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Moving on up - Moving advice thread
Barmymoo:
Send them to me! In my room at home I have one bowl, one large spoon and one small, two forks, two knives and then four each of large and small plates and glasses. One thing I have to do while I'm here at my mum's is look for the rest of my goddamn crockery. Washing up every single time I want to eat drives me crazy.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Welu on 18 Dec 2011, 17:22 --- Is living above a Chinese take-out really that bad? :psyduck:
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Why would it be? :angel: Seriously, living over any take-away food joint, or even restaurant, greengrocer etc. depends very much on the management and staff. If they're good, there is no problem, otherwise the area round the back will be alive with cockroaches (or whatever your local pests may be) and some of them will find their way into your flat. Take a good sniff round the service area behind the place. Does it look clean and tidy or gungy? Kick a few boxes; what scuttles out from underneath? On the other hand, living in a seedy, roach-infested block of units is part of the student experience, and does wonders for your punk-rock cred...
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 23 Dec 2011, 09:16 ---Washing up every single time I want to eat drives me crazy.
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I never understand this. After a meal, I always have to wash up the pans, chopper, cook's knives, and other tools I used to prepare the meal, and the crockery, chopsticks, cutlery etc. used to eat the food are only a small part of the total washup I would be doing anyway, so why leave them? Obviously the equation changes if you're cooking for a number of people, but then you recruit then to help with the washing up...
LTK:
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--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 23 Dec 2011, 09:16 ---Washing up every single time I want to eat drives me crazy.
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I never understand this. After a meal, I always have to wash up the pans, chopper, cook's knives, and other tools I used to prepare the meal, and the crockery, chopsticks, cutlery etc. used to eat the food are only a small part of the total washup I would be doing anyway, so why leave them? Obviously the equation changes if you're cooking for a number of people, but then you recruit then to help with the washing up...
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Yeah, same here. I've found that having to do the washing up on my own is far less of a bother than having to do it when you haven't cooked yourself. Maybe it's because it feels unfinished or lazy otherwise, or maybe it's just that when you live alone, leaving it out isn't going to cause someone else to eventually do it. :laugh:
Barmymoo:
But when I have breakfast, all I use is a bowl and a spoon. I pour the cereal from an airtight jar that only gets washed every few packets (it's always the same cereal) and I spoon the yoghurt out with the spoon I use to eat. If I then want to have soup for lunch, I have to wash the bowl and spoon before I eat as well as after, and if I have a dessert after my evening meal I have to wash the bowl and spoon AGAIN to use it. If I had more crockery, I would wash once a day - after the main meal when I'd actually used pans etc. Much more efficient.
Zingoleb:
On the bright side, you will never have dishes piling up.
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