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Finding your ideal apartment is only half
the battle. Now you have to figure out howmake your apartment your home. You haveto buy all the necessary appliances and elec-tronics. And of course you have to find waysto decorate your place whether its just likeeveryone else or your own innovative idea.
When my roommates and I moved intoour Lawrence apartment two years ago, ourwalls were completely white. We knew we hadto do something to make our apartment ourown. At the time, I worked in a video store soI was able to get multiple random movie post-ers we put all over our living room. In addi-
tion, we ripped off the covers of my room-mates Maxim magazine two year subscriptionhe had hanging out in his bedroom.
But the one decoration that really toppedthe cake was a paper mask of Owen Wilsonand Vince Vaughn we found in Maxim, apromotion for Wedding Crashers, which
had been released that summer.We cut out the paper masks and sketched
out bodies for the actors similar to theWedding Crashers DVD. Soon enough,
quotes from the movie began to appear onour walls.
The way you decorate your apartment saysa lot about who you are. We hope that withthis apartment guide, you are given some tipsabout what you can do to decorate your placeand the best ways to do it. Good luck.
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By matt lindBergmlindBerg@kansan.com
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Managing editors Matt Erickson
Dianne SmithSpecial sections editor Matt Lindberg
Design chie Drew Bergman
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Advertising director Toni Bergquist
Sales manager Katy Pitt
Advertising layout Austin Falley
General manager, news adviser Malcolm Gibson
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Photos by Jessie Fetterling/KANSANFat Daddys Furniture Outlet, located on 708 Connecticut, sells low priced furniture to Lawrence residents.
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pAy less Furniture Outlet
2800 Iowa St.
The ultimate student furniture one-stopshop: offers low-cost beds, couches, futons,bedside tables, coffee tables, dining room setsand lamps. Offers simple, largely no-frills pieces atreduced cost Full beds start at $169; five-piece dinning setsat $99; and complete sofa sets at $699.
Blue HerOn HOme FurnisHinGs
921 Massachusetts St.
On the pricier side, but Kathleen Hoff, amember of the stores sales team, said Blue
Heron held summer sales and stocked cheapermerchandise in late June. They also offer lay-away and credit to appeal to students. Offers trendy, conversation pieces with aparticular target for the decorator with style
urBAn OutFitters
1013 Massachusetts St.
Offering new, trendy, cutesy dcor andsome functional pieces Canvas prints run $14 to $40; pillows $24 to$36; rugs $12 to $68; lamps less than $40; quilts$68 to $200
WAl-mArt3300 Iowa St.
The authority in mega-retailing offers a great
deal in the way of one-stop shopping for allyour apartment-outfitting needs from bed-ding to kitchen items to basic dcor. Desks start at about $35; bookshelves at$19 for three shelves or $30 for five shelves;
higher-quality desks run about $150; andmetal desks at $70. Other products offered forsale include dining sets, bedroom and bed-ding sets, recliners and functional bathroomproducts like waste baskets and toothbrushholders. Wal-Mart also offers a Site to Store service,which ships merchandise from one store to theLawrence store for free, should you see some-thing on the Web site that you like, but cannotfind locally.
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3201 Iowa St. Target offers discount merchandise andone-stop convenience, plus a slightly strongeremphasis on fashionable design (which mayequate to higher prices). Targets Web site, target.com, offers a widerange of merchandise specifically aimed atcollege students, which is searchable by typeof product (bedding, kitchen, storage, etc.) orby price. Simple bookcases start at about $25; desks at$60; large chairs/couches at $100. Target offers a similar range of types of mer-
chandise to Wal-Mart, from bedding to beds tocouches to bathroom items to kitchenware.
intriGue HOme FurnisHinGs
933 Massachusetts St.
Boutique store offering semi-unique pieces Features exotic imports, including a signatureall-natural plant fiber lamp series that runsfrom $20 for a small desktop lamp to $200 for
a floor lamp
WOrld mArket
3106 Iowa St.
World Markets large, bowl-like chairs knownas papasan chairs are popular with students,store manager Tanner Sneed says. These runfrom $50 for the structure and from $49 to $59for the cushion. Desks, dining sets and other accent chairs arealso on offer, ranging from $79 to $169
rent-tO-OWn Center2204 Haskell Ave.
