See MoreWhat's the Most Daring Thing You've Ever Done?
Comments (32)1. Getting married. The changes and new responsibilities are huge and mostly unknown, plus (this is a guy thing) you wonder up until the wedding date approaches: did I (or her) make the right choice? Will we be happy? Can we stand each other after a year? Can I make enough money to support us? Will we be sucessful? What about children, and when? Will she stll love me after a couple of years? 2. Passing the second stage of marriage: At about year 3, I found that I did not really did not know abour her religious preference. I thought that I knew, but did not. Its at this time that both of us re-evaluate our marriage, and must come to a conclusion: do we continue or split (before there are children on the scene)? We stuck together, had some rough times and dissapointments, not in each other, but from life's big blows that strike sometimes. Others are lucky enough to escape these calamities - its a crap shoot who gets what. After you realize that is the case, you blame no one, roll with the punches, and look for the best solution. We've been married 49 yrs - time to re-evaluate, eh? Maybe not! Let's give it a few more years and see what happens. 3. Leaving home at the age of 17 with two other high school graduates in my class to look for our destiny. I had about $200. We three rented a garage that had been converted to a rambling, open space, apartment (in St. Louis). My first chore the next day was to investigate a trade school to see what was offered and costs. The next thing on the same day was to do a job search to find work that would support my rent and food. If I did not find something in a week, I would have to take the bus home. This little adventure lasted about a week when my high school principal contacted me to tell me of another opportunity that he had discovered. I listened and immediately accepted the challenge. 4. The Challenge: My first escapade away from home was only 100 miles distant. This time, it would be 350 miles away by Greyhound Bus, and I would be alone - just me and my suitcase. I would attempt to win a apot in a new experimental engineeing training program sponsored the US Ordanace Weapons Command. Only 40 would be selected from a field of 400 applicants. Entrance was by the college entrance exam and the old fashioned I.Q. test. Veterans were given a 5 point advantage. I made it in! and now one of the biggest projects of my life began: working my way through college. This was during the Korean Police Action (the US never described our part as a war, but there was no difference. A dead or wounded soldier has the same hurt no matter what the policy makers choose to call it.) The US Government ahd no idea what the nation was facing during this period, but were preparing. They were training a pool of engineers for an Arsenal, and at the same time, trying a work-school program. One my 18th birthday, I did recieve a draft notice and had to appear at my draft board to show them where in the Federal Register to find a special act of scholatic defferment for this group of students. Mind you, this was not a 'freebie'. If for any reason, I did not complete my degree, I was subject to immediate draft. Also, it extended my draftable age. At that time, the draft was for ages 18 through 24. For those of us who were in this program, our draft age was from 18 through 28, thus we could have been taken after graduation, however, there exemptions that came into being if, as new grads, we took employment in certain capacities. This was my grand project and it was scary for the first couple of years. Failure was always a real possibility. Fifty percent of the group dropped out the first year. It was this period that shaped my future for the rest of my life....See MoreThe Biggest Kitchen Design Mistakes on Yahoo
Comments (42)re: Yeah good luck with absolutes when it comes to the decision making process. That's what created the kitchens of 1990 that everyone wants to call dated, and creates the kitchen of 2012 that people will want to destroy in 2030. Isn't it less to do with rules and more to do with everyone wanting the same kitchen at a specific period in time? I have no idea how this can occur, but it does. Fashion is something I really don't understand. Maybe the rules should be: 1. Pick the most functional layout possible. spend money achieving this. 2. Exercise discipline when picking finishes for your kitchen. You will want to replace them in the future, so don't spend as much as you really want to. For example, pay less than $300 for a faucet instead of $800 or more. You can get a perfectly good $300 faucet. Or if you really want the $800 faucet, pick less expensive flooring. Just don't go crazy getting the most expensive of everything. (Unless you're rich.) 3. Buy cabinetry that is easy to update, because you will want to update it in 10 - 15 years. (Inset would be hard to update, no? If so, I would avoid inset.) 4. Use drawers on the base cabs (I guess this is a sub-bullet under 1.) 5. In terms of finishes, pick one thing that stands out and everything else should be subdued. If you are experienced, you can pick more than one thing. However, if you like to play it safe, you can't go wrong with just one look-at-me feature. for the one stand-out feature, make sure you pick something that you really love, and try and ignore all the trend-talk, because that will just fill you with self-doubt, and then it becomes Not Fun Anymore. To avoid the NFA factor, you should pick your stand-out-feature without consultation from anybody else except your inner you. It's kind of the same principle as not telling anyone your baby's name until he/she is born. You don't need to hear the "oh, that's an interesting choice...hmmmm...." commentary. Ok, I'll stop now because I'm starting to ramble :-)...See More25 Biggest Decorating Mistakes
Comments (101)Littledog, you can get plenty of beautiful fresh flowers out in the sticks in the off-season - if you have enough money to go to the busiest florist you can find every few days and spend top dollar. It's maddening to spend $15 on a simple mixed bunch of flowers at the grocery and have it go all shaggy and horrible-looking in just a few days even if you do all the "tricks". (My mother's a retired florist and blessed with a positively chartreuse thumb, so I know the cut-flower tricks.) If you go to the florist the same bouquet of flowers is more like $30 and you might get another couple of days out of them if their turnover is high enough that you've gotten them really fresh. That adds up to a lot of money mighty fast! And hey, the anti-pillow thing isn't just on the Y chromosome - I see absolutely NO point to the piles of pillows either, especially pillows that are too delicate to actually be used for anything more than looking at. I can't stand it when you can only perch on the very edge of a couch because there are so many pillows on it, and arranging the pile of fiddly little pillows just so every single time you make the bed seems downright ridiculous to me. Last time I checked, I was of the female persuasion. Although I'm unenthusiastic about chocolate, too. :-)...See MoreVertise
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