But they’re metal, and that makes things just a little tougher. If the lockers were made of wood, it would have been a simple thing. We faced two problems with the locker makeover: we needed storage shelves inside each locker and bridging the span between the lockers.

Of course, it should have come as no surprise then that as we toiled away on our garage makeover (in general) and the military locker makeover (in particular), my babes announced that I’d be using four of those eight (EIGHT!) IKEA magnetic knife holders in that project.īut as I said, though it shouldn’t come as a surprise, it never ceases to amaze.Īnd I must say, I’m not only impressed that she remembered the damn things, but that she came up with such an ingenious use for them! So instead of throwing those knife holders away, I packed them up and moved them to Georgia, where they took up residence in a new (but no less forgotten) corner of the basement along with box after box of other (seemingly) forgotten crapola. All of this information is stored in a brain more organized and efficient than a Google database, a brain ready to be weaponized at any moment, crippling her opponent with a barrage of structured data, sound logic and iron-clad reasoning. Every word of every conversation, every price paid for every purchase (along with pertinent geographical data), and (most confounding) every hiding place of every piece of junk future craft supply in the basement. Who’d ever know, right?īut then I remember that I’m married to The Steel Trap – a superhero with a leakproof memory. Like soooooo many things in the basement, I’ve longed and dreamed about throwing them away. I mean, how could anyone else even remember them? They were so well hidden and so… not used. I thought only I knew of their existence after some years had passed. What I can tell you is that all eight (eight!) of these infernal things ended up in a box on a forgotten shelf in the bowels of my old workshop.

I vaguely remember using one (one!) of them to hold my actual knives.Ĭouldn’t tell you what we did with the other seven (seven!), if anything at all. We bought these eight (eight!) magnetic knife holders back in 2013, before we even owned a house, and I truly and honestly can’t remember or possibly tell you why we bought eight (eight!) of them. I’ve been wondering the same thing for years. If your first thought was, “why on earth does he need EIGHT knife holders?!?” then you’re in good company. What you are looking at above are eight (eight!) magnetic knife holders from IKEA. If you answered, “A thorn in your side?” then kudos to you, madam! I’ll be sending you a chicken dinner, posthaste.

Diy locker shelf