What's the strangest decorative item in your home?
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Comments (32)I have been pretty lucky...not too many things have happened. I was probably 4-5, my dad always had a can of peanuts in the evening. Back then they had the metal pull lid. I came out of the bathroom after my bath running to stand by the floor furnace...yep, found the tin lid with my foot. I don't think I have any scars tho. I was 15 and was living the summer with my sister out in CA. I had 'boyfriend' and we both lived in the mobile home park. We spent ALOT of time at the pool. We were on our way home because I had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad! He started twisting his towel and snapping me with it. I ran up up the stairs, opened the door really fast to get away from being snapped and shut the metal door...with my foot inside it!! My BIL was sitting on a chair close by, yelled for my sis to get towels FAST, told me to NOT LOOK DOWN, only at him....I did too! She came with the towels and wrapped it and they were ready to go to the ER. I said I had to pee before I could go ANYWHERE! Tom (BF) felt so bad...he would come and take care of me if no one was going to be home. He was really sweet. Had to come home on the plane from CA to MN on crutches! I have had a few close calls with knives and cutters, but nothing worth stitches or anything....See MoreWhat was your strangest contingency?
Comments (68)sparksals, I realize my first post was very misleading. I'm sorry for that. I was trying to respond seriously to the topic (the rosebushes) but the whole issue with the dogs has been bothering me so much that I can't sleep nights and it is always on the forefront of my mind. I am an animal advocate also (volunteer with and donate to the humane society regularly). My MIL does also. She actually spends 2 hours every day feeding the stray cats in her town. I have read back posts from people on this site (other forums) who have made astoundingly horrible suggestions about how to deal with pet issues and other people posted in SUPPORT of them -- so it was hard for me to see how my post could have invoked the response it did. My apologies. Actually our dog #1 sounds a lot like your abused puppy. We got her several weeks earlier than dog #2 and she has been able to bond with us, albeit only a little. The other one barely will come to us, and when she does, she just sniffs our feet and then leaps away. Neither one seem to care if we are around or not despite a lot of effort on our part. If they were inside dogs it might have been easier for the bonding to happen, I don't know (they have a doghouse in our heated shed to get out of the cold when they want to). But the dogs can't be separated, because they have definitely bonded to each other, and so I don't know what we are going to do. Our first goal is to find a place big enough for them to be comfortable. Anyway, onward and forward. The rosebushes were my weirdest contingency and I would never put my dogs as a contingency. Another weird contingency was from the buyer of our last house, who wanted us to get a professional pet cleaning and air duct cleaning to rid our house of imagined cat dander and then wanted a dust sample allergen test to make sure there was no cat dander present after the cleaning (and us to pay for all of this, of course). This would have been more reasonable IF there would have been any cat dander present. We were the first owners and no cat had ever set foot in our house (highly allergic here). The house was spotless and no smell of any kind. But the first time she looked at the house she saw a cat roaming in the next yard so she was convinced we were letting the cat out of the house when she came and then lying to her, in order to hide it from her. That was only one of many interesting paranoid issues with this buyer, unfortunately....See MoreWhat's a color you will absolutely not use in your home decor?
Comments (104)I don't rule out specific colors or shades altogether, but there are colors that I would never use on certain materials, if that makes sense. Some materials have colors that are naturally associated with the material and that's fine. So I would have a terra cotta floor or tile roof in the natural color, but I would think a bathroom painted in terra cotta semi-gloss would be awful. I would have a black leather sofa or black walls even, but I would probably not want black bathroom fixtures. I like cherry and mahogany furniture, but I really dislike the red-burgundy tone of a very popular prefinished floor in new construction here. I would probably buy a beige rug, but I really dislike the beige porcelain variegated tile that is ubiquitous in bathrooms here....See MoreWhat's the Strangest Thing you ever found in your food?
Comments (54)Oh, those broccoli worms. Those I've seen are exactly the same color as the broccoli and hide so easily. I haven't cooked broccoli for years without giving it a salt water soak in the sink first....anything alive comes right out ;0) I really can't think of much interesting that I've found in food....an occasional live thing in something organically grown can't be that unusual. Many, many years ago though someone gave me a box of either aplets or cotlets, and when opened there were some moth type looking things inside. Alive. I'd liked them up to that point and never ever have eaten another. I did see on the news just this month that they are closing after about 100 years in business. Not moth related. Wishing them no ill, but I'm sure its been 30 years since I've had one of their products. Living near the coast, we eat a lot of seafood that we've either harvested ourselves, bought directly from a boat, or sometimes a seafood store. Very rarely the grocery store. I did buy some very expensive tiny oysters that were not much bigger than a 25 cent piece at a chain grocery, sold on ice - I was really looking forward to them. As they started to heat in the pan, they started to pop open and explode like little geysers. I know thats not typical oyster cooking behavior and threw the whole pan contents out. And have never again bought 'fresh' seafood from a chain style grocery ;0)...See MoreUser
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