You have used most of the items in the house in your brew process at one time or another subsituting for that piece of equipment that you will buy NEXT time you go to the LHBS, but then you buy ingredients instead, because really that system with the hairdryer, the pasta strainer and the coffee maker worked fine....
When you're doing the groceries and you pass in front of rice, Honey, Corn sugar, coriander, fruits... you don't think of these items as common food, but more like adjuncts to try on your next batch.
my husband offered to remodel his workshop so I could move my brewing equipment out of the kitchen He is even going to insulate the ceiling and install a small air conditioner so the temperature will be more constant in Summer. (For the record, I am a female ).
When you wake up from a bad dream in which all your entries to the local competition were lost or presented to the judges as the wrong category or you get a scoresheet back that was for someone else's entry. In my dream I got a scoresheet back for my common cider saying "why did you submit a Labbatt Blue as your entry?"
Judging is tomorrow night, let's hope I don't get too many more of these.