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Myth # 1: Children Want to Sit on Santa's Lap.
Truth: I took our daughter to see the president of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance --- well, Santa Claus.
Our child didn't want to sit on Santa's lap, which can only mean one thing --- we're raising her right. I don't know about you, but we teach our child never to talk to strangers, especially if they offer you a gift. But Christmas season rolls around and we're like, "Honey, go sit on that man's lap and tell him what you want for Christmas." Our four-year old looked at us like, "Are you testing me?"
Have you witnessed parents dragging their children to see Santa? They're pulling the kid by the arms while the kid is digging his heels into the ground like a cat about to be bathed. "Sit on Santa's lap." The child's screaming, "No!" "Look! It's Christmas and you are going to march right on by that elf and sit on Santa's lap." "Noooooooooo!" "Come on!"
Pulling, dragging, screaming, kicking. "Nooooooooooooooooo!"
Oh, there's a lovely picture. What a Christmas memory to cherish --- crying on Santa's lap.
Myth # 2: Christmas Season Ends on Christmas Day.
Truth: There is a holiday the day after Christmas day called "Boxing Day." After spending a week with your relatives and in-laws, how appropriately named --- because if I have to spend another hour with you people there's going to be a "Head Butt Day".
Myth # 3: It's the Thought That Counts.
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Myth # 4: The Younger You Are the More Gifts You Should Get.
Truth: You know what I don't like about the holidays? It's this rule of Christmas: the younger you are the more gifts you get. My sister's pregnant. The fetus has more presents under the tree than I do.
The kid doesn't even have feet yet, why does he need a stocking?
I tell you what a great gift for a newborn baby is --- a spice rack.
Hey, that's what they got the baby Jesus for Christmas --- frankincense, and myrrh? Come on, that's a spice rack. They might have been three wise men, but they were bad shoppers.
Myth # 5: Christmas Can Be Cancelled.
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"Wow, mom, that is some power you weld. If you have the power to cancel Christmas, Ma, maybe you can do something about all those starving children you tell us about at dinnertime? Use your power for good, Mom."
Myth # 6: Santa Purchased His Sleigh from Hans Solo.
Truth: My older brother Jimmy would stand with the back door slightly cracked and yell, "There he is! It's Santa Claus. Hurry! There he is! There he is! There he is! Come on!"
I'm making a mad dash for the door.
"There he is!" There's still hope. "He's in the sky."
I'm at the door.
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Apparently, Santa bought his sleigh from Hans Solo because I always just missed Santa and his warp speed sleigh. I fell for this five times a day. My brother would spot Santa and a millisecond before I get there --- he's gone. Completely vanished.
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Where have all the children gone?
by Ray Appen
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Where have all the children gone?
Longtime passing
Where have all the children gone?
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What has happened to childhood and youth as we used to know it? What have we done to screw it up so badly? It seems like every day we hear about another tragic loss another kid who couldn't cope. My youth was so different so much easier and more forgiving than what most kids face today. It breaks my heart.
When I was a kid, on Saturdays, I would head out early in the morning and my mother would not see or hear from me again until dinner time. We had no contact all day long. I played army and hide-and-seek. I fished. I hiked. I explored along the rocky (coquina) banks of the Indian River looking for treasures and sometimes slicing my feet wide open on the razor sharp oyster shells and barnacles that grew on the rocks. But the bleeding always stopped. I remember we used to wade into the salt water with gigs in hand and hunt stingrays and blow fish until the sun started to set or we got hungry. It never got old and time seemed to slow to a crawl.
We used to play tackle football in the shadow of a wall of towering Australian pine trees in a field behind my friend's house. Her parents kept it mowed and in hindsight, I now see that that field didn't just happen to be there; it was very deliberate and played a central role in the lives of the entire neighborhood for many years. The pine trees stick in my mind because I remember the day we were building forts high in the pines when one of my friends fell and split his head wide open. He missed landing on a piece of steel by inches. My mother, who happened to be a nurse, packed us all into her old station wagon and drove him to the clinic where my father proceeded to stop the bleeding and close up the split in his skull with I believe close to a hundred stitches. Back then, the same doctor delivered babies, operated and also made house calls.
