What do y'all think?

[Inchworm]

Poll question: What do y'all think?

I'm considering converting a chest of drawers into a potato bin. I booted my brother several months back for being a mooch and he.. umm.. abandoned the dresser still owing me a few grand.

Potatoes are dirt cheap right now and I want to buy.. umm.. too many :)

Just curious and wanted to make a poll for sport. :silly:

Happy Friday!!

:toast:

[NMDemDist2]

1. i need more info, how are you going to 'convert' it?

then i'll vote

[Inchworm]

2. It is an oak (I think) - 4 drawer dresser

Good wood any how.

I planned to cut it in half, making sure I keep the 1/2 I plan to use in good shape. This will give me 2 drawers. I intend to turn the piece sideways so the drawers are "up-and-down." For the main frame I'll use the remnant piece and face any bad looking end to the wall.

I'll re-work the existing drawers to be bins that are hinged at the bottom.

Hmm... let me hunt a picture :D

It will look like this 'cept different :crazy:



"hi:

[EFerrari]

3. I voted no because . . . some day soon you'll be looking at your bin

and you'll miss your brother and you'll feel terrible.

Don't ask me how I know that. :rofl:

[pengillian101]

4. I wouldn't convert it.

I'd just throw the potatoes into the drawers. Your brother might want his furniture back one day, ya never know.

We have a beautiful antique oak secretary that I love. The unseen lower part houses our extra spuds ;-) works out great.

[Warpy]

7. I agree

and in any case, potatoes kept at room temperature are going to sprout on you.

If you had decided to turn his old room into a walk in, you might have a chance at keeping potatoes through winter. In a bin, forget it.

The old potato bins were useful only because people who did farm work used to eat a lot of potatoes at every meal. A half bushel hauled up from the root cellar might last a week, used up before they'd sprout.

And that old dresser is going to remind you of him. You know it will.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

5. Oak?!

If you were talking crap furniture from WM or perhaps pine, yeah, but real wood furniture? Blasphemy. I say hit Goodwill and buy something more appropriate and knock yourself out. If you're halfway handy, you can turn a little pine and chicken wire into a really nice "Country" bin without the bad karma. (My brother made them for everyone many years ago--we're big on homemade gifts, but these were nice enough they still define that Christmas for everyone.)

[Inchworm]

6. Aww, ok guys

You talked me out of it :)

Thanks.

:hi:

[ginnyinWI]

8. Air circulation would be a problem.

I always thought potatoes need somewhere dark but with enough air to prevent molds from getting started. So I'd say no, too.

I keep mine in my kitchen closet (hopefully the door stays closed) in a plastic bin.