Help me get read receipts to go to Deleted Items in Outlook 2007. Read receipts received internally get trashed automatically but external ones do not.
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posted by Sock Ray Blue
on May 16, 2013 -
7 answers
How do I take a bunch of files that are in the Trash in OSX (Mountain Lion) and restore them to where they used to be?
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posted by Pater Aletheias
on Dec 2, 2012 -
5 answers
My mom is coming to help me clear out excess stuff from my apartment in a few weeks. In my ideal world, we'd be able to rent a rollable, roughly refrigerator-box-size mini dumpster for the stuff we're not donating, which someone else would take away when full. Does anything like this actually exist? I'm in Brooklyn.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Oct 7, 2012 -
7 answers
MA Tenant Law - what if a tenant improperly stores their possessions (bed frame, mattress, box spring) on the other side of a duplex?
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posted by plinth
on Apr 23, 2012 -
5 answers
I need to know what a trash can looked like in Brooklyn, NY in the 90s.
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posted by bd
on Jun 10, 2011 -
14 answers
Please recommend to me some terrifically trashy guilty pleasure TV shows -- but
not reality shows! -- that I can watch over the next few months. The shows can be currently airing on TV (preferred), online on a legit streaming website (Hulu, etc.), or on Netflix Instant Streaming. I'm thinking something along the lines of "Gossip Girl" or the new 90210 series or "Pretty Little Liars", none of which I have ever seen. What else is out there right now that's good -- which is to say, entertainingly bad -- that I can get into quickly?
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posted by Asparagirl
on Jan 4, 2011 -
55 answers
TrashFilter: Is a specialised drawer under the kitchen sink for garbage & recycling bins a good idea?
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posted by UbuRoivas
on Dec 5, 2010 -
18 answers
How can I get rid of my trash? My garbage pick up service has raised their prices and I cannot afford it. I am sure that there is a solution that I am not thinking of.
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posted by futz
on Oct 21, 2010 -
32 answers
What's up with the claim right-wing groups make that their rallies don't leave anything to clean up, while left-wing rallies leave behind tons of litter?
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posted by mdn
on Oct 3, 2010 -
17 answers
I've got a niggling problem with an undeletable file in the trash of an external drive. I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
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posted by DandyRandy
on Jul 11, 2010 -
22 answers
If you use canvas bags when you grocery shop, what do you do with your household garbage? Do you buy purpose-specific trash bags?
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posted by 2bucksplus
on Jul 7, 2010 -
42 answers
I'm having a hard time finding information about the agriculture and trash systems & practices in Europe. Basically I'd like to know where my food comes from and how waste is disposed of when living there. When I pick up a piece of produce from Portugal, I want to understand what that means.
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posted by scazza
on Mar 31, 2010 -
5 answers
What should I do with all the old cable and power cords I have? Donate? Arts and crafts? Recycle?
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posted by es_de_bah
on Mar 23, 2010 -
12 answers
Mefites I would like to solicit advice in penning a polite yet firm grievance letter to an unknown person (or parties) in my apartment building.
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posted by sequin
on Jan 24, 2010 -
14 answers
Sleuthing and neighbors have figured out what went on in front of my place the other day and it involves fabricating evidence for a newspaper story. I'd like suggestions on how to proceed.
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posted by mightshould
on Dec 20, 2009 -
26 answers
Where can I find bags of various sizes that:
are spherical or ball-shaped when full of stuff
are made of durable outdoor-hardy material
and close with velcro or a drawstring or some other kid-safe closure mechanism
Bonus: Bags of other useful shapes like kid furniture, that can be filled and closed
You see, I want to make balls out of trash...
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posted by cross_impact
on Nov 19, 2009 -
4 answers
I would like to dispose of a thermometer that might contain mercury. What's the best way to do this, in India?
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posted by bookish
on Sep 28, 2009 -
2 answers
I have a broken hair dryer. Can I recycle it?
I live in Brighton, UK - I can't find anything on the local council website about recycling this type of item.
Do I just bin it?
Thanks!
posted by Kirn
on Aug 17, 2009 -
3 answers
What important household papers and documents must I keep and file? What papers are OK to throw away?
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posted by fiercecupcake
on Jul 28, 2009 -
7 answers
Some friends and I are starting a super trashy book club, and are looking for suggestions for the trashiest books you can come up with.
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posted by Astro Zombie
on Jul 15, 2009 -
79 answers
Are there any downsides to becoming a human garbage disposal? I'm tired of composting and/or throwing out vegetable material. Would there be any seriously ill effects if I just started eating all of the vegetal "waste," i.e. peels, rinds, seeds, myself? What about egg shells?
posted by mrgrimm
on May 21, 2009 -
33 answers
In honor of Earth Day, help me find a creative way to encourage my my neighbor to recycle. We have curbside recycling once a week and they never recycle anything. Their trash is an amazing collection of plastic water bottles, aluminum cans and lots and lots of paper. I hate to see all of this stuff go into a landfill when we have recycling and they have so much to be recycled. Can I do anything to gently prod them into maybe recycling? Is it even my business?
posted by Leezie
on Apr 22, 2009 -
28 answers
I'm using a Linux eee, and after leaving a couple of torrents on overnight, I wake up to the message that the disk is full. Fair enough, I'll just delete a few things: but when I try to, I get the message that it's unable to create home/user/Trash/xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is some random string of characters. How can I actually free up some space? I don't mind using the terminal or whatever, I've just no idea what I'd type.
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot
on Apr 3, 2009 -
10 answers
My friend and I are having a bit of a debate: Is litter harmful for the environment, society, or other aspects, as I've been led to believe? Legality is not the issue.
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posted by mccarty.tim
on Feb 27, 2009 -
61 answers
Help me find this grocery bag using trash bin., or something similar, please. I StumbledUpon
this link and think it would be an awesome gift for my mother. She doesn't want to use reusable bags because she takes 8-10 empty aluminum cans to the recycle bin every morning along with a bag of cat poop/liter from cleaning the litter box. For convenience she uses two grocery bags a day for the job. If she's going to use bags I figured I may as well make it easy for her.
posted by RunawayOctober
on Jan 7, 2009 -
4 answers
Why does this stereo mini to RCA adapter have a obscure image icon that indicates hazardous waste?
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posted by silsurf
on Nov 17, 2008 -
6 answers
What are the words to this
Sesame Street Song? - We hear "Everybody loves [something], as sure as [something] loves [something], and googling for lyrics isn't helping fill in the blanks.
posted by Artw
on Sep 6, 2008 -
11 answers
How can I determine, with access to limited biological data, if my father is not who I thought he was?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 5, 2008 -
10 answers
HomeRenovationFilter: What smaller and more transportable options are there to a roll-off dumpster?
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posted by ubu
on Jan 9, 2008 -
10 answers