The football games we played in that field were intense and played with few rules or organization. We played with wild abandon no pads, no time outs, no age or gender limits and no holds barred; and everyone played. I remember blocking one of the big kid's punts with my face one time and being so surprised that I couldn't feel the pain. Scrapes, friction burns, contusions and occasional bloody noses were the rule. We seldom kept score and just played until we got too tired to move. Then afterward, we'd often go swimming in my friend's pool or retire inside to make floats with abundant scoops of vanilla ice cream and Coca-Cola poured from green 8-ounce bottles.
Growing up I ran track, played football and baseball and swam on the swim team year round. If you wanted to play, you just went out for the team. Everyone got to bat. Everyone swam in the meets. Everyone participated because participating was a bigger priority than winning. Engagement was more important than achievement. Being part of a team being part of something bigger than you helped keep us grounded and have empathy for the world around us. Back then, being a kid was not a contest; it was a right and it was a precious rite of passage. And simply, our "age" was our admission ticket. Being a kid was not for sale.
Growing up, I had a father who (at least I thought) was home every night and a mother whose day job was raising us. Almost everyone back then had two parents and life was simple. In general, good behavior was rewarded and bad was punished. If you tried hard, you usually succeeded and if you were a good friend, you usually had good friends. And "good friends were loyal friends." Life was fairly predictable, consistent and orderly most of the time.
So what has changed? Today, if a kid wants to play sports they have to have a hitting coach or a conditioning coach or a fill-in-the-blank coach... by the time they are, what, 6? Feeder teams and travel teams starting before middle school are the prerequisites to even make the junior varsity team, which is usually the prerequisite to be considered for the high school team where only the best get to play.
Feeder teams when I was growing up consisted of a pack of rug rats my friends and I descending on someone's house at lunch and devouring a dozen PB&Js. And I never ever recall my parents having to fork over hundreds of dollars in the name of the almighty feeder teams or any other team. Did they invest their time and energy? Yes, but the central focus was not the checkbook.
Today, I would never be admitted to a decent college. My grades and my test scores would have routed me to junior college if I was lucky. And the only "AP" that I was aware of growing up was the name of a grocery store (A&P) not advanced-level courses that are now unofficially required by the dozen to get into "any decent college."
Today, not only do kids have to attempt to navigate a sea of relentless sports and academic pressure, but on top of that they have to deal with the Internet and social media. Unfettered access to information and unrestricted communication will always be a burden, and the weight of peer pressure amplified, magnified and multiplied by social media is often an overwhelming and unsustainable burden. And is there anyone out there who questions why and how so many of our kids and young adults become self-medicating or self-destructive? Anyone? Who sees the port in the storm out there? Let me know what it looks like if you do.
A friend of mine who lives on a farm recently commented to me that "any parent that has taught their children to stay connected to their siblings or family friends or taught them the ability to find another human being and say 'we need to herd up' has done their job. I watch the barnyard daily and I see that the key to survival and a sense of well-being is the ability to 'group up' when necessary." "Belonging" and being allowed to live and grow up in a way that allows your heart and soul to flourish is missing. By being so connected we are disconnected. By being so educated we have not learned more important skills that help us be true to our own nature. And for what? At the end of the day, what have we accomplished and at what terrible cost?
We need to back off and let our kids have more of a chance to just be kids. We need to listen better and we need to engage more. And finally, we need to seriously question our priorities.
I found an old journal the other day in which my then 16-year-old daughter had made a few notes. I know she was processing in her mind her dad's unspoken and heavy handed push to "achieve" on my terms not hers. Reading what she wrote was very hard for me. She wrote that she would "never be a doctor, scientist or biologist ... for while all those benefit the world, they do little for what is important to me...I want to leave (this world) not by having made others live longer, but by helping them live at all... I want to help them engage in the beauty of the earth and in each other...I want to make people think and feel alive...I want (to help) people be inspired." In a world of cutthroat competition, overbearing parents and a culture obsessed with achievement at the expense of almost everything else including happiness, what place do thoughts and ideas such as these have today? Is there one at all?
From the mouth of a child, amen. Where have all the children gone?
This article was published in the Revue & News April 25, 2013 edition
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I agree with Rayâs op page.
