I use the paypal note field when I buy stuff on ebay and ask the seller to please use no packaging (often possible if I am buying books, etc.) or recyclable or biodegradable packaging like newspape...

Get rid of all that crap sticking out the sides and on top, so it has very simple lines. Green the roof and the surrounding plaza. Then it might not be too bad. Not a patch on a real...

Great house. Who does the dusting?

I have compact fluorescents in almost all of my fixtures. There is very little color difference, esp. once you get used to it. I like that my electric bill has dropped by a third and that I'm not...

There's no identifying info about the house, and it's not like it's the living room or something, so I think this is fair game. I do agree that it seems like a formal house in which th...

I disagree with Popular Mechanics when they say we aren't running out of landfill space because we have enough for twenty years. Twenty years is the blink of a gnat's eyelash.