I used to blow a conch shell when it was dinner time, worked great! The kids could hear it wherever they were in the neighborhood. Now I need to go find it, I know it’s in the attic somewhere!I have a dinner bell. I picked it up for a couple of bucks at an antique coop shop. Probably was an old school bell. Old, well made, hand hold-able, loud, and rings a B flat. Annoying as all get out when you keep trilling it, but still way more elegant than yelling up the stairs.View attachment 57994
Stay out when my wife is in there.
One can never have too many binder clips or carabiners.Us lawyers rank the binder clip as a great invention second only to fire and the wheel. Just so massively superior to the paper clip and stapler.
They were so frequently used in our house as bag closers that when my kids got post-college office jobs, they were shocked to find that office people used pretzel bag closers on stacks of paper.
I got pretty good at using a conk shell to annoy my family when I was around 12 years old.... They are very loud once you get the hang of it!I used to blow a conch shell when it was dinner time, worked great! The kids could hear it wherever they were in the neighborhood. Now I need to go find it, I know it’s in the attic somewhere!
Found it! Haven’t lost my touch, just like riding a bike! I forgot how loud it was.
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