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Stephanie Trembath
Life and Style Editor

most distress in my lacking-in-time

lifestyle, this last one would be it.
Sunday night, after an eleven hour work
day and dinner with my parents (yes,
my life is as engaging and fun-filled as
it sounds), I arrived to my sweet little
bachelorette pad to discover that the entire
house had been emptied of all furniture,
appliances, and cooking utensils. The
on-going battle of ownership in the
house I live at has ended, and out of
pre-menstrual spite (the last owner was
female), every last fork, spoon, and chair
was taken from my home. Funny that the
first thing that went through my head was
“thank GOD she didn’t take the vacuum”.

Because I had nothing to cook with,
let alone a plate to eat on, my first step
was to purchase the common supplies
to forge a meal for myself. Now, I am
cultured and experienced in shopping for
clothes and other superficial accessories,
however I am completely and utterly
clueless when it comes to providing for
a kitchen. First of all, I value my hard
earned money and do not like buying
cheap items that will not serve their
function or do the job properly, so going
to Value Village or the Dollar Store for
my plates, pots and pans like my mother
suggested was not going to do. I am not -
a total snob, so off to Zellers I went to
buy the most affordable and most reliable
cook-wear.
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two small cooking saucepans cost $70?
Because I sure did not. That price will
pay for two weeks of gas, or a months’
worth of groceries (not that I could eat
anyway), or more importantly, a new pair
of pants. In any case, I added two small
KitchenAid, non-stick sauce pans to my
cart and wheeled on to find that a cheese
grader is $5.99, a stirring spoon $8.99,
and a kettle $29. My toaster was the only
deal I found, and I got the cheapest one I
could find at $20.

I also realized that microwaves
are the absolute most ridiculous thing a
person could ever purchase. Not only are
they bad for you and may possibly cause
cancer, but they cost nearly $100! What is
that all about, since when does punching a
button to heat food cost that much? I miss
my easy re-heated dinners, but not for
$100. Since my kitchen shopping spree, I
have found myself interested in dressing
up the cupboards; which really means I
have replaced my shopping addiction for
clothes with cups and cake-pans.

On a slightly brighter side, I have
decided to bite the bullet and pay off and
chop up my last and final credit card.
And I have resolved to not purchase any
clothes or accessories that are made in
China for reasons I will elaborate on in
my next article. Stay tuned dear readers,
because by then end of March this
petite damsel in a deficit will hopefully
progressed back to a babe on a budget,
and who knows, maybe this article will
take a fast turn into how to be a little Ms.
Martha Stuart in the kitchen with all my
supplies.

Well, maybe not Martha Stuart, she
ended up in jail, but Rachael Ray or one
of those kitchen savvy queens.

 

 

 

  
 
 

  

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