r/whatisit • u/CampRock2TheFinaIJam • 8h ago
Solved! Found this at goodwill
Looks somewhat antique, some kind of cage to hatch chicks perhaps?
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u/EyeSuspicious777 8h ago
It's for storing things like potatoes and onions
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 8h ago
Potatoes OR onions, not to sound like a fartface, tho.
They arent ideal bedfellows due to the onion's ethylene and the potato's moisture.
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 7h ago
I still sounded like a fartface. Sorry!
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u/EyeSuspicious777 6h ago
I forgive you. And you really shouldn't even feel sorry because you added more detailed information that's useful.
A lot of times I notice that someone will know what the thing is but not know much more about it, but later on someone with more knowledge and/or specialized expertise comes along and tells the whole story beyond the correct answer to a guessing game.
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 6h ago
Thanks for circling back.
Fwiw, when I was a young adult, newly fledged and adulting on my own, I left a tied, plastic grocery bag containing potatoes AND onions on top of the fridge...and forgot them there.
Until I noticed liquid puddling at the side of the fridge. Followed the trail up the fridge, grabbed the bag down, and dripped liquid-friggin-fartface onto my whole self.
I died a lil bit that day.
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u/Lily_Thief 6h ago
This information is appreciated. I've ended up storing them in the same place and noticed they were going bad faster than expected but didn't know why.
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u/Jaded_Western_7652 2h ago
they technically never really go bad. once they start to go bad, you just throw them in the ground. they grow a whole new plant
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u/External-Yak5576 2h ago
I've been storing them together. Am I going to die ?
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u/Any-Alternative2667 8h ago
But onions and ported cause each other to spoil together. So potatoes or onions.
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u/EyeSuspicious777 6h ago
I'd guess that when these were being used in the past that people had more than one of them?
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u/GeneInternational146 6h ago
The one my mom had in our kitchen when I was growing up had a compartment in the top that was solid wood and for potatoes, and the bottom was a draw with a mesh bottom for onions. Best of both worlds
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u/Any-Alternative2667 6h ago
Initially they had root cellars which is a a room that is cool and dry and below the level of a basement.
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u/EyeSuspicious777 6h ago
So this might be used to hold a few pounds of those things in the kitchen after bringing them up from that root cellar?
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u/Potential_Cookie1837 5h ago
*from the 90s. I swear for a while EVERYTHING had a goose with a blue bow on it's neck.
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u/Severe_Square_472 6h ago
That's exactly what it's for if you ever lived on a farm you store potatoes OR onions in it
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u/ConsistentImage 8h ago
A bin for potatoes or onions (don't put them together!). And definitely from the 90s, made clear by the wooden cutout geese. My mom would've loved this one - a perfect match for her goose print border. With coordinating wallpaper AND sponge paint, of course.
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u/oceansapart333 4h ago
Oh the sponge painted walls! In dark green if I had to guess.
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u/ConsistentImage 4h ago
Lol! Hunter Green was everything back then. My mom was on team maroon/burgundy. I was so jealous of my friends with dark green walls.
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u/OurLadyAndraste 1h ago
I want one now. I check the thrift store regularly, one day I’ll find the perfect goose bin of my dreams.
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u/Futurama2023 8h ago
For storing eggs OR a root storage bin with a cute decoration-purely guessing
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u/jane_margolis 8h ago
I miss the 90s goose aetsthetic
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u/porcelain_kiss 6h ago
Yesss, that was my kitchen growing up haha, with a matching powder blue corded phone 🤣
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u/daiblo1127 7h ago
What a unique find!!! It's fascinating and at first I thought it was a sewing cabinet, or to hold yarn, but it could be used for anything and it's charming too!
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u/Opposite-Stick9164 7h ago
Right out of my sil house. She was a great lady but her decor choices were poor.
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u/shredmandan 3h ago
I have that same piece that was my mother's sewing stuff holder...no screen on top panels..solid wood
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u/PurpleJin27 7h ago
I love it for a nursery, I could see linens or diaper stuff in this. Very beautiful
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u/Badfriend1215 6h ago
My grandma had one like that there should be a board in the middle that seperates the onions and potatoes. Hers did not have geese on it hers had a cow with a calf. They were made by the Amish down in Virginia in the 1959s and 1960s. An antique dealer bought grandmas after she passed for $285 dollars. Looking online there were some made without the middle board.
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u/Secure-Guide-5617 4h ago
It’s a potato keeper bin. It’s not antique but were popular in maybe the ‘80s.
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u/Longjumping_Song_183 4h ago
It's use for fruit ,bread,my gradmaw had one just like it.lol! Crazy chick!🤣
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u/Lopsided_Fee634 3h ago
Looks like a potato bin, but since we never ate potatoes...I used it for bags (from groceries)
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u/Pitiful_Associate_56 2h ago
It’s a rustic version of a sewing box- a place to keep your fabric, buttons, needles and thread- my mom had one and my sister has it now- it doesn’t have chicken wire on it- the drop down doors are solid.
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u/Swpayer 2h ago
others have told you potatoes or onions. Or other kitchen items that don't need refrigertion. Not exactly an antique. That look was in fashion during the late 1980s and early '90s. I'd say...vintage. But it's made to look rustic, and was supposed to look antique, even then.
It's surely a good item to have...uesful, and probably not pricey.
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u/Dep_ar_dieu 2h ago
Now that's something I've not seen in a long time. A long time. This took me back to a very young age on a farm. What an odd item to wake up so much nostalgia! Thanks for that OP
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u/CartographerBest584 1h ago
I need it for my greatnephew who was given a little chick a few weeks ago.
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u/methisGood4ya 6h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah it's for goose's aka a geese , fresh outta Gaza, probably wanted or otr {🏃♂️} anytime now for 'unlawful hatching of a foster egg' (AKA - 'U EAT IT!'), if not already¡...Profiling?!?!;we can only hope NOT 🚫 🙅♂️🙅♂️🙅♂️Those who know, unfortunately DO KNOW. [IYKYKYKYUK] AND those who DNT know 💩 about 💩, DNT even "ohh bother" me with trying to figure it out and look cool. Do NOT try to have kids in this. Face the music! (If any; if not then OBVIOUSLY try CONSISTENTLY ✔️ dry heaving or possibly even throwing up {heavily}© ✔️ FOLLOWING a YouTube visit that ✔️begins and ends with Young Thug video called "just how it is". Should IMMEDIATELY do the trick. Long @$$, the trick doesn't DO . THEM . FIRST. 😬 😳 🤔 SOLVED!
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