Wow, H-E-B, now that’s a name I’ve not heard for a long time. I once worked for a major food company and our sales team worked with H-E-B, Wegmans, and Meijer. I had grown up with Meijer Thrifty Acres but the other chains were new to me. Different cultures!
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The Royals. It’s hard to think of people as a product, but they generate tourism income for the UK economy.
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I was 13 years old and riding Space Mountain (Florida) for the first time. I was seated next to my sister.
As we rose up the first ramp before “blastoff”, I heard an adult male in the car in front of us say “I think I’m gonna hurl.”
I spent the rest of that ride ducking. lol
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I have serious doubts about whether that’s actually true, although that’s always used as a rationale for their continuing existence in the U.K.
I mean, people didn’t stop visiting France when they “retired” their royal family. People still visit Versailles and other palaces once occupied by French royalty.
The vast majority of tourists visiting the U.K. cannot expect to actually set eyes on any member of the royal family.
I dint get the hype for tile floors, showers, countertops with grout. Just yuck!!
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Agree with no tile for non-bathroom floors and absolutely no countertops. Steam showers require tile though it can be very large tiles so little grout
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Having just watched a “news” segment about the Wirkin, the Walmart version of the $$$$$$ Hermes Birkin handbag, I have to say designer purses. Or even the knockoff versions. I wouldn’t recognize a Birkin, or a Wirkin, if I saw one and my purse spends most of its time thrown on the car seat and sliding off to the floor when I make a turn, on the restaurant floor after it slides off the back of the chair or casually resting in various corners of my home.
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What slays me is Walmart stopped selling the Wirkins, supposedly because of lawsuit threats from Hermes…and now the Wirkin prices have soared on the secondary market.
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It varies quite a bit depending on location and what material you are comparing to as the alternative. For example, when I moved in to my home, the previous owner put thick, beige carpet in the master bathroom (large area with bathtub + 2 sinks + 3 counters that connects bedroom to shower). I replaced the carpet with large, white/marble style, 24x24 square, non-slip, porcelain tiles. I think the tile looks tremendously better than the carpet it replaces. It’s also a better choice than carpet for resisting water damage + mold in a room with frequent water splashes and damp feet. Cost primarily related to installation rather than materials, and I got a deal on installation that was too good to pass up.
However, I don’t plan on switching the carpet to tile in other areas, such as living room or bedrooms.
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Not crazy about grout. But it can make a bathroom floor or shower floor more ‘grippy’. A trend we hate at higher end hotels is polished marble bathrooom floor. Soooo slippery. We comment “what were they thinking? One time even the shower floor was treacherous when wet.
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I have a close friend who has wall-to-wall carpet in her bathroom too - all the way up to the bathtub/shower and around the toilet. Gives me the skeevies! When I visited, I wore shoes when in the bathroom. Her whole house is a time capsule from the early 80’s complete with pickled oak cabinets, white appliances and even the undercounter small appliance package (coffee maker, can opener, etc.) She doesn’t cook, so it’s untouched.
We were talking in general about home remodeling and I asked her if she had those intentions with her home (the outside is gorgeous!) She said it would be a waste of money because she lives in a highly desirable area of SoCal and she can get top dollar with no remodel and the new homeowners would likely rip it out and do their own thing anyways.
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My dad, a civil engineer, loved Hoover Dam. Sometimes we go somewhere that I have no real interest in, and it ends up being quite interesting!
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I don’t get either - I don’t want water directly on my head during my entire shower (need to let that conditioner soak in a bit!)
I would be the worst person to have on an HGTV reno show - I don’t want a shower large enough for my entire family to fit in, no crazy colored tile/design, no white furniture (do you know my family?!), nothing that is going to be dated in 4 years and expensive to replace, no beautiful famly/living room…that only seats 4 people. 
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Civil engineer BIL is planning a trip to Scotland. Almost literally, all he wants to see is the Falkirk Wheel (an engineering marvel, for those not familiar please look it up).
We’ve been to Scotland twice, so we have lots of suggestions. Castles? He will begrudgingly visit one for his son’s sake. Culloden Battlefield, where the Jacobite Rebellion (think Outlander) died once and for all changing Scotland forever? NOPE. Edinburgh? NOPE, hates cities.
Glad we’re not traveling with him! What is it about civil engineers and how their brains are wired?
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What cracks me up about the HGTV shows is that huge family rooms have comfy seating, but no flatscreen–one show had a set of beautiful leather seating arranged to face a fireplace. I’d get bored watching the fire pretty quickly, but I’d like to sit there and watch a game or movie.
Real people in real homes watch TV—with huge cheap flatscreens and nice sound systems, I find no need to go to a movie theater.
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Castles are examples of civil engineering…
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True, but he’s made it clear he wants NO part of anything historical, and sees castles as boring museums of history.
My husband took our daughters to Scotland for a dance competition, brought one of our sons, I booked a private day tour for them and this was one of their favorite stops.
If I’m in Scotland, I’m golfing. 
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Starbucks Egg Bites or similar copycats.
I don’t get it. It’s scrambled eggs in a more solid form. Not the second coming lol! Give me a quiche any day. 
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