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Sequentialsilence ,

We have a suite of kitchen tools because sometimes walking downstairs to the garage is to far when all you want to do is measure something real quick or quickly tighten or loosen a screw.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sir/Madam do you live in a mansion?

Sequentialsilence ,

No, just lazy

jrbaconcheese ,

Haha we have a kitchen hammer and screwdriver! Our family found a similar drawer in a vacation home and laughed about it; then we got home and realized how often you just need one of those and it’s great to have one right there!

SHamblingSHapes ,
@SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one avatar

Yep, the kitchen “junk drawer”, filled with a few hand tools, rubber bands and zip ties, batteries, graphite lubricant, matches and lighters, screws and buttons, other miscellaneous bits and bobs.

MrShankles ,

Not to be mistaken for the kitchen “miscellaneous drawer”, filled with condiment packets, wrapped plastic utensils, other large kitchen utensils you rarely use but won’t fit in the regular drawer, maybe an extra meat thermometer that you’re not sure if it even works.

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Jimeoin Third Drawer Down

Sequentialsilence ,

For a while we had the kitchen shovel.

It was a garden trowel that we had washed and used as a very large spoon when we first moved in, because we hadn’t found the silverware yet.

MrShankles ,

I also have a small kitchen toolbox under my sink. Tape measure, screwdrivers, an adjustable wrench, pliers, and a small hammer.

It’s so I don’t have to pull my large toolbox out from the closet in the other room, when I just need to tighten one loose screw. It’s trivial, but a necessity for me now

deegeese ,

I think a small kitchen tool set is pretty common.

gon ,

I’m so confused by the poop knife. What in the hell is a poop knife?! WHY?!

My family is NORMAL and we have NORMAL things in the house!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A POOP KNIFE OR THE FUCKING FROG TONGS YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE

MrPear ,

It’s a reference to an old reddit post. In the post, the OP explained they had a knife at their toilet for poop that got stuck, hence the poopknife. It was only later in life when they asked a friend for their “poop knife”, when they discovered that nobody else has a knife like that and how weird it is.

EccTM ,

In case you are unaware, “poop knife” was a reddit r/confession post from a few years back that went viral, where someone admitted their family has a knife kept in the house specifically for when big ‘movements’ wouldn’t flush, and he had just discovered that wasn’t a normal thing everyone just has at home when he needed flush assistance at a friends house.

PeleSpirit ,

I may know the poop knife family, unless there are 2 of them.

darvocet ,

I am aware of a poop knife being used in north Houston.

PeleSpirit ,

Oh boy, why does this make me uncomfortable to know there are more than one poop knife families.

cheese_greater ,

You ever read the cumbox guy’s piece. That guy was understated comedy gold.

IntentionallyAnon ,

The coconut was the best

sunbeam60 ,

Ahhh right!! A penis beaker!!

oiez ,

You ever drive down a rural road, and out the window you suddenly come across an old shuttered up house? The kind of house with five cars parked on the front lawn in various states of disrepair? With overgrown bushes pushing into the peeling paint of the wooden siding alongside a giant novelty bigfoot that seems to stare at you as you zip by down the road? The one with the chain link fence that’s torn in five places and yellowed trailer up on blocks? The one with a dog tied to a post, barking it’s head off outside, so you know someone actually lives there?

I imagine these threads are like a window into the lives of the people in those houses. It’s like they’re living in a whole different society, with their weird quirks and vaguely unsettling rituals.

Heratiki ,

Funny this is pretty close to the truth when it comes to the things described in this thread.

Poop Knife - Bad diet, large BM’s = financially poor diet = trailer Frog Tongs - trailers tend to have bad gaps in windows Etc

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Hahaha no it’s just the monsoon.

cheese_greater ,

You talk like a book 😘

AnalogyAddict ,

I know enough about life to know that the people on this thread are more likely the everyday people you pass at the grocery store or the neighbors you wave at.

Heratiki ,

I want to believe this is all /s but I haven’t gotten the feel of Lenny quite yet.

raubarno ,

knowyourmeme.com/memes/poop-knife

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I shall take that as a compliment

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

blindbunny ,

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 👍

DillyDaily ,

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.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

We’ve got a frog tong. Every time a frog gets in the house catch it with a tong and toss it in the garden.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

The fact that this is a common enough occurrence to warrant a special tool for the occasion makes me so jealous of your life

JIMMERZ ,

This is a common occurrence at my home as well. When there’s heavy rain frogs get caught in our window wells, some make it inside, some get caught between the windows an screen. I just put on a pair of gloves, fish em out and set them free on higher ground.

Once my cat frantically came yowling up the stairs with a frog in her mouth. Set it down gently, unharmed and stared at me loudly meowing as if to say “look what I found, WTF is this? Do something about it.”

Heratiki ,

You have one badass cat.

Heratiki ,

I have a set of tongs at home with frogs for the silicone grips. Living at the beach it’s not uncommon for green tree frogs to make their way inside the doggie door.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh pls i’d trade my position with you instantly, I hate frogs

scott ,
@scott@lem.free.as avatar

QLD? Toilet frogs?

adnrw ,

This might be a dialect thing, but I’m intrigued at what one tong is? I’m in Australia and we only have pairs of tongs - like we only have pairs of pants - and I’ve never heard them referred to in the singular.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I don’t like to use ‘pair of’ for things like tongs or spectacles spectacles which are one physical item. I do it for stuff like shoes tho. I think pair of tongs is technically correct tho

mypasswordistaco ,
@mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Well you did write tong before and not tongs which is what was being asked. It should still be plural, even without the “pair of” bit.

Texas_Hangover ,

The frog tong is one half of a pair of tongs yes. You lure the frog on it and catapult the fucker outside.

ursakhiin ,

How often are frogs getting in?

