Tuesday Things.
1. Poll of the day: do you iron clothes at home? My mom loved (still loves?) to iron and it was a staple for her. We barely iron – I only do if it’s absolutely necessary, but we also have a steamer and Eddie gets shirts dry cleaned. I want to know who is regularly ironing in 2023.
2. This single milk bread cinnamon roll is calling my name.
3. Still have my sourdough starter in my fridge from quarantine but I haven’t touched it. I mean, when I clean the fridge I take it out and put it back in. I have an itch to start it up again so I can make sourdough pizza crust.
4. TV things!! I watched the new season of Ginny & Georgia. Love it. I always forget that Jason Street is in it!
5. Things to get rid of in your kitchen right now. Um, guilty.
6. Did you have the game Passport as a kid? I’ve been searching for this because we loved it as kids, and I think Max would be obsessed since he loves geography so much.
7. While we’re at it, did you have any of those cupcake dolls in the 90s? They were small and plastic and smelled like vanilla and cake! I didn’t really care about barbie dolls but I loved those.
8. Why we need more mindless activities.
9. Already started listening to Spare this morning. !!!
19 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
Not the cupcake dolls but my mom saved all my Cherry Merry Muffin dolls and play sets. My niece adores them.
Thanks for the salmon recipe this week! Can’t wait to try.
I can still smell the cherry dolls!!
Haven’t ironed in years, but love the way my clothes look when I do it. I remember the cupcake dolls, and the scent lasted longer than you’d think. Also how great were scented markers when they came out? Along with the color changing markers.
I know this will be a shocking response…but I actually do iron clothes regularly. The fact is, that our budget doesn’t allow for dry cleaning shirts and other clothing and I don’t enjoy the more casual “rumpled” look of clothing if it hasn’t been ironed. I know that some people wait patiently for the dryer to finish it’s job and immediately pull everything out to hang or fold, but my dryer is located in a cluttered, unfinished basement so I generally don’t wait around for that moment. I also tend to hang clothes to dry rather than using the dryer for everything because it helps to preserve the fabrics but also because it saves on my electric bill. Don’t get me wrong…I don’t iron everything. Clothing that we only wear around the house doesn’t get ironed, but anything we will wear publicly certainly gets ironed.
Agreed. I’ll be 40 in a few weeks (so I’m not that “old”) and yes, I iron. Mostly my husband’s work shirts but occasionally other items as needed too (I’m a SAHM so I don’t often wear clothes that require ironing!). Dry cleaning is definitely not a budget priority for us.
I have two things to say about the kitchen decluttering article: Heinz makes a “dip and squeeze” ketchup packet that is super useful for my kids’ lunchboxes, so we absolutely hoard those. Also: many programs that offer brown bag lunches for homeless people really appreciate donations of sauce packets (and maybe plastic utensils), please look into that before just tossing them in the trash.
I was just watching an episode of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on youtube because someone mentioned it. You need to show Max. I used to run off the school bus to watch it and play with my plastic cupcake.
I’ll be 41 in a few weeks and I don’t know how to iron! Apparently my mom’s mom ironed everything, including sheets and undies, so my mom went the complete opposite and didn’t iron anything. Therefore, I don’t iron and haven’t found the need to yet!
Your Max might really like the game Scrambled States of America – it was a fav in our family for a long time.
I almost never iron, but could not live without Downey wrinkle release spray. I hang up whatever I’m wearing the night before, spray some on, and it’s perfect by the time I wake up. No smell and no stiffness. My husband does dry clean his work shirts though. The spray works well on sweaters and more casual shirts, but it can’t replicate the crisp starched look.
I didn’t have Passport but I used to play Carmen San Diego on the computer all the time!
I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I’ve ever ironed- I fold clothes almost immediately as soon as the dryer dings and I do steam/use Downy spray but actually iron- nope.
I loved my cupcake doll and completely forgot about those!
Lastly, I do not keep clutter but I’ve started requesting no sauces or plastic utensils if I’m eating takeout at home.
Yes, I iron every week, I don’t know how you manage to dodge that one! I do not own a tumble dryer so it’s pretty essential to iron.
Cupcake dolls now that takes me back, always wanted one but I never had them.
1. Not if we can help it. I hang things up as soon as they come out of the dryer (and our dryer has a “wrinkle releaser” setting) so I don’t have to iron things. My bf mainly has the Brooks Brothers no iron shirts and they are fabulous!
5. I’m actually really good about most of these (clutter makes me anxious). But I disagree with cracked/chipped dishes and duplicate cooking tools. We inherited my bf’s grandmother’s plates and he loves them, but several have chips. I’ve never been nicked. Also, I DO need multiple sets of a lot of things!
I don’t even own an iron and I once declined to continue in an interview process because their dress code excluded jeans. Hard pass!
My mother was obsessed with ironing and passed down that tedious habit to me. I will say that an ironed sheets def up your bed game! LOL
1. We only iron when absolutely necessary but agree with others about the Downy spray and before we got that, my husband mastered the spray-with-water-then-put-in-dryer-on-air-dry-for-15-mins technique
3. I don’t have the heart to throw out my starter despite the black mold on top of her!! We went through a lot together lol
5. I disagree about not needing multiples of measuring cups – I find it especially helpful when doing a lot of baking, especially around the holidays! There’s nothing worse than needing a 1C dry for flour but it’s still in the sink or not quite fully dry yet while air drying
7. My cupcake doll is still in a bin in my parents’ basement and can confirm that it still (faintly) smells like cake!
I don’t think I’ve ever willingly ironed anything, but I also work from home (though am on maternity leave now) and am usually in yoga pants and a comfortable top or sweater during the day anyway.
Agree with other commenters – I’ve never heard of Passport but loved Where in the World is Carmen San Diego as a kid.
Decluttering the kitchen – I am guilty of having lots of “The Small “Fun” Appliance You Never Use” … oops! And chipped dishes but if I got rid of those we wouldn’t have enough dishes!
I def had the cupcake dolls as a kid. I also remember having the ones that would fly and spin around if you pulled the string. We had the best toys in the 90s.