I did this, but since the advent of smartphones I keep my shopping list on my phone.
My wife and I do the same thing in a shared document, so either of us can add things at any time and I’ll see the full list when I go shopping.
It says the finish is plastic. I strongly suspect the inside of it isn’t, though that’s not clear from the description. And if it is, I’d be worried about drinking stuff emitted from heated plastic.
My brother-in-law drinks coffee through the day. He has a large high-quality thermos, which he fills with hot coffee in the morning. Serves the same purpose, and only involves heating the water once.
Not if it’s properly designed. I lift and pour from gallon jugs all the time; no problem.
I have such a kettle, and indeed the whole container is made of plastic, inside and outside. The only thing metal is the heating coil on the bottom. I don’t worry about emanating plastic because there are gazillion different kinds of plastic, each with different properties, so I trust the regulatory authorities to only allow heat-resistant materials.
My gf gets upset when she sees me microwave restaurant leftovers in their Styrofoam container. I fixed the problem by only reheating restaurant food when she isn’t around.
I don’t; because when they ban one type of plastic for such uses, the manufacturers produce something slightly different, and it takes some years for the regulators to sort out whether the new stuff isn’t causing a similar problem.
I do use, and even re-use, some plastic food containers. But not for anything involving hot food/drinks, because heat increases the chances of leaching; except possibly for the container that might stay in the car in the winter, because plastic’s less likely to break if it freezes. And that only rarely gets used for hot drinks
Ack. I can’t even drink hot coffee out of those cups, because I can taste the plastic. Even aside from what it might be doing to my body and the ecosystem, it tastes utterly awful. Most people apparently can’t taste it – or else they just think it’s bad coffee.
Okay, we have LED auto lights throughout our entire building. You walk into a room or office and the lights go on and, ten minutes after you leave, the lights go off. It’s real 1969 Startrek stuff. LOL
WHAT INFURIATES ME IS THAT CUSTODIANS MANUALLY TURN THEM OFF! 
When I boldly walk into the office in the morning, I take several steps, and the room is still pitch black. I have to stumble my way back and feel for the light switch in order to manually turn on the lights WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO TURN ON THEMSELVES.
That is all.
I’ve never tasted it. Mind you, I don’t like drinking coffee or beer from a plastic container, because that’s barbaric and just the wrong vessel for both drinks, but not because it tastes like plastic.
Yeah. Like I said, a lot of people apparently can’t taste it. But whatever compound it is that I’m tasting: you’re drinking it too.
(Not all plastic cups do it. But those cheap ones so common at meetings do.)
My wife and I don’t. We just know. I generally by food for cooking and snacking. I make a big meal during the weekend, and we eat it all week. When someone is going to the store, they ask what is needed.
My wife takes care of cleaning supplies and what not. Not much food. I do most of that.
It’s just the two of us, so it’s pretty easy. I put a list on my phone, my wife still uses pen and paper.
We have a little dry-erase memo board on the fridge. Write down items we’re out of throughout the week, and before I go shopping I take a picture with my phone.
I sort of did this when I shopped for my ailing mom. She will want exactly THIS. No substitutes. I have a lot of odd pictures on my phone.
The term “tsunami”. Yes, I know- those big waves are not caused by tided, so they wanted to get rid of “tidal wave” (and now they have re-done that terms meaning". But nor are the big waves limited to harbors (tsunami means harbor wave") thus both terms are equally bad. Tidal wave was a perfectly good term.
However, for the recent earthquake off the Northern CA coast, the proper term is “seismic wave”.
For the earthquake, yes. Every earthquake produces seismic waves. But not every earthquake causes a large movement of water that floods land areas adjacent to the body of water; so a separate term is needed for that. Especially since the water movement calls for specific emergency reactions on the part of the humans who are using the term.
Tsunamis can be caused by things other than earthquakes, like landslides and meteor strikes. So a name for the wave itself, independent of its origin, is useful.
Also true. Though I think such things also produce seismic waves.
On a related note, any time there’s an earthquake anywhere in California, all my out of state relatives text me to ask if I felt it. No, the recent earthquake was up near Eureka, like 200 miles away from me.
It was a bit over 200 miles from me too, and I felt it. It was very slight however, and I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it if I hadn’t received the earthquake warning alert a few minutes earlier. But I know what you mean. Some people don’t really understand geography. I was once traveling in Florida, and there was some kind of storm in Texas. My mom called me from Chicago to make sure I was ok, because Florida and Texas are both in the South.
'S’ok. I still occasionally get people asking how I’m dealing with all that snow because Buffalo and/or Watertown got three feet. If they got three feet, we probably got three inches. If that.
(I have seen two feet of snow here. But it’s rare, and getting rarer. Last year we hardly got any.)
If you’re closer to the coast than I am I can see how you might have felt something, since that’s where most of the major fault lines are. Maybe. I admit I don’t really understand how the geology works, but I’m assuming the seismic waves would travel along the fault. Whereas the Sacramento area is actually pretty seismically stable.
Actually, that’s another thing a lot of people don’t seem to understand: There actually are parts of California that aren’t very prone to earthquakes.