We've been tagged!!!

Miriam over at My Country Cupboard tagged us and so here we are attempting to figure out how all of this works!

ok, Rule 1. Link to the person who tagged me...(see above) and post the rules on your blog.....(look to your left...lol)

Rule 2. Miriam changed this one so Sundy and I have to list 7 random/weird things about our kitchen or that we do in our kitchen. Sundy and I have decided to do 7 each...that way we both suffer by Miriam's hand *lol*

Aliisa's List

1. Whoever built my house must have been an amazon because in my pantry they put up shelves and just kept going up. The top shelf is about 9 feet up there and completely unusable...what were they thinking????

2. Ok, Im short....I admit it. I do have a step stool I keep in my kitchen but damn it, I dont always want to drag the thing out. So....I sometimes grab a cooking utensil and use it to make the object fall out of the cabinet so I can catch it. Its all good, as long as I dont break it *LOL*

3. Most people think its very weird that I keep my plates, bowls and plastic cups in one of the bottom cabinets. I know, its "normal" to keep them in an upper cabinet. However, in my defense, if I put them in an upper cabinet then I just have to get it down for my 8 year old every day when she sets the table. This way she can do it all on her own!!! And she can help me unload that stuff from the dishwasher and put it away. SEEEE there is a method to my madness!!!

4. I have a lower cabinet that has a lazy susan in it. I keep cereal there so that my daughter can get her own breakfast on Sunday mornings. Yes...lazy susan equals lazy Aliisa *s*

5. Above my cabinets I have a nice place to display stuff. What do I have up there you ask? I have a hatbox lid displayed on a plate stand, (yes I know...weird but it was the right color) I have empty wine bottles (I was being frugal...lol), and I have an empty Olive Oil metal can (in my defense, it does say from Italy on it). Yes I know...its weird...I do have normal stuff up there too..but those dont fit the weird category so I will save that for a normal conversation!

6. Im a little embarrassed to say this next one and yes I know what you are thinking...how can I be embarrassed when I have already admitted to knocking things off my shelves on purpose and displaying empty wine bottles???? Well about 6 months ago...or maybe more...I cant remember, we bought new roman shades for 2 of the windows in our kitchen. Now, let me just say...we have 4 windows in our kitchen. We hung them and decided we couldnt decide if we really liked them or not and that we would have to live with them for a bit to figure it out. So they are still up and we cant take them back and I still have the white blinds on the other two. I just dont look at it anymore *lol*

7. Last one...yea!!! Ok, I must admit that I have a collection of milk rings in my kitchen. Yes I know its weird and that I am weird for having them. In my defense, I enjoy crochetting and every Christmas I crochet everyone an ornament. A year ago, I decided that this years ornament would be a wreath. In order to make a wreath, I had to have a ring to crochet around to make the hole in the middle. So my frugal mind decided that milk jug rings would be a good frugal thing to use. So I have them all sitting in my kitchen waiting to be used. Hmmmm...maybe I will start on that today.

OK, so here is Sundy's List

1. My cupboards are the originals from when the house was built in 1955. I know this because one of the doors has a poison control sticker on it that is dated 1955, and the phone number is JU4-5111. Does anyone still remember that phone numbers used to be written and spoken that way? Anyway, they are still, for the most part, in very nice shape for being over five decades old...well, except for a broken drawer face.

2. I do not have a dishwasher....well, I used to have three "dishwashers", but two of them moved off to college, and one is SWAMPED with an extra-heavy high school load as well as other responsibilities. My husband is a very hard-working roofer/carpenter, so it has fallen on me to be the "dishwasher"...every day! (Note to self: start a "shiny new dishwasher" fund ASAP!)

3. This is not actually a weird thing in my kitchen yet, but it will be. :) Related to #2: In self-defense (!), I have a plan to pare down the total available dishes to what is necessary for three people (plus a spare cup or two). Everything else will be stored away. I have 6-8 each of plates, cups, bowls, spoons, forks, etc. What I want to have is just enough dishes readily available (the rest I plan to HIDE) so that I am not overwhelmed.

4. To complicate things further, I have no hot water in my kitchen (that is, until I get my tankless water heater in December). So I boil water on the stove, which has an added bonus of sterilizing my dishes. Once the water cools down a bit, that's when I do my dishes.

5. I have an entire shelf in my kitchen devoted to herbal teas! :)

6. I am a tall person, but the cupboard section above my kitchen sink is so high up that I have to stand on my tiptoes to reach it. It is also long and narrow...not much good for anything. So that's where I stash all of the empty jars that I save throughout the year. I use the empty jars to make crafts...and if I didn't stash them up there, my husband would throw them away! So, out of sight, out of mind (for him at least).

7. I have a very unusual color combination in my kitchen. It is blue, green, and orange (not pale Southwest colors). Actually, my living room and kitchen are sort of open to each other, so the LR also has those colors. Those are my kids' favorite colors, and I found a combo of shades and hues of those three colors that worked. (I had "Rent-House White" on the walls for so long that I went a little nuts!)

Rule 3, Tag 7 people. I do have to say that Sundy and I are pretty new to the blogging world. Im not sure we can tag 7 people but we can try.

1. Sally I love her blog, she totally inspires me to make more things homemade!! (From Aliisa)

2. Corrin at BrokeAsASpoke. I love how disciplined she is about recording her expenditures. And I'm quite impressed with how well she does from paid blogging.(From Sundy)

3. Bill from Poop-and-Boogies. I've only been checking his blog for about a week, but I've read many of the archives, and "I'm diggin' it." He's funny and smart and literate, and I just plain enjoy his style! Plus, once in a while, he throws in a line from one of my favorite all-time movies, The Princess Bride. (From Sundy)

4. Jaimie not only has her own intelligently written I've Paid Twice For This Already, but she is also now a guest writer on Frugal Hacks. She talks about "snowflaking" your debt away, and it's a wonderful concept that obviously works well in practice for her. (From Sundy)

5. I love Emily's blog, The Learning Never Stops. Unfortunately she is so busy, she definately doesnt need this tag...however....tag! Sorry. (From Aliisa)

I would tag more but Miriam took mine *pouts* just kidding Miriam. ...Although, I could have tagged you again huh?

Oh, Jiminy Crickets! As Aliisa said, we're so new to this...there are plenty of blogs that I read, but not many that I comment on. *sigh*