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So bribing the kids to stay home? No thanks. Stay in and learn that you have to work to afford things and share space with people. Go out and learn how to behave yourself in society. It's a slow and sometimes painful process for everyone involved - and yet we all survived it. I'm a big fan of just saying "no", and "turn off my TV" and "you can have a phone when you are 18 1/2 and have a job to pay for it," and "Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! That's hilarious. Good to dream kid. Good to dream. I hope you get a good job out of college to pay for that one, because I sure won't be."

My parents made me do stuff with the family even when I didn't want to and I'm very thankful for it now. Just imagine if we ALL just said "no". No to $100 jeans, no to unending hours of screen time, no to computers and TVs and unlimited phone plans and entertainment systems in their bedrooms, no to expensive purses and personal care items, no to things and experiences 90% of us didn't have until we were in our 20s, no to clothing and gifts unless it's your birthday or whatever your special winter or gifting holiday is or unless they pay for it, no to cable TV and other outlets that reach them constantly to suggest to that they are "worth" all these things and other people are getting them so why shouldn't they?

Wouldn't that be sweet? Because then they'd have to talk to us.

Hand washing dishes and doing a load of laundry a day that's running in the background while you get on with your life is almost unnoticeable. Losing 3 hours of one glorious day off to schlep 2-3 huge bags of laundry plus kids makes me irritable at best. NO CONTEST - washer and dryer every time. Plus - there is always the accident at night, the puke fest, the overflowing bathtub that required 4 towels, or god forbid - the dreaded lice infestation. No w/d in a small space = more clothes, more everything. No thanks.

Or perhaps people just enjoyed designing them, and they were pretty much for their families... just a thought.

But yeah... bringing a new person into the world is definitely on par with getting a new pair of shoes 40% off. I totally see what you're getting at there. geesh

Well please don't tell the adorable boy down the street that wears head to toe pink all the time - by his request. Gender colors are nonsensical - so yeah to a little pink!

Gorgeous gorgrous quilt!!!

No Seawhiteny - not in a railroad apartment with this few rooms. Eating would take place in the kitchen. Whatever it was "supposed" to be in a former life, once a kitchen was put in to make a separate apartment on that level, the functions of other rooms have to change as well.

That's an early grave.

Great - just what we need - more foam.

Yes. It's your apartment. You can put things wherever you want them. I would suggest a tall but narrow cabinet with drawers for food, dishes, pots and pans.

And then a prep area that stands alone like a Varde unit from IKEA with drawers.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30158391/
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/14631607/

Or simply a very large table that you use for prep and dining ,and a hutch, antique cabinet or sideboard (probably not big enough though) for storage.

What if you drop your phone in the toilet? What if you leave it at work?