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My registry advice: register for what you want, but don't tell anyone about the registry unless they specifically ask. It's a convenience for your friends, not for you.

And, while it's very true that you may only get 30% of a collection of china or crystal from the wedding haul, now you have something to direct in-laws and others so close that it wouldn't be rude (see above) towards for future bday, holiday, and anniversery gifts so that by year 5 you may be closing in on a complete collection. Hopefully you didn't pick something so trendy that by year 5 you would hate it.

ARGHHH! The word ARTFUL does NOT mean ARTISTIC, or ARTSY, or anything happy!!!!! It means SNEAKY AND SLY, like the ARTFUL DODGER!!!! This word SO often gets misused, and so often on this web site, that I cannot help but resort to all caps and exclamation points!!!! Is there an editor in the house???

Look for the nearest "Alley Cat" non-profit, who usually have volunteers to do a trap, spay, and release program. They check for diseases like FIV, FLV, distemper, etc., and if the cats have any, they are euthanized. Otherwise, they are vaccinated, spayed, and returned, but at lease then don't keep reproducing.

Yes, the danger of an unlit pilot light is that it will fill the room with gas and then blow up at the next available spark. Carbon monoxide poisoning results from things like backdrafting of atmospherically-vented water heaters.
Anyway, this is totally ungreen of me, but when I can't get something off the stovetop with soap, hot water, and elbow grease (and I find that with 15 minutes of scrubbing with a scrubby, it really doesn't matter if I'm using baking soda or not), then I spray on some Easy-Off oven cleaner and let it sit for awhile.

I was, as a matter of fact, the subject of vitriol: in fact, somewhere in the stuff I should have cleared away years ago is a beautiful, elaborate12 x 20 water color poster detailing the complex steps involved showing how to replace a used-up toilet paper tube with a full, new one. It just appeared in the bathroom one day, and I only had one other roommate at the time. An example of why I come to a halt every time I get inspired by motivational clutter-clearing posts and articles.

Okay, could someone please spell out for me where the grammatical error is? English IS my first language, and yet I don't see an actual error-just a slight usage issue. Give the engineers a break!

Waste as in the wood should have been burned whole in a wood stove instead? Where it releases particulates and unsequesters CO2? It would be wasteful if he does nothing useful with the shavings, but I wouldn't assume that.

Let's hear it for appreciative inquiry!

Anyone got any tips on fitting a bathroom into a basement laundry room?

Wouldn't it be cool to be in a hotel in the Alps with a conversation pit and one of those conical fire places, with Peter Sellers bumbling around in a Dale of Norway sweater and people doing the twist while evil-doers plotted the theft of the priceless Pink Panther?