FORT Koffee Klatch

[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by Bunny555

We are all notorious cereal box readers in this house. The three of us can be found at breakfast with a box in front of us while we eat. I love to read about food (recipes, restaurant reviews etc...) while I eat.

Ha, I do that too. I wasn't going to post it, but now that you and Queenb have come clean, I will too. I will read just about anything and have at times found myself reading weird things because that was what was available.

The backs of cereal boxes are surprisingly interesting. I guess there's more of us out there and the cereal companies know it.

Queenb, my mom and grandmother used to read stuff like that to me too. I remember them reading me the original Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz, the Borrowers when I was small. I still have all those books and read them to my daughter.
I started out reading her the original Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit and the original versions of Winnie the Pooh (not the Disney versions) the day I brought her home from the hospital. We read to her every night from that day onward. I figured it was a good habit to start early. I know that as a newborn, she couldn't understand, but it established the habit of reading to her nightly that didn't end until she was about 8 and reading well on her own and decided she was too old to be read too.

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[Gutmutter]

I have a friend who is getting her first kindergarten classroom, but with nothing in it yet, so I invited her to come over today and see if there was anything she wanted from my yard sale stuff. Well, she wanted a lot and only gave me $10 for now because they haven't discussed a budget with her. I had to put my foot down when stuff she wanted was obviously not for a classroom. I started quoting prices for those things. I guess I'll consider it donating to a good cause, but now I have a considerable chunk out of what I was going to sell. But it's GONE anyway, which was the whole point.

[buglover]

You did the right thing Gut. If it were for the classroom then it's for a good cause but if the items are for personal use, they need to be paid for. I'm glad you have dwindled down the stuff even if you didn't make a lot of money for it.

[Mikesgal]

This isn't technically a recipe question- but it does involve food When you want to help keep colors from fading in the wash (like a new pair of black pants) do you add vinegar to the wash or salt? I can never remember which one
Thanks

[prhoshay]

I don't know how this question ended up in the recipe thread, but I was wondering the exact same thing yesterday!!! Creepy!!

[Gutmutter]

Ok, I'm dragging myself off to bed early so I can get up early and set up for the yard sale (I'm talking 4 a.m.). So when I asked for advice nobody mentioned what a huge lot of work it is to get one of these together! I've worked non-stop the last two days dragging stuff down from the attic and barn and I'm pooped! Wish me luck tomorrow.

[gabriel]

Good luck tomorrow

[dagwood]

Originally Posted by Gutmutter

Ok, I'm dragging myself off to bed early so I can get up early and set up for the yard sale (I'm talking 4 a.m.). So when I asked for advice nobody mentioned what a huge lot of work it is to get one of these together! I've worked non-stop the last two days dragging stuff down from the attic and barn and I'm pooped! Wish me luck tomorrow.

Wish I lived closer to you, I love me a good yard sale.

Good luck.

[livin4reality]

Good luck Gut!

[Ellen]

Originally Posted by Gutmutter

. . . Wish me luck tomorrow.

Best of luck tomorrow!
P.S. If I lived near you, I'd go to your sale, buy some stuff, and buy whatever snacks you're doing (if you're doing them), too!