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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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General manager, news adviser Malcolm Gibson

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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by jason baker

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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

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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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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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