11 Home Lessons We Learned at the Movies

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), with his family in tow, holes up in the Overlook Hotel (a rustic mountain lodge) as winter caretaker in order to write a book, but finds household chores eat up a lot of time—when he isn't locked in a garage-size food closet.

Moral: An extra-capacity storage lock-in is a nice convenience, but better to size your pantry to something that suits the scale of your home.