Love this thread!!! I keep nodding my head at some of the things (yogurt cups all over the place, full of seeds and tiny ripped-off corners of paper for labels, making another flower bed simply cuz' you don't have room for all the seedlings, etc). You know you have a problem when you read this post and say to yourself "I'm not as bad as some of the people here". Then you realize you are worse and were only trying to delude yourself before. LOL. Classic case of addict denial! I have to say, reading the posts here makes me feel a little less guilty about my seed snatchin' and WHERE I have ended up snatchin' from. :-) You feel so pleased when you convert your own father into a fellow seed snatcher! One day he came up to me with a happy/sneaky look on his face and pulled a seedpod (a simple marigold) out of his pocket that he snagged from a store. Next he gives me a tiny NOID sprig of a shrub that he pulled up from in front of some mall in town ;-D Then one day I give him a tin of herbal drops I no longer want and ask him to save the tin. I didn't even have to tell him what I wanted it for- he said it for me "for seeds!" I think I have found my kinfolk here in all of you. Great post! ;-) CMK

...when you solicit other people's organic material to mulch the "new" areas you've reclaimed from lawn. A couple months ago, I saw a guy trimming all of the hedges at the bank across the street. Next thing you know, he's backed his pickup truck into my yard and he's helping me haul this stuff here'n'there. That was great stuff! Fresh, tender growth from the shrubs mixed with the leaves he had raked off of the mulch. Then there's the trunk-loads of trimmings I've brought here many times from my Mom's house (she refuses to compost,) bags of sawdust from honey's work, bags of peanut shells from a friend's chicken farm, and bags of pine needles from honey's Mom's house. ...all happily composting in a giant pile near the back fence, waiting to be dumped on a new lasagna bed next weekend. ...when you spend an hour putting potted plants in the yard to get rained on, then an hour getting wet & icky putting them back on the porch. ...when there's a rainy morning in the summer and you go to work outside, since that's the only time it's not too hot. ...when you've timed a move so it will be a good time to dig up your plants and bring them to the new place too. ...when you hear yourself thinking, "If this grass was mowed, the beds would show up better." ...when you realize you've been absent-mindedly deadheading someone's plants while you're at their house visiting. ...when you end up with so many pots of cuttings that you don't even have anywhere to plant them.

Hi Katrina, I have a set of LGs on the second floor in my town house and am very pleased with them. You will know immediately whether you have a water hammer issue or not with them. My place has plastic water piping and there is no water hammer issue. I had another LG set at my prior house with copper pipes and once we installed arrestors, we had no problem either. The current set is doing very well in terms of vibrations, too. Just make sure the washing machine is perfectly level and the washers on the feet are tightened after the adjustments are made. I can definitely recommend the LGs. I have had this set for almost 3 years now with no issues at all. My prior set of LGs ended up with my ex and as far as I know they are still going strong after 5 years (with no repairs at all). I bought both sets from Best Buy.

I have good neighbours also. I live in the house I grew up in so I have seen some wonderful neighbours come and go and some long time neighbours who are still here and just a few who are originals like i am. Even my nasty neighbour who built on the lot next door in 2001 has turned around and become friendly. Whenever i sit on the porch neighours walking down the street stop over for a chat. Neighbour Ken and Freda are the most kind people I have ever met, I worked part time for Ken who was a painter, decorator in his home office. After my Mom passed away he came in with his crew and painted and plastered my house, he wanted it to be a calming place so painted my living room and bedroom a Happy Blue and his wife decorated it. Ray across the street after seeing me fighting with trying to start my lawn mower now mows my front lawn when he does his. He won't take anything from me even when I try to give him gas gift cards but I make sure I go out and thank him after he finishes cutting the grass. He was also an electrician for one of the auto companies and when I was gifted a new kitchen after my mom died he came in and did some new wiring. Just a few months ago another neighbour stopped by to chat. i hadn't sat outside for a long time because after my dog died I found it too hard to sit out there without him but I bought a new big red chair so out I went. LOL so many neighbours stopped by. Donna from down the street stopped by with her new dog. We got to chatting about spiders and I showed her the huge web that went between the ugly shrub (that I could not trim any longer because the limbs had gotten too thick) and the porch She asked me if I wanted to remove the bush and I said I had planned on doing that one day. She said she would come over in a few days to do it. I tried to discourage her because i knew I could not pay her to do it. She showed up 2 days later in the morning. Because of my back I wasn't much help getting the bush out but I cut up all the branches and bagged them. This was an all day event. The next day she was over early to trim the other bush and my neighbour next door told her how I had paid for some guys to clean my yard in the back 2 years before and they left it a mess and didn't finish. Next thing i know she is in the back yard cleaning up the mess these guys left, taking out a few bushes and the wild grape vines off the fence. Another full days work and again I could only help by bagging up the stuff because of my back. I think we had over 43 lawn bags filled and a few bins. We had planned to put all the stuff out front on lawn recycling day 2 weeks later so she covered everything with tarps. A few days later a van shows up and she and another neighbour I had never met whose van it was piled all the bags into the back of the van and took them off to the dump! I noticed Donna liked my loppers which were sharper than hers so I went out and bought her some, replaced her bags we used, bought her a gift card to Costco since they just joined and I still plan to take her and her husband out for dinner for all of her hard work. It was the least I could do. It is funny while we were doing the work out back the other neighbour who was having a Christening do came over and brought us over 2 huge plates of food and then came again with cake. A few years ago a roofer was with his workers putting a new roof on next door. I mentioned to him I had a new crack in my kitchen ceiling and was wondering if I needed a new roof. He went up to check and found what he thought might have been causing the crack so put a new seal over the air vent pipe but first jokingly asked my neighbour if I was a good neighbour. She said I was and how I bring food over for her. So up he went and didn't charge me for the quick fix. I had a broken window in my attic that needed replacing so he said he would come over during the week to look at it and give me an estimate. Well he came to check it out and measure the window and said his worker would be over in a few days. He left without giving me an estimate. The worker came and brought a beautiful new window and screen and installed it. I originally said I would buy the cheaper window that did not open. I never received a bill for that window despite calling the roofer and leaving messages and that was 3 years ago. I don't know if my neighbour paid for it or if the roofer just gifted it to me. I think to have a good neighbour you also have to be a good neighbour. I watch their houses when they are away, I have looked after their animals and children, I have done grocery shopping, looked after their elderly parent, I bring meals to one neighbour quite often, I share desserts I make. I wave when I go by if they are out or stop and chat. So many people now a day sit in their back yards and don't see their neighbours or even talk to them. Jasdip I like that your neighbour does that for your cat. When Loki was still alive another neighbour would always bring Loki over a biscuit whenever Loki was out front. Loki would wait for Dan to come home from work.