Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous
My idea gift, which doesn't exist AFAIK (a company was selling them in the UK some years ago but had problems with their roll out product and stopped) is a butter keeper that keeps it spreadable in hot AND cold temps. I have an old house, the kitchen is the coldest part (luckily small, so it warms up if I'm cooking or baking and does not have eat in space). I use a DIY version of the water bell in summer (but only keep a small amount out at a time), in the winter I sometimes put on the radiator with a folded towel underneath (so it doesn'tactually melt) or else just nuke a small piece for a few seconds, but a precision butter temp maintainer thing is the single use appliance I dream of. |
Anonymous
Can you just use one of those little zester kind of knives that make the little strips? |
Anonymous
I am not easily offended, but this would do the trick. |
Anonymous
Same here! I liked my local Ace better when you cloud still buy grass seed (several varieties) by filling paper bags from a dispenser, and when they were still selling nails and screws and such in little paper bags, but I still do like it. Someone mentioned tool kits--I would sooner go for a kit from a hardware store, or a small toolbox and stock it with a variety. Same thing with first aid kits, the ones you buy often have stuff you don't want or need, crappy bandages, and not enough of the practical sizes of bandages. What about an assortment of tape? Buy a nice bamboo storage box (they can use for other stuff if they want) and add in duct tape in different colors, masking, freezer, cellophane, electrical. --PS when our son was little he liked to tape his little cars and trucks together in sort of a train. We talked about, but never get around to it, giving him a box with every kind of tape we could find. I know he would have gone wild for it at that age. Also, we built him a kid size workbench when he was 5, also mounted a small vise on it. His aunt and uncle gave him a small toolbox filled with small versions of real tools--an 8 inch crowbar, tack hammer, small screwdrivers with fat handles, and so on. So what if he put little cars in the vise and pounded them with his hammer. . . . |
Anonymous
I'll do that with a sharp paring knife but its, what's the word?--futzy? (fussy but more so)? I still yearn for the perfect butter keeper. |