My husband bought an ugly-ass clock today. Actually, it's not so much ugly as it is totally out of place in our house. It does not fit in and I want it gone.

I hate most of the furniture in this house, because we rent it and it came furnished. The couches are gross floral things, and this week I told our landlord that we wanted to buy them so that we could throw them out (new couches being delivered in a couple of weeks, no room to store the old ones in the garage cos my new car's going to be in there), and he replied that he could take them away and put them in another one of his properties. I just looked at him as if to say, 'If we don't want it, no one else will. Except the home for the blind up the road, maybe.'

I also hate the curtains in this room (floral, but not a floral that matches the couches). I told my husband that we're getting new ones before the new year if we have to be in the shops at the stroke of midnight to get it done.

My favourite furnishings are this big desk and our bookcases. And the antique clocks and family heirloom clocks from my father-in-law. And the bed in the spare room, because it's comfortable as fuck.

You?

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

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What a fun post. I don't have much stuff, so this is pretty easy. My favorites are a few original pieces of art I've collected. If you're a grad. student or a single mom, all the artists I have worked with have been happy to hold the piece while I make installments. I bet they do that for anyone really. A piece I bought for $400 in grad. school (I think it took *forever* to pay off 'cause I only sent $25 or $50 max. at a time, is now worth over $2000). I also have my grandmother's piano. Some day, I'm going to refinish it. Probably when h**l freezes over.

I have had a French Provincial dresser since I was 12. I am still using it. It is built well and has survived many moves, but what I wouldn't give for a real grown-up bedroom set-one of my goals in life.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

My favorite would be the family room. It has all new furniture. I love my mantel clock that rings every 15 minutes. I know a lot of people find that annoying, but I love it.

My least favorite is my bedroom. I have a falling apart nightstand that I bought at STOR (now known as IKEA), a dresser that I've had since I was 12 (and for as many times we have moved, it's held up really well), a sagging queen sized bed with no headboard, and an end table with a TV on it. Along with the fact that I hardly ever make my bed and there are always basket of clothes everywhere, it just ain't a pretty site.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

I know there are people who go out and buy suites of furniture and lots of matching stuff, but my wife and I have never been that type. I mean, the couch and one chair match because we bought them together, but the rest of the stuff is eclectic...stuff that we've picked up along the way because we liked it. There are no clashing colors per se, so nothing is garish but we have a lot of disparate stuff. We don't have any fruniture we don't like...not because we're rich or anything, it's just that after 24 years of marriage we've given away or thrown away the stuff we didn't like. Our art ranges from purchased stuff to what is best described as "found art"...stuff that naturally occurs in nature. All of my book ends are either gifts or really neat, big rocks I've found while fly fishing up in Montana or somewhere. I have a really neat bird nest made out of horsehair and bits of some gray paper (as well as grass and twigs) that I saved after the baby wrens left it. I have various little animal skulls I've picked up in the woods and have on the bookshelves and a really neat paper wasp nest which I keep in a corner nook type shelf with the wren nest. (People invariably comment on this is a noncommital way and I can never tell if they like it like I do or they're thinking "what the fuck?") We have two cow skulls with horns on the wall that my wife painted Indian-style and a bighorn ram's skull complete with curling horns. Our paintings range from original oils to garage sale prints to drawings the neices and grandkids made while lying on the floor. I have an ashtray made out of a melted White Horse scotch bottle I picked up somewhere and other tacky stuff that we like because it's unusual. Oh yeah, and my wife's owl collection, which ranges from high art to the whimsical.My favorite piece of furniture would have to be my easy chair that I've got broken-in to perfection and my wife keeps threatening to throw out "or at least have recovered, jesus, Bubba." I guess maybe it's getting a little on the "gamey" side, like me.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Hey. Lurked here forever. Biting the bullet and jumping in. (I'm GinaB on other forums, for those of you that I know. I'm actually self-centered enough to think anyone cares.)

I LOVE my couches. Everyone falls asleep when they come over because they're so comfortable. And we got this fabulous armoire and trunk/coffee table at this Mexican import store, that was so reasonably priced, and I love them. The people should pay me for all the advertising I do for them.

I love my papasan chair. I don't care if everyone has one. I am a trend-following fool.

