Bowls and bags

In our house we have some bowls that i’ve nicknamed magic bowls.

They aren’t actually anything special at all… they are cheap gladware type clear bowls with blue lids that I bought 3 for a dollar about a year and a half ago for taking chili and soups to work for lunch. Holds about 4 cups, so gives some space for stirring and such.

But for some reason, these bowls seem to be perfect. I can’t explain it… but things that go into these bowls get eaten. Larger container of fruit gets ignored, baggies with smaller amounts of grapes get ignored… same fruit or leftovers or pudding or whatever in these bowls gets picked up and eaten.

It also happens that the bottom is flat, and the sides not slanted, so that my potato masher works just right in these bowls to mash potatoes or cauliflower or hummus or guacamole or fruit to add to yogurt.

So we use them… a lot. For everything. 

 

So I figured it was time to get more than the  we owned… because they were frequently busy in the fridge holding salad fixings, jello, fruit, and leftovers.

So I got some similar sized at walmart. And it’s not the same. Sloping sides and curves into the bottom kills the mashing use. And the lids don’t work as well. So we very rarely use them.

So the next time I was at target, I looked for them. But they were nowhere to be found.

 

So I literally decided to drive the 25 minutes or so to go to the target up by where I used to work… where I knew I had gotten the bowls after work one day… just to go get bowls.

And they had bowls. YAY!

So we are now the proud owners of 12 more of the bowls. 4 of which have already found their way into the fridge just a few hours later, and another of which walked off filled with popcorn.

I really don’t know what our thing is with these bowls… but they seem to somehow be magic. Kinda disturbing really.

 

Anyway, while at target, also found some pretty shopping bags in the dollar section. Which made me happy.

I had some older crocheted bags from when I was in college, but they were huge, and made more sense when I was toting things up 3 flights of stairs to make as few trips as possible. And they don’t keep shape, so they are kinda a mess to work with.

I’d replaced them with some craft store bags… which were pretty. but impractical. handle was attached only at the top… so we had issues almost immediately. And the fabric was too thin to prevent some rips.

So they long since got demoted to toy use… but all of the bags ive seen since then either had the same issues… or were covered in store logos/advertising… or were just plain ugly.

But these.. they had in all sorts of different colors and sizes. We got hot pink, bright turquoise, and bright purple. Very pretty. And the regular sized bags without the zippers or snaps had the handle sewn all the way down the length of the bag.

Only issue is keeping kiddo from commandeering them. She already tried to make off with one of the pink ones.

 

Bowls and bags. Random cheap things making me smile right now.

(And yes, I had to laugh when I noticed that target put all of my shopping bags into a really large plastic bag. )