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Because there's nothing classier than an illuminated ball-sac.

Damn, why didn't I think of this! My baby boy used to collect acorn tops and bring them to me by the handful as presents. I had a drawer full of them at one point, and never would have thought of such a practical use for them. Shoot!

An old, elderly neighbour lost her key once, and we caught her attempting to climb in a window and intervened. She had one of those unfortunate "needs a key on both sides" locks, and her spare key was located somewhere inside. My partner climbed in her window only to discover we lived next door to a major hoarder. It took him nearly an hour to find the key in the room she thought it was in... We advised her to leave a spare key with a friend or neighbour after that. Yikes! I don't keep a spare key. Maybe I should...

I don't know if it was deliberate, but it always happened that the circus ended up in town on the first day of school. So that was our back to school tradition, growing up. We'd get home from our first day, pack into the van, talk about our new teachers and what happened and which friends were in our classes, and end up at the circus to celebrate the start of a new year. I miss the circus tradition, and wish it was available to do with my own kids.

Lydia, people like you are EXACTLY the reason I'm firmly refusing to let anyone throw me a baby shower. This is my third child, and granted, my last child was over 6 years ago and I am starting from scratch. But I would be devistated to hear that people were making cruel comments as though the shower was MY idea, and that I was hosting it?? Generally that's not how a baby shower works. Nearly every shower I've been to (for first, second, third, etc babies) has been a surprise shower for the mom. They often don't have a choice. Badmouth the host, not the mom, if you feel obligated to badmouth anybody for wanting to celebrate a new infant.

I will remind my mother again that I do not want a shower, even though she is insisting on throwing one. She was out of country for the births of my first two children, and couldn't be there to do the whole shower thing, which I think is why she's excited about it. But jeez, it's certainly not worth it to know that ignorant people could be making terrible comments behind my back because of it!

Wouldn't snails be considered a bug of some kind? Because escargot is darn yummy when it's prepared right. I would imagine that if worm soup made it onto the menu, it wouldn't be half bad once seasoned and cooked nicely. ;)

Living in an area with a really unstable power grid means having a really unreliable alarm clock. So I don't own one. I only ever use my cell phone, because I know that it will always work. Even if the battery is mostly dead, it saves enough power to wake me in the morning.

My only issue? The snooze feature! I'm actually thinking of moving the phone from arm's reach, and into the washroom so that I'm forced to get out of bed. And while I"m in the washroom turning off the alarm....may as well jump in the shower and fully wake up! =)

While I've never thought of hiding my thermostat in the past, the home I'm currently living in happens to have a series of ugly plastic things all lumped together in the same space, with no concern at all for symmetry. My OCD self is being driven nuts by it, and I've thought more than once about painting something on a stretched canvas to hang over the whole mess of discoloured, non-matching plastic boxes.

If my "thermostat wall" looked like the one above, with one simple and small, decent looking box, I'd likely leave it as-is. But trust me, my mess of heating/cooling contraptions is begging to be covered! Will it really screw with things if I hang a canvas frame over it? =/

I think it's hilarious, and pretty neat. It doesn't need to be a danger near cliffs. Who is to say it can't be created stationary, much like a hamster wheel? And on that note, it should be easy enough to implement NON revolving portions of the tube for toilets and other plumbing matters.

Kudos for the creativity. I don't think creations like this are ever designed with the intention of going into production. More like exercising the mind. Hamster wheel indeed. ;)

Those that have said that "if you're snooping in your significant other's email, there's already a problem" are absolutely right. I used to snoop in my husband's email/browser history from time to time, and was able to confirm my suspicions that he was cheating. I would have loved to be able to blindly trust him, but I'm glad I trusted my instincts. I'm no longer with him. I've now found somebody new, and have never, not once, even been tempted to peek at his email. It's a refreshing change to be with someone you can trust. ;)