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The husbear uses and ADORES his mothers' 1974 Avocado Green Presto Pressure Cooker. We almost came to blows (well, none that night!) when I offhandedly suggested discarding the wretched thing and letting me buy him a brand new one. You'd have thought I said "throw the dachshund in the trash...

Straight up and down shot...not an inch wasted! I was determined not to have to handwash, but there are about 5 glasses left to wash, and some big pieces...he can do them in the morning, since he loves to hand wash!!

Yup, those crystal gold rimmed water glasses are DOUBLE-STACKED!

Silverware tray..we used a hell of a lot of forks! Gay men and silver, what can I say....

Here's another. I don't have any pix of the "before shot", but trust me, they were filthy, and I didn't think 1/2 a Miele tab would do it...but it did!

My husbear had his 61st birthday today, and we had 8 friends over to celebrate. Since it's so close to Christmas, we decided to pull out his Grandmother's Limoges "Montmery" porcelain..you know, delicate, hand painted flowers, gold on the edges..50+ years old. We also pulled out the crystal...

I had (truly) one of the LAST undercounter B+D Spacemaker Toaster Ovens. I bought it about 2 years ago from B+D.com, and then the woman was reluctant to sell it to me, as the recall was about to begin. 6 months later, I get a letter from B+D.com, asking me to call a toll free number and send...

Here's the "skin suit" pic..it really is a fascinating way to look at your body..it's what we ALL look like under the pretty skin suit.

I went to see the "Body Worlds" exhibit in Charlotte, NC yesterday. If you have even the slightest interest in anatomy or medicine, go and see this traveling exhibit! For those who don't know, "Body Worlds" is a traveling exhibit of preserved and dissected human bodies,donated for this purpose...

I use and adore Dawn Direct Foam. A pump of that stuff truly will do a sinkload of dishes! It's powerful stuff, but rinses away easily. I've never thought there was 250 pumps in a bottle, though. There is a knockoff brand available at Kroger..probably the same stuff with a different label.

I have one word for you..well, two really. Miele Tabs 'nuff said. If you must have your detergent premeasured, there really is a difference in using the expensive (not heart-stoppingly so) stuff. These are now in dissolvable wrappers for those who don't like to touch detergent.

YouTube removed the video - something about prudish American "violation of standards"...like YouTube has any of those. Fortunately, the London Daily Telegraph doesn't share such high brow tastes....here's a working copy of the video...

You'll never look at rugby team locker room "hi-jinx" in quite the same way... wonder what the boys do when there AREN'T cameras in the locker room?? Look over the interviewer's right shoulder... - 111k

Is this old news?? I haven't seen anything about it on AW... Just wondering... http://www.thestate.com/business/story/184866.html

The "Chemistry Store.com" is located in a warehouse about 5 miles from my home (here in South Carolina). As far as I can see, they'll always have lots of STPP available for the soap making community, although with that ban coming, they may have to do away with it. I don't know if they'd have a...

As a middle school librarian, I can't tell you how many of those film strips and cassettes I've reluctantly thrown in the trash over the course of 15 years. You'd have to look HARD these days to find an AV repair person who'd know how to repair an old DuKane filmstrip projector or worse, an old...

A Miele tech support agent chided me over the phone (when last I called them) for using Cascade Action Packs with Dawn in my Miele DW. The tech said that one Action Pack in a Miele is the equivalent of completely filling both the detergent cups,and then adding 2 TB of detergent on top! They did...

I think that the quote in my "Bear411" profile (daveinsc) sums me up succinctly: "I own power tools AND bone china and know how to use both".

On a completely DIFFERENT note - How many of us (yes, men and women alike) use disposable shaving razors? I use Gillette Sensor 3, and I figure I can get about a week of almost full-face shaving out of one (minus goatee and 'stache). These are still cheaper than buying blade refills for my...

Robert, How hard would it be to design a desktop icon for AW? A lot of my sites have little custom icons on my desktop, and the AW icon looks so neglected with that old Microsoft standard "e" icon! How about the agitator that's on the front page of the forum?