I've had these three stories saved for a while, so I'm posting them together because they all have something to do with unique living conditions.

- A family in South Carolina buys a new house and finds a secret room with a secret problem.

- Mark Malkoff has been living at the Jersey Ikea for the past week, and the security guys are starting to get annoyed.

- And Ari Delfer, a Berkeley native, is saving a year's worth of garbage to see how much trash that actually is.