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Growing up in Detroit, my father had a hard and fast rule about starting up the boiler- Thanksgiving or snow, whichever came first. It was usually snow.

Please Please PLEASE go around and take down the signs you put up after the sale is over; I have spend hours of my life trying to find a garage sale that was actually the weekend before.

"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies"

Demiteri Martin

Since y'all are willing to "go there" as far as mentioning feminine hygene products, can I just put in a big vote for a discreet place to dispose of such items. I've been told many,many times not to flush a tampon, especially in a house with old plumbing or a septic system, yet not everyone has a garbage pail in the bathroom ( I prefer one with a lid). It's pretty bewildering to have a used tampon on your hands and no discreet way to deal with it.

Just painted my gloomy dark north facing living room in Seattle the brightest orangey red that BM carries, I am getting tons of positive comments, and it looks especially glowy in artificial light, which, let's face it, is the only kind of light I'll be seeing for the next three or four months. I am so much happier with the vibrant color, it really counters the gloom.

Don't the light bulbs eventually burn the cloth in those wrapped chandeliers?

Thank you all commenters who recommend an independent housecleaner! I am an independent housecleaner, and I have worked for agencies and they are really exploitive: the cleaners get paid a little over minimum, have to pay their own car expenses, aren't paid for travel time between houses(which can use up a couple of hours of any given workday) and some of them are not above hiring illegal emigrants under the table.

I worked for an agency when the economy was good (late '90's) and they would hire anything that breathed. I was in the car with a trainee and she asked me if I knew where to get heroin. I can't think of any greater recipe for disaster than the keys for somebody's house given to a junkie. So, go independent, ask for references and then actually call those references!

Also, I personally feel, if you want to leave the breakfast dishes in the sink, that's fine, I have busy mornings too, just be willing to pay for the extra time it takes me to wash those dishes (or even better, leave the dishwasher empty so I can load it, takes almost no time compared to hand washing) because I am assuming you want the sink scrubbed, right? And the sink is UNDER the dirty dishes.
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That's funny, I'm sitting here in the CD and I just now pulled the shade because the sun was too bright to see my monitor. But yeah, one should never plan an outdoor wedding in Seattle.

I used to have a vintage 0-speed cruiser that I rode everywhere in Seattle (no car). You can loose a lot of weight that way, it is a workout!

Charming apartment, I like your stack of boxes.

I have to add another vote for microfiber cloths, those things are great! You do have to wash them seperately from the other laundry, though, or they will pick up tons of lint. They do a particularly good job on fingerprint-y brushed stainless steel, always a problematic thing to clean.

Citra Solv is another great product, used undiluted it is twice as powerful as Goo Gone, diluted it makes a great all-purpose cleaning solution, I add Hydrogen Peroxide to the spray bottle so it disinfects, too.

In the first photo, with the trailer - where does all the ...uhhh...blackwater go? Most RVs have space in the underside for holding tanks for the fresh and the waste water, but there doesn't seem to be any such space in the bottom of this one. I highly suspest it is a setup for a photo shoot and that none of the fixtures actually work.