After all these years -
 

A thing I do know - but forget almost every time -

That when I open the oven door, I am going to get a blast of heat -


Anything that you do?

For me it's the dishwasher - always a face full of steam fogging my glasses, instead of standing aside of the machine.

After cooking on a wood stove for so many years (now electric), I sometimes forget I am cooking something and am easily distracted. With a wood stove, it will go out if you aren't there putting wood in.
I now set a timer when something is simmering on the stove so I don't forget about it completely.

I am trying to learn that the handles (both on lids and the pans) of my new pots and pans are HOT.

I am rather known for thinking "Oh look, that cupboard door <bonk> is open.

Non-kitchen related I pretty much always flick my light switch when the power goes out to find my flashlight...

My first thought when electricity goes out: That's ok. We have fans!

Don't bend over!! I do that.
One of these days I will raise my head and hit the microwave door which i always open and then get something out of the lower cabinet!
hate electric stoves too! too hot and things will boil over. my son cooks on high heat!!! I stir, he doesn't. I walk away because i can't watch!

I tend to be the one that wanders off while cooking.

There seems to be about a two-second interval between enough moisture cooked off the vegetables and a bad scorch!

Y'all are so funny! Can't tell if you are being creative or that stuff really happens!!!! Keep up the fun!!!!

I like to think that I have most of my marbles and that they are not loose all over the place.

Some days, I am not so sure!

I have a stove with burners on top and below that, an oven on one side and a storage cabinet on the other. I always worry that if I have something cooking on the burner, I'll catch my hair on fire when I bend down to get the strainer out of the cabinet side. I haven't yet...knock on wood.

I run the dishwasher every 3 days or so. With only 2 of us here, it just isn't full all that fast.

Anyhow, I start it at night when I go to bed. By the time I get up, the heat and steam have dissipated and it's not so unpleasant to unload it.

Oh, so glad I am not the only one who runs the dishwasher only twice a week. As a singleton plus cat, I will run out of spoons or water glasses before the dishwasher is full enough to run a load. :)

After all these years, I will forget and flip the light switch automatically when I enter a room. The sun is shinning why do I need light. I find I do this even when the power is out and I am carrying a flashlight so I can see. DUH!

Anyone leave a window down in the car so it doesn't get too hot and then the next morning discover it rained? Wet seat. Another DUH. Just put the car in the garage, silly goose.

Have you ever snipped the skin between your thumb and index fingers while thinking this is not a good idea:?

Ah, I started the dish washer in an apartment before going to bed, it flooded my kitchen and the one downstairs too before I could shut it off! sort of hated them ever since.

I don't really have anything like that, at least not that I can think of at the moment. I'm sure there is something!

But my husband does all kinds of things that drive me bonkers! He leaves multiple cupboard doors open, both kitchen and bathroom. He leaves lights on in empty rooms. He leaves the water in the bathroom sink running "for the cat" but she's been laying next to me for the last 3 hours. He leaves the fridge door open while he makes himself a sandwich. He leaves our truck unlocked constantly, and he gets annoyed with me because I keep the front door of our house locked (I've had salesmen try to enter our home uninvited, and if we get a good wind gust, the door will actually blow open if it's not locked).

I'm still married to t the same man - 64 years today. We still annoy each other at times - but it's way too much bother to try and catch and train a new one. Besides, neither one of us wants to move again. Maybe out to the couch if one of us is snoring really loudly.

Kind of funny - he will "notice" if I have left a light or the TV on - but he left the radio on for hours and the multiple lights on in the garage when he was not in there. Apparently, the electric meter only ran when I did not turn something off if I was not using it that minute.

Oh Bear, I am beginning to think that most (retired) men are cut from the same bolt of cloth. It is almost 52 years for us and mine has become more work and less fun every year since he retired. Right now, he is stretched out in his Lazy Boy having a pre dinner nap 'because it was such a chore to take the dog into the back yard and sit on the deck for half an hour' while I fed the cats and prepped supper.

But, like you, I am not interested in starting the whole 'other half' quest again. At the beginning of this month, he and our 49 year old son (my sweet darling boy who gave his dear mother such a wonderful gift of time to herself!!!) went to Ireland for 12 days. I was happy to have an email or video chat with the DH every day, but I honestly d i d n o t m i s s him at all. Just wish he could have taken his needy dog with him. Now that would have been a perfect holiday for me!!

I have found that this new fangled personal cell phone instead of a home telephone line could easily be marketed as an exercise program. I am constantly going up and down the stairs to find/retrieve/search for (happens more often than I'd like) or answer the danged thing!!

I have learned that, when I leave stuff cooking either on the stove or in the oven and it starts to smell good, it's probably done and I should rescue it before it burns!

When I leave stuff cooking on stove, I set a 5-10 minute timer so that I don't forget about it!
When someone tells me that the timer is going off, I tell them that it is not done-timer is just a suggestion.

