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This is so interesting! I'm a florist, and recently have been wondering with my coworkers why the life of some soft-stemmed cut flowers can be greatly extended by cutting the stems and then putting them into a couple inches of very hot water (some of our vendors deliver the product this way). Dahlias in particular. We had also heard a fellow florist recommend dunking the whole flower head of a hydrangea in hot water as well, in order to rehydrate the bloom. Without a scientific explanation, we were all stumped as to why this should work when it seems so antithetical. I still don't fully understand, but I'm glad to hear that the principal works for produce as well!

@catspyjamas510 Thank you! It makes me happy too! I totally hear you with the bookcase. I've thought about redistributing my book collection so that it fills it up more evenly... what do you think of that? Should I give it a go? It's fun to play around with things you already have, isn't it!

I simply do not understand the aesthetic appeal of pegboard in the kitchen. Maybe I grew up with that dusty, chipping-paint, rotting composite wood pegboard in the garage, full of patina-ed vice grips and rusty screwdrivers (a lovely thing in its own right)... but now I can't make the jump into the kitchen?

I can absolutely appreciate that it creates vertical and organized storage, but it's so hard for me to classify it alongside other, more universally attractive design solutions. And not only because I find the pegboard itself to be unattractive, but pegboard tends to display our cookware and utensils from their least flattering angle: greasy, burnt derriere.

And lastly (bear with me as I make my final argument against this design trend), the overall look of cookware on pegboard is somehow too reminiscent to me of a mish-mash of yardsale goods on a blanket.

I hope my negative opinion here is not taken as a personal insult to the author of the post. At the end of the day, I am pro-organization and pro-cleverness! And I cheer you, Tara, for revealing to us your scariest cabinet in the house, and then doing something to change it! Yay!