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I have a deep freeze, partly because my husband is a hunter, but also because we like to buy the family packs of meat and split them into one or two servings.
Or I might just take that big packet of ground chuck and make meat sauce for spaghetti, or meatloaf, or lasagna, and freeze most of the dish in individual servings. This gives my husband and me a very secure feeling. If I don’t feel like cooking, but it’s Friday or Saturday night (I hate eating out on those nights), then I can just pull a couple of servings from the freezer. Or if I’m sick, I can pull out that chicken soup and a package of meat sauce, and I’ll be happy and my husband will be happy. Right now I have three containers of chicken soup and a couple of meat sauce servings. I need to do a big batch again.
Seriously, this is one of the things that you can do without having a lot of money, even if you only have a fridge freezer you can make an occasional double or triple batch of food. It will even save money, as long as you make sure to freeze the food in reasonable size batches. My home made dishes are much, much better than ANYTHING we’ve bought commercially. I mean, I know exactly what I put into those dishes. And I know that the spaghetti and lasagna and meatloaf all have the right proportions of veggies for our tastes.
By the way, if you decide to make chicken soup, I recommend that you just make broth and add some chicken meat to it. Sometimes I’ll put in some onion and carrots and celery in the soup itself, but usually I just cook them in the broth and strain them out. There are frozen mixed vegetables that you can cook in the soup when you thaw it, and I’ve found that rice and potatoes and noodles don’t freeze particularly well.
I’d never graduate college. Or rather, I’d graduate in EVERYTHING in college, so much to learn, so little time and money to learn it with.
Then (or at the same time, even) I’d spend time dicking around making video games and amateur films. Basically be a starving artist without the starving part.
Four words: Iron Man suit
I would pay someone else to post for me. That’s right, Pay To Post!
I would hire someone to count for me.
If it’s any consolation, I laughed…
I thought maybe there was some in board joke that passed me by (many of them do).
Some of you have inspired me to consider more options including but not limited to:
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[li]Cut flowers at home and work[/li][li]Generous tips in all but the most extreme circumstances[/li][li]Fancy cheeses (Whole Foods sells one with cumin seeds that’s delicious but also $12/lb.[/li][li]Earrings [/li][li]I’d buy the shampoo I like even when it isn’t on sale[/li][li]I’d buy the size containers of shampoo, laundry soap, cat food and other things that was the most convenient and comfortable to use.[/li][li]I’d get my hair cut every six weeks instead of every six months[/li][/ul]
(My big things relate to hunger charities and funding the arts in schools. I’m not entirely selfish and shallow)
I would hire someone to give a shit on my behalf.
I’d be buying pretty much all my clothes from here, or somewhere similar. I’m 100% serious; I would become a full-time Victorian gentleman.
I notice one of the local lotteries has jackpotted to $70 million next week…
I might hire someone to assist me in cussing.
Me ( giving somebody hell) Well, thats just…just…just…Jeeves, what is the word I am looking for?
Jeeves: I believe the word you want is “fucking” sir.
Me. Thats it Jeeves. Thank you my good man. (back to other person) Well, thats just fucking stupid!
Hire a ghostwriter to finish my manuscript I’ve been working on for years now. And an editor and proofreader. Why go through the tedium of writing when someone can do it for me?
Oh, and I’d get one of those fancy Japanese toilets. I got to use one while I was in Tokyo and never has shitting been more enjoyable.
Improve my wardrobe. I really don’t have enough clothing that I actually enjoy wearing. In essence, I own one pair of dress shoes for work that I’ll wear until they’re worn out, and then they get replaced. Ditto for casual shoes. I could use some custom shoes that are comfortable and also keep me from overpronating.
Then it would be on to the shirts. I have about three t-shirts I like to wear, and the rest, I only use when I’m desperate. That needs to be fixed. And I can always use more shorts.
Oh, and I’d really like to buy a new watch.
Freshly-roasted coffee.
Every morning.
Au pair to teach the kids fluent French and help me clean.
Once-a-week maid service. (I really don’t need or want someone to come in more often, or be live-in).
I’d also leave bigger tips, for sure. I tend to leave large tips as it is, but I’d like to do some crazy ones someday.
And I would want to go to a salon once a week just for someone to wash, condition, and style my hair (it’s thick and curly and dry and only needs a twice-a-week wash anyway).
Oh, and I’d have multicolored streaks in my hair whenever I wanted them, and probably a nose piercing again, too.
I don’t know if this could be considered big or small, but I think that I’d love to have most of my clothes custom made. I’m short and fat. Even when I was quite slender, I was still short, and that meant that I had to take up every pair of pants I ever purchased, even the ones that were labeled as short length. My proportions, whether I’m fat or slender, are different from a taller person’s…that is, my body length is shorter, the rise of my pants is shorter, my arms are shorter, etc. In many cases, it’s not possible to alter readymade clothing adequately. I am not a clothes horse, far from it. But I’d love to be able to get clothes that fit properly AND are in a color and style and fabric that I like. Usually, I have to pick one or two of these features, and accept other features that I don’t like. So I might not be able to get something in my preferred color, for instance, if it fits properly and is in a nice fabric. I usually only get one or two new dresses a year, even though we could afford more, because I can’t find things that I like. Right now, a couple of my older dresses have worn spots that could be darned, and I’m tempted to just cut them up for scraps…but I love the color and style of them, and I’m also tempted to just darn or patch them.
Same thing goes for shoes, I’d love to get custom made shoes. One foot is bigger than the other, and since I have congestive heart failure, both my feet are swollen. Even when I was skinny, I had extra wide feet, which I had inherited from my father (he wore something like a 6EEEEE shoe), and I usually had to buy men’s shoes in order to get them wide enough. I also have a high rise (how tall the foot is) which makes things even more interesting. I don’t want anything fancy, just a couple of pair of reliable shoes which fit and are comfortable.
I would never cook again. I hate cooking - it’s a chore. I don’t know whether having someone to cook for me every night would be regarded as big or small (it’d certainly be a big thing to me).
The other thing I’d do would be to have a hairdresser come to my house every third day. She would shampoo and blow dry as only a hairdresser can. Because she visits so frequently, she’d be on hand to trim as and when and also touch up the regrowth more often.
All my underwear and socks would be pure pristine white because I’d throw them away as soon as they were at all discolored.
I’d have France food for dinner, not French food, France food. As in take the jet & passport.
Leave the office* on Friday, get there Sat morning, spend the day, have exquisite dinner & then come home & be back in the office on Monday.
- not work; my office, where I (& my staff) run my family foundation from.
I would hire someone to cook for me. I’m a notoriously finicky eater (I basically have the food preferences of a kid–I like things simple) so I would love to have someone I could pay enough to tell them, “Please just make me regular, non-“interesting” food. I don’t want to see your fancy recipes. I want a good hamburger, nicely cooked broccoli or cauliflower or green beans, steaks, lasagna, etc.” I’d ask them to cook healthy but simple meals. Every day. And I would be very, very happy.
Housekeeper, too. That would be great.
You could probably splurge on some more interesting underwear. I’m not sure I own any white underwear.