April 30, 2013 | 01:44 PM
My youngest graduates from West Forsyth HS in May. There is a lot of pressure on kids with school and sports and it is crazy, but we parents are to blame. Also, the major universities are to blame in raising the entry requirements so high that even a 4.0 no longer guarantees entrance. If that is meant as a âfilterâ to try to limit the volume of applicants to University of Georgia, for example, and force kids to go to the other state schools to balance them out, then that creates a ripple effect into the high schools, thus creating/pushing the AP and IB classes. When my âseniorâ played rec sports in fourth through sixth grades (baseball, football mainly, then soccer in middle school and up), I witnessed a lot of parents who put their kid into âfeederâ or âselectâ teams. They spent thousands per year along with travel all over the state. Instead of rec season being less than 20 games, these select schedules were greater than 60 games with practice every night and countless tournaments occupying weekends.
The âstarsâ at sixth grade then are either not playing sports in high school or are playing a completely different sport. Either due to being burnt out or the fact that the other kids are now the stars as they matured and the former stars are now just average and canât handle the fact that they no longer are the best, so they left the sport. Once again, the major college programs are so focused on winning, along with the media, that the recruiting process into the high school sports creates the ripple effect that your kid doesnât stand a chance of making the high school team with significant playing time if you donât have the child participate in the select programs in middle school at least.
I recorded the recent âDecade of the â80sâ shows and I am a product of the early â80s.
We are the decade of the âI want it nowâ and âItâs all about me, not the teamâ credos that were popular then. I graduated high school in 1982 and I didnât realize it as I was living life then.
I can see it now as I watch the series. As parents, I guess many of us, whether school or sports, have pushed our kids into this frenzy coupled with the social media explosion and wonder why our kids are so stressed out.
I was competitive then, I recall, but we had no real coaching or specialized coaching around. You had ânext levelâ or advanced classes, but not really college level classes.
A âBâ average in core grade point average meant you could get into any college.
I think back to my baseball/football days and I was above average. I started â" I played even without the advanced coaching.
Now that our generation had kids in sports, just think how good theyâd be with advanced coaching we never had.
I think the intentions were good. It just gets out of hand, like many other things in life. Parents canât see it because weâre too caught up in it trying to make things better for our kids and it backfires. I saw it firsthand as a âdad-coachâ for rec baseball and football here in Forsyth County when my son was in fourth through sixth grades.
My son wasnât a star back then, so maybe my view is twisted as we didnât force him into select. Some of the kids were stars back then comparatively. Maybe they wanted to compete at a higher level â" nothing wrong with that if itâs their decision. But, the parents could have kept this in check. Twenty games of âselectâ still makes sense versus 60-plus and endless tournaments that went into July. No summer vacation for the kids or parents. My son left baseball/football and started to play fall/spring rec soccer from seventh grade on. I got to be a âdadâ again and enjoyed him playing soccer, a sport I knew very little about cause it wasnât popular growing up in the Midwest. Interesting isnât it. He never played âselectâ and now a senior in high school; he still plays rec level soccer and thoroughly enjoys it. Hmm.
So many of his friends no longer play the sport they were âselectâ in. They either quit due to burnout, got into drugs, play rec or turned to another sport.
Ever wonder why/how boysâ lacrosse got so popular in our county over the past three to five years? No disrespect to lacrosse (another sport I know nothing about), but it would be an interesting poll to find out how many came from another sport where they were once âstars.â
Credit them for still playing organized team game though. I wonder if there is a select lacrosse league yet and specialized coaches?
So here we are. Enter the stress, depression, anxiety attacks, suicides, parental divorces (which influences the preceding issues).
Seems like a lot of people I know have or are getting divorced. I guess society (us) made that even competitive and easier and for only a few $100 bucks. Funny, Iâm still happily married to my high school sweetheart after more than 25 years. She didnât play sports or go to college. Hmm.
Maybe the word is âbalance.â Could be a new career, a âbalance coachâ for sports and education.
Jerry Sanders
Forsyth County
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April 30, 2013 | 02:14 PM
Ray I want to thank you for your article on "Where have all the children gone?". We all needed to hear this. I have a sixteen year old son who is struggling with a lot of the things you mentioned in the article. I was born in 1961 and I share a lot of the same childhood memories that you do. Oh what a blessing!!
