Old pillows and pillowcases, what do you do with yours?
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Comments (63)I've skipped along, but truly I'm gonna win this, hands down: What I hate is that I have NO KITCHEN (at least by modern standards). I mean that. I have no kitchen counters, no kitchen cabinets, a fridge in the adjacent pantry, and a damned woodstove plunk in the middle of the kitchen. No, I'm not cooking on a wood-fired stove - moved that puppy out to the barn the day we moved in - I cook on a gas-fired 48" double-oven 6-burner range, thank God! Lavendar-Lass, avert your eyes, please ..... I have an authentic pre 20th c kitchen where they used work tables, and unfitted furniture and open shelves to store stuff. My sink is a beat-up version of one of those metal sink cabs, with no counter beside it - just the single basin standing along the wall. The work table and chairs arrangement is soooo annoying and time wasting. Everything on the shelves that wasn't just washed, needs to be rewashed before use. And I have that #@$#%^&*!#@$%& WOODSTOVE in my kitchen that everybody stands around getting in my way all winter long. In short I have all those elements that folks seem to crave these days in a farmhouse/country kitchen. Except that it is all I have. These aren't style elements, these are the real deal and they are unbelieveably hard and inefficient to work with. So, since I can't move the woodstove position (and can't get rid of it since it is our only source of heat) nor do I want to be cooking in the room where everyone else always is, I'm picking up my kitchen and moving it elsewhere in the house. So there! I have agonized over this for years because it will be a radical reassignment of room uses in a very old, and otherwise intact mid-19th c house. But I've lived here more than 20 years and hope to live here another 20, and I'm going to have it my way, or else. L...See MoreWhat do you do with your bed pillows?
Comments (25)Lynn: really like your idea as well - at least they are hidden. Part of the reason for not having the sleeping pillows on the bed is they are not that great looking. We have TempurPedic pillows and the pillowcases don't fit them really well so there's a lot of material around that stick out at the sides and could show with deco pillows in front - don't really know yet. I don't want to spend a lot of time doing my bed either. Trisha: throwing them on the bedside rug is not an option. Lynn and Terriks: First, we won't have too much wall space due to a lot of glass for the view and don't want the TV in front of any of the glass. But, I don't plan to spend a lot of time doing work stuff in the bedroom and if I do occasionally I can listen to the news and if there is something interesting to watch I can stop for a few minutes. I think of my bedroom as a place to go away from work and chores and to relax - read,watch TV, sleep. In fact, I will need to put on ear phones when DH is in bed if he wants to read. Ironing and other chores will usually be done in the kitchen, family room, or outside. Thanks for all your ideas - Cheers!...See MoreWhat are you doing with your old...
Comments (9)Don't "sell"; give away. I saw one on the curb the other day it said "free". It didn't last 24 hours. Possibly the person took it to make a flower bed out of it, or some other purpose. I gave ours to Birthright years ago. I would agree there has to be a way to make the side not move. Sadly these laws are for parents who would not bother, not worry about the updated codes. I would not have survived if it were not for garage sales. It makes me very sad to hear about car seats, high chairs, cribs the essentials that cannot be re-sold. What are these poor people to do?...See MoreWhat did you do with your old (working) appliances??
Comments (19)When I moved into my current house, it had 25 year old appliances and other than the fridge most of them were non functional or mostly non functional. I had new appliances put in and asked the company to leave the old one in the garage. I posted them for free on Craigslist and a guy came by that afternoon to haul them away. He told me that he works for a local charity and they pick up old appliances, fix them up if they can, and then install them into homes of underprivileged people or donate to habitat for humanity. Its possible he was just saying that and maybe he just sold them for scrap, but I took his word at face value. Hope some good came out of them instead of going to the landfill...See Moreprairiemoon2 z6b MA
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