Household tips / hints / ideas forum Suggestion

[AlumniClub]

Was curious to know if this would be a good idea for a forum in the hobby section of the site. People could post helpful hints and things for those looking for ideas. Just an idea i had that i thought would be a good one.


GB2

[AlumniClub]

I don't know if 'Household tips / hints / ideas" is a hobby.
But I think personally that a good thread as such should created in the "Break Room" and mark the bottom with "please reply to this thread".
This way you can tell if it will be useful topic or not before it would be a new board.
Thats just my personal opinion.

[keith]

Just posted about this in the main Suggestions thread.

Will add some daily life topics in a group of Forums.

Just thinking 'out loud' here:

Personal Health and Fitness - The Personal Picture
Wisconsin Healthcare - The Big Picture
Infant and Toddler Care - The Real Wonder Years
Elementary Age Kids - Formative Years
Teens, School, Dating - Navigating Years
College, Technical, Continuing Education
Kitchen and Grill - Heating it Up and Eating Well!
Cleaning and Storage - Everyone's Favorites


Whatchya'll think?

Speak now or forever (or until the next upgrade at least) hold your piece.



Regards,
Keith

[Crys]

I agree with RedRaven. We should start by posting a thread in the Break Room and if there get to be enough posts on the subject there, then it would be worth moving them into a new forum.

We've already got so many forums that it's seriously slowing down the site and every time someone lands on a forum page we're at nearly the memory limit for a mysql query on the server -- We've had to increase the limit twice in the last couple months already and it's already at levels that might destabilize the server. It's the cause of all the "can't connect to mysql server" time out errors over the last several months.

If you want to add more forums, we need to delete some of the less used ones first.

This may be something to revisit with the new forum software after we see what kind of memory requirements it has in comparison to this program.

[pk]

Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in and say that I have never seen a site with so many forum topics before. It's great but almost to much to keep up with.

I agree with the idea that maybe before a new one gets started that it showed be 'tested' in the breakroom as a new thread and see how it takes off before it becomes an actual thread.

Household tips can be pretty interesting though since there is alot of housewives/househusbands, newly married, young couples, etc. etc...that could use some 'real' tips on how to do things around the house, how to clean grease off, or how to hang a picture correctly, or what to do when you drop a carton of eggs all over the floor, and you grab for the kitchen sprayer and it breaks and water is squirting all over and you don't know how to fix it, and the dog comes in and slips on the eggs and crashed into the chair that falls over and hits into the cuboard door and the hinge comes loose, and your water is boiling over on the stove and you don't know how to relite your pilot since it went out and then you grab for mop and the handle goes through the window and you don't know how to take the glass out of the pane without cutting yourself and then the curtain falls off while you are looking at it (the water is still squirting and by now the dog is throwing up from the raw eggs)...so now you need to know how to disinfect the floor from raw eggs AND dog barf...and HELPFUL TIPS TO THE RESCUE! lol OK...sorry, page from my past maybe? Well not quite but close.

[pk]

sorry I tend to get off subject or run on....and on....at times.

Just wanted to say your site is great and you do have a ton of forum topics! I have enjoyed them all. But I can see why there may be a space issue. A few could be condensed maybe (animals, cats, dogs, etc.) but in all I'm glad I don't have to be the one to pick what stays and what goes..to much great stuff here. But clearly if there is a forum that hasn't been used or comments made on it in quite some time, maybe that would be where to either move the comments elsewhere, or cut them out for needed space.

pk

[keith]

You're a trip, pk! A real trip. I had a day like the one you described once. Throw in another dog, a couple of cats, two teens and four preteens. I'm making breakfast in bed for the wife, wrestling with a knife against a pound of frozen bacon. The bacon won. She heard, "Oh, sh**", and runs out to see me uncover the stab wound to see the blood gush in about a six foot arc. Teen son # 1 drives me to the emergency room where three members of the local fire department that sponsors my Boy Scout Troop are doing EMT training. They spent the next ninety minutes in my room making funnies about me being the guy teaching the Scouts about how to use a knife. All before 9am.

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Thanks for the tips on the forum. Often aim to please and if anyone requests it, I just want to provide it, you know. Time will tell.

More thoughts and suggestions welcome.

And more pk posts welcome anytime.

Regards,
Keith

[pk]

well how about the time I was in a hurry and couldn't get the hot dog package open and took the first knife I could find to do the job. The knife? A large butcher knife. Sitting in the hospital er room getting stitches was pretty funny to have to explain to everyone that had to come in and look, how not to open hot dog packages! lol

OR...there was a time I decided to take the butcher knife to cut slices of 'krub' and got to the end and cut my thumb along with the slice of krub. Try to tell the dr. in the ER room that you were cutting krub! :?

