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My first year at Green Acres my daddy decided tha...

2010-02-26T19:44:23.264-06:00

My first year at Green Acres my daddy decided that he should bring our box fan into my classroom, just to "help out." It was a HUGE turquoise-colored fan. At the end of the year, he would pick it up from the school, just to return it the following "fall." (Which truly doesn't exist on the coast - at least not at the start of the school year, right Kalisa?) That thing followed me for years. Come to think of it, I never thanked my daddy for doing that. I'd better call him first thing in the morning!

Ha. This made me laugh. A couple of years ago I ...

2010-02-26T15:19:48.347-06:00

Ha. This made me laugh. A couple of years ago I bought this machine called the "Sleepmate 980" off the internet. It is also sold as the "Soundscreen 980' to therapists and counselors offices. What it does is create white noise of the most wonderful variety. Unlike those sound scape machines at walgreens that play recorded nature sounds on a loop, the SM 980 actually has its own little machine that creates the noise. This is crucial for a true connoisseur of white noise because once you have used the sound machines with the recorded sounds for any length of time, your mind starts to "hear" the loop. if you are like me you will start to obsess over the end of the loop and predict when it is going to come. These sorts of obsessive thoughts lead to the same insomnia that you had when your mind was obsessing about the very noise that you were getting the sleep machine to block out in the first place. This machine is the most important invention of the last century, IMHO. I was a box fan person. But you can't take your box fan to the in-laws for Christmas or to a hotel. This little guy is small and portable and pretty much indestructable. I don't know how I ever lived without it. I call mine Jack and sometimes, when John is snoring really badly, I reach over and put jack in between our two heads on the bed. It creats a "wall of sound" that his snoring can barely penetrate. Its awesome. Really.

Lori GM

After Katrina I found myself with FOUR of those da...

2010-02-26T15:11:34.448-06:00

After Katrina I found myself with FOUR of those damn things. We stored them in the garage, unused, until I caught Alton Brown's episode of making beef jerky using box fans and air filters on the Food Network. My kids LOVED doing it and the jerky tasted wonderful. I wonder what Chip would think about you making beef jerky on his box fan? :)

This is so funny! My husband needs the TV to slee...

2010-02-26T12:09:36.021-06:00

This is so funny! My husband needs the TV to sleep and I cant stand it. He also snores on top of all the tv noise. The SECOND I sneak the tv off, he bolts up from his snore-fest, wanting to know why I turned off the tv. GAH!

You didn't tell him "hands off my fan!&qu...

2010-02-26T11:28:05.922-06:00

You didn't tell him "hands off my fan!"?
Now you know why people end up in separate bedrooms -- it's all those noisy box fans.