One day event....Red Letter Day!

[misstia]

An Australian Woman's Day Christmas ad from 1956. So she'll be thrilled for the rest of her life with that and 'father' gets a chair? o_O Now, that IS a nifty outdoor clothes line, especially with the added canopy to sit under, but for a Christmas gift?! Oh HELL NO!!!

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[tbone.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about it before, but it makes sense that Australians would be promoting sun-related products around Christmastime. I'd love to see more ads on that particular theme.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

hell's bells, i WISH i could have and use something like that!!

damn HOA's... no clotheslines allowed. although, if i ever get the enclosed patio cleared and DONE... (it's only accessible from inside the house. but the thing was done wrong, the pavers were not set well, and there is no landscape cloth beneath them to prevent weeds and crap from taking root.)

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

They don't slant to let the rain into the house, do they?

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

no, they don't. it's not an actual solid patio, it's paver stones set into sand (i suppose) or dirt (probably) to make a patio area.

but no landscape fabric under it. there's like a 2 inch step-down to the outside, and a sliding door into the dining room area. picture a square C-shape, where the bottom part of the C is the dining room, and the opposite side is a bedroom, with a second bedroom forming the "middle" side of the C. then there's a fence across the open side of the C, and the neighbor's back yard on the other side of it. we literally back up on the property line on one side of the house, and there's maybe...6 feet? 8 feet? between our house and the house next to us on the other side.

we're not even going into the issue of the 2 car garage being at a 90 degree angle to the driveway, so that it literally cannot be used for two cars.

but we have a lemon tree! (TheEngineer's happy point) and a jacuzzi tub (which helps my pain issues) so there's that.

Craig's laundry list goeth too far.

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

On a different note, the reason I don't hang up laundry around here's I'm afraid someone will steal it.

Re: Craig's laundry list goeth too far.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I live in a tenement in NYC, and while when I moved here in 1980 there were still clotheslines strung out windows—and anchored across the way—and flying from roofs, nobody seems to dry their laundry out of doors even though the air quality now is many times better than it was then. (In 1980, if I wore a white T-shirt in the morning and walked outside, it would be gray by noon.)

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

At first glance I thought it was a really complex TV antenna.

Lowered expectations

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

Same here. Bad gifts, yes. At least none of it's a scale. :/