Rent-to-Own offers varying-length leaseagreements on new and used furniture, frombeds to dining room sets to TVs. Livingroom packages start at $74/month and diningroom sets at $24/month. Basic student-tar-geted bedroom sets run from $79/month to$99/month, and TVs run from $49/month to$79/month. Shawn Henderson, sales associate at the store,said that used furniture ran on shorter-termleases (as short as four months) and renters
always had the option to buy.
Bed mArt
2329 Iowa St.
Jim Jameson, manager of Bed Mart, describedthis store as crazy come August. Bed Martoffers lower-priced mattress and box-springsets, headboards and footboards, futons and
some bedding. Mattress sets (including box springs andframe) run from $169 to $499. Jameson saidthis typically also included free delivery.
tHOmAs-CrAWley Furniture
601 South Kasold Dr.
Thomas-Crawley offers a large variety offurniture items including dining sets, bedroomsets, appliances and electronics. The storesnon-appliance and non-electronic merchan-dise comes from either the Ashley or American
brand. Sofas start about $400.
pier 1 impOrts
3211 Iowa St.
Pier 1 Imports offers a huge variety of items,both in terms of type of item and the size,color, pattern and even texture of each item.The store sells glassware, dinnerware, din-ing accessories (including flatware), rugs anddcor and functional furniture. All that choice comes with a price, however.Dining chairs start at $99 and small tables at$69. The store also carries a sofa-sleeper for$699.
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JASON BAKER
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Beer pong, the drinking game played atalmost every house party. This timeless clas-sic has made its way from house parties to
local bars in Lawrence, like The Hawk, 3125W. Sixth St. Any average person can just havetheir coffee table or dining room table be thebeer pong table, but some KU students havedesigned their own table solely for the gameof beer pong.
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If youre big on having a col-lection, whether its stamps orbaseball cards, you can use that
as a decorative cover for yourtable. For Max Hire KansanCity, Mo. junior, it was beerbottle caps. His roommateJohn Cullen, Kansas City, Mo.,junior, had started collectingbeer bottle caps for more than a year from ran-dom bars across the country. We even boughtsome off of eBay. Some were about $50, Hiresaid. The guys said that it took about a monthto put it together. It consisted of mortaring androuting the table, gluing the bottle caps into thetable, and finally layering it with Polyurethane.
polyurethane helps prevent stains if there are
any spillage. Hire said that the table got usedabout two to three times a week.
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If you are a die-hard sports fanatic, whynot have your favorite mascot in the center ofyour table? Because this is Jayhawk country,the Jayhawk is not a bad touch. Jamie Halpinand his roommate, Dan Koerperich, Shawnee
sophomores, have theJayhawk mascot in thecenter of their table.Halpin said that it tookthem roughly a day dur-ing the summer to makeit while working atKoerperich stepfathers
sign shop. The graph-ics on the table are ofvinyl which Koerperichdid most of the worklaying down after it wascut in a vinyl printer.,
he said. Weve played beer pong on our tablemore times than we can count. Halpin saidabout its frequent usage.
Maybe you think the Jayhawk mascot is a bitcliche, how about the KU letters as an idea?David Cooley, Leawood junior, has the letterK on one of his tables. Cooley said it took
between 25 to 30 hours on and off for about aweek to complete each table.
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Max Hire, Kansas City, Mo. junior, made his beer pong table using bottle caps he collected on his own and of o eBay. He
and his roommate, John Cullen, Kansas City, Mo., junior, ashioned the table during the course o a month.
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Cooley says the K table is more for gamesas Flippy Cup and Beirut. However, if youre afan of both professional sports as well, then youcan be like Cooley and have best of both worlds.
Not only does Cooley have a KU table, but he
also has a table with the Kansas City Chiefs aswell. The table has the Chiefs logo in the centerand the football turf with the numbers and thewhite lines. Cooley said they had to stencil thenumbers on to the table. He also had to use twodifferent colors for the grass. The hardest partwas getting everything proportional, Cooleysaid. We had to use some math, which was notfun. Like Hire, Cooley used polyurethane onboth of his tables to protect them from stains.Cooley said that both tables were used everyweekend when they have people come over.
