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I know your basement doesn't look this good --Minnesota Timberwolves center Al Jefferson watches his team on television in Golden Valley, Minn. For the past two months, his position has been here in the basement of his sprawling home just outside the Twin Cities, seated on a comfortable gray couch with the lounge chair extended to keep his surgically repaired right knee elevated.

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Since all us bloggers live in their mom's basement (at least according to the main stream media), I thought I would come up with a list to help make our basements more livable. 

Ways to Improve Your Mom's Basement

• The Wally Joyner and Dwight Gooden posters have to go. How about Tim Lincecum or Evan Longoria. Its not like you're 22 anymore.
• Add some light by replacing all the burnt out light bulbs.  When I mean all, its not like any of them have worked in the last 4 months.
• Clean the windows so some light get in, lord know you need it.
• Put in a divider so you don't have to see the washer, the drier and the piles of your mom's dirty clothes.
• Fix that third step. You don't want to hurt yourself on your daily trip the 7-11 for you 82 oz Super Glup refill.
• Fix the squeaky bored in the hallway upstairs. No need for the additional reminder at night that your mom is going back to bed, the gush of water from the toilet flushing should already have woken you up.
• Clean the bathroom regularly.  There should be nothing colored green, yellow or brown in there.
• Paint the spool you are using for a coffee table, maybe in your favorite team colors from The Home Depot.
• Get a matching rug for the spool.
• Take upstairs the Mountain Dew and Monster cans more than once a month to the recycling bin.

• Lose the Hulk and Captain Morgan cutouts. Remember, your not in college any more, but working at Best Buy now.
• This next improvement will cost you a little more and might involve vacating the basement, but it will be worth it. Install a door with direct access to the outside. This will give you the freedom to go as you please without going upstairs and interrupting your mom's sewing circle or bridge game.
• Can you play the drums and/or guitar in the corner decent? If not, lose them. Use the money to help buy the kegerator.
• Most important of all.  Go measure all doors in house and get the largest TV you can get into the basement.  There is a 150 inch TV available now, so there is no reason to have that pathetic 60 inch TV.  Can you think of any better way to cover up the cement walls?  Nope, neither can I.

 

Well there you have it, a few hints to help you turn your basement into more of a home.  Hopefully Sky and RJ don't take this article too personally and allows me continue on help bloggers continue improving the lives of the bloggers everywhere.