In her teen years my daughter's bedroom reached a point where there wasn't a square foot of exposed floor with all of the paper, books, clothes, and junk. I went to work building a set of cubbies six tall, five across, 15 inches deep and they are each about 13" square. Made of plywood uprights and pegged holes to hold up the shelves, we managed to get her floor completely exposed. Many years later I packed up the contents of the shelves and use it now for my sewing stuff. I had to take one bedroom door off of its hinges to angle it into this room, so it isn't moving again soon.

Yesterday in the Halal grocery I was in the checkout line behind a couple who had loaded up on good ingredients for Ramadan dinners (jug of EV olive oil, lots of veggies, chick peas, lentils, etc.) including a large box of Medjool dates. I have a bunch of dates from one of those boxes now in jars in the fridge. He told me about a favorite snack of theirs - take a date and slice one side to remove the pit, then stuff in a couple of pecan halves. You can reshape the date around the nuts and it's like a nutty candy. I tried it, after warming the date in the microwave for a few seconds. What a wonderful sweet and crunchy snack! If you used salted pecans it would be even better, but I'm going low salt these days.