Amy, that is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread! I'd thought of a few things you might do with Sheila, but a key keeper wasn't one of them. What a great idea! I hope you two are very happy together for years to come and I love her eyelashes and her hair bow!

Lindsey, no. I save the ceiling paper, because there is no tape on it and it can be easily taken down and saved. I think this is the fifth year or so that i have reused the ceiling paper. But the paper on the file cabinets and walls must be secured with gorilla tape, taped to painters tape, and the edges sealed with scotch tape to prevent shredding. So there really is no way to remove it in one piece. I wish there was, as the measuring and cutting and wrapping and sealing and securing everything takes more time than every thing else put together.

OP, I do have halloween piggy banks in various places. I put the candy not only in my building but in other building where the truckers go,and everywhere there are treats, there is a donation pig. I always get donations. Never even close enough to cover the cost but it is all appreciated. I did send a VERY kindly worded email to my boss and coworkers that will be unsupervised around my stash. I said that of course they are welcome to some candy, but to please have some self control this year, as in years past I noticed a huge amount disappearing when I was not around,and I know that it was not the truck drivers eating it, as the bowls I send to them where empty and waiting for me upon my return every week. I sent a copy of the receipts from the purchase of the candy, and asked that if they overindulge, to please consider anonymously putting some cash in the piggies bank to cover it. Some of them I understand were offended by my email, so I suppose I hit a nerve but oh well. I try to make this time of year fun and do nice things for people by providing small treats to enjoy,and I do not appreciate my coworkers taking advantage of that. I am not a food pantry. This is the first week. I took pictures of the candy I had remaining when I left. Luckily I only have 2 days off this week instead of 4. If I feel it has been plundered, ill just take it all home and bring it daily when I work. The other night minion had told me he will bring candy to put out while he works to make sure there are treats for everyone while I'm off. He has done this before and I appreciate it.

I learned from being a reactive, defensive young lady. People knew how to push my buttons and manipulate me to get a reaction. My family would accuse me of things in order for me to get angry, and throw proof of the truth at them. It would be things that they wanted to know but was NONE of there business. Like how much money I made. Or what I was spending it on. They would say things like "you don't want us to know because you're probably wasting all your money because you're to stupid to save." Which of course would send me into a rage and i would produce bank statement to throw in their face as proof. By the time i noticed their smug smiles i had already lost. They got what they wanted. To be NOSY. And i was dumb enough to grant them access to my personal business to prove what? As the youngest they would laugh in my face if I demanded to know my parents or my siblings financial details. And yet they felt so entitled to mine.. And still do. At Christmas my brother asked me who pays what bills in my house and do I even save any money? Ridiculous. I didn't say a word. I just kept on cooking. Silence sometimes is best. As a full adult, I have learned how to turn it around. I have set up extreme boundaries that I and only I am comfortable with. And I drive them absolutely insane by NOT taking the bait anymore. For example, my SO and I have been together 12 years. And he has never met my family. Never. Not a hello, a drive by wave,nothing. Why? Because he doesn't want to, but also because I find my family to be incapable of respecting boundaries of me only unless I set extreme ones. I told them from the beginning that the decision was his. And I was not going to attempt to change his mind, because he's a grown man and a respect him and his wishes. This was unacceptable to them. Not my problem. In the earlier years of our relationship, my family would say things like, "you're probably ashamed of him. He must be a bum." Clearly they thought I was still a reactive teen who cared about their opinion. However,to respond I said "yup. That's it. I am completely ashamed." Then they would say even more inflammatory. My mother once said to my brother right in front of me,again to cause a reaction: " He doesn't like white people. That's why he won't meet us." As if I was going to get on the phone to call him, and he was going to rush over there in order to prove himself not to be a racist. Ha! I simply said "Sure. That's why." Then she tried to push it. "So that's really why he won't meet us? He doesn't like white people!?!?!?" I said "You tell me. Since you know so much about someone that you are so bothered about not meeting yet,if you said it it must be true." No response.. What could she say? I agreed with her. They wanted an answer why, they themselves provided one, and I confirmed it,.even though they knew I was being a smart alec and was not confirming any such thing. And i did it with the same smug smile they perused.my bank statement with when i was 19 and thought i has so much to prove. They still nag me every time I see them. I will not take the bait. Last time I told them that my answer won't change and the fact that you all refuse to respect me and our decision is not endearing him to meet you anytime soon. They still continued. In the end I decided that if they want to ruin a holiday or family get together by making themselves mad because I refuse to cave in like I used to when I was younger then I will let them do it. And I will enjoy it. They will learn or they won't. And I win. That is just one specific example. Overall, I feel that it is absolutely best to approach unpleasant situations in as cold and as distant a manner as possible. If you do respond to the unpleasantness,, do not escalate it, sometimes its best to agree with them in a way that they KNOW you do not agree with them but you just want them to shut up. It drives the instigators UP THE WALL, because they can't argue with someone who won't argue back, and they really really REALLY want you to argue or in my case, play into their hands. No more. This works for my super religious, extreme right leaning sister and her political talk, my parents and other siblings in their nagging me, random angry strangers,(like the fruit fly who called me fat in Walmart to shame my grocery choices) annoying coworkers (like the "ladies" I worked with in a factory that would make fun of me for being "skinny" while they were walking around with 4 stomachs and 5 chins) or supervisors, whatever. I will use a quote from one of my favorite Christmas movies, "The Man who Invented Christmas" : Blood of Iron, Heart of Ice! And THAT is how you win the war. Most people nowadays do not know how to respond to someone who will not yell and argue back. It confuses them.... I urge you when dealing with your sister in law to employ these tactics. Blood of iron, heart of Ice Eld!