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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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House Hunters: Tony Cesare

Deciding whether to "Love It" or "List It" in the Grove.

My wife is addicted to those home improvement shows that dominate cable on weekends. “House Hunters,” “Renovation Realities,” “Mitre Saw Misadventures” (Watch this homeowner try and install his own crown molding! Hemorrhaging and hilarity ensue!)—she watches them all. Saturdays are spent wandering the aisles of Home Depot searching for the hunky young host of "Yard Crashers," hoping he’ll come back to our house and remake our yard into a tropical island paradise (free of charge of course). I don’t care if he does the work shirtless and she invites her girlfriends over to watch; as long as he builds in a faux volcano that doubles as a Mai Tai dispenser, I’m fine. Funny then that our lives have become a real life episode of "Love It or List …

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Village of Downers Grove

Mary

5:00 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Well written column, funny and intelligent. Thanks!   more ›

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Non-Stop Mom

Gadget Crazy

A purging of my kitchen gadget drawer is in order.

Little did I realize when I wrote the column about my pantry a few weeks ago that I would begin to drive myself crazy about what other areas and spaces in my life were overcrowded. Maybe I’ve seen one too many commercials for “Hoarders” or, more likely, it is the pending reality that we will be remodeling our kitchen in the upcoming weeks and all of this stuff has to go somewhere. Every cabinet is filled to the top with plates, pitchers, wine glass, ice cream bowls, dessert plates, chip and dip platters and an obscene amount of coffee mugs for someone who doesn’t drink coffee. But I can’t even start looking at the forest until I start cutting down the trees. One glance at my oversized kitchen gadget drawer and it's easy to see that I have …

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The Great Pantry Clean Up

Kristin McCann

8:51 am on Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Well, we recently learned that the shrimp deveiner also makes a great pumpkin carver. I'll have to experiment more with that Cut and Seal! :)   more ›

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