WANTED: Where else do you hang out?

16 years ago

Some of us are relatively new to cooking forum but migrated over from other places so it might be helpful to say what other forums you post on. There is an option for "entire site" instead of "this forum" in the search but it might be helpful to go ahead and point your partner in the right direction.

We finished remodeling in the spring and I still post on the kitchen forum and a bit on appliances to return the help I received. I'm sure there are lots of tidbits about me that can be found there such as evidence of what an annoyingly analytic personality I have. :^)

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caflowerluver
16 years ago
I hang out on the Kitchen Forum still, even though I finished my kitchen 9 months ago. I also can be found on the Kitchen Table Forum. Such a lively group, always an interesting topic to find there.

I have been on the Appliances Forum, Flooring, Plumbing, Cookware, Recipe Exchange, Fiber and Needle Arts, Crafts, and Pets.

On the Garden Web side (where I started many years ago) I am occasionaly on the Roses Forum (all of them), Amaryllis, Brugmansia, Dahlias, Citrus, Heirloom Gardens, Tomatoes, Tropical, Greenhouse, Vegetable Gardening, and CA gardening.

With hanging out on all these forums, it makes me wonder how I get anything else done. Well to be honest I don't get as much done as I use to. I am too busy reading about what I should be doing.
Clare
kathleen_li
16 years ago
I started years ago on Building a Home, that was 99. Then after we built, I didn't go there anymore. Last Jan I started posting on Holidays, and I go there a lot. Very small group..it picks up around now, but during the summer maybe 10 of us. So now it is there and here!
Good idea, Cloud!
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Our house is THE hang out house for my very social son and his friends. On Friday night, my husband and I were having a quiet dinner in the kitchen when my 16 year old son boiled up from the basement--along with 7 of his pals! They ransacked the kitchen looking for a dessert. I offered them a semi-freddo (Italian frozen cream dessert) I had made for a dinner party but had not served. Their faces lighted up; they fell on it like vultures, and there was only a small morsel left! Our house has always been the magnet for my son's friends. We remodeled the basement some 4 years ago--it is very cozy, and has a big-screen TV, gas fireplace, foosball, bathroom, and refrigerator and freezer (stocked with lots of Trader Joe's foods). It's private, we put in lots of soundproofing--so the noise doesn't bother us--the furniture is comfortable, and they play music, watch movies, and play video games, and have access to my cooking. Our older daughter is away at college, so there are no other siblings around. I'm delighted that our house is the hang out, but I will admit that when schools here were closed for some 9 days (due to the snow) it became a bit much. It felt like I was living in a frat house.
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Lots of great advice above. I especially like the emphasis on supporting individual artisans. That's how I justify my ginormous library fines: I am supporting the local library. For me, I often will have an amount in my head, beyond which an object just seems unreasonable to me, regardless of whether or not I can actually afford it. Currently, my own dilemma concerns a 4,000 range hood. For me, this is just not a reasonable amount to spend on a hood, no matter how much I love it. So, is there any conflict in your mind about spending for a faucet what you would spend for an excellent quality dishwasher? If not, then it will probably thrill you every time you turn it on. And who doesn't need a good thrill several times a day! If you go for it, check out Home and Stone. They seem to carry some versions of it for a teeny, weeny bit less. The only thing I wonder about is whether this faucet style goes with the mission style you described above (e.g. the oil rubbed bronze light fixure from Rejuvenation). Now, I'll be the first to admit that my design style is seriously lacking, so I could be totally wrong on this! But when I saw the rough hammered faucet, it made me think of my sister-in-law's upscale western style, "chic cowgirl" bathroom in Colorado. It doesn't read "Greene and Greene" to me. But as I said, I could be totally wrong about that! :-) francy
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I appreciate your comment, Lukki. I guess the difference for me is that the nature of Hot Topics is going to draw spice, feisty, opinionated people who can sometimes go a bit far and become mean spirited, and I think that is why GW keeps HT pretty separate from all of the other threads, i.e.: it doesn't show recent comments made to that thread on the front page, that sort of thing. It's really hidden, so I don't think anyone really has much of a right to complain or be critical because it's not in anyone's face at all. One has to deliberately go there. If it's not one's cup of tea, they don't have to even know it exists. But again, it IS "Hot Topics", after all. I think it's the one place where people can and should be allowed to express a little more "heat", so to speak. GW has very professional moderators, as well, and I think gets that about HT. But HD Conversations, for example, is out front and it is not inherently meant to be heated, and I've seen some shocking and vicious attacks on people, serious ganging up, much worse than anything I've seen on HT, where, again, it's to be expected to a certain degree. I can keep my wits there, and elsewhere (thank you for that, btw), because I try to keep my eye on the ball and not get or make things personal, which is a big mistake a lot of people make (and don't get me going on passive/aggressive behavior. Ugh. I loathe it). If I really have a personal animus for someone here or there, I simply ignore them and don't engage because my personal feelings about another are completely irrelevant and certainly of no interest to anyone else. So no, it's not for the thin skinned, but I think that is okay to say about a forum called "Hot Topics". I don't think, though, that such a thing should have to be said about a forum called "Home Decorating Conversations"!
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pkramer60
16 years ago
I started at the roses and found this place. I found home here, but do still check on roses and the garden party.
sigh
16 years ago
I started on Kitchens (cloud_swift & aptosca, I remember both of you from there! It's like we're part of the graduating class) and still check in from time to time. I visit home decorating (because I'm hopeless) and pets. But lately cooking is where I've been spending all of my forum time.

