I also framed my frameless bathroom mirror. I used gold spray paint on it.
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I bought another fridge. Hoping not a mistake. A hotel is closing so I bought a stainless and black very small (2āx5ā) fridge for $60. Itās counterdepth. That is really exciting to me be the kitchen is so small I hated a fridge taking up all that space. If it turns out to be too small Iāll sell it or give it away. I also got a $25 microwave.
And I canāt find ANY record of the fridge I ordered. Not on the website under my name, no email, etc. so freakin weird. I need to cancel it or have it sent to Stingrayās new condo. Yes. Did you catch that? My wife has decided to buy a condo in my complex. (This is good and Iām happy about it).
She is buying one for $80K. Itās bigger, has a 2nd bathroom and is on the ground floor. And is dark. Which she loves. Iām excited in my new place I can turn on the lights without having to fight with her. And itās a pretty light and bright space to begin with.
Lhamo, or āLampā as my spellcheck likes to call you, please come to Louisiana! You donāt even have to bring a mirror, although I would love one!
So what Iām hearing from yāall is you think I should spend the money to replace or frame my mirror for real. Hmm. Weāll discuss when I get a job and want to pay money.
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The nice thing is that this doesnāt need to be done right away!
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What condos cost $80K I have questions
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We clearly all need to move into the same condo complex as Meadowlark.
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Yāall, come on over! We can make a co-housing community!
Found out today the property tax homestead exemption exempts the first $75K of the house you live in, so my $65K condo wonāt have property taxes. My wifeās $80k condo should be pretty low, too. Property taxes freeze at 65 yo here, so Stingray, who is 62, wonāt be paying much in the future, either, even if it appreciates.
Yes, this is regressive taxation and evil, but I didnāt vote for it, so I feel like I can enjoy it guilt free.
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Someone linked to the drop side ikea table on here right? And said they have it? Iām confused- do chairs store in the center part or no? Ty!
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This one?
I have it in white.
There are drawers in the center not chairs. Chairs are not included, I use folding chairs which I fold up when not needed.
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Yes! Thank you, this is the info I needed.
Ughhh I want one that has the chairs in it somehow 
that would be ideal
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My parents have one like that, so they do exist. But theyāve had it far more than a decade, so I canāt help with the shopping.
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I think I have seen something like that at IKEA. Maybe this?
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Oooooh ty! That explains a lot. We thought we had seen one where you could store the chairs in it when we were at the store, but then I thought it was that other listing. Thank you so much for solving that mystery.
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The one I had posted in Small space living suggestions needed - #23 by beep_boop has chairs in the middle, so that might have been what you saw, but itās probably not available in the states 
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Weāve decided weāll give the ikea table a try, and if it doesnāt do it after another full round of holiday hosting (two kid bdays plus thanksgiving plus 2 christmasses, each hosting 15-25 people we canāt keep making people sit at our coffee table and stand at the kitchen island, and now with a family divorce in the works we are the Only Hosts) anyway, weāll try it and if itās not sufficient doing 2 different tables weāll look into the expensive but amazing transformer table.
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I have heard not great things about the quality of the transformer table, esp based on the price. Maybe just a couple of folding card tables that can get pulled out when you host? (Iām reading this as you either have another table that works or that you normally eat at the island or the coffee table and the IKEA table is additional).
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Yep we normally eat as a family in the kitchen at a little circle table. It can expand to 6 seats with a leaf.
Good to know on the transformer table. At that price you def donāt want crap. Iād heard it was heavy AF, but I hadnāt heard other negative reviews- havenāt looked a ton though. I ignore this problem then panic every year 
Card tables and chairs present storage challenges- part of the benefit to the ones weāre looking at is out in the open storage while not being totally ugly 
or the same degree of baby tip hazard.
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I think my brother keeps his folding table under a bed? But I hope the IKEA one works for you! We have a round office conference table for 10 in our eat in kitchen and then use my brotherās folding table when we host more people for a table dinner.
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I recently fit 11 people (and probably could have squeezed in 3-4 more) around an Ikea Ekdalen dining table. It has two leaves so it can go from fairly small (4-6 people) to really big quite easily. YOu do need a reasonably big space for it to expand into, though.
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We do have this, if we need to. We just normally like free play/motor play space. Iāll look that one up.
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Oh, we wouldnāt have the space to have it not expanded. A square or rectangular table doesnāt work where we normally keep our table, so replacing wouldnāt work. (Flow to an exterior door)
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