A shipping container.
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This week's question: A tourist who used Airbnb to book a "clean room with private bathroom" in Amsterdam was shocked to discover that his accommodation was a shipping container parked on a sidewalk, equipped with three mattresses and a portable potty. Please come up with a short, catchy slogan that the container's owners could use to advertise their minimalist vacation property.

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THE WINNER: "You'll Barely Contain Yourself"

Lee Silverman, Morgantown, West Virginia

SECOND PLACE: "Home Shipped Home"

Joe Janov, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

THIRD PLACE: "Condo-minimum"

Greg Erickson, Somers, New York

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"When you absolutely, positively have to be there overnight"

David A. Zimmerman, Colorado Springs, Colorado

"No thrills, no frills, and hopefully, no spills"

Ron Buettner, Erie, Pennsylvania

"You'll Have a Crate Stay!"

David Edwards, Tucson, Arizona

"Corrugated, not sophisticated"

Bill Mistele, New York City

"A Crate Deal"

Raven Deerwater, Mendocino, California

"Good Stays Come in Small Boxes"

Kevin Dechant, Franklin, Pennsylvania

"Contain Yourself"

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Three Cots and a Pot"

John Whitney, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin

"Sleep Inside the Box"

Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina

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