I hate everything in my son's room. It's all cheap brown plywood bought when we were dirt stinking poor. It's gross. I figure, ah, well, he'll move out in 12 years anyway. :)

I love my wall of pictures. I love picture frames. And I have some Mexican sculpture/art that is pretty cool.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Now that we have a house, I've been stealing furniture from my Gram. I'm crazy about the tuquoise Formica kitchen table and matching vinyl chairs.... I used them in my first apartment 'way back when, but just got done refurbishing them (completely re-chroming all the rusted legs and metal bits) and they look AWESOME!

I'm also crazy about my playroom.... I furnished it with a little twin bed and the old chenille bedspread from Gram's linen closet (and my almost-30-year-old Raggedy Ann and Andy sheets from my first bed). I filled the bookcases with all my kids' books. I hung all my costumes, prom dresses, 80s stuff and "dress up" clothes in the closet. I set up my Barbie Dream House. I just have to hang my Laura Ingalls Wilder prints, and get some Power Puff Girl curtains, and I'll be set!

But man, I HATE this flimsy old IKEA table I'm using as a desk. The one leg won't stay screwed in... and it's disconcerting to feel your computer desk swaying as you write. I need bookcases in here, too. My office is a mess, dammit.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Gina, I hear you on the couches. I always thought my parents spent way too much on couches, but they were the most comfortable things in the world: huge, cream-coloured leather sectionals that people fought for the privilege to sleep on when we had thirty relatives spending the night over Christmas. They invariably had to be replaced every couple of years (and then the old ones got moved into our bedrooms, which was another reason I loved them), but I think being comfortable is something worth investing in. When we're sure we're sticking around these parts -- or when we relocate -- and buy our own house, the first thing I'm doing is getting the most gorgeous, comfortable couches I can find.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Hey, Luchina! Y'all, I just found out that she lives about 5-10 miles from me!

The more I think about it, the more I hate my bedroom. I keep buying these decorating magazines with their cool rooms and I get all inspired, but I've yet to do anything about it.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Bubba's house sounds cool! I love to go to people's homes who let their personalities show in their decorating, or anti-decorating, as the case may be. For now my decorating theme is "as much style as possible for as little money as possible." My bedroom is my favorite. I have a laminate deco-style dresser that was my grandparents' when they got married, a brass bed I bought on the cheap, and a victrola case my great-great grandfather built drawers into. I hung a lace curtain and covered my bed with a light green floral print. It's very serene.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Jackie, the problem with the couches is that they're always beckoning, "stop working, come sit on me, you know you want to...."

Hi Shelley!! I got my armoire and table at Monterrey down on Broadway, ever been there? That place rocks!! I've already got my eye on some matching end tables.

Dwanollah, I wanna come over and play! That sounds awesome!!

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

My favorite item is a real antique amoire I purchased before they were "trendy" - it was a real working closet, so lots of drawers, shelves and cubby holes on one side, clear on the other. Found a square, antique oak table that fits in perfectly on the clear side and the whole thing houses all my stereo, VCR and tv stuff. Like I said, I did all this BEFORE every place starting making these "entertainment" units so, for a brief while there, I was actually "before" a trend. I also love sturdy bookcases/bookshelves, but never have enough. My sofa is very plain/classic, but comfy - the best advice I got about that is to go with plain, you are less likely to grow as tired of that as a floral, plaid or print... plus, you can always toss a quilt on it for a bit of a change. I also have a great old Stickley rocking chair - plain, hard, yet strangely comfortable and STURDY. I guess the thing I hate the most is the computer set up - no matter how tidy I keep it, just looks out of place... wish I could hide it, but another amoire would be too much in here (way too small a place). I guess I long for an "office" room with a HUGE desk, drawers, closets, organizing bins, shelves... and a door to shut. When I moved here, I really reamed out a lot of crap I hated - why have a bunch of "stuff" cluttering up your life? Took loads to Goodwill of mismatched Tupperware, about 50 mugs, etc. I also have a 'thing' for keeping the kitchen counters CLEAR - the microwave is in a cupboard, as well as everything else. Nice, clean lines - looks better and everything stays cleaner. I hate the cheap ass rental carpet in this place - why bother? ...

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Luchina, I haven't. Is it over by Central Market?

