Tricks & Tips

🪣 What on Earth Is This Old-Fashioned Kitchen Tool? “I know I got you guys this time! No one knows what this is!” 😂 At first glance, this strange metal contraption looks like something that belongs in a workshop rather than a kitchen. It has a large galvanized-metal body, a sturdy side handle, an internal … Read more

The entire internet collaborated and couldn’t figure out what it was. I’m not sure either; 90% of people don’t know either… Clackers, also known as Lik-Klaks, were popular in the 1970s and remain a favorite among vintage toy collectors today. The toy consists of two plastic balls connected by a string. Swinging the balls back … Read more

🌳 The Vibes I Bring to the Function: When You’d Rather Hug a Tree Than Make Small Talk There are some people who walk into a function ready to mingle, shake hands, make conversation, and work the room. And then there are those people. The ones who arrive, take one look around, quietly disappear toward … Read more

When a couple walked out of the restaurant without paying their $400 bill, I cried because I knew that money would have to come out of my pocket. At the time, it felt like the worst thing that could happen. Instead, it became the luckiest $400 I ever lost. Four hundred dollars was not a … Read more

“Sylvie kept the card in a butter-cookie tin above the stove.” She had put it there the day Walter left, tucking it in with the same hands that had cooked fifty years of meals in that kitchen, and she had not touched it since. Not when the furnace started making its grinding noise in February. … Read more

Nothing is more infuriating at Aldi than when people use those fake quarter cart keys. 😂 And before the fake-quarter people come for me… hear me out. Aldi’s cart system works because the carts basically rotate through checkout. You put your quarter in → you get a cart. You shop → you go through checkout. … Read more

My mother is the kind of woman who apologizes for being sick. I want to say this first because it is the most important thing to understand about her and about everything that happened, the specific quality of a person who has spent seventy years making herself small enough to fit comfortably in other people’s … Read more

🍔 The Great Onion Debate! There are few burger toppings that can completely change the personality of a burger quite like an onion. 🧅🍔 You can take the same beef patty, the same cheese, the same bun and the same sauce—and simply change the onion, and suddenly you have a completely different burger. Should you … Read more

🍳 Sheet-Pan Eggs: The Brilliant Way to Make Runny Eggs for a Crowd There are some breakfast tricks that make you wonder why you didn’t discover them years ago. This is one of them. Instead of standing over a frying pan cooking eggs one or two at a time, imagine cracking an entire dozen eggs … Read more