I keep all of my spice bottles in a baking pan in the cupboard. To make it easier to find what I'm looking for, I made little labels for the tops so I can just pull out the pan & scan them easily ...
A sleep number king-sized bed, separate blankets, and a white noise machine to drown out my partner's snoring made all the difference for me. The bed looks a little messy day-to-day, but we have a...
I'd be curious if anyone can honestly give an answer other than eye level from seated (or, as @bepsf mentions, slightly lower). I may do a few impractical things for aesthetic reasons, but craning...
Maybe I overdo it, but we use both a scrap bowl & a compost container in the kitchen. The scrap bowl is whatever bowl I have on hand and I keep it on the counter next to where I'm working. During...
@c3leung - my husband & I are fortunate enough to be able to have the same solution -- we have someone who cleans our house every other week. We still have to do normal upkeep stuff (dishes, clutt...
A big YES on salad spinner (I use the oxo "little salad & herb spinner" for the 2 of us which takes up so much less space that it's worth filling a few times when we have guests), microplane, and d...
We have a "ready-to-go" plastic box that holds most of our car camping supplies & last year we bought a huge tent (the big agnes big house), so theoretically this year we would be going camping a l...
We haven't been on the receiving end, but we recently gave a friend's 1 yr old daughter this great Melissa & Doug frog pull toy that we found at a local toy store. They also sell other similar toy...
I split the difference by getting a bunch of reusable Recycline Preserve plates & cups for a 20 person BBQ I was hosting. They're great b/c you can buy a large quantity (I found them at Whole Foo...
@teacase, I heartily agree. My husband & I are fortunate to be debt-free (after some work at it), with the considerable exception of our student loans. The best I can recommend is setting up auto...
I rarely drag out my food processor for slicing since I'd have to clean it afterwards. If I had a few pounds of potatoes to slice, that's one thing, but I've never dealt with enough asparagus at o...
I snap and never peel & trim. However, if I have a lot of asparagus to prepare, I'll just snap a couple & then chop the rest based on a rough estimate of how much I snapped off. If it seems espec...
i take about 10 minutes to shower, unless i have to shave. we have a radio with a clock in the shower, so i'm usually well aware of how long i've spent...also, i stay in bed until the last possibl...
i went through this process a little over a year ago, when i gave away all of my cheapo pans. i bought a 12" stainless steel skillet, a 2 qt enameled iron sauce pan, a 4 qt enameled iron saucier p...
i arranged books & cds by color. we separate our fiction & non- & it works great for fiction -- we have a bookcase as soon as you walk into our house & guests often seem pleasantly surprised when ...
i often reduce recipes so i need less than an egg (like sunday morning pancakes for two). i just whisk the egg a bit & eyeball it & throw the rest away. @sillyputty's approach is even better, alt...
pudding & pancakes were the first two things i learned to make in the kitchen as a kid. growing up in a (mostly) junk food-free house, i found it truly amazing that i could make chocolate pudding ...
this is a cool piece...and yet, i would hesitate to call anything a desk that you can't scooch your chair up to/under. you can sit near it, but not *at* it. nice as a standing craft station thoug...
i second @lerche regarding the less-expensive harmony universal remotes. i use the 670 & really love it (found it for significantly cheaper than msrp).
it's relatively easy to progr...
i have a lot of cds & have them shelved in my living room. if you think albums look cluttered, you *might* consider...arranging them by color.
yes, it sounds blasphemous & way too f...
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I keep all of my spice bottles in a baking pan in the cupboard. To make it easier to find what I'm looking for, I made little labels for the tops so I can just pull out the pan & scan them easily ...
A sleep number king-sized bed, separate blankets, and a white noise machine to drown out my partner's snoring made all the difference for me. The bed looks a little messy day-to-day, but we have a...
I'd be curious if anyone can honestly give an answer other than eye level from seated (or, as @bepsf mentions, slightly lower). I may do a few impractical things for aesthetic reasons, but craning...
Maybe I overdo it, but we use both a scrap bowl & a compost container in the kitchen. The scrap bowl is whatever bowl I have on hand and I keep it on the counter next to where I'm working. During...
@c3leung - my husband & I are fortunate enough to be able to have the same solution -- we have someone who cleans our house every other week. We still have to do normal upkeep stuff (dishes, clutt...
A big YES on salad spinner (I use the oxo "little salad & herb spinner" for the 2 of us which takes up so much less space that it's worth filling a few times when we have guests), microplane, and d...
We have a "ready-to-go" plastic box that holds most of our car camping supplies & last year we bought a huge tent (the big agnes big house), so theoretically this year we would be going camping a l...
We haven't been on the receiving end, but we recently gave a friend's 1 yr old daughter this great Melissa & Doug frog pull toy that we found at a local toy store. They also sell other similar toy...
I split the difference by getting a bunch of reusable Recycline Preserve plates & cups for a 20 person BBQ I was hosting. They're great b/c you can buy a large quantity (I found them at Whole Foo...
@teacase, I heartily agree. My husband & I are fortunate to be debt-free (after some work at it), with the considerable exception of our student loans. The best I can recommend is setting up auto...
I rarely drag out my food processor for slicing since I'd have to clean it afterwards. If I had a few pounds of potatoes to slice, that's one thing, but I've never dealt with enough asparagus at o...
I snap and never peel & trim. However, if I have a lot of asparagus to prepare, I'll just snap a couple & then chop the rest based on a rough estimate of how much I snapped off. If it seems espec...
i take about 10 minutes to shower, unless i have to shave. we have a radio with a clock in the shower, so i'm usually well aware of how long i've spent...also, i stay in bed until the last possibl...
i went through this process a little over a year ago, when i gave away all of my cheapo pans. i bought a 12" stainless steel skillet, a 2 qt enameled iron sauce pan, a 4 qt enameled iron saucier p...
i arranged books & cds by color. we separate our fiction & non- & it works great for fiction -- we have a bookcase as soon as you walk into our house & guests often seem pleasantly surprised when ...
i often reduce recipes so i need less than an egg (like sunday morning pancakes for two). i just whisk the egg a bit & eyeball it & throw the rest away. @sillyputty's approach is even better, alt...
pudding & pancakes were the first two things i learned to make in the kitchen as a kid. growing up in a (mostly) junk food-free house, i found it truly amazing that i could make chocolate pudding ...
this is a cool piece...and yet, i would hesitate to call anything a desk that you can't scooch your chair up to/under. you can sit near it, but not *at* it. nice as a standing craft station thoug...
i second @lerche regarding the less-expensive harmony universal remotes. i use the 670 & really love it (found it for significantly cheaper than msrp). it's relatively easy to progr...
i have a lot of cds & have them shelved in my living room. if you think albums look cluttered, you *might* consider...arranging them by color. yes, it sounds blasphemous & way too f...