These are just a few examples of KU stu-dents that love the party game so much thatthey brought it home to their place. So for theupcoming academic year, if you want to haveyour own table to have for the weekends hereswhat you need.
Jason Baker/KANSAN
Roommates Max Hire, John Cullen and Chad Blackwelder built their beer pong table using bottle caps. The men say they play beer pong 2 or 3 times a week.
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Cooley says the K table is more for gamesas Flippy Cup and Beirut. However, if youre afan of both professional sports as well, then youcan be like Cooley and have best of both worlds.
Not only does Cooley have a KU table, but he
also has a table with the Kansas City Chiefs aswell. The table has the Chiefs logo in the centerand the football turf with the numbers and thewhite lines. Cooley said they had to stencil thenumbers on to the table. He also had to use twodifferent colors for the grass. The hardest partwas getting everything proportional, Cooleysaid. We had to use some math, which was notfun. Like Hire, Cooley used polyurethane onboth of his tables to protect them from stains.Cooley said that both tables were used everyweekend when they have people come over.
These are just a few examples of KU stu-dents that love the party game so much thatthey brought it home to their place. So for theupcoming academic year, if you want to haveyour own table to have for the weekends hereswhat you need.
Jason Baker/KANSAN
Roommates Max Hire, John Cullen and Chad Blackwelder built their beer pong table using bottle caps. The men say they play beer pong 2 or 3 times a week.
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By Michael holtz
editor@kansan.com
When looking for furniture to fill your
house or apartment, dont just jump in a U-
Haul en route for Nebraska Furniture Mart.Why not consider the cheaper alternative
used furniture? Not only will you be sav-
ing yourself a few extra bucks money that
can be spent on school supplies or put in
your retirement fund you may also discover
that used furniture might not be such a bad
option.
Stephen Rempala, Olathe graduate student,
practically has his entire house furnished with
used furniture. He has three couches, a kitchen
table, coffee tables and even an air hockey table
bought used, taken off the streets or bartered
for.I bartered with some hippies for a couch
and got a bar from the Holiday Inn, Rempala
said. Were pretty rowdy and have lots of par-
ties, so we dont have to worry about people
ruining our stuff.
Aside from not having to worry about
furniture being damaged, Rempala said he
enjoyed the affordability of used furniture.
He hasnt even had to open his wallet for
many of the items he has obtained, a con-
siderable plus for all those penniless college
students out there.
Even so, Rempala will be the first to admit
that sometimes a deal that seems too good to
be true is too good to be true.
If theyre questionable stains, throw it
away, Rempala said. Its usually on the
street for a reason.
Jason Schmits, Seneca sophomore, takes a
different approach to his used furniture pur-
chasing. Most of the items he has obtained,
including a love seat, recliner and a desk, camefrom the Goodwill or his house in Seneca.
Schmits explanation for his preference
toward used furniture over new furniture is
quite simple: In college, no money, needed a
place to sit.
If I had the money I would totally buy new
stuff, but I dont, Schmit said. I went used
and really dont mind any of my secondhandstuff.
Cash-strapped furniture steals
Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Freemans Used Furniture and Appliances, 1145 Pennsylvania Street, sells urniture at better prices than those you
would fnd searching or new urniture. Look to secondhand stores or better quality urniture than you would fnd in the trash.
Students ind clever ways to outit apartmentsby buying used pieces or less money
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Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Freemans Used Furniture and Appliances, 1145 Pennsylvania Street, is owned by Doug and Sheree Nair. The store is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Its closed Sunday and Monday.
Unlike Rempalas too good to be true
theory, Schmit said that if a couch was too
worn or a little smelly it might not be such a
bad thing, seeing as those are memories.
If you are a bit too uncomfortable bar-
tering with hippies and would rather nottake your chances with a couch left out for
the garbage, dont fret. There is another
used furniture option. Ask Sheree Nair,
co-owner of Freeman Used Furniture, 1145
Pennsylvania St.
