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But, but, but...

We all have to do our part to keep the economy afloat! Consume, consume, consume!

j/k, I totally agree.

My daughter was carrying an open container of bright blue "moon sand" through our living room. As all 6 year olds do, she dropped it, spilling the stuff all over our beige, apartment-quality (read: crappy) carpet. I've vaccuummed it at least 20 times with my Hoover Windtunnel, and the carpet still has a bluish cast to it. I'm afraid to use any type of rug cleaner on it, since I have no idea how the sand will react to a liquid.

Oh well, there goes my damage deposit. And for the record, that Hoover Windtunnel, which is only a couple years old, is a piece of junk. I'd love to replace it with this!

If you have kids, get them involved. Mine are in charge of collecting cans, and they receive all the proceeds when we take them to the recycling center. They also split the savings on the electric bill every time it is less than the prior month's bill, which is an incentive to get them to turn off the lights and TV when they leave the room.

Check into purchasing renewable energy fom your electric company.

Carpool!

I'd use it to clean up the itty bitty hairs my puggle, Chloe, tends to shed all over the house. Oh, and also to pick up the crumbs she leaves on the kitchen floor when she and I have a Natural Cheetos snackfest.

My husband, son, daughter and I sold our 1400 sf home and built a 2300 sf house (4 br, 3 ba) in the suburbs, in a quest for bigger/better. Then we finished the basement, which added another br, ba and den, taking us up to nearly 3000 sf. Guess where we spent practically all our time? The basement. In fact, aside from preparing meals and sleeping, we barely spent any time in the original house, and it didn't take long for us to realize we had way too much house for the way we live. So we sold the house and moved into a 1300 sf (3 br, 2 ba) apartment. Granted, it is too small for us, as my husband requires a fully-equipped office for his business and the kids are getting too old to share a bedroom. But we are also just a short walk from the supermarket, bank and pharmacy, and only a few blocks from the freeway I take to work each day.

We have learned through trial and error that bigger isn't necessarily better, and we can live comfortably in a small-ish space. In fact, if there was a way of adding just one more bedroom to our first house, the 1400 sf one, we'd go back to it in a heartbeat. But since that's not an option, we are looking for a cozy little home in our school district with a back yard for the kids and dog to play in, which one would think wouldn't be too hard to find. But no--we've been looking for almost 2 years, but hardly anything in our area fits our criteria, as it seems every available home is a freaking mini-mansion. And we can forget about buying a lot to build on, because our plans don't meet the minimum square footage requirements of any neighborhood HOAs. It sucks.

The more I see of this space, the more I love it. Winner in my book.

Love the red floors in the kitchen.

I hope I win!

I work for a magazine, and have tons of issues (my mag and several sister publications) that I need to recycle. This is a perfect project for my daughter and me to tackle!

Please, please, please pick me!