Shop like Your Grandma My Grandma’s cupboards were always full to overflowing, and they smelled good; of cinnamon and cloves and a myriad of other spices. Lots and lots of food, and you know what? No boil n’ bag, No Noodles n’ Sauce, No Canned Ravioli. My Grandma, and for that matter my Mom, bought stuff to make food preparation easier, not prepared food. Shop the prepared foods, just don’t buy them; use them for inspiration....

But it’s not always as easy as you may think. No matter what method you try, there always seems to be a bit left over. All the same, if you want to go out in a unique way or for your remains to be put to good use, then you may want to consider the following options. 10 Float Off Into Space If you always wanted to be an astronaut, you might want to consider spending eternity as a speck of space dust....

Here are ten materials used in new, exciting, and sometimes disgusting ways by so-called artists. Be careful which ones you try at home 10 Crazy Things That Make Us Love Or Hate Art 10 Blood If you are looking for a red paint you might think that blood would make a cheap alternative. Unfortunately blood dries to a dark brown colour. One modern artist, Vincent Castiglia, works exclusively with human blood to create his nightmarish visions....

Saggy Pants Sure, if the wearers were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie this might not be so bad – but, unfortunately, the wearer is usually a pimple-faced teen with a bad attitude. Saggy Pants (for lack of a better phrase) is the idiotic practice of wearing your pants so low that your underwear (or worse – your bare bottom) shows. Admittedly it is often more attractive than the wearer’s face, but still – cover it up!...

Here are ten YouTube channels that might make you a bit smarter for watching them. 10 Books That Will Make You Smarter 10 PBS Space Time Let’s start with the hardest thing in the universe to understand – the universe itself. Though the universe is also technically the only thing we can understand. PBS Space Time is a channel that takes on almost every physics topic you can think of in its effort to make the big topic of the universe just a little more understandable....

IMDb rating: 7.3 Producer/Director: James L Brooks Stars: Shirley McLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking....

This website is viewed all over the globe, and no one list is appropriate for all times and places. There is probably no need to carry water when traveling down a fresh water river. Special situations usually require a special kit. Adjust this as necessary. Also, this is only a guideline – Be responsible for your own safety. It was tough to make the list short enough for ListVerse, and yes I probably did omit some important things, but hey, in a survival situation do we really need toilet paper?...

1 – 10 Toilet bowl: 3.2 million bacteria/square inch 2. Kitchen drain: 567,845 bacteria/square inch 3. Sponge or counter-wiping cloth: 134,630 bacteria/square inch 4. Bathtub, near drain: 119,468 bacteria/square inch 5. Kitchen sink, near drain: 17,964 bacteria/square inch 6. Kitchen faucet handle: 13,227 bacteria/square inch 7. Bathroom faucet handle: 6,267 bacteria/square inch 8. Bathroom sink, near drain: 2,733 bacteria/square inch 9. Pet food dish, inside rim: 2,110 bacteria/square inch 10....

Obviously the shows listed here are U.S.-based TV shows. I’m sure there are probably shows in other countries that had actors die and be written out of the show. I came close to adding Ronnie Barker, but the show he was involved with at the time of his death was a compilation of previous comedy skits with the other Ronnie (Corbett), and technically played himself most of the time. I had a hard enough time finding some of these in the list – you’re welcome to add your own....

10 Chapman’s Pygmy Chameleon The Chapman’s pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum), which grows to approximately 2.2 inches (5.5 centimeters), was first detected in 1992 and was not seen in the wild again until 2016. Researchers from the South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Museums of Malawi were able to locate the chameleon in the rainforest. Over the last 40 years, an estimated 80% of the rainforests of Malawi Hills, where the chameleons live, have been destroyed, mostly for agricultural purposes....

