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It's probably worth a patent, but it doesn't deserve to have an exhorbitant price.

I hope that stuff on the high shelves is earthquake-proofed.

If it were designed by engineers for industrial purposes, it would be stronger and cheaper.

The above dorm room is rather like a prison cell.

You forgot to mention that students throw away so much stuff every year. (Several articles on it last season.) So many thrown away fridges used for a year and other expensive items since it's hard to properly get rid of everything when you have, like, half a day after finals to be gone without a trace. Over here, students can just leave used furniture, etc. out in the open, and then they will be collected and sold (proceeds to charity) at the start of the next year. I heard somebody even left a piano once.

Buying used is the right way to go.

That really is a great price! Thanks, these are lovely.

Sheesh, don't they do this at restaurant, hotel, and department store bathrooms? Not a totally new idea.

Now I know, there IS such a thing as too many shoes.

Wow. I guess I'm in good company. I just went on a trip and I spent the week before it doing laundry, changing sheets, washing all the dishes, taking out all the trash/recyclables, watering plants, eating the rest of the food, etc. But I should have been working. I have realized that things will be OK if you don't get all that stuff done. When I return, even if there's gross food in the fridge, I will survive. I also realize I should be cleaning the house all the time (and also backing up my laptop data). So this time, I just did the essentials, which turned out to be a long list, but I left the floor unvacuumed, the stove dirty, the mail unmailed... And I still thought my house looked so clean when I got back. Once you've shared a room with someone else for a week and get back to your own "giant" apartment, it's just great to be back home.

you'd still have to let it dry first before hiding it.

There's something like this out here in Ithaca, Significant Elements, but I've never been there. They have so much, apparently, that once a month on a Friday customers can take many things for free. It's non-profit, so I bet things are cheaper than that NYC place. I can't tell you if it's worth a trip out here. If I actually owned a place, I'd probably be in there a lot.

http://www.significantelements.org/significant_elem.htm