My husband and I have a similar room in our basement. Placing furniture where it will be used without blocking doorways is difficult. We have the couch in the middle, facing both the fireplace an...

As a Maryland native who now teaches in the state, I have to say there's some reason to us cutting out early Friday. First, dismissing an entire school system takes up to four hours when you inclu...

We keep our heat usually at 55-60, depending on the time of day. We have a programmable thermostat, and the previous owners installed windows with a double pane in them. We've talked about s...

I've done this with small pillows and with our draft dodgers. Filling and avoiding lumpiness is definitely easier if fabrics are cut into small chunks. Honestly, my husband didn't even notice.

Growing up in England, my husband ate hardboiled eggs often for breakfast. As he taught me, he and his brothers would knock the little end of the egg against the other's little end of the egg. Wh...

Well, s**t. There goes my goal of longest post on AT ever. Nice list, though. Definitely eliminates the junk drawer.

I do like some of the ideas that are at least shown in the photo, if not described in the post. One of my favorites is to use all of the storage in my closet, from the floor (a laundry basket for ...

Beyond the books debate... I strongly disagree with #1. In our crazy times, where people are looking for legitimate assets and continuity and saving money, I see more people doing DIY...

A friend of mine received one of these as a college graduation gift, as she had a lot of t-shirts from marching band with sentimental value that she didn't wear. Her mom framed the rectangles of j...

I love clarinets, too. But as a musician and music teacher, I sure hope those were no longer functional before they were made into lamps. And yes, I have a trumpet lamp. A gift fro...

I have a question on the other end of the spectrum. What do you do with excess grey water? The only clean water we use is for cleaning us and for cooking, and we try to shower and cle...

I work at a company that says it's "Going green", but does nothing about, say, powering down the 30 computers in the work lab (or even the monitors!) at the end of the day (which comes at 3:00). I...

I have to agree with TravelingRae. Everyone I know with a pedestal sink has ugly boxes and dusty bottles and fusty shower caddies of crap, all out for everyone to see. Fine if you have cabinets; ...

How do you read while you're cooking? When I read I get so engrossed I'm usually done the book before I know it, and dinner would be burned if I cooked that way! Setting table and cle...

I love geneology. Forgive me for the pop culture reference, but I always thought it'd be really cool to have a family tree display like the one in Sirius Black's house in "Harry Potter" (a tapestr...

I know that my husband and I eat on only a little more than $30 a week, and we're in Central Maryland (I know food costs more in certain areas than others). If it helps any, here are some habits w...

Wow. My mom is a real estate agent (she helped us buy our house, so we definitely got a home inspection) and I've heard plenty of horror stories. Most of them, at this point, are funny: the pot-b...

Mvdiaz and whytephoenix, good points. I hadn't thought of what kids might stuff down the chutes. But, too - wouldn't your dinner get cold while you were preoccupied with the marbles? I'd to...

*don't bother diluting - sorry

I was using just vinegar, which worked pretty well. Don't both diluting it - the stuff you get in most grocery stores is already a 5% solution in water, and anything stronger is unnecessary for no...