10Ctesias’s Persica Ctesias was a Greek physician and historian who worked at the court of the Persian kings Darius II and Artaxerxes II from 405–398 BC. After Ctesias returned to Greece in the early fourth century BC, he wrote a work named Persica, a history of the Middle East composed of 23 books. Ctesias’s Persica started with the Assyrian empire during the time of King Ninus, a legendary figure, and ended with the events of the eighth regnal year of Artaxerxes II (398–397 BC)....

However, some animals are not so easy to judge and can be quite deceiving. Are they cute and friendly, or will one touch kill you? Here are 10 animals that don’t look dangerous but are actually deadly. 10 Kayan Loris The Kayan loris (aka slow loris) is a nocturnal primate that is closely related to the lemur. Kayan lorises are extremely adorable. They have big, baby-like eyes and beautiful soft fur that just begs to be petted, but one touch could be your last....

SEE ALSO: 10 Creepy Reasons Climate Change Is Starting To Look Like A Religion Plenty of scientific evidence shows that climate change, caused by natural and man-made factors, is catastrophic to animals, leading some species to diminish in number. However, there are some studies which indicate that certain groups are able to adapt to climate change and, surprisingly, benefit from it. 10 Cephalopods For many marine animals, climate change is a catastrophic event, but for a certain group of sea creatures, specifically cephalopods, it’s actually a beneficial phenomenon....

But in case Aunt Stephanie is running late and you’ve forgotten how she behaves with her gin – or in case your house is still a shambles from Uncle Jimmy’s rampage of yesterday, and you need reassurance that your weird family isn’t alone – here are the 10 people who are bound to make an appearance every year at every family’s Christmas party. The pouter is usually a child under the age of 10, but occasionally it’s an emotionally stunted, spoiled adult....

10Diogenes Of Sinope There has probably never been another philosopher quite as unusual as Diogenes, who practically invented performance art with such bizarrely poignant stunts as living in a massive, upturned jar and regularly masturbating in public. The fourth century B.C. was an intellectual golden age in Greece, and Diogenes delighted in mocking his fellow titans of philosophy. Once, he openly critiqued Plato’s definition of humans as “featherless bipeds” by plucking a chicken and displaying it in Plato’s Academy....

But the Chivalric Code was a real way of life for thousands of people over the course of the Middle Ages, and many of them lived awesome lives that are sadly forgotten now. Here, we’ve hunted down ten of the greatest knights you’ve probably never heard of. 10 Gilbert De Clare In many ways, Gilbert de Clare was the archetypical English knight.[1] A descendant of William the Conqueror and a relative of both the king of England and, by marriage, Robert the Bruce of Scotland, Gilbert was also the head of the powerful de Clare family....

Although early jazz artists created short music-film performances of their songs, and Elvis filmed unique settings of his songs that were parts of movies, the Beatles were the pioneers of marrying the two ideas into the concept we now know as the music video – a short, stand-alone film of a musical act presenting a current song that may or not be a live performance. The idea came to the Beatles as a way to ease their ridiculously tight schedule – instead of the band having to make tons of public appearances on TV shows around the world, they could send a video of themselves instead....

10 Discovery Of Teixobactin In 2014, the World Health Organization warned that the world was entering a “post-antibiotic era,” and they were right. We haven’t found a new antibiotic that was actually used as medicine since 1987, almost 30 years ago. Drug-resistant infections are becoming an increasingly prevalent problem. But in 2015, scientists made a discovery that has been described as a “game changer.” Scientists discovered a new class of antibiotics with 25 new antimicrobials, including a potent one named teixobactin....

10 Adopting A Vegetarian Or Vegan Lifestyle Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” According to several studies, Einstein was right. Switching to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle is the best thing we can do for our health and the key to solving one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today—climate change....

Bethel claimed he was sitting in his car going through paperwork when a knock came at his car window. He looked out to see two young boys, around 12 years old, who asked the journalist for a ride to a local movie theater. He might have agreed, had he not noticed that where their eyes should have been were soulless, deep black stones staring back at him. He sped off as fast as he could, and since his account, numerous claims of sightings have flooded Internet chat rooms and alternative media sites....