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My 2 cats loved the napper. I strongly disagree with the 35 pound weight capacity. My heaviest cat is about 15 pounds with the other cat being about 7 pounds. And all was well for about 4 months, then the plastic arms of the napper broke. The fleece hammock cover seemed to lose it's tightness. And I found the velco installation inadequete. I had to mount with the screws in my sill and now I have screw holes with no napper. I will be looking for a sturdier product, because my cats really loved looking out the window.

I bought this for the cat, but our 18 lb dog has staked his claim on it instead. He's always in it! He'll sit in it for hours and will even take his toys up there with him. We'll come home from work and find him sleeping in it. The only complaint I have is that the hammock is starting to sag after just 2 months of use, but the dog doesn't seem to mind. Overall, it's a great product for the price and we plan on getting a 2nd one for another window in the house.

I bought one of these for my five cats about two months ago, after moving into a house with slender window sills. It is almost never vacant! They love being able to have a front-row seat at the window, and the hammock styling appears to add extra comfort for their lounging pleasure. The only bad thing about this is that my formerly loyal cat, Alex, no longer sleeps with me! She's too busy enjoying her Cat Napper. This item offers the option of attaching it to the window sill with Velcro or with screws. Take the time to install it with screws. I tried it with Velcro first, and it only took a week before it fell under the weight of one of my 12-pound cats. I installed it with the screws, and now it's extremely sturdy.

This is one of the simplest and yet coolest gadgets around. I bought one for myself last year and quickly picked up two more for friends as gifts. Everyone in my office has stopped by to ask about the one on my desk, and they're awestruck when I show them how it tells time (no one ever guesses it's a clock at first). Guaranteed to give you instant 'geek' status in the office!

I work in a technical environment, and this clock generates so much interest. I really enjoy watching people slowly figure out what it really is... especially since I have it set to display millitary time :)

If you're a clock watcher anyway, this clock is for you! It is unique, eye-catching and well designed. The instructions are easy, and you will be able to tell time with this clock in...well, no time!

I purchased one of these tea balls from Eatons last year, and it is a fine product. The hinge and clasp appear sturdy enough to last. Even the mesh, if you dent it, looks as though it can simply be bent back into shape. I previously bought a Martha Stewart tea ball, and it was of unusably poor quality. The two halves were supposed to screw together, but you couldn't get them to hold... The only downside with this tea ball is that it is sometimes a fussy task to clean the mesh of any grit lodged in it.

I recommend tea balls in general and this one in particular (clasp stays firm after repeated uses, mesh easy to clean, hook adjustable for rims of varying sizes). I like using a larger tea ball like this one for even just a cup or two. The leaves have room to move around and be fully saturated during the steeping process resulting in fuller flavor. However, if you're going to use a tea ball for soup herbs or other non-tea uses, please think about having a ball dedicated just to tea-making. You don't want to wash it in soap (leaves an unpleasant undertaste in your next cuppa), but you also wouldn't want your delicate jasmine flavored with a hint of beef barley from your stockpot.

After the premature loss of my old teaball (I accidentally dropped it down the garbage disposal while I was rinsing it out..oops), I decided it was time I got serious and bought a new one.

I highly recommend this teaball, because it allows for full infilteration of the loose tea, as it is mesh (rather than a metal ball with some holes poked in it, like my old one). It is key in remebering that you do not need a fistfull of loose tea in order to make a good cup, as it expands and such while the water gets into it.

While putting loose tea in, you must remember not to completely fill up the tea ball with it, as it expands (as I earlier stated), and that by allowing the water to infilterate, you make a stronger tea. Also, the longer you allow the tea to steep, the stronger the tea is.

This teaball is also useful, because there is a bendable bit of metal on the end of the chain to prevent you from 'losing' the teaball into the hot water. It is flexable enough so that you can put it on a mug, a traveling cup, or whever you please! One final use, that makes me think that it is a superior teaball, is the fact that there is enough room in this teaball to allow the user to make either one cup of tea, or to make multiple cups of tea

This is a great item—classic yet streamlined which is great in my small bathroom & it holds a lot. The style is a lot better than some of the stuff out there at pricier venues. Love the glass door...the only reason why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was that I wish the drawer had that traditional drawer mechanism which would make it a bit easier to use but the interior drawer stop is fine & it keeps the price low. Would recommend this piece to anyone!

I was going to purchase items like this from another high end retailer. but the cost is what stopped me. This is even better, the price, and the instructions are very easy the easiest i have ever read. So i am not worried about buying other items to match or similiar items by same company because it was so easy. Makes a perfect touch in my bathroom and even my husband loved it!

