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out damned stuff part deux

On Thursday, we have a second charity coming to haul away MORE CRAP, including a futon that got rejected by the first charity, a working television WITH REMOTE, and various home decor objects.
The first charity rejected the futon and left it in our driveway because it had cat hair on it.  Not blood or pee stains or [...]

reverse shopping

One of my favorite books of all time is Angels by Marian Keyes.  Although all her books are amazing, engrossing comfort reads, I have read this one more times than I can count.  This book’s main character, Maggie, reverse shops  and it’s where I first heard the term. 
You know how you’re in the dressing room, and [...]

check this

A few weeks ago I found myself at Lowe’s searching for a rubber thingy to fix a tilting vanity mirror.
My severe inability to express myself in describing what I needed hampered me from finding the rubber thingy and resulted in purchase of several might-work-if-you-can’t-find-me-a-rubber-thingy things.  Even after I MacGuyver all these things together I’m pretty sure [...]

the naming dilemma

For some couples, picking baby names is easy.  We are not that couple.
I remember my sister-in-law confidently announcing the names they had chosen for both boy and girl.  I was blown away by the fact that not only was she NOT going to find out the sex, but that they had chosen names without consulting any [...]