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Until recently, I had never heard of the "eat with chopsticks to eat slower" thing. I eat much faster with chopsticks that with a fork/knife/spoon! (If you want me to eat slowly, give me a plate and a spoon. For some reason I just can't master the simplest of implements.)

I LOVE the wardrobe in the first picture. I almost always find free-standing wardrobes distracting and space-eating, but the extra height in that particular one makes it look like it's actually part of the room.

I'm Chinese and grew up using chopsticks. I use them always for eating Chinese and Japanese food, and sometimes for other things. I agree with cmcinnyc, if you're very good at/used to using chopsticks (as I am), they don't slow down your eating at all! Which is sometimes a bad thing.

Funnily enough, I've always had difficulty using a spoon to scoop food off a plate. I can never get the food properly on; it usually ends up sliding off the edge of the plate.

Perhaps the example shown wasn't the best... this guy was hardly subsisting on wheat thins and cream cheese for the whole month. If you check out his website you'll see he bought loads of fresh stuff as well as foraging from apricot trees, etc.

Also, he continued the "experiment" and is still doing it (day 80-something now, I believe?).

I grew up in Hong Kong. There, everybody takes their shoes off at the door, and people usually have storage in their entryways for shoes. There aren't many built-in closets in HK, and I've never seem them anywhere other than a bedroom. Also, everyone wears slippers, and almost everyone (unless they live in a really, really small place or don't have company often) keeps a stash of them for guests to wear as well.

I'm now living in Vancouver, and nobody wears their shoes in the house either. Not very many people wear slippers inside (maybe because a lot of the apartments/houses here have carpeting?).

I can't imagine not taking off my shoes when I come home, I just feel uncomfortable tracking dirt all over the place. No, I'm not generally a neat freak, and no, I don't own any pets that I let romp on my furniture. I don't think it's rude to politely ask that guests take off their shoes at your door, since you are extending your hospitality to them and inviting them into your house. If a guest refused (without explaining—I mean, if they politely said that they cannot bear walking without shoes (like one of the first few commenters) then I would accommodate their needs), I'd probably think them quite rude and maybe not invite them back again.