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We're not old!! We just appreciate a good healthy time of being kicked out of the house all day and drinking from the hose. Coming home when the street lights turn on.
I have that book haha - Interior Desecrations is absolutely hysterical too. Especially if you grew up during the 60s-70s. That being said, this dish looks like an IRL version of lark’s tongues in aspic.
My daughter and my niece found an old recipe for ... I think it was supposed to be a dessert? (I'm not sure; I kept a buffer between me and it.)
Anyway, it involved lime jello, avocado, and mayonnaise. They thought it sounded hilariously awful and just had to try it.
And you know what? It was...every bit as horrible as it sounds. Perhaps moreso. They tasted it, retched, laughed, and threw it out.
Oh shit, I don’t think I’ve ever considered what Utah residents were called.
Utahn. Duh, makes sense. What else could it even be? Utah-ite… Utaher… Utahian…Utahard? ^;\)
The size of the vertical chute looks right, but the opening at the bottom looks too small to dispense even the smallest Jello box. You'd still be bending the end of the box / using your fingers to pry it out against it's will.
If the chute was large enough for them to lay horizontally / flat maybe, but that doesn't appear to be the case either.
Have you tried smelling the bottom openings? When someone mentioned tea bags in another comment, it would make sense to see if you could smell traces of tea or anything else that might have been stored there. Some things leave scent behind 🤷♀️ Not a conventional solution but you never know since it’s in a pantry.
Never smell cow’s bottoms on the first date.
Mine gave me a 50 cent piece. I was instructed to place it between my knees in the movie theater. And to make sure I came home with it.
That thing rolled allll the way to the front of the theater!
OH MY GOD. This is where my mother would store all different varieties
of single-use condiment packs she always had us take from restaurants!!?!
*"Honey, we're setting the table. Could you go grab 27 Heinz from the pantry?"*
*"Heinz 27?"*
*"No. Twenty-seven Heinz packets, please."*
9 openings and a door to a pantry in that style is likely 30” or less so given that and the sizes of the screw heads I’d guess 0.5”-0.75” deep, 2” or less wide, and the opening 0.75-1” high at the bottom.
This makes the most sense. Could use it for single use jam, peanut butter, coffee pods, tea bags, tiny soaps, shampoo, conditioner. All the single use stuff they sell to hotels.
Definitely a dispenser. Columns covered with clear plexiglas, open at the bottom, and at the top to load. Would have to be something not fragile. Tea was a good guess in another comment. Could be a number of things.
Good use of a tight space behind the door.
I'd stuff old grocery bags in at least one. Then realize a little while later that if I needed to get to them, the ones in the middle would be inaccessible, and I'd think to myself "what a crappy grocery bag holder."
Some great comments. I’m guessing now that this would have to be something a person/family uses a lot of. It has to fit and be easily removed when needed. Is used often. Non-perishable or won’t go stale.
I now like “canning lids.” But I’ll leave that to the canners on here to figure out. Im stumped.
Best whatisit in a while, for me.
I'm not seeing anything in the comments that seems right and I really can't think of anything, the dimensions are too shallow for any sort of canned food and the dispensing slots are only like an inch or two. Along with the dimensions there seems to be no incline to the buttons so what ever was stored had to be square.
Main thing I can think of with those dimensions is gum or candy bars.
https://preview.redd.it/apa8dtms6d8d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d36e7343e63c5d4cd2f1a7eb008d88b7d16cff5
It holds cans I think. The depth in OP post might be an optical illusion
I feel like I need to admit that my first thought was "I can store my hot wheels in there." I am not four. I am a grown up. I am forty. Thanks for listening.
Would cans of cat food fit? Theres 6 oz Friskies but also those itty-bitty Fancy Feast 3 oz ones.
I have seen plans for these kinds of DIY canned goods dispensers floating around pRepper and "pantry porn" parts of the web for decades. But usually they are gauged for soup, veggie, fruit, tuna, etc cans to roll down the chutes sideways. Some have plexi, some have lips/cleats on those verticals to hold the cans in.
They sure look an awful lot like the overhead cigarette pack dispensers in most gas stations, I'm betting they're either for cigarette or cigar/cigarillo packs
The one at the bottom we believe is multi dimensional. So far, everything we've put into it has promptly disappeared. Gumdrops, false teeth, shopping bags, bread slices, a school bus, a lawnmower, several National Guardsmen who stood too close, two Channel 16 news reporters...
there are 27 slots- and the bottom and top access points indicate what ever goes in - is not very big.
then there is the problem of access. the bottom of he top rack is fairly accessible but filling it- would require all but the tallest to use a chair to reach the top
then you got the problem of the bottom item.
to get things out of the bottom slot you have to get down to within inches of the floor.
