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When I was a kid and moved, the movers set up something like this to slide boxes and mattresses down the stairs. I got home from school and the stairs were a slide. The movers let us ride the mattresses down. Great fun!

At a neighbor's house, we would stuff a foam pad inside of a sleeping bag, sit inside, and slide down the stairs. The foam pad was a little wider than the sleeping bag so the bottom stayed curved and made it slide better.

My husband recently got a new job with a bonus, and we'd been living in a 2 bedroom Seattle apartment with a roommate. We bought a townhouse in one of our favorite walkable neighborhoods, figuring that housing prices are just going to go up and we want to get a place while we can afford it. We're very lucky though - 2 incomes, and he's a software developer. They remodeled our old apartment after we left, and now it costs more than our mortgage. Rent is going crazy here and new apartment buildings are going up all over the place; I'm glad to have a locked rate with our mortgage. We both grew up in Portland, and the areas we like best there have similar housing prices to where we are now (about 2.5 miles north of downtown Seattle). Seattle feels like a bigger version of Portland, with more jobs (but more traffic, too).

I have a Vornado that died when it fell off a too-narrow window sill where I stupidly left it. They still honored the warranty and sent me a new one. I have good feelings about Vornado.

Looks to me like the orange ones are roses, the white are crocuses.

I agree; those shelves are dreamy. How do they stay up?

You probably have to take into account the specific product as well. I have heard that turning bamboo into fibers for use in things like clothing requires extensive environmentally-damaging chemical treatment. Bamboo furniture is probably fine.

I've used live traps to catch the squirrels and then released them far away. You bait them with peanuts or marshmallows and the weight of the squirrel in the trap triggers the door to close. You can probably buy the traps online, or build your own.