What did you buy today?
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Not realy. I don't have TV, so I just put on the radio and do stuff instead of just sitting around being a TV zombie.
The washing up is a little bit of a faff, but part of the game I guess.
I like the feeling of looking at my fridge and seeing home made butter, yoghurt, pickled beets and onions that I've grown myself, shelves of home made jam and chutney.
I know what I'm eating. Nobody has messed with it by adding crappy chemicals or additives. Well worth the "hassle"
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It's also good to keep these skills alive.
A GSI pot scraper, prompted by a vanlife Facebook group's essential items they wouldn’t be without. Pricier than others, but it's a decent hard and soft design that'll save on water usage. And that messy wiping out baked beans pans with kitchen roll or sealing in a carrier bag before stashing in a rucksack.
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This is due to the aspheric focussing lens rather than the LED, it’s inevitable.
Not that you need another but I really like the Sofirn HS21 for its spot/flood/red, or combo of spot and flood. Plus the gesture control so you don’t even need to touch it to change brightness if your hands are full or filthy.
I love duck and goose eggs, but they are impossible to find around where I live.
I would love to have a go at making homemade butter.Saturday afternoon, I found a small kilner butter churn on the shelf of my local charity shop. Made butter with it today.
(Anyone know where I can find a new arm?)
Phew! Hard work! but very satisfying as I now also have half a jug of buttermilk in the fridge, ready to bake a soda bread tomorrow.
Now that would make a wicked omelette!
Only if you understand the language, no? If I saw that brand name I'd assume it was yet another one of those AliExpress and Amazon brands that uses seemingly random combinations of consonants and vowels together!
I think that people who think "just another Chinese generic producer" will be interested the price and the "look". And if the price is low enough and it looks fashionable, they will buy.
I know that I'm certainly not in that population and probably on a statistically insignificant part of the population, but when I see a brand name (or any text of more than about four words) in the Latin, Cyrillic or Greek writing systems, I can tell you what language it is and whether it is probably a real word. Then if I don't already know the word, it's easy to look it up in a dictionary.
I don't speak Finnish, for example (I can count to ten, know a few phrases and the names of the parts of a puukko), but when I see a Finnish word in a page, it's as if it's written in bright red on a black background.
An enviable ability! I was responding to your saying that it's emotional marketing - that is only the case if you know what the word means. Otherwise it can backfire, like it did with me, who dismissed it (revealing some prejudice there) thinking it was just another pump and dump brand.
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