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Can anyone recommend good knife sheaths? When I travel with my stainless steel chef's knife, I just wrap it in a dish cloth with some rubber bands around it, but this weekend I travelled with my ceramic knife and awkwardly packed it in a box because I was afraid it might snap in half if something heavy went on top of my bag when my husband packed the car.

When I travel I make a really detailed itinerary including where to eat (and sometime even recommended orders) and what to see. BUT I think of the itinerary as a backup plan in case paralyzing indecisiveness hits.

If opportunities arise and you say yes you avoid that indecisiveness!

Ah Thank You notes. I totally support them but I am embarrassed to say that I know that some people that sent us wedding presents did not receive a thank you note. My husband and I divided up the note writing between how we knew the invitee, I did all my friends, my family and my parent's friends and he did his. Or so I thought.
He gets some weird "thank-you note writers block" and doesn't know what to say. I even draft several "templates" for him and it still didn't help. Then, years later, I found a bunch of addressed envelopes and half written notes that he never sent. It's kind of embarrassing but at the same time I don't think I should have had to do them alone.

Then again, I don't want to seem ungrateful so I just wrote the notes myself when we received baby gifts for our daughter. It's so frustrating. And maybe I'm being paranoid but I feel like the older generation thinks it should entirely be my job as the wife which I just don't agree with.

Any suggestions though? I never know what to do. In all other regards I think my husband is a considerate person with very good manners... thank you notes are his bugaboo.

I love my small space but one problem I have run into is that it is very hard to find a contractor for renovations. The job is just too small to interest the good contractors and there is no space like a garage, driveway or yard to layout materials for the job.

I have money saved to renovate my bathrooms (yeah, I have 2 in a 900 sf space!) but I think I have post-traumatic stress from renovating my kitchen (60s.f) and I just can't pull the trigger to make it happen.

I have kyocera 7" inch and a little paring knife. I've used other cheaper ceramic knives and the kyocera is far superior because it is both thinner and stronger. As others have said its great from slicing something really thin (particularly tomatoes). I've been happy with my knives and find them a nice companion to my stainless steel knives.

If you don't have proper knife storage (Dad) or are a little bit clutzy in the kitchen (Mom) then don't bother getting these. My parents have a Kyocera with a big chip in it :{

I had a registry for the very reason that I think it does help people out. I will admit though that I wasn't as smart as I could have been. I still have a box of brand new wine glasses in my storage space because why would I need that many wine glasses?

One thing I learned is that when someone is giving you a gift, they usually want to give something they like. For example people of my parents generation (boomers) love to give crystal for weddings. So I registered for a very simple crystal vase even though I probably wouldn't have bought it for myself. But you know, it makes any old bouquet of supermarket flowers look great.

I do the same thing, too. Leaning over the sink.

My parents old kitchen had a warming drawer and we hardly ever used it. Their current kitchen has a heat lamp and shelf as part of their enormous range hood (viking) and we use that almost every weekend we are preparing dinner for more than 4 people.

I love reading too and my favorite thing to read is a cookbook. I have limited space so I periodically do a purge of books I'm not using. I regularly take cookbooks out of the library which is a great way to use them right away because you have to return it in 30 days. It's a good way to preview it and see if its worth buying. Or maybe you only need to take it out every so often.

This post gets me excited for spring. All the pictures look so light and airy. Can't wait until I can throw my own windows open!