They look so pretty and big and I love the idea of elbow room. I can see why they became the norm. Except for the part where there is literally no privacy, and privacy is so so so valuable. I’ve put two walls in my own house. :D (Took one out though, but I’m still a wall ahead.)

I put up a wall in my kitchen. So worth it! Though I live in a small ranch and really just walled in an door to make it a U instead of an L. But still worth it~! I put up a second wall to make an office for writing...a literal room of my own. #worthit!

Theory: She sheds are the natural response to the “open concept” house everyone thought they wanted but quickly learned meant “No place at all to get away to”.

I WANT THAT KITCHEN! It really did have some seriously brilliant space saving solutions. And a handy garbage hatch! :D

SAME! In fact, I walled in my kitchen a little more to hide it better from the front room. (60s ranch. The wall also made the tiny kitchen bigger. In fact, now it’s the ideal 1949 u shaped kitchen, lol.)

My parents are trying to move and one house in the neighborhood they wanted, with the square feet they wanted and that they generally really liked has a soaking tub in the middle of the master bedroom so they have refused to even consider it. lol. I just thought that was funny, that’s all. :D

IMO, I think her concern about materialism fits the topic of “dream closets” more than organized mudrooms. :D Materialism is real. :D So is the mad rush in the morning when your kids can’t find coats/shoes/backpacks. 

Hilarious! But true. :D 

Whose kids have 8 pairs of shoes each? Not mine or any friends of mine.

For the family magazine audience, I suspect it is less about organizing mom’s many shoes and more about making sure your kids can find the one pair of shoes they are willing to wear without being late for school. I remember the days well, and teaching them to put stuff in the same spot every day is much easier with a…

This video is the only reason I can breathe! I’m not even kidding. My allergies are so bad and this woman has saved me from chronic sinus pain!!

Is it me or was that taco bell tweet a missed opportunity? Like, isn’t driving through taco bell 420 times together way funnier? ;D 

*Waves hand* also a pale olive! Though I do tan up in the summer. But I never burn. I’ve chalked it up to being “Welsh” but Ancestry DNA disagrees, lol.

This is a good question! Do you have cash to splash when your net worth is tied up in a business valuation? I * think * her “almost a billion dollars” is the value of her cosmetics company? Enquiring minds want to know. :D

The hawks and trash pandas decimated our flock. It was such a nightmare!!

Now the restaurants in the area don’t have much business so the restaurant rats are infiltrating our homes. I thought I hated raccoons more than anything but nope. Rats. I, like Dr. Henry Jones Sr. hate rats. I had to take out my fruit trees so…

That said....I have never lived anywhere but the slightly rural suburbs and I would do almost anything to keep the wildlife out of my yard. And have done. Or at least have watched from the window while the man of the house did the dirty work, lol. Some of us are literally just chickens even when we ought to know…

Pickle ball is what old not very well off men play at the community center in my town.

This new data is important and will be researched via Youtube videos pretty much all evening. How it currently stands:

Chris Messina has dark hair and can dance. (Someone down thread reminded me he existed, and I immediately moved him to the top of my personal list).
Chris Pine has a pretty face and can sing.
Chris Evans…

Hold the phone. Chris Messina is the sexiest of the Chris’s. I forgot about him. I think he can play the piano, too.

Piano is the sexiest instrument and elevates everyone.* Sorry Chris Pine. That pretty face only goes so far.

*See: Hugh Laurie