Then there was a time I decided to try to break apart frozen hamburger patties! Well....the butcher knife seems to be the only handy dandy all purpose knife I ever seem to have when I am in need and I'm frustrated! That time my older son was quite small and all the way to the dr's he kept asking me..mom, is your guts still hanging out? I had this piece of something hanging out of the cut on my hand. Fearing what this 'thing' was had me pretty shook when I was sitting in the ER room. I saw the DR. cut this 'thing' off. I finally had to ask what it was and the dr. and everyone else there had to laugh and tell me quite loudly...'oh, that was just a piece of fatty tissue, I won't charge extra for taking it off for you"! lol To this day my kids still laugh about mom getting her fat cut out of her hand. ops:


Tip for the day: Stay away from BUTCHER KNIFES!

[pk]

OK, here is the tip for the day for shopping in grocery stores:

Keep eggs and potatoe salad away from your small child.

Why?

Well there was the time when my youngest daughter and I went shopping. Oh joy! I made it all the way to the deli to pick up my family size chicken dinner and then I was going to be all done shopping! Everything going ok. HA! I was reaching for the box of food when quick as a second my daughter (sitting in the front top seat of the cart), reached back, grabbed my carton of 18 (yes, 18 not 12) eggs and threw them like a backhanded frisbee! She managed to get the total front glass of the deli counter, which in turn went sliding down and dripped all over the packaged breads they had in the front. While the eggs were flying through the air some actually made it to the top of the counter and broke, and many ended up all along the floor like splats of color all lined up on the floor. Of course people scattered which made the eggs on the floor worse. The lady at first handed me a roll of paper towels! LOL until she came around and saw the entire mess. Well needless to say, it took two deli women, me, and two young men from cleaning to get the mess all cleaned up!

If not a week later to the day and time almost, I actually stopped at the same deli and picked up a one pound container of potatoe salad being careful of course to make sure the eggs were far out of reach! I made it all the way to the check out that day without a mishap! I was zeroing in onto the counter getting my things up for the cashier when all of a sudden the pound of potatoe salad went flying through the air! To this day I still have a picture in my mind of the slow motion of the salad hitting the floor, splitting open and like a squshed bug the insides just spurted out everywhere. Of course it went under the cart wheels of those behind me of which they in turn moved to get away...wrong thing to do...LOL

OK, like I said, tip of the day: keep your child away from anything that can make a mess when it hits the floor...or best tip, keep your child at home with a sitter when you go grocery shopping! LOL

[keith]

Originally Posted by pk

Tip for the day: Stay away from BUTCHER KNIFES!

That's what we're talking about, good Household Hints / Tips!

[Kris10]

The best household hints I've gotten are from the Haley's Hints series of books. This guy is like MacGyver, he can clean anything with stuff you already have in the house. Some of my favorites using pantyhose:

- Store potatoes and onions in pantyhose. Place a potato in the hose and tie a knot above it. Add another and tie a knot, repeat. To get the potato out, cut a slit in the hose. This keeps your potatoes aerated so they don't rot. When you need to add more potatoes, just slip them through the slit you made in the pantyhose.

At my house we store potatoes, shallots and onions this way. We hang the pantyhose on hooks in the pantry.

- Remove deodorant marks from your clothes using pantyhose. Just rub pantyhose on the marks and they will come right off!

On the subject of forum topics, I agree with RedRaven and Crys. We have too many forums that do not get frequent discussion. If a topic is getting a lot of discussion or threads made about it, then it may warrant its own forum. I also like the idea of consolidating topics like cats, dogs and horses into one "Pets & Animals" forum.

[AlumniClub]

Originally Posted by Kris10

I also like the idea of consolidating topics like cats, dogs and horses into one "Pets & Animals" forum.

FYI Fact,
When this idea was posted a long time ago..as a "Pets & Animal forum". It too was intended to be one topic and ended up to be split into several.
The populalation of horse lovers on theBubbler is very high and they had not had any input in the forums but only in the classifieds, until this subject was newly created for horse lovers.
But in the same note ..Dog, Bird and Cat lovers also began to explore the new forums for each new topic.

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My 2 Cents...
Beside what I already noted above...
I do believe that if new topics are created, members of theBubbler should help with subjects which interest them that are newly created.

It is the members who want these new topics, and staff from theBubbler feel obligated to jump start the new forums but may have other obligations to the important customer base at OnYourMark.
A new topic is created then who is going to add content to this topic??
3 out of 4 posts will come from a seasoned forum poster or staff member who really just wants to see some interesting converstion started in the new topic.

Members should help by being active in forums, of their interest and help in minimal MODing as ADMINs approve, like most other sites like ours already do with little or no help from ADMINs.

It is nice now to see more members who just joined very active from the very start of their membership.
I would this trend would carry into any new topic every created.

[AlumniClub]

Note a topic for this is created in the "Break Room"