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Rubber gloves singly.

I just busted a left-hand one and my first thought was "great, I have loads of left-hand gloves lying around to replace it!" (Because I usually bust the right one and I can't bring myself to throw perfectly good gloves away). ((And no, I can't turn them inside out, I have to use the super-sensitive-skin flock-lined latex free ones and they are not reversible.))

Did you know that if you turn them insi ... oh, you do. Bugger.

Okay, schmarty, turn your HAND inside out to make it fit the glove.


Multi-shot condoms?

Wear 'em backwards, it only feels weird for a minute...:)

Tried that, doesn't work with these. I still think selling them singly is the answer.

They should sell bic lighters that let you know they're about to run out of fuel.

Capn, buy the white ones. If you hold them up to the light you can see the fluid level.

Shop assistants think I am weird. Little do they know.

I refuse to have any color but blue. Superstitious? Yes.

Shake them then, you can feel the weight sloshing around.

Jab it with a knife...if nothing comes out it is empty.

You should get one of those 10 inch Bics.


I have a thing with Bic lighters where as soon as they come out of the outer packaging I have to peel the label off. If you wait too long it gets gooey and leaves a sticky residue. I can always pick my lighter out when partying with friends, I just look for the one without the label.

But seriously? I always have a few lying around and I know they quit working when...they, um, don't work anymore. Grab another one! But I'm clever like that.

Everybody I know peels their labels, so that won't work for me. I have a beautiful Zippo, but never remember to pick up fluid for it.

As far as gloves ... I don't really use the kitchen style, just keep a huge box of the non-latex type in the linen closet.

And I have a big load that end up coming home in my pockets from work, those I throw into a gift bag I keep under the bathroom cabinet.

1001 uses, those things.

Don't you get those transparent ones here?

Never seen a transparent BIC, but if you have a strong enough light you can see through most of the colors. Right now I have purple and dark green, and it works with both of them.

The really cheap lighters are transparent. I have a perfectly clear one at the moment. I don't know why Bic doesn't make theirs transparent, too.

In this day and age, why aren't refillable lighters more common?

People can't be bothered to refill 'em - not when you can get a brand new one for as little as 70 cents. :cool:

I guess these aren't BIC
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NO. And they suck!

Really?
:bj2:

And how much do they cost?

Oh please. If you have to ask you can't afford one.

:talk to the hand:

Ba dum dum

the bottom of a bic is a semi translucent white. if you lie it on it's side, you can tell how much is in it.

http://blog.renaissance-art.com/wp-c...and-bobbin.jpg

HEY! That's my lighter! Is there a label on the other side? :eyebrow:

I try to keep an extra one around, but guess when mine runs out. That's right. I've noticed they last six times longer since I quit smoking weed.

They're an excellent tool for opening bottles.

Figured out where bic lighters go when people are through with them
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/u...otist/chic.jpg

..ahem...
NOT a Bic™

They should sell hot dog buns in the same number as they sell hot dogs.

And they should sell hamburger buns in packs of 4.

both are sold in 8s or 16s here.....


Why? Are burgers sold in 4s? If we ever buy pre-prepared it's always in bulk for a party, so I just wouldn't know, but 4 would be damned inconvenient for us.

and buns are 12.




We don't buy for a party. We buy for less than a party and the rest tend to go bad before use.

That albatross photo is one of the most depressing things I have seen in a long time.

I have to agree.:yeldead:

"both" = sausage and buns. maybe we can get 12s in buns too, but I never buy them -I get buns to match dogs. You poor thing.


right, but that doesn't answer the question. :rolleyes:.

You can freeze the buns you know.

You can freeze them, but they tend to get dried out if left in the freezer too long. This is one of my pet peeves - things always seem packaged for families. Since I live alone, I am forever breaking down packages of stuff and throwing food in the freezer. Then I forget what I have in there. (sigh)

My wife freezes them all the time. And then you pull them out and they thaw.... wet, and crumble, and taste like crap compared to fresh. The only good thing is we feed them to the fish in the ponds and they don't care that they taste like ass or have green stuff on them. :D

you can donate them to homeless shelters.

Is it not true that the packaging is often a large part of the cost, so smaller packs are not significantly cheaper? -that's why there aren't the small packages -the bigger packs are so much better value that not enough people buy the smaller packs to make them worthwhile.

You could join a shopping co-op and if you can't ding one, start one. split larger packs.