I have a pretty small bathroom space and I needed something to make it look more decorative. I got the idea from Design on a Dime for a little cabinet so I went hunting. For the price it was great. It was okay to put together, not too easy not too hard. I'm so happy with the end results. I put a little basket on the shelf inside to hold my hairdryer and curling irons. It looks great!!! I recommend it to anyone who has a little patience or someone to put it together for them. :)

Well, it seems like a great deal for so many containers, but they are almost all too little to properly store much of anything. If you have even the average amount of leftovers, it is just not sufficient. Also, I find that the lids are very difficult to open and close, especially for people with arthritis.

I RECENTLY PURCHASED THIS ITEM AS A GIFT FOR 3 PEOPLE ON MY XMAS LIST....I ALSO BOUGHT IT FOR MYSELF,,,,,I WISH I WOULD HAVE STUCK TO THE OLD RUBBERMAID,,,THE LIDS ON THESE ARE SO HARD TO PUT ON AND TAKE OFF! SOME COVERS DON'T SEEM TO EVEN FIT...WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE WHO HAS PROBLEMS WITH HANDS.....

Dear Amazon Customers,
I purchased the Rubbermaid Plus 50-pc set and I have been very satisfied with the quality of the product. The lids fit snug and the containers hold up well for casual or everyday usage. I would recommend hand washing versus the dishwasher. Although the plastic is heavy duty, depending on the amount of heat during the drying cycle of your dishwasher, plastic items such as these tend to warp and melt under the heat. Beyond that the Rubbermaid Plus 50-pc set is ideal for food storage in the kitchen. This is a good value.

Mr. Beer's home brew kit a great, fun way to introduce yourself to the art and craft of homebrewing. I recieved Mr. Beer as a Christmas gift from my wife, and have enjoyed it thourougly.
The wonder of brewing beer at home is that it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. I've brewed beer at home on a few occaisions, and the typical home brew process and equipment can be a bit intimidating to the neophyte. Sorry, but a plastic 5 gallon bucket full of wort does not inspire confidence. The beer snobs you find at most home brew shops only add to the difficulty of the process, and the books available on the subject seem to be writen with chemists and moonshiners in mind.
Mr. Beer takes the guess work out of the process, allowing the newbie home brewer to proceed with confidence. Brewing beer at home is as simple as preparing condensed soup.
But what if you want to experiment with fruit beers? Different kinds of hops? Different malt blends? Lager yeasts?

Never fear. Mr. Beer is marvelously flexible, allowing you to take your home brewing as far as you like, and the recipes and instructions included with the kit show you exactly how to do it. Mr. Beer also offers a wide variety of malts and hops, as well as both ale and lager yeasts premeasured for use with their kit.
The only real downside to Mr. Beer's brew kit is that you are more or less restricted to using Mr. Beer malt extracts. Most malt extracts come in 3 lb cans, standard for a 5 gallon brew, but Mr. Beer uses a 2 lbs can. Measuring out the malt can be messy, and there's really no way to preserve the left-overs. If you really want to broaden your beer horizons, you'll eventually graduate to the more standard 5 gallon set up.
Bottom Line: Mr. Beer is the perfect way to find out if home brewing is something you'd like to do. There's no significant financial investment in the equipment, and there's lots of room to try different techniques explore different ingredients. Highly recommended.

I just purchased the Mr. Beer kit and it is wonderful. I followed the instructions and in 2 weeks I had a great tasting beer. I tested it with my friends and they were impressed as well.
One of my friends is a brewer using grain and he thought the beer tasted good as well. Especially, consdiering he would take all day to brew a batch of beer and I only took about 45 minutes. You don't really need all that equipment a homebrew shop will want to sell you, unless you enjoy buying all that stuff and playing with it.

Besides that they have lots of interesting recipes to try and the price seems really reasonable.

I encourage everyone to give it a try.

I got the Mr. Beer kit from a buddy a few weeks before Christmas, and have been having an absolute blast with it! By far the best Christmas present I got this year.
The nice part about Mr. Beer is that the standard recipe process is very easy to do (read: very hard to screw up). This gives an inexperienced brewer like me the confidence to be imaginitive and creative, while keeping the chances of really messing up a batch pretty low. I've already done standard ales, honey wheat ale, and honey-apple ale. All taste very good, and the taste continues to improve!!
This is a MUST-have gift for any die-hard beer drinker!!

We purchased this bed for our new Cardigan Corgi and he quickly made it his prime lounging spot in his new home. The fleece did produce some lint at first but was a minor issue that went away after a week. The fleece also seems to hold any recently shed hair and prevents it from getting onto the surrounding floor. A quick wash or hand-vacuum removes the hair from the bed and all is new.

I have purchased two of these beds recently, for 3 dogs. (I suppose I'll have to purchase another bed soon, for no. 3!) Our dogs seem to love them particularly for the fleecy, cozy tops. I recommend refilling these beds when the poly eventually matts down, and instead of using more poly, which can be found in bags at your local fabric store, using the foam corrugated people-mattress pads. (The ones which look like egg crates.)

