Wet Shaving

[Andy]

When I was using a normal razor/shaving cream it was a good week if I shaved twice.  I got a safety razor and badger brush from my parents in May, and I shave every day now.  It takes me three times as long, but I love it.  I'm thinking about trying out a straight razor now and I've been looking at www.badgerandblade.com forums (some of those lunatics have 10,000+ posts about shaving)

Anyone else do anything old school simply because you enjoy it?

[Forrest]

Sometimes I listen to CDs just for the fuck of it.

[erika]

I really hate eating spaghetti sauce out of a jar, so I tend to make my own. The kind that has to cook for at least 4 hours on the stove. It's so good. I make it in huge batches and freeze it. Everyone should try it. If you want my recipe, just let me know and I'll do my best to translate it to you. (I usually eyeball everything)

I also like to use my Yamaha keyboard from 1987.

[dave from knoxville]

I really hate eating spaghetti sauce out of a jar, so I tend to make my own. The kind that has to cook for at least 4 hours on the stove. It's so good. I make it in huge batches and freeze it. Everyone should try it. If you want my recipe, just let me know and I'll do my best to translate it to you. (I usually eyeball everything)

I also like to use my Yamaha keyboard from 1987.

Recipe, please.

[scotttsss]

Yes, please write the recipe, always good to know what real people do, not just Paula Dean and her infantile madness....  Mine takes about 30 minutes:  While boiling pasta water:  Olive oil in medium high pan, add minced onions, crushed garlic, with salt/pepper and herbs, pine nuts if you've got some, red pepper flakes, and meat (anchovies etc) if you eat it that week.  Cook till soft.  Now open a 32 ounce can of tomatoes, chop them in the can to save a mess on the board, in they go, add a bay leaf, and in goes the pasta when  it's done, eat up and back to work, only an hour has gone by!

[Forrest]

not just Paula Dean and her infantile madness.... 

As a former Savannah, Georgia resident and frequent diner at the Lady & Sons, I can assure you that those mashed potatoes would keep you from ever taking that woman's name in vain again.

[Jason]

While I own a washing machine I prefer to wring my clothes dry with an old fashioned mangle.

The other day I caught my left tit in said mangle.

There's something to be said for progress.

[John Junk]

I too hate eating spaghetti sauce out of a jar.  Usually what I do is I pour it out into a saucepan and then heat it. 

Thanks!  I'll be here all week.

[kray]

this is might be as bad as intentionally making a point of it being known you do not own a television or watch television....

...but i enjoy it, and there is a monetary angle.

I haven't been to a barber in over 5 years. i just do it myself. estimated savings of $5000 and many many hours.

that might be tough for most of the women to pull off. and i can also stand when i pee. being a guy is so cool.

[Beth]

The majority of my house's heat comes from a wood stove. I keep the thermostat at 55 as back up, but it rarely turns on.

[Sarah]

that might be tough for most of the women to pull off.

Piffle:  I haven't had my hair cut professionally in twenty-five years.  I used to get one of my sisters to trim it, but now I just hack off the ends when they get too scraggly. 

I am one classy dame.

[erika]

I too hate eating spaghetti sauce out of a jar.  Usually what I do is I pour it out into a saucepan and then heat it. 

Thanks!  I'll be here all week.

Try the veal, folks...

(I'll try to make spaghetti sauce next weekend and write down some sort of recipe for anyone who's interested.)

[Sarah]

I made my first spaghetti sauce from a recipe in my mother's Fannie Farmer when I was around eleven.  For some reason, I chose something called, I think, Truman's Spaghetti Sauce.  In addition to the usual ingredients--ground beef, tomatoes, etc.--the recipe included bacon, and this likely accounted for my selection (bacon was a closely guarded commodity in my house, so using it in a recipe probably felt wonderfully wicked to me).  The sauce was also seasoned with Worcestershire sauce, oddly enough.  And it turned out pretty well.

Clearly, this is an important memory.  As well it should be:  I have probably made spaghetti sauce more often than anything else in my decades of cooking.

Coming attractions:  I reminisce about the first item I ever baked (a blueberry coffee cake, at age eight or nine).  (I think the fact that it's New Year's Eve day is making me wax nostalgic; apologies.)

[Emily]

i bake from scratch too (but with recipes).  i use to cut my own hair, because I didn't trust anyone else, but now i go to The Best Little Hair House, and they've never done me wrong.

i sew & hem everything by hand, but that's mostly because i can't use a sewing machine w/o breaking multiple needles and tangling yards of thread.

i also refuse to use a leaf or snow blower because they make way too much noise & i can't stand it when neighbors use them (i'll use a rake/shovel).

i will use a vacuum though.

[Gilly]

I haven't been to a barber in over 5 years. i just do it myself. estimated savings of $5000 and many many hours.

Now that even Great Clips is charging almost 20 dollars for someone to take 10 minutes to put a razor through my hair I quit that insanity. I was always afraid to let someone else other than a professional do it until I realized how easy it was.