Yesterday it was lunch and shopping with my niece and her two young daughters, today it was shopping with a very patient husband and tomorrow it will be shopping with my 14-year old grandson who quickly grows out of shoes and pretty much everything else.Our daughter may have found a new place to live! She will need a refrigerator and as luck would have it we won’t mind getting rid of the second one we have in the garage. She’s accruing and we’re divesting so things should work out just fine. I recently read, “Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat,” because the review said it was full of tips on how to organize a kitchen. It suggests getting rid of all the specialized items you use only once or twice a year and while that makes sense, when you need a nutmeg grater you need a nutmeg grater. However, if I can get rid of some stuff by giving it to DD who can occasionally loan it back to me – well, that’s a win-win, right? Love how these things work out.
Re refrigerators: DH grew up in Montana and to him a refrigerator is an ice-box because that's what he had as a child - an ice-box. I'd never heard anyone refer to refrigerators as an ice-box before but that's what he calls them to this day. Let's see - what's that about not being able to teach old dogs new tricks?
3 comments:
My mom, dad and grandmom always called it an ice box, too, since that was what they grew up with. When I was about 4, my grandmother still had an old ice-box, but then she got a "new-fangled" refrigerator and came into the 20th century!!
I like new-fangled! ;-)
It was called a Frigidaire in our house.
I have lived my entire life without ever needing a nutmeg grater.
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