What will be the next it item this season?

[rennea]

I think the "IT" item will be the Mega Scraper...only because Murphy seems to show up everywhere. If we are on short supply, they will sell.

Oh Janet I really think your right on this.

 

[janetupnorth]

ROFL! Too true! (btw, I thought for a second you were talking about me - that's my last name!)

Too funny, now I'll have to say "oh no, Cathy's at it again" and everyone will look at me wierded than they already do!!!!

 

[cathyskitchen]

Too funny, now I'll have to say "oh no, Cathy's at it again" and everyone will look at me wierded than they already do!!!!

Hahaha!! It would make complete sense to me, though!

 

[salthechef]

So does anyone know when we should receive the products we earned from November Sell-A-Thon?

 

[JAE]

Supposed to ship for delivery by Jan. 25.
My favorite products are the ones that I earned free with the sellathon!
I don't know what people willl like. I'm always amazed at what people purchase. I'm looking forward to the scrapers because I always scrape everything out and hate it if I can't, like in the ketchup bottle.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Supposed to ship for delivery by Jan. 25.
My favorite products are the ones that I earned free with the sellathon!
I don't know what people willl like. I'm always amazed at what people purchase. I'm looking forward to the scrapers because I always scrape everything out and hate it if I can't, like in the ketchup bottle.

I'm thinking that here in this very Dutch, very Frugal Community, that micro-skinny scraper will go over very well! My DH always puts bottles of condiments back in the fridge with barely anything left in them.....upside down, so those 2 drops left can drain to the top......I usually throw them away when he's not looking. But I know that he does that because he's Dutch!

 

[chefann]

<snip>...My DH always puts bottles of condiments back in the fridge with barely anything left in them.....upside down, so those 2 drops left can drain to the top......I usually throw them away when he's not looking. But I know that he does that because he's Dutch!

I do that, too. And I'm not Dutch - I'm Polish.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

I do that, too. And I'm not Dutch - I'm Polish.

Maybe you are from Polish/Dutch descent? Very rare, but it can happen!

(Actually in GR - not so rare. The half of GR that is not Dutch, is Polish....)

 

[crystalscookingnow]

Or German..... My MIL doesn't throw anything away. She would find that slipped in the trashcan almost empty ketchup bottle in the garbage & pull it out. Then she would wash it & save the bottle for something she might need in a few years. She has old phone books from the 70's & 80's just so that she can look up where people used to live.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Or German..... My MIL doesn't throw anything away. She would find that slipped in the trashcan almost empty ketchup bottle in the garbage & pull it out. Then she would wash it & save the bottle for something she might need in a few years. She has old phone books from the 70's & 80's just so that she can look up where people used to live.

AAAHHHH! My DH is Dutch/German! When we got married - he had 2 cupboards full of old butter tubs, and cool-whip tubs. He was really ticked off when I threw them all out......because he might need them for something. I gently reminded them that we will continue to buy butter and cool whip, and there would always be an endless supply of them coming in and out of the house. I now save a couple at a time for him to put in the back garage for to save for a rainy day!

 

[wadesgirl]

My grandpa used to add pickle juice to the ketchup bottle to get the last little bit out. Was fine when you are having hamburgers but pickle flavored ketchup doesn't go so well with french fries! Must be a German thing.

 

[crystalscookingnow]

I'm sure that their frugal-ness has everything to do with how they grew up, but man, there's a point when it needs to stop.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

AAAHHHH! My DH is Dutch/German! When we got married - he had 2 cupboards full of old butter tubs, and cool-whip tubs. He was really ticked off when I threw them all out......because he might need them for something. I gently reminded them that we will continue to buy butter and cool whip, and there would always be an endless supply of them coming in and out of the house. I now save a couple at a time for him to put in the back garage for to save for a rainy day!

And, my 3.5 yr old DS has inherited this gene. I have just now finished throwing away the boxes to toys he got for Christmas....he wanted to save them all, so I had to sneak them out one at a time! He wants to save the wrapping that comes around everything, and he routinely checks the garbage can to see if I've thrown away anything "good". And he's only 3!

 

[crystalscookingnow]

Sounds like my 3 yo, too. She spends a lot (sometimes too much) of time with g-ma & she comes home trying to clean everything & screams at me when I throw things away. Drives me nuts.

 

[wadesgirl]

My BIL taught my 8 year old neice the wonders of dumpster diving. It was pretty bad when I caught her trying to find something for her brother's bday and offered to take her to the dollar store and find him something nice! But I do have to say they have found some nice stuff that my sister always shakes her head at when she mentions where he found it at!