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Dwanollah, hon...you need to have a man around the house. Here's a trick you can try to steady that wobbly, "unscrewable" table leg. If it's got a deep socket, this will work. Take everything off the table, turn it upside down, and completely unscrew the leg. Now put two flat toothpicks in the socket on opposite sides from each other and screw the leg back in the hole. You'll probably have to force it to get it started and the toothpicks will break, but that's okay...just don't let 'em fall out completely while you're screwing. If the leg is still wobbly, start over and try three toothpicks...or even four.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

"...just don't let 'em fall out completely while screwing." Heh. Words to live by, I'm sure. (Proofread, Bubba, proofread.) At least I didn't say "...comfortable as fuck." Your peeps are truly bent, Gwenz.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

(I don't know what Central Market is. How embarrassing. It's over by that Pig Stand at Broadway and 35, down the road from Incarnate Word. It's all rustic Mexican imports at very low prices. :) I tried the antiques on Hildebrand but I couldn't hang with all those ladies. Hee.)

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Probably my least favorite furnishing is the living room couch. We have a great one in the formal front room, but the living room couch I "inherited" from my step-grandparents when they sold their house in the last year of their lives. It's just old and not very comfortable anymore. Most favorite has to be my Laz-E-Boy recliner, which my wife bought me about two years ago (or was it three?). It's big, comfortable, has heat and massage and even a built-in speakerphone with headphone jack. Honestly, I could live in this recliner. It's in my office right in front of the big old 1970 RCA television. :-)

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Oops, and I almost forgot. About five years ago we were shopping a gigantic furniture warehouse going-out-of-business sale. My wife really had been wanting a leather chair and we found one there for a good price. I found an extra-wide and extra-deep chair, bigger than a single but smaller than a loveseat. It came with little wooden legs that you could put on the chair after you got it home, but I liked how low it was without the legs, kinda like a mini-sofa, so I've never put them on. Anyway, we shopped garage sales until we found a super-cheap ottoman for the green leather chair. The ottoman is orange. Ugh. Well, we like our mismatched stuff and prefer to spend our money on other things.

When we bought our new house, we rented out our old one for almost two years before finally selling it. The first tenants were four 20-something single men. We didn't feel like moving our two-year-old suite of nice overstuffed furniture, so we sold it to them. Nobody had to move anything! :-)

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Here is the ugly-ass, plastic clock my husband bought and is in love with. Feel my pain.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Oh my, Jackie. It's okay in theory, I guess, but doesn't quite work in actuality....

And Bubba, I gots me a man around the house, but he does the computer stuff and folds laundry... I am the Fix-It Person! And the stupid table has a stupid built-in-with-a-screw-hole-thingie-already-in-it socket, so, unless I want to try filling the hole with Goop (and believe me, I've considered it), I'm just stuck with a weeble-wobbly table. Heck, it's an excuse to order the desk I REALLY want in Jan. when the budget will allow! :)

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

I don't really love or hate anything in my house. I'm pretty apathetic to it all, really. It was supposed to be 'transition furniture,' something to get us through 'til we could afford the good stuff. Or move. Sadly, that day still hasn't come. My favorite is probably the old, wooden bookshelf we found in the cold room in the basement. It was, I'm sure, originally for preserves and stuff, being in the cold room and all, but we cleaned it up and fixed it and it's in our room now. It's probably the sturdiest thing we own. (And hey, Luchina. It's october. Hi to you, too, Jackie. That clock is still fugly, sweetie.)

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Hey deb!! I was going to email you to come hang out with me. Man, I'm always the last one in the know.

Jackie, I'm so sorry. That clock is so wrong on so many levels.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

Jackie, are you sure that isn't two clocks?

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Jackie, um, am I correct, or are my meds kicking in? The clock looks like a combo contemporary (I spelled that contempt...at first)/classical clock. My sister-in-law collects clocks, but I think that one would be beyond her. On the other hand, it must be one of a kind.

I wanted to add that, since my daugther and I share our bedroom, one half is kid stuff with a Winnie-The-Pooh sticker motiff covering one wall. I have grown-up stuff hung on the other empty wall. I've tried very hard to optimize space. She has her desk and I have mine. We share the 30 year old French Provincial dresser :P.

Also, I'd like to nominate Bubba as our tool-time man, for those of us who haven't yet learned all those secret guy tricks for fixing stuff. I bet Paul W. would be good too. But perhaps we should use Paul W. for our 'puters :).

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

My favorite piece is my dining room table. It's nothing great, just a plain pine rectangular table, but I it holds 12 1' tiles perfectly. One of these days I'll get around to permanently affixing the tiles, but for now, they just set on top and look unique.

