Attention the ZipLocTM Bags My Wife Has Washed Out and Left Drying in the Dish Rack:

CHNOPS

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I know you think you got a second lease on life, but rest assured: as soon as she leaves, you're toast. You sit there catching the water from everything else, dominating the counter space, lounging across the entire dish rack. You never, ever dry. When she's not around, I dispose of your kind with extreme prejudice. I am the George Zimmerman of ZipLocTM trespass enforcement. I am the Dirty Harry of clean poly. I am Chigurh.

Enjoy your last three minutes on earth. The end is nigh.

You have been alerted.
 
I know you think you got a second lease on life, but rest assured: as soon as she leaves, you're toast. You sit there catching the water from everything else, dominating the counter space, lounging across the entire dish rack. You never, ever dry. When she's not around, I dispose of your kind with extreme prejudice. I am the George Zimmerman of ZipLocTM trespass enforcement. I am the Dirty Harry of clean poly. I am Chigurh.

Enjoy your last three minutes on earth. The end is nigh.

You have been alerted.

Terrorist!

Oil company apostle!

You're not fit to live in California!
 
Your wife washes and reuses Ziploc bags? Wow, I thought I was cheap.

I do it too...but only if I need one for other stuff. Like bagging up various seeds or I need to bag/tag sets of hardware, waterproofing things in my backpack when I go camping, shit like that. I don't re-use them for food.

Does that make me a pseudo cheap ass?:confused:
 
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Indeed. They're the cleanest ZipLoc bags in the garbage dump.

How much water does she use? Water is a bit more precious in southern Cal than the gas liquids that are used to make the plastic. Sometimes, what appears to be the right thing on the surface, isn't the right thing at all.
 
How much water does she use? Water is a bit more precious in southern Cal than the gas liquids that are used to make the plastic. Sometimes, what appears to be the right thing on the surface, isn't the right thing at all.
You have been married longer than I have. Therefore, by suggesting that I make this argument, I can only assume you are hoping to get me stabbed in the eye with a cleaver.

Also, I just fucked up Drown's vanity searches.
 
I do it too...but only if I need one for other stuff. Like bagging up various seeds or I need to bag/tag sets of hardware, waterproofing things in my backpack when I go camping, shit like that. I don't re-use them for food.

Does that make me a pseudo cheap ass?:confused:

Kinda. I think everyone reuses them sometimes but there's a limit.
 
I do it too...but only if I need one for other stuff. Like bagging up various seeds or I need to bag/tag sets of hardware, shit like that. I don't re-use them for food.

Does that make me a pseudo cheap ass?:confused:
That makes you frugal. I do the same thing. I rarely use plastic baggies - I'm still using the box I bought at Costco four years ago - but I still can't stand to throw them out after I've used them only once. I do rinse and quickly dry them, though, instead of leaving them in the drying rack, to prevent exactly the sort of semi-moist state that seems to be driving CHNOPs to the brink.
 
Kinda. I think everyone reuses them sometimes but there's a limit.

Eh...yea. I'm cool with it though, I figure why not get as much mileage out of shit as you can (within reason).

Clothes is where I go cheap ass....

That makes you frugal. I do the same thing. I rarely use plastic baggies - I'm still using the box I bought at Costco four years ago - but I still can't stand to throw them out after I've used them only once. I do rinse and quickly dry them, though, instead of leaving them in the drying rack, to prevent exactly the sort of semi-moist state that seems to be driving CHNOPs to the brink.

True...I rarely use them too, usually I use this rubbermaid set of containers, totally reusable. But sometimes you still need a bag for some things. Like marinading the chunk of dead cow I bought yesterday :cool:
 
This ain't nothing.

I recycle anything useable. I got a pile of partitioned styrofoam takeout trays from antiquity stacked in a corner on the shelf ready for my self-cooked workday lunches. I got stacks of past takeout order Tuppaware bowls and dishes of various sizes and capacity depths that I use on the daily for food containment or general storage of stuff until they warp or crack or get too stained. I'm an OG of Hints from Heloise, guy.

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You can't live here if you're not on the Getty or Trump inheritance line without knowing how to cut corners on the basics. Bottom line.
 
That makes you frugal. I do the same thing. I rarely use plastic baggies - I'm still using the box I bought at Costco four years ago - but I still can't stand to throw them out after I've used them only once. I do rinse and quickly dry them, though, instead of leaving them in the drying rack, to prevent exactly the sort of semi-moist state that seems to be driving CHNOPs to the brink.

How do you dry them quickly?
 
You have been married longer than I have. Therefore, by suggesting that I make this argument, I can only assume you are hoping to get me stabbed in the eye with a cleaver.

Also, I just fucked up Drown's vanity searches.

It's been said that if she uses a knife instead of a gun, there's still some love left.
 
This ain't nothing.

I recycle anything useable. I got a pile of partitioned styrofoam takeout trays from antiquity stacked in a corner on the shelf ready for my self-cooked workday lunches. I got stacks of past takeout order Tuppaware bowls and dishes of various sizes and capacity depths that I use on the daily for food containment or general storage of stuff until they warp or crack or get too stained. I'm an OG of Hints from Heloise, guy.

You can't live here if you're not on the Getty or Trump inheritance line without knowing how to cut corners on the basics. Bottom line.
I was addicted to Hints for Heloise when I was a kid. One of the first things I read in the daily paper. *fist bump*

How do you dry them quickly?
Drop of soap and a splash of water in the bag, seal, shake vigorously, rinse out, turn inside out, dry with a cloth towel. There may be the tiniest residue of water remaining in the ziplock seal, but since I'm not reusing the bag for food, I don't mind.
 
I was addicted to Hints for Heloise when I was a kid. One of the first things I read in the daily paper. *fist bump*

Drop of soap and a splash of water in the bag, seal, shake vigorously, rinse out, turn inside out, dry with a cloth towel. There may be the tiniest residue of water remaining in the ziplock seal, but since I'm not reusing the bag for food, I don't mind.

True confession: I know about Heloise from my childhood days of watching Donahue of all shits. Remember Donahue? Yeah, that's the old school telly shit. Anyway, one day watching that, this woman with silver-white hair who wasn't old appeared one day just owning the set with all these tips on how to stretch the extra mile in being handy with everything in your crib. She was like, the ultimate lord of the house or something and made an impression on me that I never forgot. And she's still kicking it today, too.
 
I reuse bags for food storage when I have something in an opened package that doesn't seal, like cold cuts, cheese, bacon, vegetables, etc. I put the whole package in the bag and seal it. The damp bag never touches the food.

Leftovers in a bowl can fit in a larger bag and be sealed before going into the fridge. No need for cling film, and the bag doesn't touch the food.
 
CHNOPS, looks like thør just found you a present for your wife!
 
Don't matter. You gotta do what you gotta do.

No...it doesn't, and you're right, gotta do what you gotta do.

I was just wondering given...

"You can't live here if you're not on the Getty or Trump inheritance line without knowing how to cut corners on the basics. Bottom line."

You got NE, and CA....maybe Hawaii but a pretty low probability given the sheer population discrepancy between HI and the other states.

You said you were hangook saram....which really runs your odds of Annandale VA, NYC, and LA through the roof.

If I were a gamblin' man I would bet socal...your personality reminds me of LA.
 
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