I’ve settled with Kiehl’s products for men, their shampoo, shaving cream, other lotions; they’re basic, “gentlemenly” smelling products that seem to work ok. The shampoo is good because it’s geared for active people who take a lot of showers and there’s the chlorine removing version of the shampoo for swimmers.
This took awhile.
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What I’ve learned about home appliances over the years. Not that much, but enough.
Range/Cooktop
I like BlueStar a lot. Crazy expensive, near restaurant grade heat and temp control but they look *much* better than Viking and others. Induction cooktops are really cool (highest energy efficiency and temp control) but about 5 - 7 years from being affordable. Don’t get self cleaning ovens.
Refrigerators
Whatever brand you get, get a top mount refrigerator (where freezer is the bottom). The $200 difference is worth it. Ours is just Kenmore-Amana.
Dishwasher
Bosch all the way (again ours is Kenmore-Bosch). Interior should be stainless steel.
Washer/Dryer
We have Bosch labeled and Kenmore-Frigidaire. Both washers are front loaders, the higher the rpm 1000 to 1200 the better. Front loaders are more efficient with its use of water and spinning water from the clothes for faster drying.
Go for vented (most common) rather than condensation dryers since the vented ones will dry faster.
The all-in-one washer/dryers are supposed to take a long time to dry so the higher capacity ones that are coming out are supposed to be best.
Warranty
Go for the extended warranty and repair.
If I didn’t have my car now, we’d probably get one of these Honda CR-V’s (but in Black!!!). The other contenders would be the Hyundai Santa Fe and Tucson, Mazda CX-7, Audi A3, Subaru Impreza hatchback (also in Black! or something other than Blue!!). The Subaru would be the top choice. From Consumer Reports, the top 4 automakers are Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and BMW.
We try out new rice every so often brown rice, some multi-colored rice, jasmine, etc. I picked up this brown rice Kagayaki haiga rice. It’s supposedly brown rice in nutritional value but tastes like white rice. It’s pretty good and probably we’ll keep this as our main rice.
While we’re here, if you can find/buy Louisiana gulf shrimp, it’s much, much better than the regular shrimp you get in the store, it’s not gummy, and it’s a little “shrimpier”/”murkier”. We usually only get a chance to eat gulf shrimp in Louisiana so when we saw some in the store we picked some up and I remembered the difference in taste.
*sigh* The Vatican web site.
The “new” seven social sins are:
