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I do this in a crockpot, bain mairie style. I got it somewhere else off the web. I think it's a little safer bacteria wise, cause the oatmeal is on constant heat. Search for crockpot oatmeal, it should come up.

I would use these over the aluminum mail baskets I've set up for my husband and myself... to write out whose is whose. We'd also use them to create a monthly calendar that shows where we should be and when, and for random notes like, "Don't forget your checkbook" or "I like hummingbirds."

I made a fabric headboard with a piece of homasote (sp?) from Home Depot, some padding, nice fabric, and a staple gun. The homasote comes in exactly the right width for a Queen bed and sticks up a good amount. Great thing is, when you're bored of the board, you just take apart and use the materials for something else... I gave the homasote, which is basically soundboard, to a friend who played music and didn't want to disturb roommates/neighbors, donated the padding, and kept the fabric for making a skirt!

Something better to do with your scraps than throw them in the garbage is to compost them with a worm bin. It even works in apartments! Because it has a sealed lid and you close everything in with newspaper, you have less big explosions of flies.
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