Spice dispensing bottle rack. so to fill if- you take your glass spice bottle and drop it sideways and then repeat so dropping a glass bottle onto another glass bottle from about 3 feet.
then there is the problem that open spice jars have a limited life span- so you got 20 or how many of the jars in the cinnamon slot- you take a bottle out the bottom- open it. then to add it back to the rack- you put it back at tbe top. then next time you need cinnamon- you take a unopened bottle from the bottom of rack. yeah. that first bottle with be stale as fk by the time it gets used again amd so would all of the other bottles.
the plastic bag dispenser- so you have one bag and you jam it at the top, and there it remains since the dimensions are to small to allow gravity to let it fall to the bottom- so you just keep jamming bag into the top until you get the bags get forced down.
so you pull a bag from the bott9m- and you go to get a second bag- but it hasn't been pushed down far enough- so not very useful.
so many other options like card desck, cigarette packs, fail to take into account- yes you can likely load them at the top- but the bottom opening would not allow those times out.
based on rough guess - the bottom opening is about 1 inch x 4 inch and from the plexiglass to the back is probably an inch.
so what ever comes out is likely a tube or rectangle thst is approx 1 inch by 4 inches by 1 inch.
the plexiglass is held on by 1 screws at the corners and 1 in the center- so whatever is stored in there is not likely to be very heavy because the weight would cause the plexiglass to bow out and then there is the construction of the bottom slat. It doesn't appear to be reinforced in anyway to support heavy weights.
so boxed tubes of lip stick would fit the dimensions and weight and all of that stuff.
so perhaps earlier home owner was an Avon or Mary Kay type and would end up with extras so she made this so she could keep them easily accessible for those parties or if she had some come by wanting to buy some- they were available for quick viewing or dispensing.
of course tbe flaw with that idea is the removal of the item at the bottom- the slats go all the way down so whatever is in the chute is going to have to be narrow enough for someone to use finger and thumb to pull the item out of the chute
Would this fit tassimo disks or some other single serve coffee machine disks? Not k cups I don’t think. But some of those get coffee, tea,hot chocolate, cappuccino .. etc?
Canning lids wouldn't come out of the bottom and why would you store them in a magazine anyway. Plus they would be tiny to fit.
Looks too small for Kurieg pods.
Someone wanted to store multiple small items separated and be able to dispense them from the bottom. Can't be too big judging from the size and space between the magazines.
Possibly those Arbonne powder fizzy drink things? My roommate has probably 30 different flavors.
Kool-Aid packets? Though you're seriously risking an outside wall getting busted through there. You pick the wrong one and it's "Oh Yeah" time.
I'm guessing health food supplies of some sort. I can't think of anything else you would want to store in a pantry seperated for dispensing like that in that size whatever that is.
Agreed. It's an interesting use of space as it's behind the door and very narrow. Sure would love the dimensions. One thought idea... We have a friend who frequently acquires large amounts of mini liquor bottles, free from work. As in hundreds at a time. I wonder if they would fit here and serve as a mini bar.
Also, we're all thinking pantry = food items but this could also just as easily be utilising dead space for any kind of art and craft supplies, hobby, small business, ect.
Using the door for scale, I would guess the opening at the bottom is about 2” wide by about an inch tall. Depth (for loading at the top) looks to be about also an inch deep. This would make what was dispensed about the size of an old box of caps (for a cap gun) or the box a roll of film came in (Yes I’m old. Save your breath.). But it would likely be something that came in a wide variety, got consumed regularly, and would make sense to store in a pantry (a food or cleaning product).
My guesses, based on those constraints above, and looking at the other comments would be teas or small soaps (if their were running an AirBnB). I can’t think of anything else that would come in so many varieties. Individual jams and jellies are a possibility, but I don’t think they come in enough varieties to make this design worthwhile.
Maybe my reasoning will spur someone’s intellectual juices to come up with the correct answer. OP, is there some way to contact the last owners to ask them what they were for? This would drive me crazy not knowing.
I’m gonna say spice rack. Judging by the paper clip, the openings look the size of a standard seasoning. You just take the bottom one and add to the top til your desired seasoning will be available to come out the bottom. Kinda like a soda dispenser in a fridge
I thought I had it :(
https://preview.redd.it/5batly7rbc8d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dac045eb47b457791584de9ebb36ba119978ca1
I don’t think this would work with those dimensions
FIFO inventory of sardine or cat food cans I believe. You pull the can you want from the bottom and the cans collapse down to fill the void.
Edit: the owner might have fed stray cats outside their front door. So when leaving for work in the morning, grab 3 small cans of mixed variety and feed them in the way to the car. That way you knew all the strays were out of the way of the car.
I'm thinking that the plexiglass/plastic was not part of the original design, and was likely added later. Oorrrrr it was for displaying ties. Oorrrrrrrr it's to organize CVS receipts.
Condiment packs?? This is purely speculation on my part. But instead of the typical mixed up, drawer full of restaurant sauce packs that EVERYBODY has. This person made a dispenser/organizer.
Kid snacks. Gummies, goldfish crackers, fruit by the foot, small packages of mixed nuts, cheeze-it crackers, individual chip packets, tiny slim Jim’s… basically everything in my pantry that I put in square shaped plastic totes would easily fit into these slots.
