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jcobleigh and I recently found out how to really actually truly verily permanently avoid getting credit card companies' unsolicited firm offers of credit. https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
We pass this on, as a public service...
Unfortunately, this doesn't enable you to avoid any of the credit card companies' unsolicited non-firm offers of credit (i.e., the ones that require you to fill out an application first).
But at least you can start somewhere.
In other news, America's Test Kitchen rocks, especially Adam in the Equipment Corner. I love how totally geeked out you can get on kitchen gadgets. Adam and his crew come up with ingenious ways to stress-test gadgets.
jcobleigh especially loves this part and I'd say that about 30% of the time after watching the Equipment Corner, we decide that we just have to go out and buy the best gadget in the class under investigation. Especially if we've been silently experiencing pain/frustration with the current instance of that gadget in our kitchen. We look at each other and say, "Of course we need to get the pastry brush with the silicon core and the bristles that have holes in the center that maximize the amount of retained sauce by using surface tension to great advantage! Plus, it actually can be cleaned completely, rather than slowly accumulating stain and oil in the bristle roots and, because it's Oxo Good Grips, it has an ergonomic handle!" Etc.They also inspired me to start using tongs on all sorts of things, which solved a number of my kitchen problems because I have trouble using spatulas reliably. Things slip off the sides or don't go where I want them to. Now, I flip the chicken without making a mess. (Or at least, without making as much of a mess. :)
