How about doing it twice? I got the box out of the trash, read the instruction, threw it back in the trash, went to the stove, and...dug it out again because I forgot what our said...🤪
I do that. #ADHD. Today, put washing in machine. Forgot to switch on. Went out. Came back. Switched on. Forgot to take out.Also went for C-19 10th vaccination, apologised for tshirt inside out, to be told that she'd already had at least 6 doing the same thing. Summer suddenly and tshirts appear.
How about if you throw the package away, dig it out to read the instructions, throw it away, forget what the instructions are and have to dig it out again?
Wow I'm so old-fashioned. I actually just have a magnifying glass on the kitchen countertop. Even more old-fashioned, it sits in an old business card holder!
I do this seventeen times. Because I read it just a few seconds ago but I don’t trust myself to remember but I did trust myself to remember when I read it so I kept it in the trash
Oh, absolutely. Sometimes more than once for the same thing. 350, 375? 20 minutes, 25? Covered, uncovered? One of these days, I'm going to go wild and just let it rip.
You left out then, after having fished them out of the trash, having to take a picture of the instructions to be able to zoom in on the picture to be able to read them! Or that just me? 🤣
It's not just you. I don't use the camera but take it to the office and use this magnifying desk lamp instead. Or go hunting for one of my nine pairs of reading glasses which are usually on top of my head.
I made a big contact paper label, wrote down the instructions and put it on the pancake mix canister in larger letters. After my cataract surgery, I used big labels on everything in the house that I can see across the room. That ended my husband standing and asking "honey, where's the _____".
As an octogenarian, I detest cooking instructions printed in 8pt beige typeface against a white background that requires my 4X readers to decipher. Or white 8pt against a grey background down on the side panel. y'know what i mean?
RIGHT!!!! Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to hold a package directly up to a bare light bulb and still squint WITH my reading glasses on JUST to try and read them!🤬
Not to mention sometimes even having to try multiple different light sources because one is STILL not bright enough to read it🤦🏻♂️
It’s called contrast ratio! In learning and development, we actually have regulations for this one posting things online, but nothing about packaging and real life printing implications. You raise an excellent point!
At design school we got drummed into us to never put red text on a black background; the ink saturations are the same, despite the colour difference the equal values make it hard on your eyes, the letters will actually apear vibrate. Number 1 thing not to put on a biz card (along with Papyrus font)
At the grocery (old time word) store, I struggled to read the levels of potassium and salt, so I took a picture and then zoomed in.
I was being 👀 by a mother and her toddler.
I put the box in my cart. The Mom expressed surprise.
She said she thought that all "old ladies" could cook real food.
I've had to Google the instructions because I've thrown the large bag with instructions out from a multi-bag of steam bags before, past rubbish day so gone, gone 😅 they used to have instructions printed on the individual bags but I got a different version and then was like erm....uh oh....
LOL I learned my lesson awhile back. Now I'll just leave the package on the counter until the food is done. Especially microwave stuff, I could read it 10 times and forget 2 minutes later. The oven isn't so bad, temperature, check, time, check, cross fingers and let it ride.
Oh I generally MEAN to do the same… 🤦🏻♂️but for the same reason that I often have to re-visit the trash to re-read the instructions …is same the reason why I always end up tossing it in the trash instead of leaving it out in the counter while I cook like I meant to do😂
We are beside. Also, my dumbass will keep throwing it away and have to keep taking it out because I haven’t finished cooking it!! I am special and I just embrace it now. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or turned the empty* container of anything in breadcrumbs over, to read the destructions, and now have the ability to build a small sand castle in your kitchen?
I never follow instructions. I add whatever I want to enhance the recipe and ingredients. So really, you guys need me if you lost the package! I’ll get dinner done ✔️
I looked up instructions on the internet in that situation once. Which worked. But took way too long so from then on I carefully piece together the package that is always torn directly across the step I need.
if you've ever read said instructions, tossed them, then pulled them out several times because you keep forgetting them then stop acting like you're me please >.>;
I do the periodic trash lid peddle dance?! I will go back to the trashcan 3 or 4 times to make sure that the temp was in fact 350 and the time was 12 minutes ... every 2 minutes.
Sorted through firm's industrial-size dumpster (also used for canteen waste) to recover geological maps thrown out by accident. Wore wellies, overalls and rubber gloves. Found most of them...
Because my eyesight is getting the Olds, I usually take pictures of the instructions so I can zoom in. And now I wonder why I haven't been doing that for everything. Lol
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If you ever take a pic of a label to blow it up to read ingredients, we are definitely friends!
they're too young to cook, though.
Not to mention sometimes even having to try multiple different light sources because one is STILL not bright enough to read it🤦🏻♂️
Enlarge everything.
In stores, in restaurants, especially fine print on medications…
I was being 👀 by a mother and her toddler.
I put the box in my cart. The Mom expressed surprise.
She said she thought that all "old ladies" could cook real food.
2. …
Can we still be friends?
We are definitely friends!😋
Ok…. Soooo now that we’ve established that!
….when you say “I want to be friends” does that also equate to “mutually following” friends?🤗
Step one: take out food.
Step two: throw packaging away.
Step three: dig packaging out of trash.
Step four: cook according to instructions.
And
Done!!!
I do find that comment oddly —refreshingly hilarious 😂
Single
Time
We should adopt each other.
I did this exact thing 2 days ago…twice in under 15 mins. 🤪
Pro tip: trash-picking is more fun when you can announce that you’ve lost the sacred text.