Dorothy, sounds like there is more baggage in the house than just too much furniture. These threads work to sort out some of that, also, but I hope you don't have to make the case too often for Rob to get it!

Accountability was with the de-clutter discussion for a while, then separate, then reunited. Those of us with too much stuff in our houses are also generally trying to lose weight, so it is a way to report progress; exercise, diet, etc. Everyone has different things going, and of course, your mileage may vary. I have about 30 pounds to lose.

Liz, you know how various products will print recipes on the package, along with "serving suggestion" photos? Years ago Gold Medal flour put this cookie recipe on the package, and it caught on. I remember making them in junior high school (about age 13) and I was hooked.

Snickerdoodles

Preheat oven to 400^o

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening (or just use all butter)
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix the sugar, margarine, shortening and eggs in large bowl. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. I use a teaspoon to scoop small amounts of dough and make into a ball the size of a large marble.

In a shallow bowl, mix
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon

and roll the cookie dough ball through the sugar/cinnamon mix and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. I use one of those aluminum "hollow" ones that helps avoid burnt bottoms on cookies. Because these start as balls they end up beautiful round cookies. So if you can space dough so they don't touch when they spread, they are really round and beautiful when they come out of the oven.

Bake until set, about 8-10 minutes. (These balls spread out, then swell, and you want them to bake long enough to just be on their way out of the swell stage. And they collapse when you take the pan out of the oven.) Let them cool on the pan for a couple of minutes, then cool on paper or a wire rack. If you move them too soon, they kind of crumple. Don't let them brown.

If you use a very large baking sheet, or if you have the door open too long when you put them in, then they need an extra minute or two.

The combination of butter, egg and cinnamon is what makes these cookies heavenly.

I'm making a batch of cinnamon rolls to take to work tomorrow for the library holiday meal. I'm not staying for the campus-wide meal because I have an appointment at the eye doctor. Today's appointment revealed some degradation in the right eye that might be the early stage of something like glaucoma. So I have more tests, and the good news is that if this is something developing, there are drops to treat it so it won't get any worse. But it means two days in a row that my eyes will be dilated.

SRS