What does one do with a pink elephant...

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Patentleathershoes

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Well, its not exactly a "pink elephant" but might as well be!

I have the box that my manni came in just hanging around in my office and it is an eyesore. I am trying to straighten up as my husband has an important customer coming and wants to show him our house (he is a realtor, but ours is a house by a particular builder in the area, etc)...and so i am cleaning up my office. Now, it doesn't have to NOT look like work is being done, but that box is just a little much.

so..what can i do with it?

Am i silly to be keeping? (now that my girl is definitely not going anywhere...) (but you never know if we move someday..it is the perfect box for her..) (am i s'posed to?)

so..do i turn it into an armoire ? LOL jsut put a table cloth over the table and hide it under a huge table? turn it INTO a table?

BTW, can't put it in the loft above the garage because it doesn't fit up the opening (with the pull down ladder). we don't have a basement and i hesitate to put it in the garage because of humidity.

Any creative ideas...or just get rid of it?

Chris
 
I still have the box my manni came in, too. It is just sitting at the office behind the counter! I think I would just slip it in the garage for the day the client will be visiting.

I purchased a manni for a friend and had to ship it. I made it out of two boxes and it worked fine.

However, if you want to keep it, you could cover it with fabric and place a large tray on it for a coffee table or if it is stable enough, stand on one end and make a little armoire like you said.

It will be interesting to see what other people have to say.
 
report from the "next day"...

I tried to collapse it and put it under the bed in the guest room, but since there is that middle foot as it is a queen, it doesn't fit!

We have an open concept house so there really are no major nooks and crannies like we had up north...so just wedging it in somewhere won't work.

For now, I have taken all the packing materials out of it (the bubble wrap sleeves were perfect for her arms and legs, took a #7 cube priority mail box and folded them all to fit that. Of course it didn't all fit in there but i was able to reduce the brown wrapping into compact squares. now instead of them taking up the whole box, all the packing materials take up 1/4 of the box. I put misc. stuff in the rest of the box that i need to get to...

then i put a sheet over the whole box and slid it under the butcher block table in the office. it SORT OF looks like a table skirt if you don't know what it is and just look quick. We have two big tables in there. I can't wait to get my desk which will be smaller and i will have more room!

Now, phase II will be dealing with all the misc. and sticking all my shipping boxes in there so they won't be lined up collapsed under the OTHER butcher block table.

so sorry to report no major creativity such as "new cardboard furniture" at least not yet...

Chris
 
There are box keepers, and there are not box keepers. I am not a box keeper (although I do have about 40 original shoe boxes from the 1950s - 70s that I hate to throw out because they add to the value of the original shoes they came with so they are inconveniently stored in our stock room...)
 
Do you mean you store the boxes in a seperate area? or do you store the shoes in the boxes with acid free paper so the box acid doesn't get to them? I can imagine that all those boxes would take up a ton of room even more so than my monstrosity. Well for the time being it is still camouflaged but won't be forever
 
I hate to say it but i got rid of the box yesterday. It is folded up in the garage awaiting to be taken to be recycled. The Do it yourself decorating programs will so ashamed of me

:(

Chris
 
Very cool

How old is your granddaughter??

Just reminds me, should have given it to the nephew to use as a fort. But its a shame he probably wouldn't use it. its a shame how much he is plugged into video games and cartoons at age 4 that he doesn't do the "imaginary play" like I remember as a kid...making forts out of things, pretending the my grandmother's garden was a rainforest because of the huge plants....everything is just tv, tv,tv :(
 
DH is always after me about boxes. For some reason I have a hard tim parting with a good box. What if I NEED it?


Originally posted by Patentleathershoes

Just reminds me, should have given it to the nephew to use as a fort. But its a shame he probably wouldn't use it. its a shame how much he is plugged into video games and cartoons at age 4 that he doesn't do the "imaginary play" like I remember as a kid...making forts out of things, pretending the my grandmother's garden was a rainforest because of the huge plants....everything is just tv, tv,tv :(
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Heh... funny you should say that. We were just laughing the other day about Christmas in our house. We busted our butt getting Gwyn all these neat toys & books & clothes for this last Xmas. After everything was opened, guess what she was playing with?
The large cardboard box I'd used to place over Rob's Xmas present (a 1946 Bendix Record player & stereo). From now on I'm wrapping empty boxes for her for Xmas.:eureka:
 
LOL Chris we have loads of boxes (kept mainly for Ebay packaging) My mannequin came from an antique market, she was in pieces and travelled home on the back seat of our Jag. We are trying to reclaim the old storeroom and I drive hubby mad sending him to the recycling tip with paper, mangled books and useless boxes.However cleaning out this room is finding loads of items to sell on Ebay.
Louise
 
Ah, yes...the boxes at Christmas time. Brings back wonderful memories. :spin:

My grandaugter will be 6 in August....for some reason, I thought she was soon to be 7 :BAGUSE:. While she was visiting, her school was having their end-of-year concert so we drove her to attend that. All primary grades K-2. The non-airconditioned room was FULL of parents in spite of the swealtering heat and it was a delightful evening. :clapping:

She was alot of fun, but I am glad to have my routine restored. ;)

Gail
 
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