My dad made my daughter this cool bookshelf-type thing. It's about 18" deep and six feet long, five feet high. The top sections are divided into four shelves, and the bottom holds three layers of plastic baskets that slide out. It holds so much STUFF -- books, stuffed animals, clothes, it's great. Very easy for a four-year-old to clean up her room when it just means stuffing it on the shelf somewhere.

We have a lot of junky furniture, too. I have a desk that was in my husband's room as a child -- it's really ugly, my in-laws have questionable taste. But, it has a hutch bookshelf that holds a lot of books, so it stays.

The whole theme of my house is "Dogproof", so I guess it doesn't matter what things look like anyway.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

PTA's bitch -- ha!
That ugly fucking clock -- HA!

I hate most of our furniture. It was transition stuff, too. We have a nice oak dining room set and Paul made a nice bookshelf, but that's about it. I bought a cute pecan vanity for $16, but the boards on top are warping and it needs a vise clamp and some glue. And some time from Paul. I bought three '70s-ass, sturdy teak chairs that will look really cool and retro once I finally get around to replacing the olive tweed upholstery with something cool. Fuck. I need to just get off the computer and do that. The olive tweed is tearing on two of the chairs. But I can't decide what fabric to cover them with.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Oh, and our couches are ugly-as-hell green plaid. We have those, and then a green fake oriental rug, and then green oriental floral curtains that are actually pretty. But the combined effect is frightening. And they're all in front of our big fake-wood entertainment center, which I hate with a passion. And we have these shelves in the living room which are full of photographs in cheap, uncoordinating frames, and CRAP. Everything that comes out of Paul's pockets goes on these shelves and onto every other shelf in the house.

It's depressing. I want to burn everything and start over again. But at least it's just a trailer, so it's not like people expect Martha Stewart's living room or anything.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Oh, Jackie, my condolences on the clock. *shudder*

And Vicki, thanks for the vote of confidence on the computers! :-)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

He actually has the clock sitting on top of a clock his father gave us (his father bought it for Ian's mother as an anniversary present a long time ago). He's buying a proper stand this week, he said.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

I still think you need to 'accidently' knock it over or spray the battery part with water to short it out or something.

Luchina, I can't believe you haven't been there! Take 410 and exit Broadway and go inside the loop. It's on the right hand side probably a few miles before you get to Brakenridge Park. You can't miss it.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

You know what's sad? We don't have a kitchen table. Nothing. Nada. We eat our meals in the living room. We don't even have TV tables, so we eat off our laps. Or the floor. If you're ever invited to my house for dinner and you ask, in that polite 'Doing my guestly duty' tone, 'Is there anything I can bring?' The answer is, 'Yes'. Bring me a fucking table. Most meals degenerate into chasing Little Mister around the living room, trying to sit his ass down to finish his peas. He just says, 'Nope, thanks,' as if meals were a class he's opted out of, and he's off. Giggling. Or screaming. Whatever. (I know you're laughing at me, Luchina. Stop it.) We put the 'ill' in Hillbilly.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Favorite house possession-definitely the Magritte print that my boyfriend searched high and low for and just gave me as an early xmas gift.

I don't believe that this counts as a possession, but we have an exotic begonnia that is over 100 years old. It is a clipping from a specimen brought from the Caribbean in 188? by Joseph Rothrock for his wife (Rothrock is the father of forestry in PA). I love this plant, and if she dies in my care I will never have the self confidence to breed children.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

We have a dining table, but Ian's the only one who ever eats there (unless we have guests). I always eat at the computer or standing up in the kitchen. I think I've eaten at the table twice in recent memory, and I had to have a magazine next to me because I was afraid of being bored. (Man, I'm a freak.)

