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To the person who said this person needed to "get some parents," My parents always had a policy that common spaces needed to be kept neat and tidy, but my room was my domain. My room ...

Sometimes I roast mine over my electric stove with a fork, it works really well. Toasted marshmallows and Petite Ecolier chocolate covered cookies make pretty great s'mores.

My potatoe ricer. People always ask for the secret ingredient that makes my mashed potatoes so creamy. No fancy ingredients, just my favourite gadget!

Peter Fallico had a wall like the one behind your bed and used it to make a really graphic painted headboard. Pics here:

I suppose the glass bowl would let you see if there's anything on the sides or bottom of the bowl that still needs to be incorporated...

Get rid of the vertical blinds. Gone, gone, gone!

Eep, the sleeping area looks like a coffin.

From my grandmother (who's still alive and kicking at 92) I got my great-grandmother's piano that was built in 1906, and a fantastic mod chair from the sixties. From my dad (who died w...

I live in a very small apartment, and I have a grand total of ONE drawer in my kitchen, so anything with a long enough handle goes in a stainless steel container on the counter.

I try not to eat anything more complicated than an apple or a granola bar while I'm driving... I once left a case of Diet Pepsi in the back seat of my car overnight because my hands we...

So copy a whole bunch onto the same page a make one for all your friends...

My Christmas tree. I live in a tiny apartment with no built in closets and I have a 4.5ft tall Christmas tree (which splits into 2 pieces) that I store above my fridge when it's not th...

Oh my gosh, how cute would it be to do circles and make a polka-dotted pie?

Spartan Apples! They're from the Okanagan Valley in BC, Canada, and they're wonderful. Very crisp and sweet, never mealy, with very white flesh.

I don't think I'd call that a "mini" Mona Lisa... Totally awesome!

I despise this. My books (and there are a lot of them) are gorgeous, authentic, and don't need to be covered up. I also dislike the "organizing by colour trend" as I couldn't handle sc...

My grandmother's house in British Columbia, Canada, has a metal roof. It seems to do fine with rain and hail (not that we get that much hail here), and it's not even too noisy with the insulation c...

My college had radiators tucked into deep window-wells with stone seats on top, they were everyone's favourite place to sit between classes, so cozy!