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My dollar store plastic weekly pill container with really large compartments has AM and PM, makes it easy to remember to take that evening pill. I've seen some with morning, noon and night as well. My mom gets hers from the drugstore already portioned. Too much packaging for me but without it she was constantly forgetting to take her pills so it's a tradeoff. If there were children in the house I'd keep it locked up but it's just kept in a bathroom drawer instead. I take vitamin D in the winter but no need for it now, the other stuff is for high blood pressure.

My mandoline is in a drawer with rotary graters, funnels and similar items. I've never had any actual storage related accidents but lots of frustrations with tiny storage spaces. Some stuff is tightly nested and you need to move several pieces to access it but usually the most used items are easily reached. It's worst when someone "helps" by putting dishes away and can't figure out how to get it all back in. They look perplexed as they survey the pile of leftover items. Might do one of those exploded diagrams some day to map it all out.

Many hardware stores sell screen window kits that are easily custom cut to friction fit your window. It's quite simple to put together straight frame sections with the corner pieces then add the screen you cut to size from a roll. The black nylon screen is less visible than the shiny aluminum. I used to have a piece of screen hung from a friction fit curtain rod in the door using clip on curtain rings. It doesn't keep out all the bugs but it does make a huge difference. You could make yourself a custom screen door with a section in the bottom for kids to crawl in and out of, much like a doggy door, with a loose flap of screen in it that could easily be replaced with a fixed section once the kids grow out of that stage.

Oh, that horrible "it's veneer" letdown moment! Know it well. Nice recovery though.

Well, I'm sort of glad Alice is becoming popular. I got so tired of people mutating my name to Allison or Alyssa or whatever then-trendy variant. My poor older son was given the name Christopher (for no particular reason) then became part of a cohort moving through his school years that had many Christophers. They all ended up being Chris J, Chris H, etc based on their last names. He still mumbles about it occasionally. A lot of them hung out together, must have made it easy to get their attention.

Have to wonder about the dust issue.

Cute. If it's too big you could always make your own simple wooden boxlike thing in exactly the size you need. At my granddaughter's school library they made a 3 sided wooden box to cover the cord clutter at the back of the computer that was facing people at the checkout desk (open side towards back of computer). Looks great and was super cheap. You could make something similar with slots for the adapters and just set it over top of the charging clutter.

I wonder if the dark square under the pot in the kitchen is a sort of "wall coaster" to prevent marks from the pot? Or maybe is covers some sort of old chimney access. We had one in the kitchen of an old house, just hung a picture over it. When I had to spend a lot of time in hotel rooms one summer I took a selection of gorgeous silk scarves and some of that stuff to stick things on the wall. Add a couple of candles and the place was almost homey.

Hmm, that's got possibilities. Much nicer looking than that cheap masonite with tiny holes and crummy metal hooks. Perhaps a sheet or two of framed, nicely finished birch or oak plywood with the pegs securely installed could be attached to a wall with fewer holes resulting. Or you could paint the plywood to match your walls.

The bobinos look like something I have in my sewing room, hmmmm. The elastic grid doodad looks like a possible DIY project. Thanks for the great ideas. I only take short weekend trips but assorted tech is required so this is good stuff.