Holler's Profile

Yeah, it really isn't about saving money. It is partially the space, and partially the fact that I just find it silly to have a ton of infrequently used, single-use gadgets (aka junk) cluttering up my home. Waffle iron? Sure, it is pretty hard to make waffles without that, and I love waffles. Soda maker? Yep, I like having cheap, fresh soda water on hand for mixing. But rice cookers? Ice cream makers? I eat rice like once a month, and want to make my own ice cream maybe 3 or 4 times per summer, and it does not take much effort to just make these things by hand when I want them. Maybe if I actually planned to, or wanted to, make my own ice cream weekly, year-round, but I really dont need that much ice cream. So, to me, ice cream makers just seem like junk. And considering how many ice cream makers/bread machines/rice cookers/quesadilla makers/etc. I see at thrift stores around here, I think a lot of people who go in for these gadgets end up coming to the same conclusion.

It says ten lamps, there are 11 pictures, and it lists links to nine lamps and one set of magnets? This post needs some work.

Yeah, definitely the entrance to a modern hobbit hole.

But hobbit holes rule, so that's fine.

For the record, mango skins contain the same chemical that makes these plants touch-toxic. Mango season brings with it a ton of contact dermatitis cases in areas that farm them like Hawaii, and if you're like me and peel them by hand as you eat them, be careful not to touch your face during or afterward without washing your hands. I learned this the hard way, halfway through a deliciously ripe horde of on-sale mangoes last month. It took my face several days to fully recover, and now I am a LOT more careful about how I eat them.

I always wanted to paint my room as a kid, but my parents never let me, so when I went over to a friends house and her room was painted all in black and white, I was super impressed. Her dad was also a carpenter, so her room managed to have a built in bunk-bed with her closet underneath, and a loft area as well. AND she lived in the city, while I was stuck in the suburbs, which also just made me think she had it made.

I also had a friend who's parents' ridiculous golf-course mansion had, straight up, a "secret" room behind a bookcase off of their also-cool home office. The room was a full bar, with a pool table, player piano, and big screen TV, though it also had tons of windows and french doors out onto the patio (hence it being a "secret"). They NEVER used it, and as a kid I absolutely could not wrap my mind around the idea that you could have such a ridiculously cool room that you never used.

Similarly, I also found homes that DIDN'T have those rooms you don't use (formal dining room, the formal living room in addition to the family room, etc.) really cool. It is kind of a silly rich-white-kid thing, but I thought it was awesome when people's homes were filled with rooms that were all ACTUALLY USED, thinking "how great is this ?? I can actually hang out in EVERY ROOM." It suits me well, now, since I could never really afford to have unused rooms an still think they're totally ridiculous.

I love these, and from my perspective upcycling is the absolutely correct term. The only potential issue I would have would be resisting the temptation to turn it into a BDSM dungeon, or just throw lots of crazy sex/drug parties all of the time. Oh well!

Yeah, I would go with a mix of CL and AT classifieds posts. Mainly it is just that I am pretty certain you will never find the kind of bargain on AT classifieds that you would on CL, just because of who is selling, and who they are selling to.

Like this post, $40 for two gross old patio chairs that you could probably get for $5 each at the Goodwill? I mean, I get that those COULD be nice chairs with some TLC, but they really aren't right now. List them in the CL free section, or cut the price AT LEAST in half, and yeah, sure. But that is exactly the kind of deal I would expect from this community: someone selling an idea, instead of what they actually have, and jacking up the price as a result. Maybe for people with a lot of money that works, but if I had a lot of money I'd just be shopping at real vintage furniture shops where they've already done the work and restored it for me, anyway.

That being said, I will definitely consider listing some of my Pyrex and nicer thrift finds on there next time I do a purge, for exactly the reasons above. But I don't have very high hopes from it as a buyer on a budget, the way I do from CL.

I find it strange that 12 hour clocks are still considered the norm, it just seems silly that each hour occurs twice in a day. I'm not sure how people find that system easier than one where numbers simply count up one time, and repeat when the day flips to the next.

I was wondering about these bottles, but until they put Mrs. Meyers basil scented laundry detergent in these, it just doesn't really matter to me.

Aside from the Wild Things, I will always remember him for his set an costume designs for the PNW Ballet's production of the Nutcracker. I can't believe I can't find an image of his Rat King costume, and that is a huge shame, but it was every as awesome as you could imagine.

Also, I had no idea until today that he did the illustrations for one of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, which I totally loved as a kid. He was a wonderful man.