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  1. katie26

    Contemporary Fire Alarm

    This is interesting - the alarm was definitely going off in our room on the 6th floor, but when we got outside, my friend and I noticed that it didn’t seem like there were as many people outside as you’d expect from a full hotel. (We were at the back of the hotel, near the pool - it looked like...
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    Playgrounds at resorts

    I can’t seem to find an official word on this, so hoping someone here will know! I know “pool hopping” is not allowed, but can we use other another resort’s playground area? We are staying at Pop Century and have dinner reservations at Boma one night. My preschooler does much better sitting...
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    Double stroller as wheelchair?

    Thanks! I think he’s 38 or 39” now - we were planning on bringing a Kinderpack to wear one of them when we had to split up, but I think we will mostly stick to rides we can all do. (And maybe take turns going on grownup rides if we can get the kids to nap in the stroller.)
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    Double stroller as wheelchair?

    Hello all: We are planning a Disney trip for November - it will be our first trip as a family of four. My 3 year old son has ASD and I was hoping to get a “stroller as wheelchair” tag because he often gets overstimulated in crowds and lines, and a stroller with the sun visor down gives him...
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    Bringing Salad to Work

    You could buy a salad shaker - they'll keep your dressing separate but will let you release the dressing into the container and shake to combine...
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    Recipe Site Suggestions for Healthy meals?

    I really like cookinglight.com. They have a good balance of quick, cheap weeknight meals and more involved "weekend" recipes for folks with more time on their hands.
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    Budget for food in NYC

    It really depends on what you want to eat. You can go pretty cheap or pretty pricey in NYC - $3 for a bagel and coffee, $10 on a eggs-hashbrowns-and-toast diner breakfast or $20 for a fancy brunch with mimosas. For lunch, you can pick up some really bad pizza for $1 a slice, a standard NY...
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    ikea couch...yay or nay?

    I did try. No dice! :( Complicating matters, I'd bought it with a gift card (well, two gift cards, actually) and had tossed the empty gift cards. I did have the delivery invoice, but IKEA management wouldn't accept it. If I'd used a credit card, I might have looked into contesting it with...
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    ikea couch...yay or nay?

    I wouldn't buy another IKEA couch again. My last one broke - like, crash! we were on the floor - less than a month after I bought it. (And since I hadn't saved the receipt, there was nothing I could do about having it replaced under warranty or returned to the store. Learned a very valuable...
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    Does Anyone Make Homemade Ice Cream?

    I find that I usually enjoy custard-based ice cream recipes, rather than ice cream made from an eggless base. This recipe is my current favorite: http://bravetart.com/recipes/CrazyBananaIceCreamGF It's pretty labor intensive, but SO worth it. This one is the same idea, but you don't...
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    What do you season with rosemary?

    Rosemary is delicious with white beans! You can make a salad, a crostini topping or a soup.
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    Philosophy Microdelivery wash. UGH

    I don't know if they've reformulated, but I recently used it for the first time and also broke out like crazy the next day. I knew it was a bit of a gamble, as my new dermatologist recently diagnosed me with mild rosacea (instead of what I always thought was just regular old acne) but now I know...
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    I need a good frosting recipe

    I really like this one: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Decorator-Frosting/Detail.aspx It gets hard enough after drying that you can stack the cookies, but it stays really yummy!
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    We're on our last roll of cheapo toilet paper- never again!!!

    I've always been a Charmin girl, but I've found Trader Joe's TP is just as luxurious and quite a bit more cost effective. :cool1:
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    Ugly Christmas Sweater Party - Would you buy one?

    I went to a theme party last weekend where everyone was supposed to dress up in a certain way and bring "tacky" Christmas decorations. I was literally the only person, besides one of the hosts, who showed up dressed in costume or toting tacky Christmas decorations. Not only was it a bummer for...
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    What do you wish your parents did differently (in your childhood)

    My parents were - and are - absolutely wonderful parents. I can only hope that I will, one day, be half as good as they were. The only two things I wish they'd done differently - I wish they'd insisted on getting me braces as a teenager, and I wish they'd been more adamant about making sure...
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    Taking care of your spouse

    Yes, really. I'm not saying this is the way everyone's relationship should be or that every woman should be willing to pour her significant other's iced tea on demand. I'm just saying that I've decided that I'm cool with doing these things for him, because there are other things he does for me...
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    Taking care of your spouse

    I can relate to the OP. My boyfriend comes from a very old-school Italian family where his mom "waited on" the men in the house. Despite numerous discussions about sharing work equally, DBF still, deep inside his heart, believes that cooking and cleaning is more my job than his, and associates...
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    New Orleans eateries

    The Praline Connection http://www.pralineconnection.com/
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    Need a knockout (but easy) dessert recipe!

    I absolutely love the Magnolia Bakery banana pudding recipe: http://kitchen-goddess.yumsugar.com/Recipe-Magnolia-Bakerys-famous-banana-pudding-15384467 You can easily double the recipe to serve a big crowd, it's pretty simple to assemble and people go nuts for it.




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