Brooklyn1 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 03:38:12 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> > On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 5:17:00 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > <buncha stuff snipped>
> >
> > I find myself agreeing somewhat with Sheldon, although I'm more
> > sympathetic as to one's priorities in life. If you re-did your
> > kitchen, you might not have the money for charity and all of
> > those other things that are important to you.
>
> Thank you, Cindy. I can be sympathetic when one says they can't
> afford a remodel, but then it would behoove that they stop talking
> about it endlessly.

Um Sheldon, this is the first time I've entered this topic and i wasn;t
the one talking about a remodel. I only mentioned the bit I had done
that were a mini-remodel that fit my resources and needs based on
ANOTHER talking on a remodel.

> Yet still there is much one can do to greatly
> improve what one has without spending much money... it never costs
> much to organize, neaten, clean, and to free up space by disposing of
> dreck one doesn't use.

What Dreck did you see in appliances? I have 1 bread machine (used 2-3
times a week and you'd know that if you had a CLUE), a rice machine
(downsized, doubles as a steamer, used daily), a small microwave (the
dispensable appliance), a crockpot (almost always in use) and a toaster
(used daily).


> Small kitchen appliances that are occasionally/rarely used don't need
> a permanent home in one's kitchen... they can be stored in some other
> room, on the floor of a bedroom clothes closet or under a bed.

Humm, 5 appliances are too much for you? Too bad.

> know, Carol has 170 pair of shoes she hasn't worn in thirty years but
> she can't part with any even though now are feet are way too fat.

Where the hell did that come from?

> recently bought a very nice metal cabinet that I mounted on my garage
> wall for storing bakeware, I have a lot of Nordicware... it's only a
> few steps from my kitchen to my garage... Nordicware is bulky, they
> don't nest, no point in it taking kitchen space when pieces aren't
> used regularly.

Hence my family room nook. Just off the kitchen. Same reason.

> Lack of storage space is why houses with no basement are not houses,
> every house on a slab is a garage. Anyone who pays over 100 Gs for a
> house on a slab is an imbecile.

Houses here are on slabs. The ground isn't condusive to basements. We
are at best 10 feet above sealevel for most of us. You are an idiot if
you don't know the difference in why some parts of the country do not
have (and can't have) basements.
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