Sheree Nair and her husband Doug have
been owners of Freeman Used Furniture for
more than 20 years, taking over for her parents
who bought the business in 1969.
We do have some student trade, Nair said.
We sell a lot of desks, couches, coffee tables:
furniture for every room of the house.
Buying used furniture from stores suchas Freeman can ensure quality and still be
cheaper in price in comparison to new fur-
niture. Nair said that the quality of used fur-
niture was oftentimes superior to that of new
furniture, being sturdier and usually not built
out of plywood.
I would look to see if its made with a solid
construction, Nair said. Make sure its not
stapled together.
So, before you go looking for that needed
new couch or table, dont immediately drive
to the nearest new furniture outlet. You most
likely will be able to find what youre lookingfor while simultaneously saving a few extra
bucks if you go the used furniture route.
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Your best bet for hanging posters, picturesBy SarkiS Dejene
editor@kansan.com
If you are looking to decorate your liv-ing room, dining room or bedroom withpictures, paintings or posters, here are sometools that can help you with your decora-tion.
At the Home Depot, 1910 W. 31st St., thereis a picture hanging set from a brand calledOK, that one employee claims is the bestsystem.
On the package, it states that the hangersare used by professionals, museums and artgalleries. The value pack costs $8.98 and comeswith different sized hangers that hold up to 17pictures, weighing anywhere from five poundsto as much as 100 pounds.
Nails are used to mount the hangers, soexpect minor nail holes. A couple of nails areincluded in the value pack, but users will haveto purchase more nails on their own as thereare not enough included in the set to hold 17pictures.
Also included are three wall protectors. Thecircular rubber pieces are placed on the back ofa picture and help keep your picture balancedand even against the wall. The hangers are
reusable, so the kit is a good investment.To hang up posters, thumb tacks or push
pins are also available. Both run about a dollar
for a box of 50 to 100, and can be found at Wal-Mart or the KU Bookstore. They cause practi-cally no damage and stay up for months. Pushpins can be easier to remove because they havehandles on the back.
HandiTak is a sticky, gummy-type prod-uct that is also good for mounting posters.Although, its only good for lightweight itemsand it could cause damage to delicate surfaces.It also may leave oily residue, so you shouldavoid prolonged skin contact. It is reusableand costs $1.99 at Hobby Lobby, 1801 W. 23rdSt.
Scotch 3M brand has recently come outwith poster and picture hanging adhesive
strips. The strips work well for items weigh-ing up to 10 pounds, on dry, clean, hard sur-faces. However, they are not recommendedon painted walls because they could peel offthe paint, and they also shouldnt be used onwallpaper, or delicate surfaces because theycould cause a tear. They might also cause atear on a picture or poster during removal, soyou have to be careful and follow the instruc-tions on the package. At the Home Depot, theposter hanging strips cost about $2, and thepicture strips $3.
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More thanmeets the eyePosters used to express personal opinion
Alexandra Garry/KANSAN
Nick Gemas, Wichita doctoral student, started collecting movie posters as a way to improve his dorm room at the time.
Now, he credits his poster collection for giving him a greater appreciation of design.
by AlexAndrA GArry
o@knsn.com
Cheap, easily-obtainable and delightfullygraphic, posters are as iconic of the college livingexperience as cheap noodles and house parties.
Posters, of one form or another, can befound in most any dorm room, and many stu-dents take their wall hangings with them intoapartments.
College housing ispretty boring youve gotbeige walls and beige car-pet, beige everything, saidNick Gemas, Wichita doc-toral student. Posters are
like cheap wallpaper. Theyspruce things up.
Katie Aucott, Lawrencefreshman, said hangingposters, paintings and mag-azine clippings was a meansof self-expression for herand her artistic group of roommates.
It just makes a space your own, she said.Not just inexpensive decoration, posters
have a significant place in history.Historically, posters were used as a means
of communication, said Barry Fitzgerald,
associate professor of graphic design.Posters took on greater cultural significance
as a means of political propaganda and militaryrecruitment in World War I and then again inWorld War II.
Gemas, who collects movie posters, saidwhat started as a way to liven up his dormroom opened up the world of art to him andhe now had a stronger interest in design andculture.
