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I don't love the color, but I love the design. Many of the designs for shipping containers I've seen give me the impression of single-occupancy or for young-couples with no children. This, on the other hand, seems like it would make a good, and kind of fun, home for a small family.

I'm not a fan of pink (or any bright colored) appliance, but I think this particular pink fridge looks good, especially in the first picture. I think the reasons I find it appealing is because 1) the fridge's pink color is rather toned down IMO, and 2) the rest of the kitchen is not brightly colored.

As a renter in SF, I don't care much for the actual property, but more so my personal safety and belongings. I figure that if an earthquake or a tsunami hits, it's probably better to get the hell out of dodge, therefore, I made a get-out-of-dodge bag that contains the very basics, such as a small emergency kit (first aid items, glow stick, emergency blanket, etc), important documents (mostly related to school and work since I'm a student), flashlight & batteries, some snack bars and a bottle or two of water. It might not be an emergency/disaster kit to survive the zombie apocalypse, but it will at least get me through an emergency evacuation and it is much more affordable for your average broke college student. I think a house tour would be vastly useful as well. Even if there is no natural disaster or home fire, it may come in handy if you live in an area where theft is common.

I rent a room in a three-story house (group level is the garage) in San Francisco. There used to be 7 people living in this house with their own individual heaters. I'm sure this was not the most efficient method to stay warm in the SF cold, but our landlady shut off the central heat so it was our only choice. Now that many of the former tenants have moved out and the house has been foreclosed, the central heat has been turned back on. I find that the central heating doesn't heat up the house very well, especially in my room. What I have started to do is turn the central heating up to 70 or 71 in the mornings, so that my housemate and I won't be shivering, but once it get to that point, I turn it back down to 66 or 67 degrees. If it's just me at home, then I leave it and turn on my space heater only when I want my room to be warmer. It seems less wasteful than turning on the central heating just to heat up my dinky room.

On my 2nd Black Friday excursion, I bought an Olympus digital camera for roughly $200. Worse purchase ever. I have rarely used it in the past 6 years of owning it.

I wash laundry every week and I tend to wash all my clothes together in one small load. I know it's not good to wash jeans with t-shirts and whatnot, but I'd rather not do a separate load for two or three pairs of jeans (yes, I wear only two or three pairs of jeans per week). It just feels like a waste of water & electricity. I also wait till I have amassed at least four or five towels before I wash a load of towels. And when I do wash a load of towels, I usually throw my jeans in with the towels and I have not had any issues with lint on my jeans.

So for the most part, I wash one small load (and hopefully, I am using less water, electricity, detergent and time in the long run) per week, except every fourth week when I do two small loads: towels & jeans and regular clothes & bed sheets & pillowcases.

That is so ridiculously cool. I wish I had one of those when I first moved up to San Francisco. It would've saved me so much time (because I had to buy all my furniture separately - seriously, my mattress was on the floor for an entire year before I got a bed frame) and space.

I tend to buy what's on sale, but I prefer Classico and Prego red sauces. I love Classico for its thick sauces with chunks of tomato and veggies. I love saving Classico jars too. They may great containers for dry goods, such as coffee beans. Prego is not as thick, but it'll suffice in a pinch. I particularly like Prego's Italian sausage and garlic red sauce. I also save Prego jars. :)

I totally love the picture as well. It definitely made me lol. And I agree that those plush stuffed animals are definitely machine washable. If I don't have a mesh bag available, I will stick my teddy bear in a pillow case and tie the opening with a rubber band and into the wash it goes.

Every since I started doing laundry, my family has owned a washer/dryer set in our home and it is extremely convenient to be able to do my laundry at any time I wanted to do laundry. It was also very convenient to wash my laundry, and then take it outside and hang dry it in our backyard. Then, I went off to college and was forced to do laundry at the laundromat. Not only is it a pain to have to do laundry within a specific time frame and to lug all my laundry three blocks (no car nor bus; just walking), but I can easily rack up on average $20 a month doing laundry at the laundromat. It may be convenient to be able to wash & dry multiple loads at the same time, but it's just not worth it for me compared to the benefits of having on-site laundry.