I also like glasses to have a tiny lip around the rim--it seems to minimize the spilling if you're trying to pour some liquid out. I don't know why liquids like to run down the whole side of the glass before dropping sometimes--stupid laws of physics. (I like to pour a whole glass of milk, and then pour some of that into my cereal. I also like to water house plants from a glass.)
And I like glasses to slope out as you go up, at least at one point in the design under which you can hold the glass, so that laws of physics don't help you drop the glass.
I don't like the glass ones that are super thin--too breakable.
Another lesson I learned about glass glasses is that they don't mix well with stone tile floors. As a result, I am never getting marble or granite counters, no matter how "in" they are or how beautiful they are (Texas actually has some fine looking pink granite). I do not want to have to be that paranoid.
And, especially if the water has been turned off for some reason, be careful with putting fragile things under the faucet as you turn on the water, because sometimes that first spurt is very powerful. Once it slammed the glass I was holding into the glass underneath it, breaking both of them. I really liked those ones, too!
When I took home ec in the eight grade we learned how to sew (but not how to maintain sewing machines), and we watched some little kids, and I remember learning to make chocolate fondue using ingredients I don't ever want to use. The best part was that we had to put together a cookbook with eight sections and at least ten recipes per section. Because of that assignment, I got a lot of my favorite family recipes.
We also had to do some price comparisons in the grocery story. I learned that parmesan cheese is much, much cheaper when you buy it in a block than when you buy it finely grated. That was our only personal finance lesson as far as I know.
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on 2007-04-22 05:03 am (UTC)And I like glasses to slope out as you go up, at least at one point in the design under which you can hold the glass, so that laws of physics don't help you drop the glass.
I don't like the glass ones that are super thin--too breakable.
Another lesson I learned about glass glasses is that they don't mix well with stone tile floors. As a result, I am never getting marble or granite counters, no matter how "in" they are or how beautiful they are (Texas actually has some fine looking pink granite). I do not want to have to be that paranoid.
And, especially if the water has been turned off for some reason, be careful with putting fragile things under the faucet as you turn on the water, because sometimes that first spurt is very powerful. Once it slammed the glass I was holding into the glass underneath it, breaking both of them. I really liked those ones, too!
When I took home ec in the eight grade we learned how to sew (but not how to maintain sewing machines), and we watched some little kids, and I remember learning to make chocolate fondue using ingredients I don't ever want to use. The best part was that we had to put together a cookbook with eight sections and at least ten recipes per section. Because of that assignment, I got a lot of my favorite family recipes.
We also had to do some price comparisons in the grocery story. I learned that parmesan cheese is much, much cheaper when you buy it in a block than when you buy it finely grated. That was our only personal finance lesson as far as I know.