Can I find this article on line? I would like to share it with friends. Thanks again!
Regards, Paul Hicks
where have all the children gone
April 30, 2013 | 02:17 PM
I was the third and final child in my parents' tumultuous marriage. I spent my childhood on my scooter, my skates, my bicycle and finally on my toes. They gave us love, discipline, manners, and freedom. Mother taught us survival skills and showed us how to plan everything. Dad taught us about the glorious physical world around us and how to imagine and dream! They also showed me what I didn't want in a marriage...the most valuable of all their gifts. At one time I thought I had been deprived as a child. Now I know I had it all! Your beautifully worded article resonated with me as I have been asking myself the same question. Why do parents obsess over their children? Why must their children be perfect? Where have all the children gone? Perhaps they have gone into hiding. Perhaps it is too difficult to be a child today.
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PS: I think you and my husband must have played on the same football team!
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April 30, 2013 | 02:20 PM
The picture: I found one of my brother and me getting ready to "ride double" to the community swimming pool about 2 miles away. I held the bathing suits wrapped in towels and held on to him at the same time! To get to the pool we had two major hills and no usable sidewalks through our town but the smell of chlorine beckoned us. Getting there was part of the adventure. We had no fear. The photo was taken around 1947 when my brother was 11 and I was 10. Mother gave each of us 25 cents and told us to watch for traffic and be home by 5:00. Fast forward to today: our parents would have been arrested for child cruelty and abandonment.
I don't know how to scan but I thought I would get Office Depot to do it for me tomorrow. What is your deadline?
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Where have all the children gone
April 30, 2013 | 02:24 PM
Thank you for such a well written opinion piece in the recent Johns Creek Herald. Not only have I cut it out, but have also underlined specific points. Our children are almost all gone now, however, my husband ( of 30 years) and I appreciated this piece more than you will ever know.Your eloquence is to be congratulated.
We were fortunate to have raised our children prior to the onslaught of all the private coaching elements so prevalent today. However, our children were blessed with focus and drive. Our oldest was a 5 time All American at UGA (swimming) and received numerous awards while there. Her humility was one of her best assets. As her mother, I possess none! Our middle child played football and baseball at Notre Dame. He was a pleasure to watch from bleachers as well. Our youngest is still in school, and quips that he will have to find the cure for cancer to keep up with his siblings. Not so. They each have their gifts.
I underlined several well thought out segments to share with each of them. "Engagement was more important than achievement." is a line to cherish as they age and have separated from the intensity of the teams they have been parts of. I only hope they will appreciate your words as much as I did.
Thanks again. Here's a photo from my childhood. Not sure this is what you wanted, but I happened to have it on my iPad. I do have others, but it will take some looking...
Thank you.
Deanna Maust
(a faithful reader of your paper)
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Your column
April 30, 2013 | 02:26 PM
Hi Ray:
I just felt the need to say "thanks". Your article, Where have All The
Children Gone, was insightful and touched my heart. We must have had
similar childhoods, but as a girl, I had the freedom to turn my house
into a fort Barbies and stuffed animals. We held performances on our
front porch "stage" where every kid had a star role and a few lines to
speak. Our parents encouraged us to use our imaginations and be
creative. Sidewalk chalk drawings decorated our driveway. So, I
understand the value in being a "kid" and I tried to give that to my
girls, as well. We didn't have any family nearby, so friends became
family - Uncle and Aunt so and so...
My girls are 23 and 26 now. They are very close to each other; even
though they live in separate states and away from me. They are
self-sufficient and I am so very proud of them. I am going to share
your write-up commentary with them. Someday, when they have families
of their own, I hope they will remember to "let the children
play"...it builds character and self-esteem!
Thanks again!!!!