Or "pass it forward". Pass on spare buns to your small family neighbors and hope that they return the favor

try freezing them in ziplock bags rather than or as well as the original packaging. You can reuse the ziplocks.

I thought it was self evident. Because there are a lot of people out there who don't need to buy for a family, for kids, or for anyone else. And buying them in packs of four would meet the needs of 2 people. And they would stay fresh.

We do. Still so much goes to waste. I was thinking that one of those vacume pack things might work better but the last thing we need is another kitchen toy.

but the question was "are burgers sold in 4s?" If it was self evident, I wouldn't have asked. I even explained why I didn't know. Are you sure you're smart? :p

you are right though re "they should sell......"


;)

They should sell great big cans of STFU for when people like me are having days like this :)

They do sell them in packs of 4, in Kroger, at the meat counter, just to the left of the steaks.

You know what I wanna see? This isn't a product you can buy, but you use it for buying stuff -- I want grocery carts with locking wheels. You know how it is, your grocery parking lot is on a slope, so you gotta hang onto the cart with one hand while opening the car trunk with the other, and if you dare let go . . . runaway cart! Or else it bangs into your car. If they can do it for baby strollers, why can't they do it for grocery carts? They're basically glorified baby strollers anyhow. Seems pretty obvious to me.

Oooh you must have a posh Kroger. It's catfish bits to the left of the steaks here. And garlic to the left of the stakes, on sale this week.

Our Kroger has 4-packs of burgers too, fwiw.

OTOH, if you ask me, Kroger meat is so nasty it's not worth buying, especially the ground crap.

Our Kroger just has Tupacs behind the meat counter.

word up, yo

Wouldn't vacuum packing crush the shit out of bread products?

I think it just sucks the air out but I can't really tell you for sure how it would work with bread products. And given that bread has lots of air in it you could be quite right. I was trying to think of a way to remove or reduce the moisture content, which I would assume is mostly in the air artificially introduced when you put them in freezer bags. But again I could be over analyzing the thing as I do with many things I think about.

I have a very nice vacuum sealer and it would turn a loaf of bread into a brick in no time flat.

Shelters, soup kitchens, and foodbanks are very particular about what they accept ... no open packages. Fresh unopened only.

(also, not all shelters around here feed people. The residents are responsible for feeding themselves, although the shelter does provide help with various vouchers and information about nutritional resources.)

then mail them to ann arbor -they take fresh opened bread here. :lol:

As with SamIAm, I have often lamented the poor choice available to single shoppers. But truth is, if you have a freezer, or a market near you, and/ or you're counting the pennies - you can make it work. Just does take a bit more time and effort. But then again so does looking after a family.

I separate and freeze items on date of purchase. Works equally well with FRESH bread products if eaten within a month. If it's grim when you get it out, throw it out for the birds, I mean you've paid the money anyway. If you're hungry enough you'll eat it, trust me.

Markets sell everything singly. From one egg to one sausage to one courgette. Doesn't have the same eat-by dates as a supermarket, but if you are prepared to shop twice weekly you will be okay. Just takes a little more meal planning.

Of course since I moved in the with 'rents I've benefitted from a far larger freezer, and can buy larger packs of discounted meat (Sunday morning, Sainsbury's - fantastic) that we will use in family meals, or meals for Mum and me.
I do admit I am so excited that I'm buying meat for 3 + 1 leftover I get carried away. Dad moans, "Can't get anything in the bloody freezer!" and I sulk. But it's only really about not having to separate into single portions.

And making a list.

Why don't they sell single gloves?
Because they want you to buy another pair.
I'd send you all our right handed ones (Dads is usual dishwasher and is left handed, so that's the one that wears out) but Mum uses the lone right ones when Grandad or the cats have an accident. Put a sign up somewhere in the neighbourhood. You might find a similarly thrifty lefty :)

I don't use hamburger buns anymore. I just make hamburger sandwiches using two slices of regular bread. Works fine for me.

Meurgh!
I just don't eat hamburgers.

Each to their own of course, but an ex tried to con me that rolling bread round hotdogs was the same as proper hotdogs. Did not compute.

And the ex conning me was not an ex con. FTR.

3 hours of naptime in an orthogonal dimension.

Napalm...?

Singles of every songs on every album.

Single socks to replace the ones kidnapped by the dryer.

Pints of motor oil.

They do. Download.

If you buy all your socks the same this is not longer a problem until you get to the last one, which probably has a hole by then.

They do, it's just marketed differently. It's called Guinness :guinness:

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