He bought the stand. I think the clock is here to stay. The good thing is that when he insists it's 'roasting' in here, I can point to the temperature reading and show him that it's actually only 18C and then go jack up the central heating.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Oh God Jackie D, I'm so sorry. Eeewwww what a monster of an atrocity. Robyn, food and water. Food and water. Keep out of cold temps. I don't think there is anything that eats Bouganvilla. Bubba, send me your address. I've got something to add to your coolection. I've got all kinds of skulls around here. If you read about the two big cats in Cuyamaca Park that were terrorizing everybody and trying to eat little kids, well I have one of the skulls. Beautiful specimen. I hope to find a Bighorn ram skull someday when I'm out hiking. Big swirls of horn and all. My house is southwestern motif though my wife keeps trying to make it more like a swapmeet style. Kmart lamps don't go with RC Gorman prints last time I looked. I make most of the shelves and display cabinets so I can tailor them to a specific part of the house. I always rearrange them so I don't want to buy someone elses stuff. I'm remodeling the house now and my wife hates it. Windows are always missing or doors or walls go unpainted for a week or more. I just work on the thing when I have the time. Masterbedroom windows are next. She thinks it's cold in there now. Ha. Just wait I tell her. Actually it's a plan to get her to cuddle closer at night to keep warm. Oi. She has this buffet that I truly hate. It's a piece of shit for furniture. It was a piece of junque when it was made. It's a sore point with us too. She is not very good at coordinating color or style and she hates it when our friends come over and tell us the new stuff looks so cool and no one says how much they like that shitty buffet. But it's going to be traded for a bedroom furniture suite when I'm ready to remodel the living room. The buffet is in front of two art display walls. It will go or mysteriously catch fire in the fireplace. Damn thing has been rebuilt at least three times that I can figure out. Piece of shit. Ok. Enough already. Bubba, send me your snail mail address. You'll love it. James

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Oh, man, Deb. I'm sorry, that mental picture of your little guy running around the living room refusing to eat - he's in Underroos and a cowboy hat in my mental image - is cracking my shit up. I tried not to laugh. Really. ;-)

Shelly-- you wouldn't even believe how many places I haven't been to. Six Flags, for one. Yep, as in the park *right* next to my neighborhood. It's sad.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Jackie D...I feel sincerely sorry for you. I keep the boney remains of dead animals in my house, but good gawd! You husband should be placed under arrest by the TASTE POLICE or undergo an exorcism or something.That clock is absolutely hideous. And to make it worse...it's purple!! Can't you cut the top part off or something? And James, I appreciate it. I'll e-mail the address if you're truly sincere. Sounds too good to pass up.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Um...I haven't either. But I've been to SeaWorld a few times.

I like my dining room too, only it's not used as one. I have a love seat in there and some cheap bookshelves. I use it I guess as a library. It's cozy in there.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

My favorite: the pine sleigh bed that my husband had made for our eighth wedding anniversary. God I love that bed!

Least favorite: our guest bedroom funiture. It's from the 70s and no amount of refinishing can get cover up that little fact. Oy, that furniture...

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Luchin--He's Batman. He'll tell you. 'I Batman!' No peas for Batman.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Poor Jackie, at least it's not a nasty couch or cabinet. It could be worse! My favourite furniture is my Indonesian coffee table and kilms that my friend, who imports them, was kind enough to sell to me at a special price. The other furniture in my house was bought at the British High Comminssion's annual silent auction. I have some beautiful mahogany cabinets, carpets, couches, and tables that I got at wicked low prices. They buy these really expensive items and sell them for dirt cheap after the occupant leaves!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Jackie, I think I just saw the same fugly clock at Target. I looked at it and shuddered, then realized you have it hanging in your home. Yikes!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

I live in an apartment that was mostly furnished by my roommates. The couch is probably my favorite...where else would I lounge while I watch the Golden Girls? However...it has seen a lot of "action", if you catch my drift. Sometimes I will be laying there and that will come into my head and I have to move to another couch. My least favorite piece of furniture has got to be the coffee/end tables. They are EXTREMELY cheap..they wobble when you put a cup down. They have these awful glass tops that SUCTION CUP to the legs and get dirty very quickly. I am always windexing my damn coffee table. Makes me sick!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Now that I am picturing the fugly clock on its own, it is kind of growing on me. But I won't tell your husband that, Jackie.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Where shall I begin? We have a lobster crate with glass on top of it for a coffee table, a Florida Gators foot locker for an end table, and black leather couches. I've got to talk my man into letting me decorate.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

jack it licke that clock! ive been lookin for won just like it!! your guy has goood taste!!!! it is a timex???

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Hey Shanna, at least it's not a wagon wheel cocktail table. ;)

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Bubba I also relate to your decorating taste. Our place is a mix of...everything. Furniture-wise I love the 60's danish modern teak dining set we got from Davin's grandmother. It's a beauty. Right now I am loving my 6.6 ft long desk. It actually fits all my necessary equipment on it.

