Sonia's Profile

I use a white Vika desk from IKEA.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79831622

It was easy to put together, very light if you like to move stuff around and only $35. I know it doesn't have drawers, but drawers just collect stuff I don't really need. I do have a filing cabinet, that holds files and supplies nearby.

I also think there is a difference. There are no businesses, restaurants or anything of the such in my block. So the people taking the spot you shovel are your neighboors or their guest (I mean during non-business hours, college students usually take them up from 8ish to 4ish). It's really upsetting with repeat offender neighboors that literally lurk for your spot and steal it. I can name 5 people on my block that never clear off their cars, never shovel their spots or the sidewalk. Yet the minute they find a better spot they just pull into it regardless of whose back still hurts from shoveling. As I said before, I tend to be the one to calls home and has someone clear off another spot for me because I feel bad for the college students that could use the spot. I used to be one at one point. But I did end up buying a parking decal eventually to use the parking facilities on campus because it was safer and it was only like forty dollars. I know some people can't afford that and get frustrated to see a cone, or chair. But you are parking in a residential area, there are no businesses there and you are three blocks away from the outskirts of campus. I think under these circumstance it is acceptable to save a spot. The people who are unable to park there for a couple of hours are just casualties of in neighborhood quarrels.

If there are businesses or offices in that block, I can be convinced that it would be not acceptable to save a spot.

As the 110 lb girl who not only shoveled her spot , but another half a spot before going to work (I am talking about the real shoveling, taking the snow to the side of my house, not the middle of the road like some of my neighboors did, or on the sidewalk), I can honestly say that it sucks when people who you know just drive away leaving a mess behind because they are not waking up at 6AM and therefore are running late take your spot. Not only that, sometimes they took two spots, I guess if you don't clear them it doesn't matter. People would put up furniture, garbage cans, and the such. I wouldn't do that because I felt that people could use the spot during the day, specially college students who had their campus nearby. So what worked for me was to call somebody when I left work and have that person reserve a spot for me or shovel one out in exchange for some sort of food. I mean if my upstairs neighboor put the garbage can and left it there for 20 minutes is not as bad as for the whole day.

I wish neighboors had common courtesy, but they don't. One time one lady lectured me on how you are supposed to put the snow in the middle of the road so the plow takes it. This is after I caught her shoveling the snow from her spot onto my car.

I have the same one in my apartment. It makes me smile.

I use these everywhere in my apartment. They are a bit pricey but I love it and it makes me smile. There was a post about them about 6 months ago...very pretty.

http://www.scandinaviandesigncenter.com/Products/usd0/Accessories/Decorations/1117/Window screen film

wow

and that is what product design should be...I hope they don't cost too much.

Don't you just love sales people in any language? I think they are very pretty stools, but I would like them much better if they were from recycled tires. I think being green is becoming so popular now that there are many people faking it. I remember when I was 10 the recycled notebooks my brother and I used was because they were the cheapest. Now they are the most expensive. I am willing to pay more for green items, but I try to be careful not to get fooled. It is a pretty stool.

I wish I could write so well. I think it is neat to let companies know what we want. Taller fridges do make sense to me even though I am only 5 ft tall. I know what I need, and I am often disappointed by not finding it.

I like how the clips hold the tags on the baskets