Your friend,
Robbi Carrier
North Fulton
Send us your childhood photo
April 30, 2013 | 02:34 PM
My column seems to have touched you - at least some of you. We all I think have lived in a time when things were different - and we miss that time. WE also hurt some for our kids and grandkids who must live in a far different world. So, for fun, we would like to invite anyone who is interested to send me a childhood photo that is important to you or that touches part of you along with a few sentences of explanation and we'll try to run them in the paper. I think it could be fun and worthwhile. Email to firstname.lastname@example.com and attach the photo. If you can't attach a photo have your kid or the neighbors kid do it for you!! Ray 770-5217-4042
Ray Appen
May 23, 2013 | 08:21 AM
Ray, What a fine article that touched me deeply...I googled your title thinking of blogging after hearing a similar story like mine of adult children's broken relationships from a friend. Numerous responses herein are from adults the age of our children...so now we have grandparents
wondering too where have all our children gone?
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The A. R. Wentz Library will now have comprehensive holdings in Thomas Merton and C.S. Lewis, as well as medieval theologians such as Meister Eckhart, Bonaventure and Abelard. The crown of the collection, however, is its outstanding collection highlighting the life and work of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), reformer, conciliarist, theologian, writer on mysticism, and cardinal. These volumes will add to the Seminary's already substantial holdings and help make it one of the outstanding centers for Cusanus studies in North America. The Bond collection will be dedicated during the biennial Gettysburg Conference on October 13, 2012. Learn more about the American Cusanus Society at: www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/cusanus/cusanus.html
With much effort and research carried out by Drs. Gerald Christianson, Peter Casarella, Tom Ryan and Bond's daughter, Stephanie White, it was decided that all of Bond's books would be transferred to the Gettysburg Seminary campus.
On December 2-4, 2011, Dr. Christianson, Dr. Eric Crump and the Rev. Donald Motaka packed, loaded, and moved the books from Larry's home in Deep Gap, N.Carolina, to Gettysburg. "If you are what you eat," remarked Motaka, "H. Lawrence Bond was what he read. The myriad shelves and open spaces (Larry had four desks in his library, a converted two and a half car garage) made a living presence of the man, who though I'd never met him, was as real to me that day as anyone I've ever known. We found, among his countless CDs, 'The Greatest Hits of Elvis Sung in Latin.' In my own hands I held the very diploma from Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee that even his daughters had not seen. Then there were the bookmarkers; whole slews of them. Most were cash register receipts from lunch spots or coffee breaks. But among them were poignant revelations, like Larry's last appointment at the oncology clinic."
The library staff welcomes the new addition to its collection. "The Wentz Library has had the unique honor of receiving the Bond Collection," said B. Bohleke, "which gives students and scholars of medieval theology and Christianity access to invaluable publications."
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So the Federal Reserve reconfirmed that it intends to keep interest rates at historically low levels for the foreseeable future. Low rates are good if you are borrowing money, but aren't so great if you are lending money. This will continue to hinder the businesses of companies with rate related businesses.
What is this thing called "Float?"
Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) has an incredible business model. The company handles payroll processing for large corporations using its own internal systems. Thus, adding a new customer has some upfront costs, but costs virtually nothing once the customer is set up. That's a material amount of leverage. Moreover, customers don't like to switch payroll providers because of the hassle involved. So ADP's business tends to produce annuity like income streams.
The best part of the business, however, is probably "the float." In order for ADP to process a payroll it must receive money from its business customers prior to sending any money to its customers' employees. That means that ADP usually has a large cash balance sitting around for a up to a few days before it is scheduled to get pushed out the door as payroll checks. While ADP doesn't own the money, it controls it. That money sitting around is "the float."
Other People's Money
Since ADP controls that money, it can put it to work by investing it. While the payroll processor could invest the cash in the stock or bond markets, such investments carry material risks. Since ADP will have to make up any capital shortfalls, it clearly doesn't want to take on market risk. So, instead, it invests in short term investments that are, for the most part, 100% safe. Such investments tend to key off of the prevailing interest rate, which is currently so close to zero that ADP isn't making much money off "the float."
Add in the slow economy, and a once robust business isn't looking quite as good. That goes doubly for ADP's competitor Paychex (NASDAQ: PAYX). The float is a material part of Paychex' business, too, but this company's focus is on small- and mid-size businesses. Since smaller companies have been hit harder by the recession and slow recovery, Paychex's business has suffered much more than ADP's. Both companies are trying to branch out into additional areas, most notably human resource functions, but these efforts simply can't make up for the double whammy of a slow economy and the virtual complete loss of income from "the float."
