caliann24, have you ever seen the drying racks that can be lifted up and down with a pulley system? They are everywhere here in Brazil, and work quite nicely. Something like this:

Inverting the usual "ah, we better leave cos our hosts probably need to go to bed" normally works, that is, if you live with someone else: "Well, (insert whatever name of partner/flatmate), we bett...

revolution9, if I could get free meat then I'd certainly spend a lot less money and eat a lot of meat :)

My flatmate in the UK back in the 1990s had something very similar (though not sure if it was a 'dripping' machine) that she could set as an alarm clock to wake up to the smell of freshly brewed te...