Great deal on the sale and your room looks great!Yes @hennible , I am cross posting
So about being frugal....I bought some mistinted paint and transformed my laundry room that was stuck in the 1980s to a nice updated look.
The paint was nearly $40 a gallon. I paid $5 per gallon each x2.
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Sounds great!
Just love the color! My DH bought a similar color on sale too!!! $2 a quart so I cant use it for such an ambitious project as walls, so I plan to repaint my flat ware drawer!!
Quote: You have my mind working out a possible plan. Those trays do break down. Maybe better quality rubber ones might work. THank you.
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Quote: We lived in a house on a farm at one point that had a concrete stoop out the door to the south. At night the rattlesnakes would crawl up on the stoop to warm up and we had to sweep them off in the mornings to be able to go out to the barns. I was terrified, but they never bothered us or our animals and we never had mice or prairie dogs tearing up the pasture.
I had an experience with a milk snake biting me-- it was totally deserved as I was about 6-7 and tackled it to be sure I caught it. Poor thing needed to protect itself. I have been very leary of small snakes ever since. (I'm totally ok with a 6 foot python.) When my son , about 3-4 at the time, pulled a garter snake thru a chain link fence then proudly showed me his catch, I could only focus on the writhing thing getting ready to strike him. He wouldn't drop it and I wasn't reaching my hand near that snake to help him. I knew this snake could only inflict a minor bite. My son would not handle a snake for two years after that. He did recover though and now wears gloves and places them in a large bucket. lol He is in a happy place with snakes. I still peer into the buckets forcing out positive comments. I let the snakes live here in peace--- as a snake crossed our path, a vet once asked if "he" was a pet.No, he just lives here.
I'll take the snow over poisonous snakes and insects. lol
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Primer coat is on!!!!Used a yellow primer I already had. Couldn't find the paint can opener and didn't want to waste gas to get another one, so started looking at what I already had. Most knives are useless-- they bend too easily. THen discovered the can opener that has an old fashioned bottle opener at the opposite end. Worked beautifully. Waiting for the drawer to dry-- it's by the wood stove. Soooo excited to get the flat ware OFF the table.