I need clutter to live. I've probably said it a zillion times on these boards but this place is so far beyond the breaking point. Last april/may we went on vacation for 2 weeks and when we came home I walked in the door and was literally overwhelmed. Couldn't believe I lived here. It took me a couple of days to get used to it. I look around thinking about what to purge but it's all good. All of it. Every single thing has beauty and charm to it.

Here's my favourite corner: http://www.donuty.com/PB030028.JPG

The candy: http://www.donuty.com/PB030016.JPG

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Gayla, will you come decorate a room in my house? Wicked!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Whoa, what a trippy place you've got, Gayla! Very colorful, though. I love it. Let others have their neat and tidy grown-up showhomes... here's to living a rich life! :-)

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

When it comes to decor I say to each their own. I love minimal modernist furniture and layouts but I could NEVER live that way. I'm a clutter queen. When I go to a friend's house that is minimal with nothing on the walls I can't stop looking around and thinking about how I would fill in the spaces.

Paul W: That's why the walls are neutral. That wall is a warm brown grey. With all the crap that has to go up, there's not point in screwing your eyes up with more colour. Except the bathroom which is REALLY orange. I'm actually a very monocromatic colour person though.

Jackie: I'll help you get rid of the purple clock. ha ha! I have a hard time with the colour purple. I just don't like it.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Gayla--I think I got a sugar rush off that picture! Yum!

Nice to see all the red records. Neat! (They look perfect together! However, if you ever want to add some purple or green or blue or yellow ones to your decor, LMK and I'll fix you up with some titles and artiosts to hunt for. I.e., Iggy Pop at the Hippodrome is an emerald green 12".)

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Posted too soon. Heh--never mind on the pruple LPs then. ;)

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Milla: The old colourd vinyl is so pretty, and nice and thick too. Those are mostly kid's records with super nicely designed labels. The small ones (green, yellow and red) at the bottom are Aunt Theresa and the KYB club sings... and all the titles are popular Christian children's songs such as: "I'm so Happy (and here's the reason why. Je-e-e-e-e-esus took my worries all away)" and "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam". Those records are CREEPY. The other large one at the bottom is a Billy Graham flexy disk. But someone cut the corners off to make it rounder. I never see coloured vinyl anymore unfortunately

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

I have the Beatles' "red" album on red vinyl and a Buddy Holly album with a giant closeup of his face on the vinyl. Hmm, maybe I could do my own colored-vinyl decorating...

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

My least favourite thing has to be our bed - we bought it cheap, and we got what we paid for. It squeaks if you breathe on it, let alone lie on it, and the footboard sticks out at such an awkward angle that we are both constantly bumping into it. I'm black and blue.

We don't have too many things yet, and we're planning to decorate after the wedding so my favourite thing is a small and tacky thing... I have an Elvis clock where the pendulum is his lower body so the King swings his hips. It's a hoot. My close friends gave it to me and I adore it. KathleenC, your handmade sleigh bed sounds divine. A sleigh bed is on the list of "Must Haves" for us in the future.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

Yea, Milla...You're right. :-)

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2000

Don't like: big black floor rugs that looked elegant, smooth and low- piled in catalogue photo only for me to discover once they arrived that they were bushy, hairy, unkempt and shaggy and thus prone to pick up everything except for men and bar tabs. I brush my damn rugs more often than I brush my cat.

Like: Most everything else. I don't keep stuff I hate. My CD spinner thing has been the most useful. Went from inadequate storage to an enormously heavy but practical expandable black melamine piece of furniture. Rock on. Also, my father made two little wallshelves (for curios and whatnots and tchotchkes) when he was in high school and I have both of them. They're not gorgeous or perfectly even, but he made them so I love them.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2000

My most favorite thing has to be my bed, which like, kathleenc's, is a giant (king-sized) pine sleigh bed. Only mine came from IKEA. I recently outfitted it with a gorgeous, plush, deep-crimson velvet comforter, and golden-wheat-coloured Egyptian cotton sheets, so it's very luxurious. I spend *way* too much time in that bed. As for the least favorite thing, it would have to be my kitchen table and chairs. As a broke newlywed, I settled for an unfinished wood table and chairs (with icky seagrass seat covers) from IKEA, and painted the set bright, glossy white. I also hate my crappy, self-assembled, fake wood entertainment center -- also purchased at IKEA, when my then-husband refused to let me get the beautiful pine armoire. I should've given him this crap when we split.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000