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Sometimes the only/best way to keep warm is to invite the pup up on the couch to snuggle. When I was growing up we didn't like the dogs on the couch, mostly because there weren't even enough chairs for family members but every morning you could still feel the warm spot from where they slept on the couch all night. As previous readers mentioned, once the pet is in the house the hair battle is lost, so oh well.

I got the Mr. Bento lunch jar last year but haven't been inspired to use it much. It does have some great features... two of the lids screw on (insulated?) and work well for soups, you can use the canister w/o using all the containers. But but but, to me, the outer canister is HUGE and isn't worth it, especially if you are biking, just takes up too much room in a bike bag (or any other bag). I now use ball jars with knitted cozies-to cushion the jar-and haven't looked back. But if you live in Philly and want a Mr. Bento-you can have it, I am no longer interested in Mr. Bento :-)

I guess my story really doesn't shine a light to any of these, but just graduating from my M.A. program after going straight through meant 6 years of moving, EVERY YEAR. If that doesn't stink enough...
There was one year where I had to pack up everything loose in my small Saturn because my roommate left the cardboard boxes outside-in Syracuse-where it rains.pretty much. every.day. Not bad as I only had to move across campus, but I had to move a week early. So I loaded everything into the attic of my new place-which was supposed to be secured with a key only the landlord and I had. I then crashed on a couch for a week waiting to move in only to find that almost everything I owned was pilfered or gone through. Furniture, movies, books, even underpants-nothing was sacred! Of course the landlord didn't know anything about it and the kids living there had already left so I spent a summer/semester with no tv, kitchenware and most of my clothes, amongst countless other things. I am still irritated about that one.