April 12, 2009
red and yellow and blue makes brown
4/12/09
I'm taking Easter Monday off (like we used to as kids in London) except to say this: I got really sick and tired of the flimsy paper egg stands that come with the Easter dyeing kits. They're made of the thinnest cardboard allowable by law, and they always collected pools of unwanted dye at the bottom, and you'd always gets drippy, crappy eggs by the time they dried - that is, if the whole thing didn't collapse and tump all your precious masterpieces to the floor.
But having remembered how much I hate this, I set upon a solution - I grabbed a thin strip of plywood and drilled 1 1/2" staggered holes into it. Then I screwed two "legs" on either end, and here's your EggRack 3000©:
All of the eggs dried quickly with no bleeding into each other, and none of the kids could knock them over. Never needs cleaning, and fits under the bed for easy storing! Yes, the EggRack 3000© - spoiled Easter and Pagan Rebirth celebrations are a thing of the past! 12 cents in parts, sold for $14.99. Calling all druids!
Posted by Ian Williams at April 12, 2009 9:57 PMPlace my order for next year!
Here in NC, there's no school Easter Monday. I just assumed it was that way everywhere. In WV, where I grew up, there was no school the first day of deer hunting season!
And that's not all! You also get a free set of Jarts with each order!
Was that Sean on Andrew Sullivan today?
Everybody choose a stylin' smock!!
I would like to purchase one of these for Neva. We were at her house on good friday and she got all the kids gathered for easter egg dying. She pulled out the eggs and figured out that they weren't boiled. For some reason we decided to proceed with raw egg dying. Many broken eggs later, my daughter asked why we didn't dye eggs at our house. The egg holder might have kept some eggs from breaking.
Worse than the flimsy cardboard holders was/is the even flimsier thin-metal egg-holding "dipper." Better for letting the egg tip on out after dipping and possibly breaking. Oh Jesus, why did you let engineering and manufacturing fall to such a level? Surely this was an unintended corner of your design.