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My girlfriend buys these in bulk from crafting stores and embroiders them for gifts. I received the "Happy Kitchenware" pattern, featuring dancing plates and cuddling spoons. She also found a pattern called "Tropical Babies". It's wonderfully/horrifically un-PC.

From the time my mother was very young, she and my grandmother would embroider flour sack towels for when she got married and would store them away in her cedar hope chest. Many years later, when I was about 10, she was going to throw the towels away because the they were threadbare and stained from years of use. I begged to keep the towels and Mom relented. When she passed away two years later, my father and grandparents gave her hope chest to me. Several decades passed and when I married, I looked in the chest and found the towels tucked in amongst her quilts and embroidered "company" pilowcases. Today, I use the towels to simply hang on the oven handle and look pretty and "homey" and remind me of my wonderful mother and grandmother.

Being pregnant with Twins I just couldn't get enough Slurpee's and wouldn't you know it-they were born on 7-11-05. Free Slurpee's on their B-day for life!

I really hate it when I've spent hours preparing a meal and my husband and other family members eat it so quickly that you have to wonder.....did they really even taste it?

I also hate it when people mix their food. Ok.....when I was a child I mixed my food, but it really is annoying when you have spent a lot of time preparing a meal with great flavor and someone mixes each bite! My suggestion.....make things easier for them and just put it in a blender before serving :)

Wost food habit is not coming to dinner when you're called. My mom used to have a fit about my brother and dad lollygagging now I know & understand her frustration. Its so irritating to spend hours making a really nice meal only to have it grow cold in front of you while for whoever to just finish up an e-mail or whatever that can so clearly wait.

I also ate breakfast with a guy once that cut everything up into bite sized species (two fried eggs, sausage, hash browns) mixed it all together with ketchup and hot sauce until it was a homogenized slop and then shoveled it all in. It was the grossest.