Freezers and Refrigerators, Part II

"If the members of your family have strongly individual tastes, or, to put it another way, are absolutely loathesome to feed, a freezer can simplify things.

"For instance, if someone likes salt-risen bread or pumpernickel and the others won't touch it, you can keep several sorts of bread frozen, if there's room left around the clothes. Frozen bread thaws so fast it's no bother. (And it's one of the few things you can refreeze without hurting it.) Just drop the frozen slices into the toaster and toast. Or, if you want to serve it untoasted, and you're hysterically anxious to thaw it out, you may hold a hot steam iron over each piece." The I Hate to Housekeep Book, by Peg Bracken, page 93

Regarding a Previous Post

Regarding this post: I really only shared that quote for humor purposes only. I am not in favor criminal activities (unless they don't hurt anyone). I never intended to try it, or anyone else to try it. But then I got an email from my mother, informing me that one of the wedding thank-yous I had sent out a week before had been returned to her- I put her address as the return one because it's a permanent one, whereas I don't intend to stay at this address for very long- because it lacked an address, or even a stamp. I thought nothing of this, until my husband pointed out that the letter had essentially been delivered from one state to another, with no postage.

It works!

Though, you probably shouldn't try it at home. You may not get driven away in a paddy-wagon, but it's probably still illegal.

Freezers and Refrigerators, Part I

Saint Peg has so much to say about freezers and refrigerators, and so much of it still applies forty years later, that I had to quote her, but I also had to do it in installments. Here is the first one: "A good thing to do with your freezer is to keep your sneakers in it, on hot summer days. Wash the pair you're not wearing in the washer, dry them in the dryer, then freeze them in cellophane bags. When you finally put your fresh-frozen sneakers on, they'll keep your feet cool for a couple of hours, even in very hot weather. (Bras, girdles and underpants feel better, too, if you keep them refrigerated. Not frozen, though- they'd be too stiff.)"

The I Hate to Housekeep Book, by Peg Bracken, page 93

The U.S. Mail

"When you're out of correspondence envelopes, or don't want to buy any, you can mail the paper you wrote on. Write only on one side, fold the paper in thirds, and seal the open edges with any sort of tape. Then you address and stamp the outside surface, and the Post Office will accept it for first class mailing.

"You can get by without stamps, too, for in-town mailings. Just reverse the positions of your friend's address and your own return address, and omit the stamp. Then the mailman will return the letter to your friend for postage. Next, a big paddy-wagon will drive up and take you away to the federal pokey, for defrauding the U.S. mails. Thus, you've saved five cents, plus board and room for the next twenty years."
The I Hate to Housekeep Book, by Peg Bracken, page 87-88

This doesn't have anything to do with anything, really, it just made me laugh.