Your comment made me think of my sweet grandmother. She is 91 and lives at the Wrinkle Ranch. She enjoys it immensely - 2 meals a day (which is plenty for her), lots of friends, lots of games and fun activities. She and my grandfather (who passed in 2021) moved there several years ago, but he was very reluctant to go. I think he had this image in his head of laying in bed in a ward all day until he finally died, so he fought it for a long time. Finally my grandma had enough and snapped. She told him he'd been retired for the last 25 years, but SHE was still cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doing laundry and yard work, and she wanted to retire too!! I think it took him by surprise; he'd never looked at those chores as "work". Sigh. Good for Grandma, I cheered her on.

I've solved the whole looking for the cell phone thing. I mostly don't. If its upstairs and I'm downstairs, I figure I'll check for calls when I go back up. That's what voice mail is for. Ditto on text messages. I'll answer when I get to it. I refuse to be a slave to a phone. This is very annoying to my husband at times, like when someone hit his car and he had to handle to whole thing himself

I have no idea how I was able to cook beef roasts, etc., for years before he retired. Now he is telling me what temperature I should use to cook the meat, how long I should bake it, and so forth. GRRRRRRR

I do not grill - at all - nada - so that is his thing - and I let him cook whatever however he chooses to do it. Usually it is good, usually it's edible -

I remember when my mom and dad retired. One day my mom was vacuuming (something I never saw my dad do) and he started telling her how to do it. That was the day my mom told my dad (a lifelong bowler) he needed to join a bowling league! lol

One day I was complaining about my DH to my best friend, she said, all men over 50 suffer from OMS. Never heard of it, she said "Old Man Syndrome". My daughter has modified it to GOMS - Grump Old Man Syndrome. Some sayds are worse than others.

Took me years to realize that yes, opening sugar bags will get sugar everywhere. Now I put the bag in the sink then open it.

I use the dishwasher every day and it's only two of us here. Most time only the top rack is full or half full. I don't care. What difference does it make if the dishwasher is full or not? It sure is fast and easy to unload. Same with laundry, what we wear that day is washed that night. Small load, I don't sort but use color catchers, less dryer time, fast to fold and put away. Large loads are once a week for linens, rugs, towels, etc.

I hear ya...my semi-retired DH has suddenly taken a keen interest in housekeeping and gardening. He has the oddest ideas on how to do these chores and of course, he knows best. Yeah...right...like some magic housekeeping fairy and gnome gardener were taking care of these things all these years and now he has to step in and "fix" everything.

When my husband retired I told him do not bug me and we'll be fine. He has taken over some of the household chores because he knows I don't like doing them. He started gardening and he likes it. He built 4ft raised beds after the first garden season. Now he wants to build a green house. He grills a lot of our meals. I'm happy he retired and enjoying it.

Just to show that sometimes even the old dogs can surprise you: The kids came over for the weekend. This morning, DH told me to go sit at the table and he'd take care of making the scrambled eggs. Bacon was already warming in the oven. It was so very nice to sit and visit while someone else did the cooking. And then he really surprised me--he cleaned up!! I actually thought about asking who this white haired man was and what he had done with my husband!!

you know what they say about husbands retiring - half as much income, twice as much husband.

I planted the flowers for years with no help needed. DH was still working but decided he needed to assist and mixed up dirt and fertilizer for my pots. The plants looked terrible and nothing was said. I replaced his soil mixture and bought new plants. Now he minds his own business when it comes to planting flowers.

Going back to the original post...
After all these years, I'm still using the spatula/turner that my mom owned since I was a baby. I love it and use it every day. I know that I'm going to need to replace it one day. I've looked for another one like but but have never been able to find one. It has a wooden handle and a long, bouncy blade that gets under things easily. It works great for flipping eggs, pancakes and anything else that needs turning.

King Arthur Flour used to sell great spatulas like that. Flexible metal blade. I bought the brownie and pie server and wished now I had bought the long spatula.

Oooohhh...I'll have to look there. IMHO, King Arthur is the new Williams Sonoma...lots of goodies that you love, but don't REALLY need...well, maybe you do need them. :D

Bear is grey - i hear you. 45 years yesterday for me and i hear a lot “well, if you had to pay the power bill”. Jokingly of course as he also leaves his shop light on or the big shop door open!

I live down the street from KAF - what I have that I love is their plastic bowl scraper - looks like this scraper I think I got it for free but it is awesome.

ETA - they are a great outfit, employee-owned and they donate a lot of baked goods and flour to the food shelf where I volunteer.

I'm so glad to hear that about King Arthur. I really love their flour and always stock up on it when it goes on sale.

My husband and I have been married for 59 years and I can so relate to some of the previous comments. It gets to the point where we can laugh at it. Our memories are also slipping once in a while.