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Oh I am so confused by #4 and #5. Were they paid placements? Did someone threaten you if you couldn't come up with a list-of-5? I don't see the LG washer-dryer on this list, which I have and LOVE. It is ventless (helpful in a log cabin when you can't just cut hole in outer walls for ducting) and it is just great to put in a load of clothes in the morning and come back to clean-and-dry clothes later in the day.

@ddk, I have a black stove and it is foul -- it shows every spot and blob of grease. Most black stoves have that plastic-y control panel and it is the worst of all (and easily scratched to boot).

Boiling water is a good idea, though sadly my stove is shaped so that any more than a few drops of water are funneled into a no-man's-land between the cooktop and oven body. :(

My juicer (which I love -- $99 Breville @ amazon) came with a little book of recipes including pulp-use ideas. The ones that sounded most appealing were things like mixing carrot pulp in with pancake batter. However! The pulp (in mine, at least) doesn't taste like ANYTHING! All the tasty juice has been removed.

Me, I just feed pulp to the chickens. They love the fresh veg in the middle of winter.

I always like fresh fruit things with mexican food. Blend together some mint and some sugar, then sprinkle over pineapple (or fruit salad, or whatever). Tres leches is really tasty as well, though not as easy-peasy as fruit.

I used those exact cherries to make a tasty cherry-apple pie! I drained the juice, cooked it down a bit, then mixed it with cornstarch and stirred it into the sliced apples and cherries. Yums.

Is that pineapple for real? That is just asking for impalement.

I like the look of the first one the best, though my current house has triangle steps like that in the middle and I'm constantly worried I'm going to step wrong and tumble down when my hands are full.

With a mothball-scented blanket I had, the following worked wonders:
1) Fill a bowl with baking soda
2) Put 4-5 drops of peppermint essential oil in the baking soda
3) Put the bowl and the blanket together into a sealed box (like a big rubbermaid) for a week or so

I have NO idea how that would affect butterflies, but it works for other bad-smelling things. The peppermint smell dissipates pretty quickly once everything is out of the box.

I have some mats very similar to those tiki ones and they are *terrible*! Sure, they're pretty when there's an empty place setting on them, but if you spill some spaghetti off your plate, you get the placemat all dirty (and that's a hard shape to clean) and it goes right through onto the table as well. I much prefer my generic cotton rectangles.

I always just buy carpet pad at Home Depot/Lowe's. They sell it off those giant rolls, and it's not very expensive -- I think you can get 8X10 of "the good stuff" for less than $40. (Also you can cut it and tape it together with duct tape to make the exact shape you need.)

I have a love for that stuff from my days in a professional kitchen, but it kind of creeps me out. I use it anyway, because one box lasts forever and I like the pre-cut sheets. (Also I have a hard time getting rolled parchment to stay flat.) I do find that it doesn't last as long as the thicker (more expensive) sheets from somewhere like King Arthur; you can use the nice stuff 4 or 5 times before it gets all crispy and weird.