Not "Float", But Just As Important
The Insurance industry is another area that feels the pinch of low interest rates for a similar reason. While insurance companies don't have "float," they do receive money today for services that may be provided tomorrow if something "bad" happens. So while the accounting underpinning the insurance industry is very complex, the basic business model in the space is pretty simple: Take money from customers for the promise of insurance overage and invest that money profitably over time.
Indeed, insurance companies make a great deal of money by investing the premiums they receive up front. In fact, there are times when insurance companies are willing to lose money on an insurance policy just to get money to invest. While there is clearly more going on at an insurance company than this simplification, a quick look at the long-term success of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) is, perhaps, the perfect example. The so-called oracle of Omaha basically uses the insurance shell to fund his company's stock investments.
This has worked out quite well for Buffett and Berkshire shareholders, and it has also worked out well for some other large insurers over the long-term. That said, it helps explain why the performance of the stock and bond markets is so important in the insurance industry.
However, insurance giant Prudential (NYSE: PRU) recently cut its expectations for long-term stock market and bond market returns by over a full percentage point. That's a huge statement and one that has a massive impact on an insurer's business. A big part of the problem is the Fed's move to keep interest rates low.
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Interest rates are also important for Federated Investors (NYSE: FII), one of the largest money market fund managers. The company provides money market management services for other companies, but with rates so low, the expenses of managing these funds eats up more than the fund makes from their investments. This is clearly bad for Federated in that it has to give fee reductions to keep its money market funds viable. Moreover, with such low rates, investors haven't been inclined to park their cash in a money market fund at all, meaning that Federated also has less assets under management.
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Storing Staples: Are Your Salt and Pepper Out in the Open?
While we're talking about leaving things out on the counter, here's another ingredient that sits on ours: Kosher salt and pepper in little dishes next to the stovetop. This is one of the first things we did when we started cooking regularly- a tip we learned from watching the Food Network many years ago...
We tend to use up these little amounts quickly enough that they don't get dirty or stale. And it's nice to have a well of pepper for measuring out specific amounts, even if you use a mill for grinding super-fresh pepper over most dishes. If you have a spare ramekin, it's the perfect vessel.
We like the feel of pinching salt and pepper between our fingers, plus, having them on the counter reminds us to salt at every stage of cooking. We're not extremely germ-phobic, so we'll even set them on the dinner table for others to use.
What do you keep your salt and pepper in? A box with a lid, like this one? Do you keep any other spices out in the open?
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The only problem I have with this is maybe cross contamination when cooking with poultry. I'll Alton or Michael Chiarello manhandling chicken then pinch-pinch into the grey or kosher salt. It's fine for a show where they can dump the salt after, but for the rest of us? Maybe I will crack some pepper and salt into ramekins during prep so that it's easy to use for that one dish
i have a bamboo container that has a section for salt and one for pepper. it's great to use when cooking. i never use my fingers because i can't stand getting salt or pepper under my nails, so i use a tiny spoon instead. the spoon is also good for not contaminating!
Salt kills germs and nothing can grow in it. I wouldn't worry too much about contaminated salt. Worry more about touching the outside of your salt or pepper container with poultry covered hands.
i used to have a little cup for both salt and pepper, but it was a hassel to grind enough pepper to put in it without it running out every time I cooked.
So instead we settle for a salt and pepper grinder beside the stove. It's essentially the same thing.
I have my salt in a favorite coffee cup I don't want broken; pepper in the grinder. So handy.
I keep both my sea salt and coarse pepper in a ramekin on my stove, since that's what I cook with. For dinner parties I place some in clean sea shells on the table.
I second the comment about contamination. As long as you keep your salt close to the stove, the heat will keep the salt dry and kill off any lingering germs. My salt and pepper are in little stone bowls that I got from Ikea.
I don't use much pepper in cooking so it stays in the cupboard with the other spices and herbs. Salt on the other hand I keep a small lidded jar of kosher salt on the counter right next to the stove. The lid is not because I worry about cross contamination but because I'm clumsy and knock it over from time to time.
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i keep salt on the counter in a small sugar bowl with a lid and a spoon. i just don't like the idea of an open bowl of it, collecting dust.
