Kitchen pet peeves
Hareball
5 years ago
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Comments (150)I don't like the use of plastic bottles for cleaning supplies and all the packaging that goes into our products. I started making my own clothes washing detergent (some good recipes on the web), and I love that I don't have tons of detergent bottles to recycle anymore. I can see where bottled water or distilled water is a necessary thing for some folks with bad water (although, I think the majority of people in our country probably have good drinking water). I know of a person who drank well water on a property of his and is now seeing specialists in a large major hospital, because it made him sick due to some bacteria, parasite or chemical in the water. The last I heard they had yet to identify what was in the water that made him sick. They are doing testing, and despite different treatment approaches, he was still sick, unable to eat and losing weight quickly. We drank well water growing up and are fine, but it would not hurt to get well water tested. I think our local water companies and/or health departments will do these tests for free. One of my largest pet peaves is people getting their lawns sprayed with herbicides/fertilizers. They make claims that they are "all natural", but lots of things occur naturally that you would'nt want on your lawn. I guess some of it is ignorance (and I don't mean as in stupid; I mean as in "lack of knowledge"). Those products (chemicals) seep into the ground, into underground streams and eventually make it into our drinking water. We don't "eat" off our lawns, why put that amount of money into it, where it could be better used. Too many are concerned about appearances, which leads to another pet peeve: restrictions in neighborhoods. We are not supposed to put up clothes lines. ARE you kidding me!!! I've heard that dryers use up to fourty per cent of our energy usage in the home! I feel as though we bought this property, we should have some rights to do with as we please, as long as we are not hurting anyone. I also think steps should be taken to do away with "urban sprawl". Whatever happened to tearing down old buildings or using land that has already been developed, instead of tearing down trees and taking up valuable farm land for more houses and shopping strips? It makes me sick to watch a show on television where they pull out perfectly good appliances, cabinets, fixtures, countertops, just because they are not granite, stainless steel or the newest fashion. It does'nt bother me if they carefully remove them and make sure they get reused, but I have my doubts. When did it become necessary for everything to be perfect? I think if it is working, and you are satisfied with it, it does'nt matter what the newest trend is. I agree with the previous poster about all the t.v.s that are going to end up in landfills....See MoreLayout pet peeve
Comments (39)We are doing a to-the-studs remodel. One of the parts of the house we are changing is the master suite. Our master bedroom will be very small which was a hard sell with all the architects we met with. We love sleeping in small, cozy spaces. We do not "hang out" in our bedroom at all. We don't have a TV in there or electronics of any kind. (battery alarm clocks and no phone chargers even!) We like it pitch-dark and quiet. I am hoping to avoid window treatments but we will add them if we need to so it will be dark. We are doing a den off the master bedroom which the original house had. We will put a small TV area and exercise equipment in there. I watch real estate shows sometimes and people really want/like huge master bedrooms. Our current home has one. It must serve some purpose (emotional?) or people wouldn't like it so much. Our master bath has more windows than our bedroom. We spend more waking/daytime hours in there! In our current house our garage entrance/laundry room is in the middle of the house. Bedrooms off to one length of the hallway and public areas down the other. It's perfect! The new house will have the laundry room near the kitchen and far from the bedrooms. I do see how it is a hassle to cross a long distance to gather and put away laundry but once I get myself and kids ready in the morning I spend most of my time in the public areas of the house/kitchen and I like to to do laundry everyday so it makes some sense to me to have the laundry room by the kitchen. Location matters a lot. We are in the hot desert and some elements of our house are "green" like having one story and a lot of low ceilings. Other things are NOT green like enormous windows on the south side of our house. Thick adobe houses with tiny windows are appropriate for our climate but I don't want to live like that :) I also love the different tastes/preferences people have! I especially like all the things people want that I don't relate too. However, it doesn't always seem like a lot of home plans necessarily have a lot of thought put in them...so they are less of "different strokes" than simply uninspired? All that to say that there are probably plenty of things about our well-thought-out house that would puzzle or annoy other people!...See MoreDon't read this, I'm just whining about a pet peeve
Comments (150)Lowspark - I love your widget. You have such lovely taste, You really do. However - just a tiny thought here (I have done a lot of decorating for my friends): Your widget placement bothers me. Could you possibly move your stove to the opposite wall? I'm thinking that the refrigerator which is currently there would look better closer to the sink anyway. Of course you'd have to remove the upper cabinet, but as you've said in another thread, the cab in your guest bath does need changing out. Then you could position your darling table against the empty wall. I'm wondering if the table should be pink, though. Could you repaint it? A cream paint with crackle-glaze would look lovely. Do you see where I'm going here? You could also repaint that wall - in a rich red, for contrast. Just thinking out loud here. Place the table against the wall, put your sweet widget on it, and that widget is going to pop! Then you wouldn't need so many hoo hoos, although I'd keep all the ding dongs. I don't suppose you'd change out your kitchen hardware to match the ORB of the widget, would you? Simply trying to be helpful (I am a decorator, of sorts). My rabbi agrees that if a widget is glass, it can definitely be kashered for Passover. But - not trying to be irritating - if the widget has plastic, it's never going to be kosher and also, it was made by DuPont, and we all know about them....See Morecooking related pet peeves
Comments (86)Twisties to tie up produce bags are totally unknown here. I wouldn't use them anyway (I cleaned out a drawer a few months ago that was literally an inch deep in unused twisties from packages of freezer bags, accumulated over 15 years!). I tie a slipknot with a loop in my bags so they can easily be opened again and if I haven't a trolley handy I can carry several bags with a finger slipped through the loop. Misbehaving children I have no compunction against telling off. Miss Manners suggests the line, "Don't do that, you might get hurt!", accompanied by the Look that says "And I will be doing the hurting". Works for me :-D Takes a village to raise a child and I am part of the village. My shopping-related pet peeve is our local grocery store (I live in a small town 37 km from the nearest other town) that either orders ridiculously small amounts of perishables, so they run out two days before the next delivery, or so much that you can't buy anything except what's right on the expiry date because they're not going to put fresher stuff out until all the old stuff is gone. And you can't buy the good brand of icecream in vanilla- lots of other flavours, but choc-mint doesn't go so well with apple cobbler :-P Why doesn't the person who orders consider that??? No one wants to eat a whole bowl of icecream in winter! (This is Australia, in case you hadn't guessed :-) .)...See MoreHareball
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