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I'm the only one in my family and acquaintances that likes champagne/sparkling wine, so getting a regular size bottle is a waste, because I only ever drink one glass at a time. I'm afraid I end up buying whatever I can find in a split. I also like the Sofia sparkling wine that comes in the soda cans. Not the best, but drinkable and just the right size serving.

My husband will sometimes drink a mimosa with me, but why put the expensive stuff in a mimosa?

I love mah Jong too, but the problem I never seem to have the required four people around to play.

One favorite around my family is Fluxx, which kind of like if Calvinball were a card game. It's equally amusing with 2 people as it is with six or seven. Another good point is that it's also available as a Monty Python or Zombie edition. Oh, and unlike other games, one's game performance doesn't really suffer with the addition of a festive beverage or four.

http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Calvinball

These are definitely not doughnuts. I'm sure they're very delicious mini bundt cakes, but they are not doughnuts. Cakes are baked, doughnuts are fried, end of story.

Just having a hole in something doesn't make it a doughnut any more than serving a sweet fruity cocktail in a 'martini' glass makes it a martini.

/end rant/

Unpainted OSB always looks unfinished to me. Every time I see it used like this, it makes me think the kitchen is still under construction. As someone who spent much of her childhood in a house with a half finished kitchen, this is not a good thing.

If you really want to use the fruit cocktail rather than donate, you could always make dump cake like my grandma always used to make. Basically you put the fruit cocktail in a baking dish then dump a yellow cake mix on top and bake. There may be a bit more to it than that but not much. I'd google a recipe first just to be sure if I was going to make it.

Yeah. I know. Kind of gross but I get nostalgic for it sometimes.

Dishcloths only get moldy, smelly and gummy if you keep using them. We use a fresh cloth every time we clean, then it goes into a tote we keep just for the cloths. We wash them all at the end of the week.

If you use one, wring it out,then hang it over the faucet, then try to use it again tomorrow, then yes, that will be nasty. The beauty of the dish towel is they are cheap, so you have a ton of them. That way there is always a fresh one.

I guess if you don't want to get up close to waste food, you could scrape it off the dishes into the trash with a long handled rubber scraper first, which isn't a bad idea any way, to keep the water cleaner.

Also, you might just have bought them, but they could have been sitting on the shelf at the store a while.

My kitchen is a bit too small, 77sf (7'x11), but it's laid out about as well as it could be for being so small. It can be nice to be standing at the sink, then you turn around and you're staning at the stove, no steps. Still, who doesn't dream of a bigger kitchen?

One thing I haven't done is any large scale cooking, like full holiday meals, or canning. Counter space is quite scarce and I can't imagine where all the dishes required for a multi course meal would go while working on the meal.

I could have used something like that on my return from Amsterdam a few years back. I'd bought a very expensive bottle of genever while there. I thought I'd packed it adequately in my husband's carry on luggage, but I hadn't. When he dropped the bag, the crockery bottle cracked. Not only did we lose the genever, all the books he'd brought with him were ruined and that bag never did stop smelling of booze. And we smelled like alcohol walking through customs, which made me nervous, because they might take us aside for extra inspection. So yeah, if I bring back a bottle again, I'd definitely use one of these.

With the distressing it looks so much like the shabby chic stuff that was so popular in the late 90's/early 2000s. It seemed like every flea market you went to those days, half the booths were filled with old mahogany furniture that had been painted white, then someone had taken sandpaper and a hammer to it. Just need a bunch of prefaded pink chintz to complete the look.