Here you go! Being a white kitchen owner myself, I loved this post and found it very helpful. It didn't convince me to get a white kitchen, but helped me to consider certain things when decorating it. White Kitchens - What Makes it Right

Speaking of carrots. When I buy carrots I cut the tops off of them right away, The tops is what draws the moisture out of the carrots, I have kept carrots in my refrigerator for months with no problem. A friend of mine had an abundance of carrots and she gave me a gallon jar of carrots with the ends cut off with a paper towel folded on top. They kept for almost a year and were just like fresh. I think I wa supposed to change the paper towel but I never did. Just kept the lid on and in the refrigerator. I think the reason that food doesn't last as long in the refrigerator is because of the frost free freezer. In order for it to be frost free it has to heat up the walls every so often to melt the frost and ice. So the food doesn't stay as cold as it should all the time.

WOW, I SURE DID MISS THIS BEFORE I WENT ON VACATION. Well I for one agree with Laura and the majority. This is totally stupid that you cannot pass an OT post. They are really the post that make us human and family. I have been to other sites strictly quilting some have not had a new post since 2 yrs ago. they got so technical people left. Go check out have many dead quilting forum there are. You should go to BLOCK CENTRAL they have hundreds of posts daily (DAILY) its a good mix of family , health, prayers, techiques and pictures. they have it all and have a good time doing it. There are swaps and games too. Its just too big for me. But I get involved there too great bunch of ladies. I like the cozy of OUR forum like Aunt NET said WORTS AND ALL. I like the pictures the best so we can ask how to do things if we do not know. This forum answered all my questions when I was new, and I try to answer back for the newbies but alot of times all I can do is welcome the new folks since the question was answered. I do Not always read everything on the forum I skip over alot. I do not do all the swaps but I have done the birthday and siggy blocks and loved every minute. The truly amazing thing here is: it more personal we care here in the corner of cyberspace. And for the person in the beginning of this thread who basically was here for info only and was not here for high school stuff, you could look it up in a book since you seem not to want human contact. We are like a quilting bee just getting to know each other...what is so wrong with that? No one hardly goes to the gallery to post pics cuz noone ever goes there to look at them. That's why they are in Disscusions. I vote to keep everything in one place like it is. That's how I am gonna do it. Nanci

I think the need for the MLS depends on your local area, and also where your house ranges in the price scale relative to local housing. Extreme (and made up) example: in SF or NYC where prices are very high a $400K property might be low-end enough (in relative prices) that prospective buyers would be looking for such things on CL or Zillow. But in lower cost areas buyers in that price range would expect full concierge services of a realtor and not be looking on CL. I like pictures ( professionally-done ones) but I'm not necessarily interested in more than two or, at most three, of the same room. I'm expecting that there are four walls to most rooms, but I don't need to see them all to decide whether or not to visit. Too often I see pictures that are beauty shots of the home owner's decor, which is usually not to my taste. That's when I think fewer pictures are better. I second the idea of giving your pics a trial run here, even though I know the responses may seem overhelming, at times. (And there's the risk that comments are comiing from people in vastly different local markets.) But, even with that caveat, I think it is useful to take advantage of a lot of eyeballs who will see things in ways you can't. One thing to do, though, is post them under a different screen name, set up just for that purpose, with no references back to your main user name. Long time readers may put two and two together, but probably would be tactful enough to not note the connection in their responses realizing that you were attempting to avoid a searchable connection between your other (previous and on-going) comments that may contain questions or strategy about selling discussions that you'd prefer would-be buyers not know about. Often people who are active posters here think there's no way to connect a specific property address to their user name, but it's quite easy. And if you add images (attached to the same screen name) then it's all hanging out, so to speak. Good luck in your sale. I have both sold and bought FSBO, and I find it's an excellent way to handle a transaction. It does take more work, though, and it works best when everybody involved is determined to resist the temptation to turn everything into an adversarial contest. I know it involves unsually large sums of money (in compared to other economic decisions in most peoples' lives) and I know that houses arouse (in both sellers and buyers) uniquely poignant personal feelings. But I still think that it can be done w/o some of the real estate industry-fomented drama. (I'm not just referring to realtors, though they naturally have a stake in making sure people still "need" their services) but the entire world that feeds on real estate transactions from home inspectors to real estate-themed TV-show producers. If you have good legal representation (to avoid inadvertently falling afoul of local/state RE laws), I think you'll do just fine. One thing I've noticed, though, about FSBOs: both parties seem to assume that they will be the full -and only - beneficiaries of the avoided RE commission. In other words the buyers think that they should pay less because you haven't got to pay the commission and sellers seem to think they are saving (for themselves) the commission they would have paid. In fact, both parties will have more work to do to get to the closing (because REA do earn a portion of their commissions by facillitating the process issues). L.