Little things that make a big diffference

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or alternately, Why Do People Use Those Things?

My parents were pretty frugal and we moved often, so there are a number of household objects I've never used. Sometimes I've purchased one of these items and it really had a good impact on my life, but most other times I came to the conclusion that my folks were right and most of these gadgets are a waste of money and space.

I'm not talking about stuff out of the Sharper Image catalog either. Some things that I have never used and have no desire to:
Salad Tongs
Blender
those little rubber spatulas you use to scrape out the last bit of cake batter
washcloths
ice cream scoop
spoon rest/trivet
ladle
pretty much any sort of specialized plate or utensil (shrip forks, olive plates, etc)

Lots of others I'm sure. I love looking at them in stores, I just would never buy them. I have also never used but am somewhat tempted to buy a food processor, and would have never gotten a colander or a pizza slicer if my b/f hadn't brought them to the household.

But I recently got a wine stopper, and it's so nice. I also would love a wine decanter. I also got a circular cheese grater that's very cool.

So what little purchases have really changed the way you go about things? Or what objects do you think are silly wastes of space?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 July 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Or what objects do you think are silly wastes of space?

Dada

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 13 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

*awaits Dada pic with child-like glee*

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 13 July 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, except for the blender -- I have a Cuisinart -- and the salad tongs, there's nothing on that list I don't use on at least a weekly basis.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Blender
washcloths
ladle

I use these all the time.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark S to thread with his 0.0002p key hook tip.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the ladle-owners should use theirs to smack N.

― estela (estela), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What did I do??

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know.

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

OK yeah, bring on the ladles.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's payback for what you did to me on Friday.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry - typo. I meant 'ladies'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

When is it ever a bad time to smack N.? It is always seems to be the just and sensible thing to do, the ladles would be a bonus.

― Lars (Nicole), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

N. you'd better be wary of ladies bearing ladles.

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, some of us laddies with ladles aren't ladies.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you eager to smack N. also?

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'd at least like to be included in the wariness, y'know. I don't want to project this image of myself as some ladle-bearing guy you don't need to be wary of.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I get this image of Tep being like the Punisher, only he's carrying a huge ladle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Daaamn right. "They killed my family. They killed my dog. They killed my second-grade teacher. And now. I make a gumbo. OF REVENGE."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep sounds ominous, easily as scary and frightening as a tropical storm called 'Bill'.

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right.

... hey, hang on. I'm not sure that means what I want it to mean.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't fret Tep, I'm sure everyone's absolutely terrified of you and your big ladle.

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

They better be, that's all I'm saying.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep carries a Ladle of Fear. And he carries it well.

― Lars (Nicole), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

He should start a band called Ladle of Filth.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Our signature song would go: "Ladle, ladle, ladle, I made you out of clay. Ladle, ladle, ladle, WITH LADLE I WILL SLAY."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds like a ladling-yodeling band.

Heavens! I just discovered that when I say ladling-yodeling-ladling-yodeling all of a sudden I can yodel even though ordinarily I can't:)

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The hand that rawks the ladle is the hand that rules the world.

― Lars (Nicole), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Lars Attacks!

― estela (estela), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone in the audience is gonna be waving ladles back and forth instead of Zippos. The Soup Nazi will open for us with his #1 smash hit, "No Soup (For You)." Kids'll start dangling mini-ladles from the belt-loops, rendering the chain-wallet fashion obsolete.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 July 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The hand that rawks the ladle is the hand that rules the world.

Climb up on my knee, Larsy boy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 July 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, now I see what I was missing without the ladles.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ANYWAYS...how do you make fruity frozen girly drinks without a blender?

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

A) sharp knives
B) strong arms
C) patience

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

we always wrapped ice cubes in a towel and hit them with hammers.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

are washcloths the same things as face flannels? it seems like i'm the last person left in the world who uses a face flannel. whenever people are staying in the house they never use the flannel i leave with their towels. how do people wash without them? how do you get the soap, face stuff, etc, off properly?

― angela (angela), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I use a flannel. Without one I have to bend right into the basin and get my hair all covered in soapy water.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a flannel user too, but not for my face.

― chris (chris), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pervert.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

A good flannel os perfect for exfoliating the arms and legs N, when combined with a scrub type shower gel.

― chris (chris), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, I thought you meant you wiped your arse with it

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought an ice cream scoop about a month ago. No more wiping my arse with the wash cloth!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 July 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I thought Chris was talking about using the washcloth like this!

http://www.kungfunation.com/images/cumragdtl.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela, do you have soft water? Where I live (and most Londoners would agree, I think), the water is so hard that not only does the soap come off straight away but so does 75% of the moisture in your top 3 layers of skin.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And the top 3 layers of skin with it.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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