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Post by Cyno on Feb 17, 2019 14:35:41 GMT -5
Ah yes, the college dorm experience. That's something I really want to relive.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 14:37:44 GMT -5
Ah yes, the college dorm experience. That's something I really want to relive. (Language Warning):
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Feb 17, 2019 14:46:52 GMT -5
I'm not saying it's a good thing, it's actually sort of terrifying in a life-is-already-a-dystopian-novel way. But in the next 100 years, I can see a push to get rid of the idea of owning things, including home property, especially in large metropolitan areas. We already rent and license so much anyway, but there is always a way to get more money out of people by convincing them that they don't need to own, well, anything. Minus serious, systemic, and global change to our social, political, and economic lives, our desires will always be out of step with our needs.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 17, 2019 18:48:33 GMT -5
My apartment has no kitchen. We've bought a microwave and toaster but other than that, we just eat out each night.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 18:56:07 GMT -5
My apartment has no kitchen. We've bought a microwave and toaster but other than that, we just eat out each night. How can an apartment not have a kitchen? Hope the rent is low at least.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 17, 2019 19:26:07 GMT -5
My apartment has no kitchen. We've bought a microwave and toaster but other than that, we just eat out each night. How can an apartment not have a kitchen? Hope the rent is low at least. It's fairly common with older apartments here. Weirdly, it's got 5 rooms. You'd have thought the designer would have thought to make one a kitchen, but nope. Rent is free because of my wife's work so can't complain.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 20:31:53 GMT -5
But how will I store the left overs and warm them up later?
Get rid of bathrooms while we’re at it.
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Post by britishbulldog on Feb 18, 2019 19:38:26 GMT -5
considering it's more expensive to eat out every night than it is to make your own food (even if it's garbage from a box) I doubt this idea would ever have any legs. It's really not more expensive to eat out when you factor in the cost of ingredients, food storage, meal planning, the time it takes to cook a meal, and the time it takes to clean up. Yes, it was cheaper to eat at home in the 50's when food was cheaper and there was a Stay-At-Home Wife/Mom to prepare a meal every night, but those times are simply gone and most people don't have the time to plan and cook a meal for every night. I cook 95% of my meals for myself and my kids. I send a average of 375 a month in food. No canned or boxed meals. I could not fathom how much eating out every night would be. Cooking is still very cheap if you know how to shop.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 18, 2019 19:58:48 GMT -5
But how will I store the left overs and warm them up later? Get rid of bathrooms while we’re at it. Combine the bathroom with the kitchen and we're on to something. A lil' out with the old, in with the new. Find space for a vape pen and I think we can sell this to millennials like the OP proposes!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 19, 2019 3:13:34 GMT -5
Probably, some already convert every available space into a bedroom to cram more tenants in, might as well ditch the kitchen too. Plus the bathrooms if the property happens to have a perfectly good garden to go in. Legally the difference between a boarder and an apartment is if the second space has a kitchen around here. Wouldn't surprise me if some illegal apartments had their kitchens removed for that reasoning.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Feb 19, 2019 3:32:18 GMT -5
But how will I store the left overs and warm them up later? Get rid of bathrooms while we’re at it. Combine the bathroom with the kitchen and we're on to something. A lil' out with the old, in with the new. Find space for a vape pen and I think we can sell this to millennials like the OP proposes! Sounds like my Sims house before I discovered the motherlode cheat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 6:42:17 GMT -5
1. The kitchen is often an entry/exit to the house. Who's going to want people walking right through their bedroom or "man cave"? 2. Who decides to live off the McDonald's Dollar Menu as the sole reason to buy a house? Also, you can't just "trade" rooms; remodeling a kitchen into a bedroom would seem to price out the Mr. McDoubles of the world. 3. As others have mentioned, it would destroy the resale value of the house. In short, no. No, we will never see this.
1. Good point there.
2. I had an idea to eat approx. 4 McDoubles a day (1560 calories), take a vitamin pill, and streamline my food. I only ended up doing this for a few days before I stopped, but it's certainly a concept.
3. Yeah I'd be inclined to agree. Some millennials might even have nostalgia for kitchens someday, so it's a good curiosity piece too.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 19, 2019 10:25:26 GMT -5
When are we going to get Chinese restaurants that fly up to your window?
