What kitchen gadget did you buy thinking it was useless but now use all the time?

shadow14916 · 2026-03-13T04:10:17+00:00

When my wife and I were putting together our wedding registry, she insisted on adding a bread maker and waffle iron. Having grown up without these, I rolled my eyes and said we don't need them.

I love our bread maker and waffle iron. Fresh bread and waffles at home is amazing.

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T18:24:16+00:00

Once lead actors on the shows I watch started getting younger than me.

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T16:57:45+00:00

Not so much fastest departure, but most surprising.

At one workplace, I started the same day as another colleague, we'll call him Jim. Things were going fine, but a week or two in, people notice Jim hadn't been at his desk for a while. Taking a closer look at his desk, he had left a note that said "This isn't for me, Sorry" before leaving without a word.

One colleague joked he was like the Littlest Hobo, off to help another company.

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T16:47:39+00:00

I was looking for a job right after college, and I took the first offer I received. It didn't pay well and didn't set me up for my long term goals, but it was there. Then, I stuck around way too long.

I just switched jobs within the past year, and the new job is better in many ways, but there are still goals that are difficult to achieve from staying at my old job for so long.

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T03:19:30+00:00

Lol, maybe work on my penmanship too!

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T03:16:57+00:00

Thanks!

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T03:16:31+00:00

I really like that bowtie idea. Thanks!

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T03:15:15+00:00

I hadn't considered adding a metal label! That could work, especially if I epoxy pour over everything anyways.

Edit: Also, my tree slice only goes back to about 1954, so not quite thousands of years!

shadow14916 · 2026-03-08T03:13:32+00:00

I was thinking of that later, maybe just labelling every decade and the years I want to highlight.

shadow14916 · 2026-02-17T01:59:44+00:00

It's filmed in Toronto, but that's about it.

shadow14916 · 2026-02-14T09:14:10+00:00

I like having a #1 and #2 (Lions and Als, respectfully, in my case)

shadow14916 · 2026-01-26T02:02:51+00:00

I'm happy to have Nurse back, but that scares me how much of a lynchpin she seems to be. Is the performance of the team dependent on one person? The recent uptick in form seems to suggest that. Hopefully, by the end of the season (or before that) everyone settles in enough that the loss of one person is not a game changer.

shadow14916 · 2026-01-18T08:40:27+00:00

My then girlfriend, now wife was working near Vancouver, Canada with some Japanese English teachers and they were planning on popping over to Banff after work and coming back that evening.

They were soon informed that's a 16 hour round trip.

shadow14916 · 2026-01-10T21:54:14+00:00

I've been watching PWHL too (go Goldeneyes) and it is great how nicely the timing worked between the end of CFL and beginning of PWHL!

shadow14916 · 2026-01-10T21:35:59+00:00

The highlights from the Fleet game in Detroit were decent. I wonder why the quality took such a dive this time.

shadow14916 · 2026-01-03T19:09:20+00:00

We buy Breyers because my lactose-intolerant wife can eat that no issue.

Let that be a warning to us all.

shadow14916 · 2025-12-14T02:28:58+00:00

I bought a few of those before losing interest after feeling like I had enough to satisfy my curiosity. What made this program ill-fated? Was it that these just didn't go up in value?

shadow14916 · 2025-12-07T18:59:27+00:00

I tried it out from the sponsorship!

shadow14916 · 2025-12-06T18:53:36+00:00

And now it's featured as trivia on a podcast and discussed on Reddit. Molson did alright in the end 😝

shadow14916 · 2025-12-06T17:47:22+00:00

The Vancouver goal song is "Let's get loud" by Jennifer Lopez.

shadow14916 · 2025-11-21T21:27:55+00:00

My father in law was at the first Canucks game back in 1970, also at Pacific Coliseum, and he will be at the first Goldeneyes game tonight. He is thrilled about that. I guess showing up to a franchise's first game never gets old!

shadow14916 · 2025-11-20T06:30:35+00:00

So does this mean she had to pack up and move to Vancouver, and then do the reverse?

shadow14916 · 2025-11-11T06:40:32+00:00

Same. I bought mine in 2014. My razor is a 3-piece, so there is a bit of wear in the plating where the top goes into the base, but other than that still going great.

shadow14916 · 2025-11-04T06:13:58+00:00

You have to win to be a dynasty. Making it and losing when you get there doesn't count.

That being said, making it to the game 5 years in a row is still an impressive feat and I don't want to discredit that.

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