Because our spice rack has a discrete hole for each little bottle, we usually do keep them in alphabetical order.
Something like this, only plastic, and with a lot more holes, and the bottles it came with had white caps. (Although some have been replaced with other bottles.)
I’ve used those racks for storing my collection of bandannas, but never spices.
Most of the hacks for opening jars I’ve done. I’ll add one
Get the rubber gloves for dishwashing. They give a really good solid grip.
I have something similar to what @wolfpup has, but there are still some jars too large for it. Also, it will cut metal caps, rather than opening them
Mom’s hack was to tear off the paper from one end of a (long and skinny) stick of margarine and use that to butter toast. It doesn’t really work with butter sticks though. I do use it to butter the side of the bowl when I’m nuking oatmeal. That plus a slope sided bowl keeps the oatmeal from crawling over the side.
Personal hack for my short body. At any computer setup where I can comfortably view the monitor my feet are dangling. Stools don’t work well because I shift my feet around to places stools can’t reach.
So I have a pair of platform shoes that I wear only when I’m at the computer. I can move my feet around to wherever I want.
I’m sure I will think of other things I do, when I’m away from any computer…
Have you ever tried an adjustable-height desk? Your hack is brilliant, though.
I’ve only cracked open one bad egg in my lifetime. I was making three sweet potato pies for Thanksgiving dinner. I used all the eggs we had but was one short.
Our neighbor had given me a carton of “dog eggs” (eggs from her hens that were dirty.) I grabbed a dog egg and cracked it into a huge bowl of all the other ingredients. Nearly puked it was so nasty. I buried the stuff in a manure pile.
The egg must have been lost in a nest box all summer/fall.
ETA: I still crack eggs directly into whatever I’m cooking.
I crack eggs separately, because that’s what i was taught to do. And it makes it a little easier if i need to fish out a piece of shell i drop or something. But i, also, have a lifetime count of one egg i discarded, and it might have been okay, it just looked a little weird, with a very pale yolk.
I think that was a more important life hack when you gathered the eggs from where your chickens hid them, and might have missed one for a long time.
When my wife kept strictly kosher, she broke eggs into a separate bowl first so she could discard any eggs that had a little bit of blood in them, which would have made the dish treif.
Why did she give them to you? Did she know what she was giving you?
She sells her eggs at their farm market. The occasional dirty egg isn’t really worth cleaning, so she saves them for me. She knows that I feed our dogs and birds egg every day, going through a dozen every 5 days.
ETA:that was the first bad egg she’d ever given me.
Happens to us all the time. We put the eggs one at a time in a cup of water. If they float, they’re bad, if they sink, they’re okay.
huh. Where do you get your eggs? Because it’s literally never happened to me that a supermarket egg was foul. And I’ve broken a lot of eggs over the years.
We keep chickens and they do hide eggs sometimes. We found six this weekend when we moved a pallet that had hay bales on it. How the hens fit under the pallet I don’t know!
Got it. So yes, if you keep chickens that run loose, it makes sense to check each egg you gather before dropping it into other food. I don’t think it’s terribly important for those of us who get our eggs at the supermarket.
Nah, just cook them up with some ham and you are good to go.
Sam
I’ve had them at work. I’m too cheap to buy one for home
Eggs have a bad reputation for spoiling, even though they keep for a very long time. I think it’s just because when they do go bad, they can go very bad.
Another thing I do.
Whenever I put a new bag in the main trash can, the first thing I do is empty the trash can by my recliner.
You see, I have mild but persistent allergies, and the recliner is where I sit a lot. So that one always has a bunch of kleenex. All those kleenex go into the bottom of the big bag, and are there to absorb any liquid that might get in the trash
We shorties need squatty potties for desks!
A pressure washer makes a decent trenching/digging machine, especially in hardpan soil. You’ll get filthy (it hurls mud everywhere), but it’s quicker and easier than a shovel.
It’s useful for a small job like turning a slight slope into right angles for paving stones (flower bed, etc.). It’s not a ditch-witch for burying pipes, just a quick way to “cut” soil for small jobs.
I discovered this when I needed to cut an arc for one of my gates to open. The ground was sloped and the gate only opened 30 degrees. I had to extend this arc another 60 degrees and was facing scraping the whole area level, removing about 3 inches at the high end. The soil was dry, packed and filled with gravel and rock. It resisted the shovel, so I got my pressure washer and found I could easily “cut” the shape I needed.
I watched city employees dig tunnels through limestone and sandstone with the heavy duty version of a pressure washer. They went through intense training to get certified and have to follow safety instructions to a T. One blast from the hoses they were using could easily bore a hole through flesh and kill someone in an instant. They aren’t toys and you have to have two very strong, trained people to use just one of them.