Of course then there are the Fiestaware boards...

Nina
jessyf
16 years ago
The Laundry Forum? But I mostly lurk, don't post much there. When I'm bored I also read the Stepfamilies forum, whooo weee.....
teresa_nc7
16 years ago
In addition to Cooking and Recipe Exchange, I frequent Quilting, Sewing, and Small Homes and less frequently, Old Houses.
Teresa
flamingo1121
16 years ago
Don't laugh but here is almost daily routine around this site..1)Holidays 2)Crafts 3) Trash to Treasure 4) Cooking and all its side links ... stay here the longest 5) Entertaining 6) Recipe Exchange 7) Organizing 8) Cleaning 9) sometimes Kitchens and Laundry (actually laundry started me on this forum..bad experience with w/d) Then I go to Garden side and puruse garden junk, new england gardening, and lawns since we are installing.

I LOVE THIS SITE!
ziporion
16 years ago
I've only hung around this forum, but with a kitchen reno in our future plans, I'll be looking there for inspiration.
Catherine
diana55
16 years ago
I sometimes post on the Banana & Palms Forum, as I am a lover of Tropicals. Yes I do grow both of these plants in British Columbia!!! I have a palm tree in my backyard, and several Banana plants. I grow the cold hardy varieties. Diana55
dedtired
16 years ago
OMG, Jessy. I just checked out Stepfamilies. Whoa! That is so funny/sad. Remind me never to remarry.

I started with Rhododendrens, went Kitchens, then here. I also check out Bathrooms (I'm doing one soon), PA Gardening, back to Kitchens for the heck of it. The only other forum I really love is Reader's Paradise -- but not as much as I love Cooking.
alison
16 years ago
I was strictly on the gadren side when I first started, and I still visit the Ohio, Herbs, Frugal and Winter-sowing forums regularly. On this side, I post on the Cooking forum, but also read the Small House and Saving Money forums. And -- the same way I enjoy fiction from other cultures -- I like to peruse the Organizing Forum!
doucanoe
16 years ago
I started out on Home Building, I think it must have been 1999... Found CF in 2000, was a paid member for a while but let my dues lapse and lurked for a short time. Paid back up and rejoined the fun, then they dropped the dues a short time later! LOL

I hang out here most of the time, Minnesota Gardening is my second favorite. I don't "hang out" at any others, really, but do occasionally pop in at Daylily, Perennials, Stained Glass, Garden Junk, Trash to Treasure, Pets, among others.

Linda
mustangs81
16 years ago
Cooking Forum
Organized Home
Home Decorating
Laundry Room
Cleaning Tips
Florida Gardening
Terri_PacNW
16 years ago
First place I found was the Recipe Exchange..used to be me Ginger, Glenda, Lindac and Linda TN...LOL
Then moved over to the Kitchen Table... when I got pregnant with Kamren I was at the Pregnancy Forum, Parents of Infants.
I spent some time at PNW Gardening for a while and Kitchen and Baths as well..Oh and Crafts and Dec...Now the majority of my time is spent at CF and KT..a little in Holidays, Soap and Candlemaking .....
booberry85
16 years ago
I started off in the vegetable gardening forum, then harvest & now cooking. Occasionally I go to tomato, hot pepper, organic gardening, heirloom gardening, recipes, & dessert.
msafirstein
16 years ago
I started on GW back when there were only a few forums and no Home site was even in the cards. Must have been 1997 maybe?? I stopped visiting all together until about 3 years ago and with our remodel looming, I did a search on something and the Kitchen Forum was one of the links.

Now I mostly stick to cooking and harvest. But once in a while revisit Kitchens and Bathrooms. I love the Old House forum but I've not been there in ages now...actually forgot about it, must be my mind is on something else...LOL! Just had time this week to start posting on GB again.

When I have a spare hour or 2 I do my genealogy and this is an entirely different set of web links.

Michelle

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