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Why is everyone so down on garages? I miss having a garage. Scraping snow off my car, walking out to it in the rain, and getting in it after it bakes in the summer sun can be a drag.

If it doesn't face the street, don't you have to cover up more of your nice green grass with driveway to get to it?

And to remain on topic, my pet peeves are:

- Closed windows all year,

- Big stainless refrigerators with kiddie handprints all over them,

- Wall to wall carpet (which my rental has),

- Nerd Caves (common to dorm rooms with electronics, cables, etc piled on a bowing-under-weight desk),

- Ruffles (the fabric kind, not the chips, which are fabulous),

- Bandwagoning some store or designer because everybody else is,

- Ruffles again, because they're particularly heinous,

and finally,

- Dust - We fight an unending war.

I've never gotten the whole "special shoes for gardening" thing. For plain 'ol gardening I go barefoot or wear flip flops. For heavy duty landscaping jobs (the kind where you have to use a shovel) "garden shoes" aren't really adequate. Who cares if you muddy up your boots? They're boots!

Ditto on a place to keep your drink. Also, if you have a hookup for one, a hose beats a watering can. My front-step plants are alive only because the hose is there.

Trouble is, now I want to buy some tea towels, loaf pans, clothespins, baskets, ramekins ...