If your daughter has ever asked you "Dad, can we have our Thanksgiving dinner on something OTHER than paper plates with the woven bamboo thingamajigs this year?" (I bought a whole set of Gibson plates, bowls, dishes, etc. 7-8 years ago. I just never use them.)
The little knob on the heating register louvres makes a great place to hang laundry to dry.
You have a reloading press in your bedroom. (No room for it elsewhere, and it's not like anyone is going to see it there anyway...
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"Glass of cereal"... oh, lord, that got me right in the funnybone...