Oh and I looked at Macy’s and about had a heart attack when I saw the prices. We can afford it, but
Costco was $59.99 per set for 680 count Pima cotton sheets with an extra pillowcase in each set. I’m not sure if Pima cotton is better than other cotton, but they thought it was worth mentioning, so maybe??? Just plain white sheets but whatever. Hopefully the quilts will be pretty. Quilts come with matching shams. I might need to buy more pillows.
Not a super fantastic price, but not highway robbery either. No natural fiber sheets at Macy’s were under $120.
All right! Looks like a paring knife and a ~6” chef’s knife? Great place to start, imo. Make sure to get a sharpener, for years I just used the $20 Wusthof thing in the pic below, I think I got it free with some other purchase. It didn’t seem to get them quite as they came new but did a good job.
I took my cousin, who is a professional chef and has a degree in culinary arts, knife shopping with me and he recommended the Chef’s Choice. He said that while professional chefs use a sharpening steel, for amateurs like me we’ll likely get a better result with the electric sharpener. So on his advice that’s what I bought.
The steel doesnt sharpen so much as straighten the edge restoring the sharpness.
Wetstones, electric and manual sharpeners actually remove material so it sharpens. Wetstones are good for restoring, because you can remove dings and chips from the blade.otherwise, electric is fine
So you dont need to sharpen other than rarely. Most times just using steel will restore sharpness. Once the steel doesnt make the knife sharp, then you fall back to wetstone/sharpener.
Pro tip: lots of folks buy these and don’t seem to use them. I got mine (in chrome!) on eBay for like $45. It’s older but in amazing condition, with box and manual.
bought a $1/week subscription to the digital-only edition of the New York Times for the first year. Specifically now so I can read the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling and annotations. That’s probably worth 30 bucks to me right now, so having access to the rest of the articles (which I’m continually running into the paywall for) is gravy. Likely I’ll cancel sometime around August of next year, when I finally realize I’m paying 17 bucks a month.
I bought a dress form today (like a mannequin thing that you construct clothes on) because in a rather risky, manic move - and only a couple of weeks prior to my wedding - I decided to buy a sewing machine to construct two kid’s bridesmaid dresses from scratch (and succeeded, without looking anything up). I figure I can bang out some rad shit if I use a form that fits my size.
Unfortunately my size is so stupid that I only fit the boob size of a small form, and the hip size of the medium form. I got the medium - I guess I need to stuff.
On behalf of women everywhere, I salute you for your commitment to completing thorough due diligence before making a completely unbiased opinion on this case.
