And now, I am not saying they are especially girly, but as I am into my third week here -- I reflect and realize that my all-time most favoritist thing about my mom's house has always been, well -- the laundry chute. Maybe you know them. And while it works very well in my mom's 1972 split-level, I have actually been paid (good money) to rip these things out and dispose of them. For my clients, they were too unsightly and impractical, even when dropping right from the master bedroom directly into the laundry room. The big issue being, of course, the receptacle -- in one case, for the homeowner -- a simple laundry basket. [ . . . ]