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For gathering recipes - I usually do a print out of it, or make note in my grocery list where I found the recipe (so I can remember why I bought this random group of ingredients).

Then for recipe storage... I have a big blank book. And everytime we try a new recipe, we decide if it's "book-worthy". If it is, it goes in the book. That way - when I'm looking for one specific recipe that we know we love, I have ONE place to look.
The book is NOT organized though, just add them in (by hand) when we make them. So Mom's cookie recipe is right near a chili recipe etc - but I can always find things there.

Not sure what to do when I run out of room in the book.

Mine is - smoked sea salt. It smells amazing - but I have NO idea what to do with it.

Also - a can of gravy that was supposed to go in some long forgetten crockpot recipe. I hate gravy of all kinds - I'm not sure what I was thinking...

We don't have anything at our cottage that we'd be upset to see broken or lost.
Also - this year I emptied the fridge & put in all new condiments with dates on the bottles - so now no one has to wonder how old that bottle of mustard is.

Absolutely! We had a mini station wagon & my dad built some shelving contraption for the wagon part of it, so it would be flush with the tops of the back seat. He also made a cushion for that area & that is where the dog & I spent our road trips (which were never less than 10 hours). I am sure, looking back on it now - I would have been a projectile should we have ever been in an accident.

I agree too Kealoha - I am convinced that she leaves out one critical ingredient or step in every recipe/craft project she has. I've never had any of her stuff turn out for me - so I've completely given up.

I love a real tree - and decorated with ornaments that all mean something. No color scheme, just memories. I try to buy an ornament of some kind when ever my husband & I travel so we can add to the collection.

My only problem is - I can't find anything that I love enough to put on the top of the tree. We had a star growing up - but it too had meaning. (and still lives on my parents tree). So I am stumped there ever year.

I converted a non-cheese eater (I know, who doesn't love cheese) into a mac & cheese lover with mine. Simple white sauce with cheese, nearly baked noodles, piled into a casserole dish, topped with panko & possibly more cheese.
But the other night - I added cubes of chicken that I had browned up with onions - and carmelized onions are now going to be added into the recipe on a permanent basis.

I have been hanging on to corks from wine that we've had (planning on making a bulletin board from them eventually).
And I walk the beach by the cottage & pick up beach/sea glass/cool rocks/pottery that washes up to decorate the cottage.

I love that a kitty managed to weasel his/her way into both a before AND after picture! Love the new kitchen.

@ undercover - that would make me ROAR. I'd be so angry - I'd be writing letters.
That's the kind of the thing that irritates me. If we want our children (and I don't have any yet - but have a ton of nieces & nephews) to be all that they want to be - we need to show them all they can be. They can ALL be astronauts and ballerinas and doctors and engineers. Why not show them all of that?

I was a girl who liked pink for a while and I don't think it hurt me - but I also know that my sisters and I had matchbox cars with those plastic orange tracks (product of the 70s) and giant (primary colored) tinkertoys. I don't think we had a single pink toy. And quite frankly - The Pink Aisle creeped me out as a little kid - like I was supposed to like the stuff in that section - but I had NO interest in dolls, or whatever. (that section still creeps me out)