Just finished watching Northanger Abbey on Masterpiece Classic. Soooo much better than the new Persuasion but much too short. Also, has Sally Sparrow as Isabella Thorpe!

While we're talking about getting rid of things -- I've got a rug, maybe 6x8 feet or so. It's just been rolled up and leaning against my wall in the corner for several years, but now I want to use that corner for a bookshelf. How do I get rid of the rug?

How do I get rid of the rug?

Does your best friend need to move a body?

Craigslist, or Freecycle, depending on if you care about getting money for it?

Also, my somewhat broken old TV was gone from my foyer this morning, like pretty much anything anyone leaves down there, so if your building has anything like that, you could just do that.

I always insist I get three bags for every individual item I buy at the supermarket. An then I go home and burn each bag separately.

I just laughed so loudly at this that The Boy came in from another room to ask me what was so funny.

He appreciates this discussion (the reusable bags, not football), because he recycles to such an extreme that he keeps the cereal bag/sleeve thing (you know, what holds the cereal inside the box), and uses it as a small trash bag on the kitchen counter. Which is actually really effective and handy, since the bigger trash can* is in the pantry, and every time we open the pantry (1) the dogs try to rush in, because they know that's where the food is, and (2) the pantry is an addition on the back of the house and it's not heated, so an arctic blast whips out.

*The bigger trash can in the pantry generally has, instead of a Hefty bag, an empty large Iams dog food bag. The man recycles EVERYTHING.

If they ban plastic bags, I'll have nothing to put the kitty litter in.

Or, in my case, line one of the diaper pails where we toss wipes and whatnot.

Taking shopping bags to the store is one of my big resolutions. We're in Mountain View and had to go to Whole Foods and I felt like an ASS for not having my bag.... at that Whole Foods, they give you $.05 back if you have a reusable bag or you bring your own and if you'd like, they'll donate that money to one of three charities. Neat.

When I walked my dog twice a day I used to snag an extra handful of plastic bags and stuff them in with my groceries on my way out of the store.

We do that too. With 2 dogs going out 3 to 4 times a day, we need as many as we can get our hands on.

Taking shopping bags to the store is one of my big resolutions. We're in Mountain View and had to go to Whole Foods and I felt like an ASS for not having my bag.... at that Whole Foods, they give you $.05 back if you have a reusable bag or you bring your own and if you'd like, they'll donate that money to one of three charities. Neat.

It's SO handy. We have about half a dozen or so. We use them not only for groceries, but for toting things to potlucks, picnics, you name it. We leave the lot up in the house just often enough that we still have enough paper bags for collecting our recycling.

We do that too. With 2 dogs going out 3 to 4 times a day, we need as many as we can get our hands on.

Yeah, I have them double and triple bag things if I can. And then I unload everything from the bags and repack it into my reusable bags since they're so much easier to carry. That only happens if I'm on a major grocery run, though. Even without the dog issue, so much of my shopping is on the way to and from work and other places. Not having a car, it's generally unlikely that I'll have a cloth bag with me.

I tell myself that since the plastics are always full (of garbage or...other stuff) and tied off when I toss them that they don't end up riding the wind currents out to that sickening mass in the Pacific.

Feh. If I had a pet store near by I'd be better about using the degradable ones. But it's just too much to keep up with without a convenient source.