Cary and I use a Boogie Board for jotting down notes and grocery list items. The Boogie Board is a pressure-sensitive LCD tablet. What’s great about the tablet is that it uses no power to display the image. The only electricity is used when you press the button to clear the screen. You can write/draw on the Boogie Board with a fingernail, pen cap or any other stylus-like object. At $30, it’s not cheap, but also much less expensive than a powered tablet.
The only real drawback to the Boogie Board is that the back of the tablet is perfectly flat; there’s no built-in way to mount it. Enter Sugru.
Sugru is an air-drying, moldable silicone material that can be formed into any shape and adheres to many surfaces like most plastics, silicone, metal and even smooth glass. It’s great for enhancing good stuff or fixing broken stuff.
I’ve been wanting to mount the Boogie Board to our fridge using magnets, but all of my previous attempts at attaching magnets to the board (glue, electrical tape, etc.) had failed. I probably could have found a glue that would work, but if I just glued the bare magnets to the board, they might scratch the surface of the fridge.
I used neodymium magnets from a set of Curiously Strong Magnets (available at ThinkGeek.com). I selected four 1mm thick, 10mm diameter disc magnets.
I opened one 5g pack of black Sugru and split it into 4 equal pieces. I then wrapped each piece around one of the magnets, forming it into a rough disc shape.
The Sugru set in about 24 hours and stuck quite well to the plastic back of the Boogie Board. As an added bonus, the Sugur pads act as non-slip feet that keep the Boogie Board from sliding around while I’m writing on it. The Sugru prevents the magnets from scratching the fridge, and also protects the magnets themselves: neodymium magnets are fragile and can break if not handled carefully. Also, the Sugru magnet pads raise the board above the surface it’s attached to, which makes pulling it off the fridge much easier.
Overall, I’m pleased with my first Sugru hack. It’s great stuff. Lots of creative people have submitted their own Sugru hacks on the official Sugru blog.
The old washer and dryer were ones I had owned since about 2000, and we’re pretty sure the fridge was installed when our house was built (back in 1995/96). And we suspect that in that time, no one had ever changed the water filter. Ice cubes and water from the fridge tasted and smelled pretty bad, even after changing the filter, so we never used them. I think the plastic hoses inside the fridge were the source of the bad taste and smell, but just to be sure, I bought a new water hose to connect the water supply to the back of the fridge. It’s nice to have ice cubes again. 
Cary and I were concerned about the dryer exhaust. Like the fridge filter, we suspected that it had been quite a long time (if ever) since someone had cleaned out the dryer exhaust ducts. Lint buildup in the exhaust can reduce the efficiency of a dryer and even cause a fire in some extreme cases. But we really had nothing to clean the exhaust with, so a little research turned up a product called the