The Parental Unit Giveth...

An article in last week's New York Times Home and Garden section took some parents of "young adults" to task for the way they redecorate--or don't--once little Jimmy and Betty have run off to college.

There are two kinds of horror stories: either your parents unload all your stuff in a post-move-out garage sale, or they dust off your Mets pennants every Sunday morning while listening to your favorite Linkin Park CD that's still in the stereo they bought you for your 13th birthday.

Intro protagonist Maeve McGilloway's mother might've hijacked her daughter's room as soon as she received the Middlebury acceptance letter--but does an 18-year-old with an 'N Sync poster really deserve much pity? She must've stored the action figures with the rest of her stuff at Middlebury over the summer.

So are you looking forward to that post-turkey Thanksgiving nap in your old day bed with the flannel sheets, or will you be picking your baseball trophies out of the garbage?