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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Random poll
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool?
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat?
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores?
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about?
5. What's your favorite home accessory?
6. What is your favorite beauty product?
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about?
8. What's your favorite workout routine?
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered?
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August?
Move along, nothing to see here.....
Re: Random poll
1. Most used is a good knife, but I love my cuisinart.
2. To make would be pasta sauces- creativity goes crazy there. To eat is fresh sweet corn on the cob.
3. I hate most housework, but probably cleaning our upstairs office/guest bedroom area. It just gets so cluttered with all kinds of random stuff, so it takes forever to sort and put away.
4. If you're finances can allow it, hire someone! We have someone come in every other week to sanitize our bathroom and kitchen, mop floors, dust, etc. We keep the house clean, but she makes everything REALLY clean. And we don't spend all weekend cleaning and/or arguing about cleaning.
5. Our framed print from Venice.
6. Love my Lancome foundation.
7. You can use the College Choice plan if you're an adult and going back to grad school. It's not just for babies/children.
8. Routine? What routine? A random work schedule prevents anything resembling a "routine"... however, I am trying to find time to power walk with my dogs more often.
9. I like Kings of Leon.
10. an annual conference- a really FUN conference- down in French Lick
1. probly my cookware--calphalon stainless with glass lids. Love them!! But my cuisnart knives are really great too!!
2. Pasta--kind of make it up as I go along! Probly pasta to eat too!!
3. Taking out the trash--I am a liberated woman, but that is the only task DH knows is a "man chore"
4. Chlorox Green works---a friend recomended it when our dog was licking the floors like crazy, and I was stressed about her ingesting chemicals. It is organic, and works soooo well!! Also--cleaning technique of taking X minutes you have and just seeing how much you can get done--whether it is 10 or 30, I always feel it was time well spent.
5. I really love our bedding--I talked DH into registering for pretty nice bedding which we amazingly recieved and EVERY night I am glad we have it! Not exactly an accesory, but we love it!
6. Beauty Product--Smooth Out Cream by Jonathan (that guy with the reality show on Bravo a couple years ago!) I didn't care about using his product, but a girl at Ulta suggested it and it has changed my life! I have naturally wavy, thick hair that I blow dry daily and this is the only product I use now, down from four!!!
7. round up purchases in your checking account (i.e., $7.37 becomes $8) it is pretty hard to over draw your account unless you totally ignore it. Easier math too.
8. I have a love hate relationship with running. I hate every minute of it while I'm doing it, but I feel so good after, and even look forward to it!
9. pretty obsessed with that katy Perry song "waking up in vegas" I actually may buy that whole album. Other favs right now are Taylor Swift, DMB, and the Fray.
10. DH and I are going on vaca next week to visit law school friends in Portland, OR. SOOOOO excited!!
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? ice cream scoop
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? pasta for both
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? laundry
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? hmmmm, not sure
5. What's your favorite home accessory? pillows
6. What is your favorite beauty product? facewash
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? put money into savings and then pay bills
8. What's your favorite workout routine? walking the students to specials
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? country
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August? School to start to meet the new students
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool?
Hmmmm... Appliance is my Kitchen Aid Mixer. But I haven't played with it enough yet. Tool in general is any high heat resistant silicon spatula
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat?
Favorite to eat: Usually anything I don't have to cook
Favorite to cook: comfort food (sorry not in a cooking mood right now)
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores?
Moping --> that's why the husband does it (no joke)
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about?
microfiber mop for laminate floors. Either that or the "homemade" window cleaner I stumbled on with a touch of ammonia, rubbing alcohol, and water that doesn't streak no matter what's on the glass
5. What's your favorite home accessory?
A pair of crystal Mikasa candlesticks my former co-worker gave us as a wedding present; absolutely simple and stunning
6. What is your favorite beauty product?
Clinique moisturizing gel
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about?
Pay yourself when you pay your bills. So put money in a savings account just like you're paying a bill to yourself. Saved my behind many times the one month a year I didn't get paid as a grad student.
8. What's your favorite workout routine?
Trying to establish one. I enjoy walking the dog but I just got the new EA Sports Active for Wii and did my first work out today.
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered?
The Script. Got a single through iTunes "free single of the week" and bought the album shortly there after. Love hearing it on the radio in Indy.
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August?
Finally going on vacation. Even if it means visiting the in laws in Minnesota.
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? Quesadilla maker
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? I like to make different dips to take to parties. Buffalo Chicken Dip
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? Cleaning the bathrooms
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? Not sure.
