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70! pretty pleased with myself since it was mostly educated guesses...

You are correct that you are paying your electric bill and you can feel free to waste as much energy as you want (they're not forcing you to do anything - just giving you information). And that's why we're driving our selfish selves off the climate cliff. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/14/1333951/over-10000-americans-tell-congress-to-stop-pushing-us-over-the-climate-cliff/?mobile=nc

Dear Upstairs Neighbor: thanks for taking your downstairs neighbor into consideration. Just reading the two incredibly rude comments above raised my blood pressure. I'm glad everyone is not so unflinchingly selfish.

If you're getting noise complaints, the best thing to do is put rug pads under your rugs. That's really the only way to pad the sound. And I would like to thank you sincerely on behalf of all downstairs neighbors (aka most of the world.) And I wish chain smoking, surround-sounding frat-partytastic neighbors on the nasty commenters.

A much better solution for opening jar lids is a jar key, which breaks the airtight seal so the lid opens very easily: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/foodPrep/tools?utm_medium=feed&productId=10000651&utm_source=shopping&sku=10014761

I asked my upstairs neighbor if she could possibly not wear heels at 5am. Her reply was "we live in a building." The next day she came to my door with her ginormous boyfriend who accused me of breaking in to their apartment through the fire escape and leaving nasty notes in their apartment. Now I am scared to death of them since they are clearly insane. I think also of the woman who lived downstairs from the Batman killer's booby trapped apartments. If she had opened that door...

In conclusion, noise machines and earplugs trump neighbor confrontations. If your neighbor doesn't notice how much noise they make, they probably don't care if you point it out to them because they are sociopaths.

I've washed dishes by hand my whole life, and amazingly am still alive :)

The better reason to use a dishwasher is for environmental reasons:

http://www.nrdc.org/living/stuff/great-dishwasher-debate.asp

great post - i'm joining the crowd in saying this should be a regular feature!

The first four of these are so beautiful it makes me want to move to SF...

wow - i think i'm the one that tossed that cart out!! amazing redo...

This is an amazing room. I hope the cats don't go for the bird on the lamp!