41.   These days, people may want something more than the standard size, particularly if they want their shower curtain to resemble a custom window treatment.

42.   Those include cockroach and mouse infestation, uncharged and missing fire extinguishers, missing shower curtains, dirty and peeling walls and broken refrigerators.

43.   Those neutral tones are echoed in shower curtains, rugs and towels, as well as wall paint.

44.   This is a woman who supposedly sews her own apple-green shower curtains.

45.   Three years and many shower curtains later she came up with the Boater, a reusable diaper cover made of surplus nylon parachute cloth.

46.   Toss the shower curtain in the washing machine with a little beach to kill mildew.

47.   USE REMEDIES over a sink rather than in a tub or shower, where nits could lodge in the shower curtain and re-infest someone.

48.   We put a shower curtain across the entrance to the stall the day we moved in and have been scared to look inside since.

49.   Watch Martha to escape from a world of plastic shower curtains and microwaved pizza into a fantasy of flawless domesticity.

50.   When I first visited the apartment of my future husband, I went into his bathroom and pulled back the shower curtain to check out his tub.