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Get the walk-through screens that attach with tension rods and/or velcro They cost about $10. If the bugs still get through, you could try hanging two up?

Geez -- I appreciate our local store so much more now. The staff are efficient and cheerful, and, on the rare occasion that I bring my preschooler, she is regaled with samples, stickers and smiles. Early on Sunday morning, armed with a list, I can be in and out in 20 minutes. The check-writing old ladies must be either asleep or at church at that hour.

The traffic flow in the parking lot sucks, and sometimes I forget to bring my own bag and have to pay 10 cents for a paper one, but otherwise, I think I have it pretty good.

Does anybody else remember Laura Ingalls Wilder sewing and griping to her mom, "Why don't they just make muslin wide enough for a sheet?"

I tried one in my bedroom for a while. My allergies actually got worse and the room had a nasty ozone smell. I returned the purifier, and would never put one in my child's room.

My kid is happy to play with blocks, trains, puzzles, whatever, as long as she is wearing a princess dress, crown, and sparkly shoes! So I'm cautiously OK with the princess phase.

Her room has pink, yellow and white accessories and yellow walls (we rent) and everyone is happy. Thankfully, at 3.5 she doesn't yet know to ask for specific merchandise. I did buy some Disney princess sheets on clearance at Target because I knew she would love them.

I did not know there were Charlie and Lola toys! My three year old loves those books.

At six months, she received a little Elmo doll in a box of hand me down toys. Although she had never seen a single episode of Sesame Street, damn if her little eyes didn't light right up when she saw him. And then of course Grandpa had to go buy a talking Elmo, which was really creepy, because he would start laughing if we so much as walked past the toybox.

I did this in the small, oddly shaped hallway in our old apartment. The space wasn't usable for anything else, and it looked great.

It's very beautiful. But it seems a little crowded, like you would always be tripping over chairs and end tables on your way around the house.

I have never seen this thing before. But I have baked round loaves of bread in metal coffee cans.

Not being able to see you may make all the difference!

When my daughter wakes in her own room, she will fuss herself back to sleep after about five minutes. But when we share a room with her, she invariably glimpses us through the corner of her barely opened little eye, wakes all the way up, and screams until we pick her up and bring her into our bed.

Next time we have guests take over the nursery and have to move her in with us temporarily, I'm going to try the screen idea.