It’s a really common reference in home deco/reno. And chances are most homes have at least one!
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Home deco/reno is my wheelhouse, so I’m surprised I’ve never heard that. I’ve always referred to them as dome lights, but thanks for the mental pic and laugh. I learned something. 
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Sooo many boob lights in our house built in 2000! LOL.
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Ha, we have some of those boob lights too in hallways. Never knew they had a name. Wholeheartedly agree with @abasket that a giveaway item should NOT go back to the attic.
Yesterday while running, I listened to this podcast. It’s a bit gabby but interesting- Organzing - It should be as easy as the silverware drawer.
https://shows.cadence13.com/podcast/asking-for-a-friend/episodes/d6cf6ab4-3aaf-4df1-9a09-eda05b5c5267
It reminded me that one of my victories when sorting my mom’s stuff was a silverware holder that exactly fits in my silverware drawer. Can’t believe how much it makes me smile to have that improvement.
More details: The plastic silverware holder has lips to hold it at top edges of the drawer, so there is space below for lesser used items. For almost 30 years we limped along with wooden dividers that seemed nice at first (we had a friend/neighbor who popped over to measure and custom made it for us on move-in day… such a sweet gift!). But over time silverware kept wedging under it, despite various paper shims that i tried.
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In my experience, any simple fix that makes your life easier is well worth it.
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I am having a great time going through my 35+ photo albums and moving the pictures into the sterlite boxes somebody recommended. I am very happy with how the photos fit in these boxes.
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Any chance you have that link? I have a big photo project ahead of me…
“I use Sterilite plastic “shoe boxes” size 13.5x8.5x4.5 usually $1-1.50. Easy to label and use index cards for sorting. And they’re stackable. The type you posted is annoying because of the boxes within a box are not necessarily the right size for sorting by date or theme.”
I suggested these boxes on the Downsizing thread. I usually buy at Target
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here is it under $2 each with lid - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Sterilite-6-Qt-Storage-Box-16426A60/308820126
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same as @disneygals uses I am just using pieces of colored paper to separate them within the box
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Those shoe boxes are NOT acid free (most plastic boxes are not). They will eventually mess up your photos Michaels sells photo boxes cheap (at least when on sale which is often) that are acid free. Same with paper deviders.
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@kiddie I’m confused as to why you’re moving from albums to boxes? (Sorry if I missed it upthread). To reduce space? To downsize the number of photos? Currently in albums that are not archival quality? I thought most tried to do the opposite, and move photos from a box into an archival album. At least that’s what the album and photo memory companies try to pursuade you to do 
I’ve hit an impasse regarding storing photos, so kudos to whatever method you selected.
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My albums were old and starting to fall apart (they were inexpensive flip albums and some of those even older ones where you stick the pictures onto the page). The albums narrowly escaped a flood a few years ago. They are also taking up a lot of space and weight on my shelves. In the plastic boxes they weigh less, take up less space, and will be protected from getting wet. My thought is that the plastic boxes could also go in a storage unit in the future (would not do that with the albums).
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I wasn’t thinking of them for storing purposes, just sorting purposes and for family members to be easier able to flip through photos to decide what to take.
kiddie is using them to store if I read right.
I am doing it for storage purposes, but I am not packing them so tight that a person couldn’t flip through them if they wanted to. In reality, the albums on the shelves have not been flipped through in years anyway (last time was when I went through them and weeded out about half - whey did I save fuzzy pictures, etc.)
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the photo project is complete - 6 shoe boxes of all the small photos. Three thin albums of the very old sepia b&w in odd sizes from the 40s-60’s. An envelope with all the 8x10 and 11x13s Instead of taking up 3 shelves on my bookcase they now take about 1/2 shelf on my storage unit.
And 4 trash bags of empty very heavy photo albums!
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Has anybody donated shoes to Soles for Souls?
I had thought it was for any unwanted shoes, with the worn out ones going to recycle. But looking at the website, it seems they only want new or gently used shoes.
I don’t think this gets anything out of my house, but in terms of photos … I bought myself a Frameo digital picture frame for Christmas this year. I was never really into them, but my brother in law has this one and there is a function where if you have the code you can upload pictures. So now his pictures are from me and his two girls, which has been nice since my sister passed recently. My pictures pre-iPhone are all in albums, but it will be fun to have pictures from my girls that I haven’t seen or to get older ones uploaded. It can hold something like 40,000 photos so I don’t think I will fill it anytime soon lol.
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I have been cleaning out some more. Got my daughter to look through (virtually - I sent her images), some of her old textbooks and she agreed to getting rid of a few. I have been going through my clothes again and throwing out lots of pants and tops I will never wear (are very old). I got inspired by the pictures of me in the same shirt I still wear from 25 years ago. I guess this runs in the family, my daughter just found a photo of herself in the coat she was wearing yesterday from 10 years ago!
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