On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 9:12:32 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> Brooklyn1 wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
> > On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:40:25 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > No one tells you to live there. What kind of moron chooses to live
> > below sea level?!?!? You're the idiot. I have absolutely no pity for
> > people who choose to live on a flood plain who get flooded.
>
> Well Sheldon, dont move to a big coastal city as you obvously have *NO
> CLUE* about such nor the construction for stability of such. As usual,
> you missed the point. It's ABOVE sealevel here as said at the start but
> you can't read well enough to understand that. I'm actually 15 ft above
> it and 15 miles inland.
>
> Please post again as it's hilarous to see the idiocy from your keyboard
> flow.

George Bernard Shaw had a good quote for this sort of occasion:

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

Cindy Hamilton