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My partner and I have trained ourselves really well, using our big stash of cloth bags for all grocery trips. I even have two cloth bags in the car for random shopping events, BUT once a month we run out of garbage bags and so we leave the reusables at home and get our groceries bagged up in double brown bags. This gives us about 8 garbage bags for the month..(the clumping kitty litter takes up half of these). Before we had the luxury of composting with a neighbor, who set up a community composting bin, we simply froze the food scraps that might be moist or stinky and took them out the day of garbage pick up.
A good blog for people interested in reducing the garbage they produce more is The Green Garbage Project. A friend just told me about it, and I have found some helpful tips.

http://greengarbageproject.adammathiasdesign.com/

I have always felt ridiculously superior having discovered, in my first kitchen, that dumping your brown sugar in a rubbermaid container kept it moist and crumbly for eons (I don't bake a whole lot, so it stays there awhile) Now maybe I'll try a rubber gasket glass jar, cause it might be more aesthetically pleasing.

"Then I hacked it in half and moved on."

Hooray! I love this transitional sentence. It may become a catchphrase in my life. Fish or other frustrating situations that need some humor. You don't need a larger oven. Just creativity and a good hacking knife. Or the french curl suggestions.

I love it, all of it, but I think the couch in the last thumbnail has too many punks on it, When you sit down, you just have end up throwing half of them on the floor! But still where did you get the punk on the end in the blue shirt? I want one.
thumbs up.

the adorable bafflement of not having a microwave really cracks me up. How do people live without a microwave? Could it be true? But back to the real subject at hand. I love it. I love that you even have room for R2D2 up above. Even the smallest of any kitchen needs a little art. I also love that it is not too polished. Those kind of kitchens are great for those types of people. But for my types of people, the things don't all match, and the pleasure of the objects collected are more important than an overall "theme" the Chemex coffee pot makes me want one, though I love my french press too much to give it up.

poptart! try spraying your stinky kitty with vodka! that might help.

hee hee!
My husband and I laughed and laughed about the "day old jeans" smell. Don't even ask how often we wear our jeans without washing. Funny! I think all the other posters said it all. but I Love the idea of the cheap vodka trick! Thanks all.

flataffect, I like the idea of the oats, thanks. Yum.
After being inspired by Heidi Swanson at 101 cookbooks I added more whole grains back into my diet again. I mix in cooked small grain brown rice sometimes to give the peanut butter more chewiness. Oats seem like a natural. And we just got this exquisite Vietnamese cinnamon.
(I sound like a hippy, but am not. Not that there is anything wrong with being a hippy, no offense meant. )

Hey, I just took a class last night from Lost Kitchen Arts, here in Portland, on how to make mozzarella, yogurt and Neufchatel last night. It was so much fun. I may learn to make butter next!