PULLING up staples!

The Bunk Room...

It IS the biggest room BY FAR in the whole Farm house.. 

Simply put

it is HUGE

and we dared to pull up the carpet

(oh MY!)

and made the BOLD decision to not recarpet but to keep the plank wood floors

though they may need a bit of repair in one spot...

that left me

with a WHOLE lot of staples to pull

and trying with pliers just left me depressed...

so..

I did what ANY gal would do.

I goggled.. and chatted ALL about my dilemma..

and turns OUT...

MY DAD

had to deal with this 30 years ago

and INVENTED a tool for it!

(wonders NEVER seize) 

now Princess confessed that his ORIGINAL wasn't so cushy as this...

he told her he used a hard metal handled one way back then...

but because OPA just LOVES his little girl

he bought these nice can openers from OXO :)

can openers??

YEP!

and then what?

he took a file and sharpened them...

sorry for not having photo's of that process.

it was a surprise for me

they had NO idea that I'd be wanting to do a tutorial on this..

silly them..

ANYHoo...

think, MANfile... not nailfile..

think HARDware store

NOT beauty salon

he REALLY filed this to a NICE point for me

 LOVE my dad!

the other tool I had was a hammer

for the occasional NAIL that I came across that just needed to be PUT in it's place

and my dixie cup

that I used to put all my mess

so here is a wee little staple

doesn't LOOK like a staple DOES IT?

looks like a bunch of fuzz

so I pull extra fuzz away

and get my sharp opener in there

it really lifts EASY

shocking after trying SO hard with other tools

LOOK at THAT

up and gone

~phew... 

all done lickity splity

thankfully Opa made 3 of these tools and ...

my helpers helped me

yep 

even Buddy helped

and Princess

But sometimes those suckers aren't in there even steven..

SOMETIMES they aren't fair

and boo -boo's occur

first...

wash and clean the wounds

know first aid, it's essential,

have banaids ON hand, and BE prepared to wear a banaid EVEN if you don't have a boo boo

just to match, 

it helps the crying to STOP

then.. attend the nasty and offensive

staple

like this one

with that cool whole in the middle of the can opener... 

sometimes it works when you attack it this way

some times...

it works better if you get it this way

but with a little giggle

it comes 

RIGHT out..

shocking

i know

my dad is an amazing inventor

we are thinking of selling these at the farm! 

interested?

email

we can perhaps figure something out :)

So now.. 

the room is ..

workable..

NOT pretty

NOT done

but playable

while we work on some OTHER things..

whatcha think?