I stack the big ones up along the side of the garage, which is out of the way and doesn't mar my view of anything. The smaller ones are rinsed out and stored in a big plastic container inside the garage. I use them for various purposes - winter-sowing, spring sowing, over-wintering plants in the garage (this past winter I had approx. 40 containers of various sizes in the garage), plant swaps or giveaways, plant sales, and when I move from the current house I hope to bring LOTS of plants with me.

I'm with the leaves. I commonly use plastic bags for collection of fallen leaves that I cant see going into the composter. They then are given a little soil--maybe from the compost, some nitrogen fertilizer to speed up the breakdown, maybe some sugar, other ingredients as they come....then placed behind a hedge, out of sight and left to compost down for about a year, when the leaf mold is given to my roses and other plants. Given that the holes will get rid of excess moisture, its an ideal resevoir for what doesn't go into the compost.

I've used Shutter-Renu on my house shutters since it came out. Excellent results in restoring the color and leaves the shutters with a soft gloss sheen. I recommend it, unless you're wishing to change colors, then you'll need to clean and repaint with Fusion or other Vinyl/Plastic paints.

My wife often brings something to the supermarket to assist with getting items at the back of the top shelf - Me. Lee Child, the author of the Jack Reacher series, is 6'5". When at around age 40 he was unexpectedly fired from a TV industry job in England, he needed to find something else to do. His wife suggested that with his height, he could work as a reacher in a supermarket. When he decided to try becoming a fiction writer, that thought had stuck with him and so the name of the character was born.