Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.
I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.
Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.
If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.
You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.
That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.
Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.
I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.
Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.
I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.