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 19, 2019 10:31:48 GMT -5
I personally know a 60 year old lady that built a house without a kitchen. Her husband had passed, she was sitting on a gigantic pile of money (resale value was moot to her) and had never cooked in her life.
Within the very first year after she moved in she already had a contractor putting in a kitchen add on. Kitchens are one of those things we often forget are used for more than cooking. There are multiple reasons to have a kitchen even if you don't cook when you own a home. Her main reason is that she's into arts and crafts and the kitchen counter/sink/dishwasher was the best place to clean/maintain her stuff.
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Post by Tenshigure on Feb 19, 2019 12:23:28 GMT -5
2. I had an idea to eat approx. 4 McDoubles a day (1560 calories), take a vitamin pill, and streamline my food. I only ended up doing this for a few days before I stopped, but it's certainly a concept. Let's just skip the fact that eating that much of the exact same thing over and over would absolutely destroy your arteries with the amount of cholesterol you're ingesting on a daily basis. Even using simple math: $1.39 per burger x 4 Burgers Per Day ======= $5.56 ($6.03 if you calculate with the US average 8.5% sales tax) x 365 Days ======= $2,201.90 per year / 12 months ======= $183.49 per person per month (let's round up to $183.75 to include a multivitamin that still won't hit your daily needs) Congratulations, you've just spent the same amount of money buying fast food for a single person that a thrifty family of three pays for groceries in the Midwest. Unlike them however, you're literally eating the exact same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all in the name of saving what...maybe 20 minutes of time in the kitchen. We live in an age where gadgets like Instant Pot and Sous Vide encourage the "set it and forget it" lifestyle that even the busiest of people have time to complete to at least have some form of proper nutrition in their meals. Set aside a single hour to "meal prep" for the week and you're guaranteed far better food at a cheaper rate than anything McDonald's or any other fast food restaurant could provide at the same cost point. The mere idea of not having a kitchen is ludicrous to an extent that I cannot even comprehend. If you want to live in a converted hotel or old school, go right on ahead; you most certainly will not see any kind of trends in the future that will suddenly believe that the potential $30 in electricity savings will make up the difference with constant trips to a local burger joint.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 19, 2019 17:49:59 GMT -5
Don't forget gas or delivery charge money on top of the cost of the food.
Going to the store has it to but that's one trip a week instead of 3 each day.
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Post by captaincheapshot on Feb 19, 2019 21:21:23 GMT -5
F**k you real estate lady, this bedroom has an oven in it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 19, 2019 21:30:14 GMT -5
Vacuuming kinda sucks. Let's get rid of floors.
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Post by Paul on Feb 19, 2019 22:36:31 GMT -5
F**k you real estate lady, this bedroom has an oven in it. Mitch?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 23:38:37 GMT -5
2. I had an idea to eat approx. 4 McDoubles a day (1560 calories), take a vitamin pill, and streamline my food. I only ended up doing this for a few days before I stopped, but it's certainly a concept. Let's just skip the fact that eating that much of the exact same thing over and over would absolutely destroy your arteries with the amount of cholesterol you're ingesting on a daily basis. Even using simple math: $1.39 per burger x 4 Burgers Per Day ======= $5.56 ($6.03 if you calculate with the US average 8.5% sales tax) x 365 Days ======= $2,201.90 per year / 12 months ======= $183.49 per person per month (let's round up to $183.75 to include a multivitamin that still won't hit your daily needs) Congratulations, you've just spent the same amount of money buying fast food for a single person that a thrifty family of three pays for groceries in the Midwest. Unlike them however, you're literally eating the exact same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all in the name of saving what...maybe 20 minutes of time in the kitchen. We live in an age where gadgets like Instant Pot and Sous Vide encourage the "set it and forget it" lifestyle that even the busiest of people have time to complete to at least have some form of proper nutrition in their meals. Set aside a single hour to "meal prep" for the week and you're guaranteed far better food at a cheaper rate than anything McDonald's or any other fast food restaurant could provide at the same cost point. The mere idea of not having a kitchen is ludicrous to an extent that I cannot even comprehend. If you want to live in a converted hotel or old school, go right on ahead; you most certainly will not see any kind of trends in the future that will suddenly believe that the potential $30 in electricity savings will make up the difference with constant trips to a local burger joint.
Yeah. I tried making myself eat bags of broccoli and stuff like that but it got too annoying. Other than Kraft Dinner and Ramen, I suck at cooking.
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