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The generational battle of butter vs. margarine
"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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> On 6/19/2014 5:19 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:15:37 -0700 (PDT),
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:58:22 PM UTC-7, Je�us wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:36:39 -1000, dsi1
>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> >My Chinese friend was digging holes in the walls and yard of his
>>>>> >grandma's house looking for loot. Never did find much though. That
>>>>> >was
>>>>> >a
>>>>> >hoot.
>>>>>
>>>>> >My wife would find big bucks that her Korean mother would hide around
>>>>> >the house. She hid money and then insist that my wife go looking
>>>>> for it
>>>>> >when she couldn't remember where she put it. It was nutty as shit.
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL <shakes head>
>>>>>
>>>>> >Asians are the craziest people - especially old Asian women.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, perhaps. You ought to try some of the people around here for
>>>>> crazy though 
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>>>> When my aunt's MIL started freaking out about not being able to find
>>>> $20 bills she was sure she had put in her underwear drawer, her kids
>>>> knew she could no longer live on her own.
>>>>
>>>> Not Asian, though.
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>>> I'm already bad with things like my car keys. I have to put them in
>>> the same spot every time, otherwise I'm searching the house and sheds
>>> for them.
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>> My Grandmother used to say that you must have a 'place for everything and
>> everything in its place' And it is rare that I don't follow that or I
>> wouldn't be able to find anything either
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> Agrees with your grandmother, I like everything being in its place. I am
> not a neat freak, life is just easier when there is order. You could look
> at one shelf in my MIL's kitchen cupboard and find band-aids, a can of
> coffee, batteries, light bulbs. I have no idea how she was able to cook
> like this. If I need red wine vinegar or soy sauce, I do not want to dig
> through spark plugs or whatever, to reach that. BTW, my MIL had a
> housekeeper 5 days a week. Hard to believe, right? We bought her house,
> and every now and then when I look at these cupboards, I will think about
> that.
Memories! I couldn't live like that. I would be spending all my time
searching for stuff 
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