I don’t mean what you use to chop down your feces, but an object that you realized only your family has and people would raise their eyebrows at. Best if said object has a sole purpose.
We had a poop spork for similar purposes involving a lizard cage. It was good for fishing lizard poops out of the water dish.
A mop in the hallway because my dumb but lovable doggo can’t take a sip without spilling most of the water onto the floor
Seriously some dogs have the order of operations wrong.
Sip, swallow. Sip, swallow.
Some dogs finish and are like
Sip, swallow. Sip, walk.
Mine swallows but gets it’s chin soaked in water and drips all over the hardwood floors every time
I have one that picks up a mouthful of food, takes it around the corner, drops it on the ground and eats there. We’ve just gotten used to it.
Our dog used to flip the bowl to eat from the ground till we just started feeding it in a plastic flat dish where she could move them out of it with her paws a bunch at a time.
Now she’s gotten to be an old woman and she’ll eat anything out of anywhere lol
In my kitchen I have a drawer full of salt next to the gas. Pretty convenient! It’s also divided in 2 sections with coarse and fine salt.
I saw a video of someone having a flour drawer which seemed even weirder to me. Also it really looked like a cocaine drawer.
I’m picturing a whole drawer, is that correct? Next to like a gas cylinder?
Next to a stove, if im understanding correctly
It’s a Little wooden drower maybe 30cmx30cmx10cm divided in two for fine and coarse salt that Is situated under the kitchen cupboard on the right of the kitchen hood
as someone who cooks and cleans out the (bottoom of the) utensil drawer quite regularly this gives me anxiety
my youngest brother had a lazy stick. It was a broom handle and a ruler taped together with a couple of chop sticks mixed in to help hold the two together. To avoid getting out of bed, he fashioned this up to turn off the lights in his room. Inspired by Homers broom in the episode of the Simpsons where he gains a ton of weight to go on disability.
This stick did the trick and even could turn the tv on and off.
Twenty years later, my brother is currently on a diet and losing a lot of weight. All the weight is post stick and much later in life, but we have a laugh about it every now and again.
I have a fetch ladle and a coal spoon. My dog lives for fetch but always sets the ball next to my feet. If I’m sitting on the back porch I don’t want to keep bending forward so I have a ladle that’s perfect for scooping up a tennis ball and throwing it. I also have a slotted spoon that I use to grab unburnt coal out of my grill before dumping the ashes. Both of these utensils just hang from my grill.
I have a under bed retrieving stick. My bed has a gap close to the wall, so object sometime fall in. Since the bed is to heavy to be easily moved. I leave a retriving stick. I could upgrade to a hook. But I like the challenge of using a stick.
My parents’ old place had the bat towels and the bat box.
Bats would hang out in our garden eating bugs and such. But they’d sometimes get confused, flop into the house, and get stuck. We live in a third world country, there isn’t some organization we can call to properly care for the bats, but we’re not stupid and we know that handling a wild animal is bad for us and the critter.
So. Old beat up towels. Toss one on the floor next to the crawling bat. It’ll cling to it. Lift the towel from a distance. Gently drop it in the box. Put the box next to a tree. Bat will find the tree and find its way home.
Awe, and it’s so respectful to the bats, too; it’s sweet to hear.
Bats are babeys
And they keep the dengue fever away.
I like this. Beats a poop knife any day.
At my parents’ house, the shower bucket. At my house, the kitchen jug.
The water heater is at the other end of their house from the bathroom. My water heater is in the middle of the house, the kitchen is on the end. It takes awhile for hot water to reach their shower/my kitchen sink and dishwasher. So, in order to not just waste that clean if cold water by running it down the drain, we catch it and use it for something. I use it to water my vegetable garden.
Basically I fill my watering can from the cold water that comes out of the hot tap before I start my dishwasher.
My partners say I’m weird and wasting time but my shower bucket is how I remember to water my plants. Is the shower bucket empty? Guess I watered the plants 👍
Growing up with stage 4 water restrictions, the shower bucket and kitchen jug was a standard in our state.
The kitchen jug was used as potable water, we’d keep it handy for boiling pasta. The strained pasta water would be cooled and used to flush the toilet.
The shower drain, and laundry drain was connected to a grey water tank which was used for watering plants and the toilet cistern (which had a brick in it, because even though we already had a duel flush system, every drop counted) I remember having to swap to special shampoo to avoid ruining the grey water.
Occasionally dad would reroute the shower hose because he was just having a “quick rinse” (eg, no soap or shampoo) and he’d fill a separate drum that he’d then use to wash the car. Washing your car was banned unless you used grey water.
We still occasionally got a fine for using too much water for a household of our size.
As a kid I didn’t really understand that this was an environmental issue, we kept it up long after the water restrictions were lifted so I thought it was just dad being frugal.
So when I moved out I just continued with my water saving habits, but it turns out water is really cheap when there isn’t an active drought, and living in a share house with 10 other people who didn’t have the same water saving habits quickly killed the shower bucket and kitchen jug.
Now that it’s just me and my partner, I should reintroduce the shower bucket. My plants would love it.
Drywall patching spade that is a stain scraper.
Many years ago, I lived with two slobs. They often left dried food on the counters, floors, and other flat surfaces (like the stove top or floor of the oven). In addition, one of them fed their dog with human food that gave it the shits, and was not attentive towards talking the dog out to poop. So the floor would have clay-like puddles of drying dog diarrhea. This scraper was used to deal with the dollop of whatever organic matter was dried onto the counter, floor, or otherwise. Then washed in the next dishwasher cycle.
“But you’ll scratch the [surface material]!!!”
I don’t care. My house, my problem. Clean up after yourself, for fucks sake. Plus, I was always wiping down the counter with cleansers, so any cross contamination was not a concern. I am a voracious cleaner.
Those slobs have left, the dog passed away, and the dogs my wife and I have now are mostly housebroken and don’t have diarrhea. The scraper only rarely gets used these days. When she moved it, I had to explain to her what it was, though.
Congratulations on losing the housemates, they’re gross
Pellet pole for my pellet smoker. It’s a 4ft long reflective marker (for marking edge of driveway when it snows) that I use to push the wood pellets to the middle of the pellet storage hopper towards the auger at the bottom.
How big is your hopper? Ours is only like 24" deep at most.
I just have a long screwdriver slotted on the push bar. It works great for preventing the pellets from doming.
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My grandfather used to run a fauna park with kookaburras. We had a meat grinder, like what’s used to make filling for pies and pasties, which was used to grind up baby chickens and mice into a paste for the kookaburras.
They also had a meat grind to use for pies and pasties so I hope they never mixed the two.
But…but I thought they ate gumdrops…
No need to look at your user name to know you’re from australia
Pickle fork
Works great for those pesky stuck ball joints
I have poop-tongs. I live on a boat and my dog poops on the deck, so I throw them off by using poop tongs. I keep them separate from where I have my grill accessories.
Plenty of people live on boats in the UK. Some boats can be fancy AF. Or very cheap. UK has an advanced man made canal system covering most of the country. The water is still there, there are charging stations, toilets, gas refills, etc available to boat dwellers. Canals were previously used for goods transportation across the country, but now we have trains, trucks and planes for that, so canals are now used for living and recreational travelling. And fishing ofc.
Come to Amsterdam, we’ll show you how
But don’t be gross, bring your own poop-tongs.
Justpoopytings
Now youre just mixing the poop knife and the frog tong mate
Wait, what’s a frog tong??
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Switch them up for a little extra flavor.
Christmas Tree knife
