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This post is crazy. You go to the dry cleaners, they give you free hangers, nothing wrong with them, no reason to stop using them. I would think the plastic ones everyone I know has would have to be worse for the environment because eventually they snap, crack, break and go in the garbage. They are aesthetically beautiful, last longer, work better. They are recyclable. If you have clothes you don't want to slid off of them, you can double up a rubber band on it to provide grip, or gently bend half moons with pliers.

I think one of these chandeliers would look pretty good against everything else there. http://www.eagle-emporium.com/wrought.htm

@ Hope S.

A moka pot doesn't make 'true' espresso, for that reason people sometimes call it "poor man's espresso" because it's cheaper than buying a really expensive espresso machine. You wouldn't want to use less coffee to create some sort of drip coffee, but always follow the instructions that came with your moka pot. The flavor/body/consistency/texture, whatever, would sort of be somewhere like if you crossed espresso with drip coffee in the first place. At the end of the day, it's a different coffee brewing method that yields a different end result than either true espresso or drip coffee though. I also think it's important to note that while most moka pots picture their product with espresso, with a beautiful crema on top, it can be difficult to achieve that using one. And if you use espresso blend, regular, whatever, you can get really different results from that.

When I was growing up, it was stylish for all the kids to wear medical ID tag bracelets, that had our addresses and our parents' phones numbers on the back. Specifically in case we got lost. I think the school distributed order forms to the parents for them. It seems alot more practical than one time use stickers to put on a kid. When my son started kindergarten I got him one. They look like this: http://www.makemethis.com/bracelets-main.html

EFM that is hilarious!

DJ Shadow, Sunny King Ade, Ennio Morricone, Tom Waits, Jason Webley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Also Irish Drinking Songs and Van Morrison and the Chieftans.

I agree with splatgirl.

Additionally I've been eating honey every day since I was 16, just a spoonful, usually of the local stuff, and this spring was the first year I didn't, and it was the first year I ever had allergies. I just don't think stuff like that is coincidental.

I think one of those cast iron enamel teapots with the stainless steel insert would keep tea hot for a long time.

Growing up I thought cake was gross, and I still think most box mix cakes are gross. The frosting is always too sugary. I only started to like cake when I fell for stuff like rum cake with no box mix added, oatmeal cake with broiled coconut topping, cardamom coffeecake, etc.

I do like snoqualmie falls pancake mix, and I get mixes to make creme brulee because I find the idea of making it from scratch intimidating.

Creme Brulee, when I was twelve, the one time I went to France

Indian rice pudding at my favorite restaurant I've been going to for ten years

When my boyfriend took me out the other night for thai food, we got coconut ice cream at the end of it, which tasted amazing, but it wasn't coconutty at all. It was floral, like orange blossom water.