Fitzgerald said improvements in printingtechnology made post-ers cheaper and furtherbroadened their mass-market appeal.
Today, even individualscan make their own post-ers cheaply through one-
hour photo departments inretail chains such as Wal-Mart. Here in Lawrence,20x30-inch prints start at$16. Local imaging shopImage Works, 711 23rdSt., creates prints ranging
from locket sized to 40x60 inch posters,according to its Web site.
Today, posters are mostly decorative, buttechnology opens a lot of options, Fitzgeraldsaid. Whatever your cause political or reli-gious or whatever you can find a poster for
that. Or, if you just want something with prettyflowers on it, you can find that, too.
Whatever your cause po-
litical or religious or whatever
you can fnd a poster or
that.
Barry fitzgerald
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jbaker@kansan.com
Its Thursday night and Tim Hendricks,Topeka sophomore, and James Cook, Lawrencesophomore, are sitting in their living roomwatching this weeks episode of Lost on theirhousemates big screen TV. The 50-inch TVbelongs to their housemate Adam Lauridsen,Lawrence sophomore. Lauridsen said he got theTV on an after-Thanksgiving sale for $1,000.Along with the big screen, they have a surroundsound system to add to the experience. Lauridsenowns one of the 360 systems, which he said costabout $400. Laursiden talked about the reason
he bought it all, I was a film major and I haveabout 400 movies, and I wanted a big screen towatch them all.
Keeping an eye out for bargains on enter-tainment systems can turn your pad into theplace to be for that favorite weekly show or forthe big game.
Lauridsen isnt the only student out therewho cashed in on a good deal on a big screen.Jim Erickson, Overland Park senior, owns a60-inch big-screen TV, which he said he andhis housemates got for a good bargain. It wasoriginally $3,000, but the lady was trying to
get rid of it, so we bought it from her for about$500, Erickson said. Like Laurisden, Erickson
and his housemates have a surround soundsystem, but they use a Playstation 2 system
in order to play DVDs. Erickson said that heand his housemates had movie nights periodi-cally. Using a computer or game system to playmovies is an easy way to avoid buying a DVDplayer.
However, Erickson said they most notablyplayed host to Super Bowl parties. He said theyhad about 80 people come over for the SuperBowl. Erickson said that they even had sta-dium-seating couches in their living room forwhen they had guests come over. Lauridsengives this advice for anyone who might wantto buy their own entertainment system, Get it
on sale, especially the day-after-Thanksgivingsale. It was the cheapest for me.
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by isadora rangel
editor@kansan.com
Its common sense that college students
live on a budget. Few have enough money
to buy all those cool items in decor catalogs.
Low funds is no excuse
for living in a sloppy
apartment. With only a
few bucks and some freetime, there are a lot of
things you can do to out-
fit your room and give it a
personal touch.
Start with knowing
where to go. The Dollar
Tree, 2108 W. 27th St., is
one of the best places in town for those who
dont feel like spending more than a dollar on
each item. Some of its best finds are card board
under-bed storage chests that you assemble
yourself. They are a good alternative to plastic
organizing bins, which cost about $15 each.Of course, they are not as durable as the plastic
ones, but come on, they cost less than a cup of
coffee. Also, its material allows you to custom-
ize it, with glitter pens or collages of pictures,
for example.
Another good find at the Dollar Tree
are card board posters. Dont expect to
find a poster of your favorite band, most
of them are landscapes
and flowers, but they still
add color to your walls.
While framing them canclass up your place, you
can just stick them to
the wall with Sticky Tak,
a removable gum-like
adhesive.
The next stop is Hobby
Lobby, 1801 W. 23rd St.,
the paradise of do it yourself lovers.
There you find the best materials to give
an artistic touch to your room. To make a
funky lamp shade out of your old, boring
lamp, buy customizing fringe for $2.39. Its
colorful fringe comes on a elastic band, sono glue is needed. Make sure that the lamp
shade youre using is the same size as the
fringe though.
Simple purchases help organize your
room and make it look neat, or just hide
your mess. A shower curtain, for exam-
ple, can have multiple functions. Rebecca
Feickert, Goodrich, N.D., sophomore, didnt
like her open closet. She
fixed it with two colored
shower curtains and a
few hooks that she puton a door track that was
already attached to the
ceiling.
