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• 1 Anna // Jan 10, 2014 at 10:27 am

  I find crochet to be so much easier than knitting. And less stressful. And more tactile. I really struggled to learn how to knit when I was a kid but crochet made a lot of sense to me. One thing about the counting, it’s tons easier to see stitches in crochet vs knitting, which makes keeping track a breeze.

• 2 megan // Jan 10, 2014 at 10:36 am

  Anna – good to know! I’m very intimidated by crochet. I think something about how knitting looks like pixels and I can figure out what is going on but crochet looks like tangled sound waves. I’ll take the next opportunity to learn. I’m curious what sort of 3D shapes crochet can produce that are sturdier than their knit counterparts!

• 3 Jen // Jan 13, 2014 at 7:42 pm

  I feel vindicated that mentalfloss declared the “spoon on the pot for preventing boil overs” thing a fail, but I object to them failing the fitted sheet and cherry tomato cutting trick.

  I was taught to fold sheets that was as a kid, and of course it works if you put a little effort. The tomato thing I learned from the internet, and indeed, it also works. By work, I mean it is way more efficient that cutting them individually, but it does take a tiny bit of skill just like freehand splitting cake layers does. Helps to choose approximately equal sized tomatos.

• 4 megan // Jan 14, 2014 at 1:01 am

  Jen – I’ll have to try the cherry tomato thing, I suspect it will pose less risk to me of slicing off a fingerprint. As for folding fitted sheets, I know the theory but I always get frustrated at their inability to behave. I think it has a lot to do with the diagonal warp of the inexpensive cotton sheets I buy :)

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