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Very often during the monsoon season. Like twice a week or so. The rest of the year, barely. Summers is for lizards.

beirdobaggins ,

I have a tongue scraper that I keep in the shower. It is used exclusively for scraping dead skin from my heels.

It is not this but it does look like this.

Goblin_Mode ,

I have this exact same thing! My dentist reccomended it to me because I drink way too much coffee, which apparently causes like yellow orange film to form on your tongue

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Huh that works?

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

Rock Apparently Factors Into Girlfriend’s Shower Routine

z500 ,
@z500@lemmy.world avatar

Well now I know what to do with the other one

Harpsist ,

Yoga swing.

Anytime an adult asks what it is and I explain. They always - always always - assume its a sex swing.

Which, admittedly it could very well be if the wife wasn’t so damn unwilling.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Then why do you have a full body gimp suit next to it?

HurlingDurling ,

Oh that? No no, that a errrr… a yoga suit

PurpleTentacle ,

The ball gag is for the “Ommms” not to bother the neighbors …

_dev_null ,
@_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz avatar

I was like “oh what is the last word going to be?!”.

CADmonkey ,

Which, admittedly it could very well be if the wife wasn’t so damn unwilling.

And here I am, being told by my wife that I will need to add tie-down rings to the bed I designed for us.

tomjuggler ,

Probably have a ton of unusual/unique items, being a magician and juggler, but the one that comes to mind is our dedicated BBQ bellows.

This is simply an old re-purposed balloon pump and lives outside next to the fireplace. Best way to get the fire going, portable, cheap… Beats blowing with your mouth/waving newspaper hands down.

Texas_Hangover ,

I have grill bellows as well! Also, for camping I got a “pocket bellows” which is basically a collapsible tube you blow in to get the fire going. Handy stuff!

punkwalrus ,
@punkwalrus@lemmy.world avatar

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.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Congratulations on losing the housemates, they’re gross

tetris11 , (edited )

We have the expression “look to the freshness of the shit you eat” in our native tongue. Its used to express disbelief at a situation. As far as I know, only our family has it.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Love that this is all you have on your profile. The only comment/ post.

tetris11 ,

I tried joining a while back but it didn’t let me in. Today, to my surprise, it just worked. Been prowling a whukd

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I have a few of these.

Most fitting of these is a tabo. No need for a bidet when water just needs motion. The last time a stranger saw it, they were a child who I had to stop from drinking from it.

A Wii U. The most underrated console of all time because it was only successful enough to make a dozen games on it, yet here I am using it everyday. Hijackers never gonna seize a Wii U.

A hammock. People will always ask me why I have one just lying around in the home, but the truth is at times it’s more comfortable than a bed.

A garage. You might be thinking “that’s not so bad”, that is, until you learn I don’t drive (or rather I took lessons but was like nope) and wouldn’t put a vehicle in there anyways (add to that I witnessed a house catch on fire because a car caught fire because of badly mass produced batteries). It’s mostly for other peoples’ vehicles, but it’s only been used for a handful of nights. For the majority of the time, it’s for storage, especially as it has a second attic.

The biggest poop knife equivalent of all though? A Lemmy account. People discover my Lemmy account from DeviantArt (when they finally decide to look up the username) and they ask “what do you do on there when you got Reddit too”. And to them I say this. But seriously, one does not hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for (provable but it takes a long time) and not expand one’s horizons.

comrade_pibb ,
@comrade_pibb@hexbear.net avatar

Wii U rules, hammocks rule, can we be friends?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Of course. The only big regret is a Wii U can’t load my Discord server where one may find me and where all are invited (recently added a Lemmy lounge).

wintermute ,
@wintermute@feddit.de avatar

back then, we all thought they were our normal breakfast spoons until we accidentally found photos of our roommates abusing them as sex toys

Risk ,

I’m confused.

olafurp ,

I need a picture of those spoons

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

First i’m hearing of spoons that are specific to breakfast

DickFiasco ,

Sorry, vanilla person here: how does one use a spoon as a sex toy?

elouboub ,
@elouboub@kbin.social avatar

I'm more of a chocolate person and confused as well.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well wooden spoons can be used for spanking

AntiOutsideAktion ,
@AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net avatar

Please say this isn’t normal.

I recently discovered my father was unclogging toilets for god knows how long with the toilet brush. Like stabbing and twisting. Better than a plunger he says.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Not normal, but also smth I did as a kid who hated pooping and did so once a week at times

deegeese ,

The toaster bottle opener.

A metal combination bottle opener/can tapper which is kept by the toaster oven and used to pull the hot rack out to get your food.

Heratiki ,

Ours has a magnet and is stuck to the toaster. Long since abandoned since most cants with ridges don’t like to open well without just using a can opener and removing the whole can lid.

deegeese ,

It get too hot if if I leave it attached, so I use a non-magnetic one which sits loosely nearby.

grabyourmotherskeys ,

I had a (well, several) toasters that didn’t pop so well in my early travels through life and people would go crazy if I did this without unplugging it. Lol. I’m not raking the fork across the elements and the element is off, so…

Anyway, one of those disposable, wooden chop sticks works well for this and keeps people from thinking you either have never heard of electricity or have a death wish.

You can carve a little notch on the end if we’re talking about a toaster oven (like a crochet hook).

SteposVenzny ,

That’s not weird, that’s just smarter than the rest of us.

joelfromaus ,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

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.

Stovetop ,

But…but I thought they ate gumdrops…

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

No need to look at your user name to know you’re from australia

IMongoose ,

We have a pvc pipe cutter that is used to cut up frozen small animals, like quail and mice, for our raptors. It works really, really well.

SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Now this is what i’m talking about lol

Risk ,

The Rodent Reductors - for Raptors!

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