It's interesting to note that spending on healthcare is lower per capita in Canada, for example, vs. the US, with health outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy being better.

Maybe that explains why I haven't seen one before. I'm from the Canadian prairies.

My bad, it's r/Pyrex_Love!

If you want a stroll down memory lane for these type of items, go check out r/Pyrexlove which also has some Corningware items like these as well from time to time!

This is crazy, I had no idea such a design existed! So cool!

My mom had a spacemaker coffee maker similar to this one, circa 1995, plus a spacemaker can opener and a spacemaker tape player/radio, which was then replaced by a spacemaker radio/CD/aux in player.

Side note, but my MIL with Crohn's can poop out something 20 min after she eats it if her digestive system is a bit testy with her.

My husband can be bad for this. Biggest case in point:

My husband and I (8 months pregnant with our first) were in a T-bone accident on our way back from visiting my family (5 hours south of where we and his parents live). My husband walked away with basically no injuries, I had bruising and scrapes, etc, wouldn't have gone to the hospital but got ambulanced because of the baby, just to be sure.

My husband sent a picture text of the wrecked car (he's a car guy, his dad too) and that I was on the way to the hospital. That's it. His phone then died, and of course he had no charger or way to charge.

His mom was absolutely frantic. They didn't even know which city we were in, because I they knew we were travelling back that day. She tried contacting me, of course, but I wasn't looking at my phone for the first hour and a half or so, because it also had low battery and I was busy being checked out. She ended up phoning her brother, who lives 10 min from my parents, to get him to look up their farm phone. My dad, who had been receiving updates through my mom, was able to reassure her that her son wasn't hurt, and it didn't seem like I or the baby had anything major but we were being checked/monitored for a few hours.

I know someone who has it shatter and cut his hand pretty bad, actually. Thankfully, after several months, the tendon damage healed up fine.

I would be very hesitant to do this if I was a male who wanted to reproduce.

They say even the heat from a laptop over time affects your sperm count. (Though, I think, it can recover over time if you stop using it on your lap.)

I always weigh this when I'm sick, because I have three related factors that make fevers much more difficult for me (30F).

I have MS, and that means:

• One of my particular brain lesions is in my hypothalamus, which affects my body temperature and my perception of it.
• My body temp going over about 37.5°C/99.5°F starts to make my other, previous symptoms come back/be worse, including dizziness, balance, and leg weakness. When I had a fever with COVID, I was literally clutching walls, back of chair, etc. to get from room to room. (Normally I don't have any walking issues, only when I'm too hot.)
• I almost never sweat. It will occasionally kick in, with maybe 20% of the sweat I should/used to be able to produce. So I can't bring my body temp down without external help like water/ice or cold air. If I don't have access to these, I'm at risk for heat stroke.

Thankfully, I don't get fevers often, but when I do, they seriously kick my butt. My first dose of COVID vaccine took me 3 days to feel mostly normal and a full week to feel completely normal. I have had 4 doses now, and know to proactively take both naproxen and acetaminophen at their recommended highest dose/interval.

That's how I've functioned all my life, yes.

Why wouldn't you just wash your sheets with something else though? You don't only need to wash sheets with sheets.

I happen to have more than one set of sheets, but it's because of wedding gifts. I've never intentionally had more than one per bed.

I hate folding sheets. I strip the bed, wash, put back on. My mom did the same for all 5 beds, though some of us liked flannel sheets for the winter so there were 2-3 sets of sheets that got folded up and not used for 6 or so months.

Until next Wednesday...