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toothpaste: Squeezed carefully from the bottom, with none left on the cap or the tip of the tube. Very important.
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Patience? If I am patient, i have cold toast, Dag.
My husband is CONSTANTLY putting the butter in the fridge. It is a silent war we have waged on each other for almost twenty years, and HE was the born and bred Red Sox fan.
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The trick is to get very thin "slices" of butter on your knife so that no matter what the temperature is, it will spread nicely.
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You put actual butter on your bread? Ick. I like to get organic butter and mix it with an equal amount of veggie oil in the blender. Let it chill in the fridge and you have margerine without all the chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics.
Chet, of course, likes margerine in the tub. The things I put up with for him.
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Elizabeth, I hate to spoil something that's given you so much pleasure for all these years, but why not cut the stick of butter in half, and put half on the counter and half in the fridge? Wouldn't that work? That way everyone gets to have their own preference.
Oh, and peanut butter belongs in the fridge. It's just so much better that way.
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Tatiana, he would put my half in the fridge, too. And peanut butter ShOULD go in the fridge, but tastes better warm.
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Sigh. Beverly, you have to put butter on first, then peanut butter when making peanut butter toast.
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quote: BTW, peanut butter spread on hot toast so it gets all melty is sohohohoho good.
I second that whole heartedly. The only reason I ever toast bagels is so that the peanut butter gets all melty. Posts: 1547 | Registered: Jan 2004
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My Mom always insisted on putting peanut butter on both sides of the bread so the jam wouldn't get the bread mushy. She first did one side butter, but eeewuk! So she did the double-pb instead. I don't mind my bread a bit mushy with jam or honey. Mmmmmm.
Why butter with the peanut butter? Aside from being gross, why the extra work? What can you possibly get out of it?
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Toilet paper, when you bother to put it on the roll should have the flap on the bottom, facing the inside, not on the outside. When it's on the outside small children can make toilet paper go all over the place which is NOT CUTE.
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OK, you have opened a whole other can o' worms.
The pre-buttering of peanut butter bread gives a salty, buttery, liquid base to the peanut butter, adding a deeper level of taste.
Peanut butter on a bagel? Egads!
And don't even get me started on how to make a pb and j sandwich!!
Peanut butter on one side, spread evenly. Jelly on the other side, spread evenly. Both pieces placed together.
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Open faced. Pb and j sandwiches should be open faced with a thin layer of creamy or crunchy peanut butter. Jam is perferable, easier to spread.
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As for toilet paper, whoever will put the new roll on the spool can put it on however they like. And anyone who doesn't like how it is can reverse it. Whoever cares the most will therefore eventually wear the other one down. But telling someone else to do it your way isn't cool. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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This is horrifying. I am aghast. Positively aghast.
Butter: One stick from the box goes in the cupboard so it stays warm and spreadable, with a cover on it for protection. The rest of the box goes in the freezer to keep it fresh.
Toilet paper: Goes overhand. People who do it underhanded are not to be trusted.
Coffee: Is not drunk by polite people. Polite people drink tea. Polite people also never put sweetener of any kind in their tea.
Clothing: Underwear, shirt, pants, socks, shoes. As to female underwear, I do not have the proper information to say whether it's the bra or the panties which go on first. But if I could get some women to demonstrate to me, with live visual aids, the benefits and drawbacks of each method, I would be happy to weigh them and make a final pronouncement.
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Um Hm. And the cereal floats and spills over the lip of the bowl. You have to push it down, causing more spillage.
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quote: But if I could get some women to demonstrate to me, with live visual aids, the benefits and drawbacks of each method, I would be happy to weigh them and make a final pronouncement.
I dress in the way that is best if someone burst in on me. I would be best protected this way. If worse came to worse, I would want to be in my undies, breasts flapping. Your way, bra followed by shirt, you are completly exposed underneath! The horror!
So... Undies first to cover the "area." Bra to cover the breasts. This way, again worst coming to worst, "the parts" are covered.
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I've had three kids, with everyone in my family present, plus video of the last one. Nothing down there anyone in my family hasn't seen.
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I notice many of Elizabeth's preferred ways to do things are because of inadequate food-handling skills. Maybe you could work on that? Posts: 26071 | Registered: Oct 2003
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I do agree with you on the clothes thing. Definitely cover the bottom first.
Butter HAS to go on the counter.
I can't stand toilet paper coming from underneath. In the dark, you search for it and if it's still stuck to the roll, you're rolling the toilet paper in the WRONG DIRECTION in order to find where it begins. It's a lot easier if it's coming from up top.
I always make toothpaste goals, but I never keep them. My toothpaste is always squeezed right in the middle. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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DPR, It is sort of a "What if" kind of thing. I am not really afraid anyone will come in, it is just sort of a natural cover-up tendency, I guess.
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Dressing--a basic guide for college males: First: Change the underwear on a 24-hour basis. 36 or even 48 may be okay in extreme circumstances (like sickness, lack of clean clothes, or lazy weekends). Second: Put on a shirt at least as clean as the underwear, for similar reasons above. Third: Put on pants. Clean pants are always preffered, but in aformentioned extreme circumstances most any pair will do. Make sure there aren't any food stains on the lap or salt stains on the cuffs--The objective is to maintain the appearance of being a civilized human being. Stains are a dead givaway of savagery. Fourth: Don any peripherals. Socks, shoes, sweatshirt, deoderant, glasses, etc...
I personally forego socks 9 times out of 10. If I could figure out how to grow more hair on my ankles to keep them warm, I'd never wear socks. Putting them on before pants... that's just silly!
EDIT: Coffee should be sugar-free. People who smother their coffee in sugar or other sweeteners secretly hate coffee and just want the caffine. Addicts.
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WP, Your pants-before-socks philosophy is so wrong, as is everyone else's. The socks go on first, thereby setting the stage for an easy pants pull-up. When the pants go on first, you have to pull up the legs to ajust the socks. With the socks already on, the pants can be applied from either a standing or sitting position.
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Elizabeth...I don't think that the population of the rest of the world is WRONG while you are right on this matter.
Have you stopped to consider that your very reasons for putting your panties on first - covering vital areas just in case someone bursts in on you - might be the very reason that all of us put our PANTS on BEFORE our socks? Hmmmmm?
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