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I'm comedian Katie Brand and this is the origin of stuff

where I pay homage to those overlooked and sometimes underrated essentials of everyday life.

I was once given one of those wine glasses

into which you can fit an entire bottle of wine. It is meant as a joke or a novelty

but on at least one occasion I have used it alone. Please don't judge me. I had a sprained

ankle and really given the fact this red wine needed to

breathe in any case it seems silly to have to keep going back and forth to the kitchen

to top up I was trying to dull the pain of my ankle not the existential despair

of being and the volume of wine mixed with the

hospital medication made for a hallucinatory evening and a terrible hangover.

That glass is mainly now used as a vase or a warning to others and myself. I now know that less is more in terms of wine

and therefore my taste in wine glasses has got a bit more sophisticated I like to

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