You can arrange for delivery of stuff to your house at the Ikea itself. It was a pretty reasonable charge, we thought, though there weren't a lot of options for when it was delievered, if I remembe...

I park mine just outside of our storage unit in the basement of our building. I'm car free and use my bike every day, pretty much. I can't imagine having to haul it up and down three flights of ste...

Another vote for the Dyson. I love mine.

I had a cat who would just use the hallway if the box in the bathroom wasn't accessible. It wasn't really her fault. She had medical conditions and she just couldn't wait sometimes. She's since pas...

We had something similar to this when I was growing up, but eventually had to get rid of it because we couldn't get the right kind of CO2 cartridges anymore. I'd love to have one again.

I like a tall, skinny travel mug, without a handle because it'll fit in the water bottle cage on my bike. I don't really drink coffee on the way- my bike commute is only two miles, but I like to ha...

I also try and go low meat whenever possible. I've tried being a veg, but I start to feel run down and ill after a while. In a typical day, I might have only one meal with meat. I also do things wh...

My sister nagged me for years about how unsafe a live tree is (according to her, a dreadful fire risk, even well watered). She had a house fire a few years back, so she's hyper conscious of anythin...

I'm having problems too. I can't vote, though I am able to comment. Using Foxfire as well. But onto the topic at hand. Fruitcake. Love it. Even the kind with the artificially br...

I've got an Oster toaster oven. I don't remember its cost exactly, but it was about midway between the $30 Black and Decker and the $175 Krups. It's bigger than either one. I use it more as an oven...

Sweet potatoes are best done the simplest way- wash 'em, poke a few holes in, toss 'em in the oven. Serve with butter and a bit of salt and pepper.

Supposedly you can hang fabric like its wallpaper by using laundry starch, but I've never done this personally.

Brussel sprouts, usually with a mustard sauce, are what we consider to be the most important side dish. I mean, we like stuffing okay, but we normally just buy a box of stovetop style stuffing. Act...

I'd definitely pick the Platner. The curves just come off as more graceful. And it's also less over exposed than either of the others.

We usually have leftovers for breakfast. This morning it was this borscht soup/stew that had been dinner on Tuesday night. I need a healthy dose of protein in the morning to keep me going during th...

I like my eggs best as an omelet. Simple, just cheese in the middle most of the time. With a good non stick pan, an omelet isn't any more work than scrambled eggs, but more elegant.

If you've taken as much food safety classes as I have, you would never, ever, not in a million years use a sponge again. Unless you kept it soaking in bleach solution when not in use, which destroy...

Growing up, it was pretty much a given that most of my August would be spent in a boiling hot kitchen, peeling the skins off tomatoes or peaches that had been blanched and were pretty much still sc...

Normally, just popped on the stovetop in oil, without anything else. But when I go to the movies, my regular theater has this salty fake cheese stuff that I just cannot resist.