5. What's your favorite home accessory? My dogs
6. What is your favorite beauty product? Clinque total mosture lotion
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? snowballing debt.
8. What's your favorite workout routine? My ab workout I just started back up. After 3 days I can tell a difference!
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? 3 OH 3!
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August? Football Season starts, and some get togethers we have with friends.
1 - Brita Filter.... is that a kitchen tool?
2 - Depends on the time of year... summer is berries and pound cake, fall/winter its stew from the crock pot.
3 - Cleaning the fluffy one's litter box.
4 - We discovered magic erasers work wonders on ceramic cooktops.
5 - The circles of circles wall thingy above our bed.
6 - Purity Made Simple face wash
7 - Just the snowballing your debt thing...
8 - Walking, swimming, wii fit on the days I feel like doing nothing.
9 - Whatever my zune gives me on random
Lots of Michael Jackson and Kings of Leon as of late.
10 - Getting the braces thing started.
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? Kitchen Aid mixer, love it!
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? I love to cook everything, to eat Pasta and cheese
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? I hate taking the trash out, DH does this so I don't have to.
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? hmm, don't have one
5. What's your favorite home accessory? Elliptical
6. What is your favorite beauty product? Don't really have one
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? silly but true, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it.
8. What's your favorite workout routine?I workout 5 days a week, alternating between elliptical and floor work (abs, legs, arms, etc)
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? I haven't discovered anything new lately, still loving the new Killswitch
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August? My mom coming to visit me!!!1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? The can opener. HA!
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? I love to bake. I bake a MEAN Peach - Blackberry pie. I pick the blackberries myself. Favorite food to eat would definitely have to be spinach lasagna.
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? Laundry. I DESPISE laundry.
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? Using Orange Oil to shine my stainless steel sinks.
5. What's your favorite home accessory? My lamps.
6. What is your favorite beauty product? False lashes for a night out. ; )
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? www.coupons4indy.com
8. What's your favorite workout routine? Full body toning class at the gym, and then a 3 mile run.
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? I listen to everything. I am an equal opportunity listener (except for hard core rap and country, ick)
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August? Kids going back to school!!!!!
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? Since my husband does all the cooking, I'd have to say the toaster or microwave!
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? Doesn't require much cooking, but I make a mean potato salad. To eat...lots...probably my husband's amazing chili or homemade spaghetti sauce.
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? Dishes, hands down. Deal is husband cooks, I do dishes. Won't change unless I learn how to cook, which is why I'm looking for a portable dishwasher since our new rental house doesn't have one.
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? Not a tip, but a product. Goo Gone. Gets off anything remotely sticky. Use it at home and school all the time.
5. What's your favorite home accessory? King size memory foam bed!
6. What is your favorite beauty product? Mascara. I have long eyelashes with blond tips, so mascara helps them stand out.
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? Pay off credit card in full every month. Finally got on the ball and got a rewards card, so now it's even better!
8. What's your favorite workout routine? None. Try to drag my butt to the gym as often as possible, which isn't very often.
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? Loving Taylor Swift (yes, I know she's a teenager), Ray Lamontagne, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Kacy Crowley.
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August? Getting a job.1. What's your favorite kitchen tool?
Probably my Kitchen Aid mixer.
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat?
Right now is chicken stir fry. So easy too.
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores?
Anything dishes related.......hand washing them, and even unloading and loading the dishwasher.
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about?
I love hearing about some ideas for green cleaning. My favorite is using baking soda and vinegar to unclog my bathroom sink.
5. What's your favorite home accessory?
Haha, I would have to say my tv tray that enables me to be on the internet and watch tv at the same time.
6. What is your favorite beauty product?
PurMinerals facial wash
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about?
Restaurant.com's $25 certificates for $2.
8. What's your favorite workout routine?
Running. It is a huge stress relief.
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered?
Just about anything on X103.
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August?
For my Mother-in-law's birthday we are going to see Kathy Griffin.
1. What's your favorite kitchen tool? food processor
2. What's your favorite food to cook and what's your fav. one to eat? tortilla soup to cook (so easy) and a casserole my mom used to make is my fave to eat
3. What is one of your most dreaded chores? general pick-up
4. What's a cleaning tip that you are glad you heard about? that i should flip my mattress ever few months
5. What's your favorite home accessory? framed artwork
6. What is your favorite beauty product? hair pomade
7. What's a money tip that you're glad you heard about? automatic transfer from paycheck to savings
8. What's your favorite workout routine?yoga
9. What music are you currently listening to/discovered? John Mayer & Jon McLaughlin
10. What are you looking forward to in the month of August?my brother's wedding!