Sounds like a good way to make things impossible to find. Yellow on yellow or blue on blue would be a visibility nightmare.

While I hate my portable air conditioner, it’s that or nothing. I no longer have the ability to muscle 50+ pounds in and out of the window as the seasons change. If they’d even put handles on the window units it would have given me a few more years. Other considerations outweigh efficiency these days.

While I hate my portable air conditioner, it’s that or nothing. I no longer have the ability to muscle 50+ pounds in…

Just before I read this article I was talking to a friend about this. She had her first piercing when she was 22 and it was her college roommate with the needle and potato method. As she was in medical school you would have thought they would know better. I had my ears done in the mid-70s at a local jewelry store.…

I had the old roofing shingles and tar repairs to the holes in the clay pipes. Except for the one hole that they inserted the garden hose drain repair from the sink and washer. Needless to say I had it all replaced to the main. I live in a snow state and sewer lines are guaranteed to break during the biggest snowstorm…

I used this same process years ago to break the emotional hold of the scale. Weighed myself once an hour all day long. Once I saw that I lost a pound by reading for an hour it really brought it home how much of a liar the scale is. I still weigh myself regularly but it’s about long-term trends and not the individual…

And that the actual IRS does not accept ITunes cards as payment of back taxes. If they tell you to go buy ITunes cards then read them the codes off the back it is not the IRS. I am completely boggled by the number of local seniors who have fallen for that.

It will be nice to not have to read the bottles of the 2,000 different hand soaps to find the one that wasn't antibacterial. Although I figured out it was always the one on the bottom shelf covered in dust because everyone else wanted the killer soap.

Why don't the doors lock? I work for a super-tiny college whose budget is like $100 plus all the change we find in the sofa but administration managed to purchase locks for all the doors and shades for every window as part of our security measures.

My high school job was in a local pizza shop. The pizza sauce was canned and every can had one or two bay leaves floating in it. The owner made us search the can and fish them out because for some reason she believed that biting into a whole leaf was poisonous. Even at 15 I thought that she was nutty (for more reasons…

My high school pretty much had this class. It had probably been a good class in the 60s/70s but by 82 it had pretty much devolved into a busywork class to keep the pregnant girls in school. It had the basic cooking/ budgeting/home maintenance/child care components but every time I passed the classroom they were…

I was reading this while making out my Christmas cards. Now I desperately want to throw them all away and send all my relatives mouse riding on lobster cards. Sleds full of holly just seem so underachieving now.

You are overlooking the obvious. Those "candles" are cleverly disguised novelty wine glasses. She looks pissed because she is waiting for the photographer to turn away so she can start chugging.

The college a relative works at changed all the exit signs from the "unbreakable" kind to ones that deliberately shatter in a way that will cut you up. Facilities' logic was that the drunks were still breaking the unbreakable signs and this way they would have a blood trail to the culprit. Yup