A shot glass is just about the right size for kosher salt. I keep it near the stove, too.
those are just crying for my daughter to grab them and throw them all over the floor :) maybe when she's older!
I keep my salt in the dispenser it came in and our pepper is in a pepper grinder. There is no way we could keep it open in a bowl as the humidity in the kitchen would make it go yucky. Doesn't your salt clump when it's left out in the open? Ours clumps when we forget to turn the dispenser round to "closed".
I keep kosher salt in a little tea cup that I "borrowed" from a Chinese restaurant back in my college days. It sits on my microwave next to the stove and is so handy! I don't cook meat too often but if I am worried about contamination I portion a small amount into another bowl.
Personally, I think the bowl idea is silly. Whats wrong with a good old fashioned dispenser? I keep my kosher salt in one of those things restaurants use to pour sugar. I may not look cool and trendy but I dont have to worry about knocking it over, or something falling in it.
I first saw it watching Martha Stewart.
If I kept them in open bowls like that they would end up with some cat hair that mysteriously ends up floating into everything. I keep my salt in a lovely old 1.5-cup pyrex refrigerator dish with a lid, and my pepper in a pepper mill.
I don't see much of a downside to having salt out in the open, perhaps it will get slightly dusty.
Pepper, however, has volatile aromatic essential oils that carry the flavor and these will evaporate into room air if left in a open bowl and so never deliver their ummmph to your cooking. That seems wasteful.
No, mostly because I would spill it but wouldn't it also get dusty?
I keep my salt and pepper mills next to my stove. I just grab the one I need, twist it a few times, and get on with cooking. The mills themselves are attractive enough that they can easily go to the table if I'm serving guests.
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As part of Ambiente's trend exhibit, the designers did up a series of found furniture items with colorful tape. It sounds like an unlikely "finish", I know, but trust me, it looked fantastic in person...
Clearly, this isn't something for everyone, as it straddles the line between "installation art" and decor, but the quality that it gave to the way-past-their-prime pieces was very interesting and beautiful.
It really seemed to accentuate the shapes of the items and give a real hand crafted, rough edge appeal to the pieces, which was interesting in combination with the super shiny, bright color finish. Because the tape is not quite opaque, it created interesting patterns on the pieces as the strips of tape overlapped.
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I sorta like it on the tables, for the not so opaque reason you mentioned, but on more organic shapes like the chandelier, It just looks like a messy forgotten about project.
I like it on the tables too. I have these two side tables made of MDF that my friend scratched up really bad when I let her borrow them, and I might actually try this to cover it up.
I also thought of using contact paper or temporary wall paper as well. I'm in the middle of several DIY projects at the moment and want to use whatever is going to make me want to tear my hair out the least.
Definitely want to try this on one of my side tables. What type of tape did they use and where can I get some?
My guess is colored electrical tape would work quite well for this - any hardware store would have it.
the tables look KINDA cool but how would you keep it clean? is there a clear layer over the tape?
Love the effect of the opacity on that yellow table, but how well will these age?
I've had to remove ancient electrical tape from some of my vintage furniture finds -- they're either dried out, crispy, and falling apart or they're sticky, icky, and gooey.
Yeah, I don't think this would age too well . . . you'd probably be better off with shiny spray paint and spray polyurethane.
I'm thinking that paint would be a better option because the tape would not wear well over time.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I would call the chandelier in the last photo if I were searching for one like that on ebay or something. THanks.
this is absolutely a good idea.
That's a new one...even for me!! You thought out of the box, this is for sure..lol
I'm a professional furniture restorer and I also teach refinishing online through our website. I love seeing people succeed with such projects.
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I gave some of these to our deaf cat as a test to see if the noise really mattered--she didn't notice, was just batting them around happily. So yes, the noise adds to the fun, but they also are just fun for the batting
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My cat loves these and cries when she loses them under the couch or behind furniture! The only problem is that she makes so much noise playing with them and I am constantly getting them for her when she loses them.
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Our shelter has a lot of these toys. They are good for cats to play with by themselves in their cages. Since they are hard plastic, they are also easy to clean when they end up in the litter box or food bowl.
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