After shopping around for dog beds everywhere, this was by far the best option available. The quality is amazing, especially taking into account that this bed is 1/2 the cost of most. It looks nice and washes very well. The cover can even be put in the dryer on low and it comes out looking brand new! I think the filling may mat down a little bit due to the fact that there is some cedar in it but, it can be fluffed back up. My dog doesn't prefer to be sleeping on anything too pillowy anyway. I like it and she does too!

These TV trays are gorgeous! In addition, they are very sturdy and well made. All-in-all a good buy! Be forewarned however about assembly of the stand. The screws for this project are too big and split the composite wood slats in two places. Marshall Field's Customer Service could not replace the slats, only exchange the entire shipment. In order to avoid this problem, I suggest that you pre-drill the holes with a slightly smaller bit size before screwing the stand together. My fiance had a bigger job on his hands than he bargained for (i.e., some assembly required) in having to glue the split pieces together, use wood filler, and then stain to match. Enjoy!

These TV trays are gorgeous and very sturdy. A good buy. Be forewarned however about assembly of the stand. The screws for this project are too big and split the composite wood slats in two places. Marshall Field's Customer Service could not replace the slats, only exchange the entire shipment. In order to avoid this problem, I suggest that you pre-drill the holes with a slightly smaller bit size before screwing thr stand together. My fiance had a bigger job on his hands than he bargained for (i.e., "some assembly required") in having to glue the split pieces together, use wood filler, and then stain to match.

Each was better than the last. Thy look fantastic in my newly remodeled family room. Thank you. I love them.

The first one of these took for ever to put together and took 2 of us. once we got the hang of it (we are both women) we were able to put the rest together in about 20 mins a piece. 2nd person a definite help or you must be very agile. I have 10 sets and I am getting more. Using for storage of merchandise. Holds a lot. I prefer these to heavy plastic shelves I have used before.

First of all, this shelf system is very easy to put together-- I bought 3 of them to organize my messy storage room in the basement and had them all put together in 30-40 minutes. Once put together, I was extremely impressed with the strength of the units-- I have them fully loaded and they are very sturdy. I have seen similar units at much higher prices and would highly recommend these as a great product value.

When organizing my basement this spring, I bought one of these units. It beats the so-called heavy duty metal shelved unit in my garage which buckled. It also beats the plastic quick together unit from Home Depot which had a cracked leg during assembly. These shelves are adjustable-height, giving flexibility for varying height storage cartons. Unlike open grate shelves, things will not drop through. And neither metal nor wood will break when it's below freezing. One downside: because of the particle board, it was heavy to get in/out of the car. I thought assembly was straightforward and it went together pretty easily, with the shelving added after assembly and location adjustments. Yes, a few tabs did bend (they also unbend) and you have to check that all tabs are "caught" into the shelf, but these were not significant problems at all. I have bought five more.

I have owned a panasonic bread machine in the past which just quit working. I thought I would try this machine because of the high recommendations of the earlier model. Boy, is this a dud. I made 3 different loves of bread. I followed the instructions as printed but each one came out terrible. Even with the crust color selection mode, the top of the bread barely bakes and the sides get hard. The so called non stick pan is certainly not.I do not recommed this machine to anyone. If I could rate it as a zero, I would!!!!

I have owned many different bread machines, and still do. The Zojirushi, the Panasonic and the Breadman Ultimate.
This Zojirushi is becoming my favorite!
It turns out great tasting, great looking loaves of bread every time.
And the sourdough starter cycle does wonders.
My only complaint is that the pan is not very nonstick. You have to shake it pretty hard to get the bread out. But big deal - as long as it comes out I'm happy!
As far as Zo's customer service, I've never had any trouble. I have called them to order spare parts for my rice cookers, and to order a spare pan for this bread machine in case I ever need it. By spare parts I mean just that - spare. I have not had any defects. I just like having a spare pan etc on hand in case one gets scratched. No trouble getting them on the phone, no trouble with my order.
I have absolutely no complaints. Zojirushi makes great, innovative products and you should not hesitate to get this machine.

This is the third bread machine I've owned. The first one was one of those old ones that looked like R2D2 with the glass dome. It walked off the counter one too many times. The next was a Breadman. The motor burned out after only a couple of years. I'd always heard that the Zojirushi's were the best, and the reviews were good on this one, so I bought it. It makes beautiful bread with great ease, and I like the more conventional shape of the loaf. However, it's made for a 2-pound loaf, and if you make a smaller one it's going to come out lopsided. Evidently with the two blades, one gets greedy and gets more dough on it than the other one. I don't mind the lopsided loaves for my personal use, but if you really want a beautiful loaf, make sure it's a 2-pounder.