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I rip out what I want from Domino and put it in my idea book. I then recycle the mag. Maybe the last issue of Domino will be kept intact as a memorial and stored away.

I don't subscribe to any mags now since Domino is no more (sigh). But, to people who do save their magazines and have collections, don't feel pressured to discard them.

Sassy magazine was first magazine I subscribed to from the premiere issue when I was 14. I stopped after a few years since it was changing (why it eventually died). My dad talked me into getting rid of my collection. This was before ebay etc. I kept the premiere issue and the issue with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love on the cover. I wish I had just taken them to university with me and said I had gotten rid of them. Sigh.

Wow, I had it easy compared to some of you. I can't believe people look in other people's windows. Creepy.

Before I moved my upstairs neighbor was a heavy walker in a totally carpeted apartment. I just took to calling her Stampy.

My next door neighbor would leave his trash out for days and raccoons would tear through it and I would have meat bones on my welcome mat and garbage all over which he didn't see (He was/is blind). The complex talked to him and it got better, but didn't totally stop. The worst was our bedrooms shared a wall. He either had night terrors or really knew how to satisfy himself every few weeks. I really think it was night terrors. It had to be. The screaming.

I wore earplugs to bed every single night. Plus took prescribed sleep meds to block out neighbors and drunk people in parking lot who liked to discuss loudly how drunk they were.

I have had experience with an over-attached, nosy neighbor that made my whole block look like they were sneaking around when they were only getting their mail. She moved. We all rejoiced. I've never had it so bad that it would cause me to move. I really feel bad for other people who posted.

I keep all my change in one of those glass decorative dry spaghetti holders with a cork top that comes in a gift set from gourmet shops. I got it as a gift years ago and it seemed wasteful to throw it out after I used all the spaghetti.

I also have a little metal bank I use to keep bills in. This bank is for money that I would have spent, but didn't (wanting Starbucks, but not giving in to the urge etc). It makes me think twice about just picking up little things that I really don't need and it adds up. Then, after a few months of not touching, it's used as fun money.

I inherited a ceramic carafe shaped like bowling pin from my dad. On the outside is is a man holding a bowling bowl. He looks like he's sneaking around the bowling pin with the ball since he kind of wraps around the carafe. He's not painted on he is two dimensional and sticks out. I sometimes wonder who gave this to my dad and for what reason since to my knowledge he never bowled a day in his life. I like it. It's kind of quirky and like most of my tchotchkes visitors either love it or hate it.

I used arpin van lines for my move from NYC to Austin TX for grad school. I then used them again for the move back to NY. Someone came to my place to give me an accurate quote at no cost. They were originally recommended by a friend of a friend who used them to move from Brooklyn to Portland, Oregon. Nothing was broken in either move. However make sure you ask any moving company you use if they need to use a shuttle van to pick up stuff in nyc since there are rules about such large moving trucks in the city. Good luck with the move.