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    Favourite Scents

    I am all over the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (as a few other people here are) -- right now I'm loving a light roses-and-trees scent for day, with something a bit spicier at night. My mom and her mom wear Shalimar for special occasions, and I can't smell it (or even some of the very similar...
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    Help! Wardrobe problem, in a time crunch (naturally).

    And if you aren't able to find a slip, you may be able to find a very plain silk, satin or nylon nightgown that would go underneath for modesty's sake.
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    Don't try this

    Speaking of disgusting concoctions... On New Year's Eve this year, I was at a party where one of the hosts decided to mix me a drink with Midori, sour mix, peppermint schnapps, and something red. It tasted like drinking orange juice while brushing your teeth. Afterwards, I stuck with cab...
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    I think my parents have the same one! We aren't really a coffee-drinking family (tea people) so it would only get used when we had company, and I was absolutely fascinated by it as a kid. Especially the sound. A pot of tea never sounded like it might be coming to life.
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    Vintage Sizing

    I had that conversation with a very petite friend of mine last week... she was trying to buy an interview suit, but no where in the mall could she come up with anything in her size -- the 0s were too big. My biggest problem, on the other hand, is that I can get clothes that fit in the waist...
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    Vintage Coffee Makers

    Does this thread have anyone else singing "Waiter, waiter! Percolator!" Because I think I'll be singing "Java Jive" for the rest of the morning, minimum.
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    Early DST

    I don't know from stupid, but last night was the first night since DST started that I've even approximated a normal night's sleep. I could take a cross-country train ride with the bags under my eyes.
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    1950's mail scam of sorts, but funny.

    I got some of it as Amish Friendship bread quite a long time ago. Good stuff.
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    Cold Cream- Brands and advice!

    I shouldn't be this easily amused, but on the last of those links people are recommending using baby oil instead of mineral oil -- when they're the same thing! Baby oil just has fragrance added! This just makes me laugh. Do they think that it's made from babies?
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    Powder Room Pets?

    Oh, just imagining that picture one could die from laughing! Harpo the chinchilla has a serious fondness for molasses cookies, and also chocolate. (Neither of which he should have.) At one point, while he was running around, he got into a cookie box and took one of those Archway molases...
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    As Helen said... too "goodie two-shoes perfect". And things would just be given to her -- things like CARS. And when she did things that were unsafe and/or ridiculous (stowing away in a truck being used to steal furniture, or whatever) she never got in trouble afterwards. I just wanted to see...
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    How Encyclopedia Brown!
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    First ever crime fiction book?

    There was something about reading Nancy Drew as a child that made me want to hit her. I think she was just too perfect. My husband, though, collects the early-edition Nancy Drews. So we occasionally get into arguments about this. I read Trixie Belden instead, as a pre-teen. And every Agatha...
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    Powder Room Pets?

    My husband and I both have mild cat/dog allergies and the chinchilla doesn't set them off at all. Their fur is so dense that they don't really have dander.They do bathe in dust, but that can be kept under control without too much trouble. They generally stay in a cage but most people let...
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    Powder Room Pets?

    We call him Harpo -- because like the Marx brother, he's an utter goof who can reduce us to hopeless laughter without saying a word.
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    Powder Room Pets?

    Yes indeed! He's soft, and he's trouble, and he's absolutely adorable.
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    Powder Room Pets?

    Small apartment = small pet. So I have this guy.
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    True Confessions: My Sordid String of Love Affairs

    Sorry, but it's all about
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I had an older woman come up to me in the grocery store today, while I'm dressed fairly 1930s... she complimented me, but seemed quite confused, and eventually decided that I was up from the city (New York). It would be lying to say that I wasn't extremely amused by the response.
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    show us your lippy

    I'm currently enjoying Clinique's Different lipstick in Angel Red. (this is... not the best picture ever taken of me.)

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