It never rains but it pours

[pozorvlak]

We try to buy dry goods (rice, porridge, lentils, couscous...) in bulk, which is great for reducing cost and trips to the shops, but more of a hassle once you get the stuff home - the packaging is usually hard or impossible to re-seal, vulnerable to rodents, and a pain to pour from. For a while now, we've been using a system taught to us by dynix (and

Comments

[susannahf]

That's such a good idea!

[pozorvlak]

Isn't it? :-)

[ciphergoth]

Brilliant!

[r_e_mercia]

Genius! Though you should decorate the funnel with cut-out shapes and some sticky-back plastic for that genuine Blue Peter feel :-)

I shall be making one of these! I bought a bunch of jar type things in a fit of enthusiasm when I last went to the wholesaler, but I have more lentil/rice varieties than jars and the milk cartons idea itself is an extremely good one.

[pozorvlak]

They're nice and quick to make - I couldn't find our existing one this morning, so knocked up the one shown in about five minutes.

Cut-out shapes: yes, that idea has promise. Though I rather like the brutalist aesthetic of the existing implementation ;-)

[r_e_mercia]

Ah yes, it's very evocative of the social constructs as subtly nuanced before the viewer in the use of staple foods.

[pozorvlak]

And it nicely counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

[cangetmad]

Awesome! Re-using milk cartons needs to be done more: such an excellent piece of design; such a pervasive piece of disposable plastic.

[wholepint]

I love this idea, but sadly we don't drink enough milk in our house to buy it in 2l quantities - we get through about a pint a week and that's only down to my tea addiction and our joint love of mashed potato.

Still a good idea, though.

[wormwood_pearl]

Start eating cereal for breakfast :D

[wholepint]

I'm a toasted bread products morning kind of girl and the boyfriend doesn't (SHOCK) eat breakfast until he gets to work.

And where would all the bulk bought cereal go before we finished the first two cartons of milk...?

: O

[wormwood_pearl]

MY MIND IS LOCKED IN AN INFINITE FEEDBACK LOOP OF IMPOSSIBILTY