I dont want people
to look into my closet,
Feickert said. Not only
did she solve her prob-
lem, but she also added
some color to her room.
Feickerts idea has caught
on, as two other people have done the same
thing after they saw her invention. The same
idea can be used for window curtains aswell.
If your wall looks naked, there are many
ways to make it more pleasing to the eye. For a
different way to hang pictures, use one or two
feet of clothesline, wood pins and Sticky Tak.
First, glue your favorite pictures on thick pan-
els of cardboard. Apply enough Sticky Tak to
hold the clothesline to the wall. Finally, hang
the pictures as you would
hang your clothes.
If you are in a do-it-
yourself mood, createyour own art for your
wall. Dont worry, your
kindergarten skills will be
enough to do this. Buy at
least three canvases, prices
vary according to size, and
use tape to apply different
stencils, which cost $2.99
at Hobby Lobby. Then
,paint them with color of
choice. Use the Sticky Tak to attach them to
the wall.
These cheap and crafty ways to cleanup andspruce up your room can make your room
more homey and comfortable.
Crafty ways to spruce up your bare wallsTurn that dull room into a shout of your own personality with these cheap remedies
To make a funky lamp shadeout of your old, boring lamp,
buy customizing fringe for
$2.39
Simple purchases help orga-
nize your room and make it
look neat, or just hide your
mess. A shower curtain, for
example, can have multiple
purposes.
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ApArtment Guide16
April 3, 2008
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Cups
Plates
BowlsCofee pot
Microwave
Toaster
Spatula
Cooking spoons
Measuring cups and spoons
Paper towels
Pots
Pans
Shot glasses
Pot holders
Blender
WhiskTupperware
Wa-ma:Whisk $3.96
Spatula $4.14
Mini Grill $ 15.46-
$124.74
Toaster $6.33- $24.83
Blender $13.84-$66.86Starrit, 12-inch pan $9.97
Tupperware $. 98 - $14.94
Cofee pot $8.97 -$94.96
Tea kettle $6.64 - $29.87
Measuring spoons, six-piece set $1.46
Measuring cups, our-piece set $1.97
Can Opener $5. 97
Pizza Cutter $4.97-$5.44
Microwave $33.87-$188.76
Dish towels $.97-$5.96
Oven mits $4.97-$7.97
Plastic cereal bowls, set o 4 $1.97 each
Plastic dinner plate, set o 4 $1.97 eachLarge wave tumbler, set o 4 94 cents each
Pitcher 94 cents
Plastic plate $1.72 each
Clear plastic cups $1.72 each
Knie sets $7.64-$19.97
Cutting board $3.97-$29.96
Sca da:Melamin tools, six-piece set $5.44
(Includes two spatulas, two spoons, ladel,slotted spoon)
Pop Top Storables, 50-piece set $9.96
Non-stick pasta cooker with built-in colan-
der $16.80
Cookware sets:
7-8 piece set $14.88-$34.97
8-12 piece set $49.97-$99.83
Kitchen tool set:
Faberware, 14-piece set $ 19.84
Mainstays, 23-piece set $9.97
Hometrends, 30-piece set $ 18.97
tag:Pots and pans $59.99-$249.99
Cofee pot $11.99-$64.99
Blender $16.99-$199.99
Toasters $17.99-$139.99
Microwaves $25.00-$219.99
Utensil sets $12.99 - $39.99
Pyrex prepware, 13-piece $29.99
Measuring cups $9.99-$12.99
Measuring spoons $14.99-$17.99
Dinnerware $9.99- $69.99Drinkware $12.99-$34.99
Dish towels $4.99-$34.99
B Bah a Byo, a scfcsco o cog ss:Cofee pots $10.99-$29.99
Toaster $19.99 -$34.99
George Foreman Grill $49.99
Pots and pans $7.99-$19.99
Whisk $2.99-$6.99
4-piece utensil set $7.99
Can opener $11.99
Snapware Snap n Lock 14-piece multi pur-pose set $24.99
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