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Paperbackswap.com is amazing! I've been using it for about 3 years, and it's such a great system. I like to buy books because I keep them more often than not, but if I don't want to keep them, I can trade them in for something I do want.
Paperbackswap is also where I centralize my wish list for books I want.
Also, my building has a recycling table in the laundry room, so I put old magazines, household stuff, etc, that I don't want and someone always makes use of them.

My cat plops his little kitty butt directly in front of the air conditioner and sniffs the air. When he's bored of that, he hangs out on the tile in the bathroom.

Besides the ones you mentioned, I like to buy unique jewelry from my travels. I have some really pretty handcrafted jewelry from Japan, Poland, and Morocco that are nice conversation pieces as well as small but meaningful mementos.

I've been using Paperbackswap for a few years, and it is amazing! I have reccomended it to many people who have also loved it. It's easy and very user friendly.

Erm...considering this is APARTMENT therapy, and not House With Tons of Closet Space Therapy, I think it's safe to assume most of us have more clothes, shoes, coats, sweaters, pants, skirts, etc. Even in warmer closets, I think most people have a lot more than that in their closets. It's pretty to look at, but do they have everything stuffed in their dresser?

I'm not accident prone, but I floating stairs make me really nervous, especially pictures 3 and 7!

Once I learned about the treatment of farmed animals, the disgusting and torturous living conditions they are kept in, the sheer amount of chemicals, antibiotics and hormones they are given, the way they are killed, and the ridiculous amount of resources that are put into farming animals for meat, I couldn't justify it to myself to eat meat any longer. Of course I don't expect everyone to become vegetarian like myself, but just cutting down on meat is better for animals, the planet and your body. Meat, the way is it produced today, is not sustainable. Free-range, organic meat is obviously better, but only the lesser of two evils in my opinion.
Once a seed is planted, sometimes you just can't ignore it. I've seen lots of PETA brochures throughout my life, but you can lead someone to water, but you can't make them drink.

I live in NYC and I have a WALK IN CLOSET! It was the selling (or er...renting) point for my apartment. My closet is bigger than my kitchen!
Jaime

Here's a few other natural insect repellant plants:
lavender
Cloves
Rosemary
Mint
Thyme
Eucalyptus
Peppercorns
Dried lemon/citrus peel
Cedar
Bay leaves
Citronella oil

I make sachets out of combinations of these ingredients to put in my closet to deter moths. Works like a charm, and smells great!

I also put a bunch different ingredients into a mortar and pestle with some olive oil and make a paste, which I spread all over my outside kitchen windowsill. I live in NYC and have a tiny kitchen, and I find that roaches usually get into my apartment by climbing up the building and getting into the kitchen window, even if there's a screen. Bay leaves seem to be especially effective in detering roaches. I keep my paste in a jar in the fridge and put more on if the rain washes it off. Works wonderfully and there's no chemicals near my tiny kitchen!

-Jaime

Looks like Riverdale? This is a beautifully decorated space.