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Garmin provide the gps tags. You can also set them up to alert you to certain locations, eg arrival at school and you can set up "fenced areas" and get alelts if the gps moves outside that area.

As a runner/biker/snowboarder I wear an id bracelet from www.roadid.com anytime I am doing something adventurous. Very comfortable and you can program the text or purchase new tags if your info changes.

Heather - I think I recognise it as feature in elle magazine this month following a movie producer lady and all her fashion choices in a given week

have you seen the notebooks you can get made of elephant dung? *I'm serious!*

Agree with the banana comment. They tend to love me anyway, but bananas seem to amplify it.

I am very fair skinned and i discovered last year in turkey (*lots of mosquitos*) that if i only had an outdoor rinse at the end of a beach day and not a full soapy lather shower, I did not get bitten anywhere i had applied sunscreen earlier. My theory is that the sunscreen layer masks whatever on my skin attracts the mozzies. I wear coppertone waterbabies factor 50 or 75 for what its worth. Very unscientific and personal discovery, but seems to have held for 2 summers now!

Echoing haileys suggestion, my first thought was to set them up in some kind of bar - get something that suits your style whether its a bookcase, shelving, a sideboard, and group with a few bottles, a vintage cocktail shaker, decanters, whatever floats your boat. Its also practical, when you do fancy a drink, its all in one place..... Check out this makeover - see the shelving in the corner, and the bar on the shelf? One idea of making it fit to this guys style...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/04/garden/20100304-cheap-interactive.html?ref=garden

A chore chart is a good idea, as is a "leave it as you found it" rule for common shared areas.

Bet those skillets would get cleaned quicker if they were left on the pillow of the person who left them after 24 hours...

but you probably dont want to go down that route. You may feel bound to a lease. Ask your flatmates if they'd let you out if you helped facilitate finding a new roommate (scheduling open house, vetting potential roommates). If they have a different standard then they'd probably be just as happy to not get nagged about doing their dishes anymore....

I just heard a story in my office today of a building my coworker used to work in where it was freezing (people wearing hats and gloves). Turned out the guy in the corner office had put a bookshelf in front of the thermostat so it was measuring the trapped air in the pocket (which was warm) and freeeeeeezing the place with cooling.

I remember seeing something on AT years ago where it was a very long narrow hallway and someone suggested painting stripes on it to make it look like a bowling alley. I feel like your hall could benefit from a similar "embrace it". Maybe use decals to play with it (eg the ascent - rising clouds, hot air balloon, birds etc). You could also do something painted on the underside of the steps. I think that could look super...

I love the catalogue. But dont get me started on those damn anklesocks.

Modtramp, I think those of use who have bikes as lifestyle welcome any tricks to make them feel like decor, when we arent on them.

My roommate is very tolerant of mine being parked in the middle of the living room most of the summer. It gets semi hidden in the winter behind the couch, but there are too many windows, doors, and odd angled walls in my apartment for any of these hanging solutions as i dont have a single space that is 4' x 6' x 1' that i can hang it on without putting it over the dining table, or over my bed!