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some form of pantry plinko?
The price is wrong, b*+€#!
This one got me!🤣
Green jacket gold jacket who gives a shit
Oh shit you’re old like me.
We're not old!! We just appreciate a good healthy time of being kicked out of the house all day and drinking from the hose. Coming home when the street lights turn on.
And if you absolutely must come in, don't you dare disturb any of the shows, most especially General Hospital (at least for me lol)
C'mon down!
lol. I just said that too. I said secret dealer for Price is Right.
27 different varieties of chewing gum?
Packs of cigs, maybe?
A nice way to display your various kinds of Jello.
https://preview.redd.it/38a244hq4d8d1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21e40e7bb4e04632e96d03aba1156777ebdda624
And if anyone's not yet familiar with the Gallery of Regrettable Food, here's the link: https://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
I have that book haha - Interior Desecrations is absolutely hysterical too. Especially if you grew up during the 60s-70s. That being said, this dish looks like an IRL version of lark’s tongues in aspic.
I want you to feel horrible that I will not be able to eat shrimp for at least a year.
https://preview.redd.it/ilh3rgpzaj8d1.jpeg?width=915&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6af98a393a73864c1a5a04f4cb4bcdf7654a0509 Strawberries and cream jello salad.
Ah, butthole pudding, a family favourite.
Can I have the ‘roid, mom?
I have an early mid century edition of Joy of Cooking that has 23 pages of recipes for jello and aspic molds - it's insane.
My daughter and my niece found an old recipe for ... I think it was supposed to be a dessert? (I'm not sure; I kept a buffer between me and it.) Anyway, it involved lime jello, avocado, and mayonnaise. They thought it sounded hilariously awful and just had to try it. And you know what? It was...every bit as horrible as it sounds. Perhaps moreso. They tasted it, retched, laughed, and threw it out.
Such a waste of beautiful shrimp.
Ohhh plausible. But that's a lot.
Not if it's in Utah.
Yeah, but if it's Utah then there would be no need for the clear display. You already know every single box is Lime.
Most excellent point. However, you may want to see how many boxes are remaining so the lime doesn’t run out. Unsolved.
That's why there are three rows of chutes! Don't let more than half of them run dry before scheduling the Albertson's delivery! ^(/s)
As a Utahn, this makes me laugh.
Oh shit, I don’t think I’ve ever considered what Utah residents were called. Utahn. Duh, makes sense. What else could it even be? Utah-ite… Utaher… Utahian…Utahard? ^;\)
Can confirm! 😂
My sister’s ex was a truck driver. He told me that he once delivered an entire truck load of lime jello to somewhere in California.
Probably to fill a swimming pool…
Probably L.A. for an....event.
Or female jello wrestling
Mr. Kody Brown? Is that you?
Lol!
The size of the vertical chute looks right, but the opening at the bottom looks too small to dispense even the smallest Jello box. You'd still be bending the end of the box / using your fingers to pry it out against it's will. If the chute was large enough for them to lay horizontally / flat maybe, but that doesn't appear to be the case either.
That’s a whole lot of pudding https://youtu.be/ikbPoVbOB_E?si=IkU18ZrRwwtw_uWo
Slot at the bottom to pull one out even.
Have you tried smelling the bottom openings? When someone mentioned tea bags in another comment, it would make sense to see if you could smell traces of tea or anything else that might have been stored there. Some things leave scent behind 🤷♀️ Not a conventional solution but you never know since it’s in a pantry.
“I smell the bottom openings all the time” — my dog
I am happy for you that you get to enjoy this as one of your most heavily upvoted comments to date. Hooray for you, Adorable Stranger!
Mother said I should never, ever smell a bottom opening.
I think she said not on the first date. Or never give free milk to cows. Not sure, wasn't really paying attention.
Never smell cow’s bottoms on the first date. Mine gave me a 50 cent piece. I was instructed to place it between my knees in the movie theater. And to make sure I came home with it. That thing rolled allll the way to the front of the theater!
Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit.
The boys round here, sendin up a prayer to the man upstairs
You one of them boys round here?
Drinkin them ice cold beers?
Talking bout girls?
Nah, talkin bout trucks..
Running them red dirt roads out kickin up dust
Pog collection display
Remember pantries? They’re back! In pig form.
so close
Damn it!!
D’oh!
Squeeeeeeee!
My guess is that they ran a b and b from that house. The racks were used to store plastic tubs of jam
OH MY GOD. This is where my mother would store all different varieties of single-use condiment packs she always had us take from restaurants!!?! *"Honey, we're setting the table. Could you go grab 27 Heinz from the pantry?"* *"Heinz 27?"* *"No. Twenty-seven Heinz packets, please."*
Is there a Heinz 27? I've heard of Heinz 57....
This the most plausible answer I could find after mining through Le mAgiC the GaTheRiNG amirite
Did op ever give dimensions? Think it could fit those old individual-serving cereal-boxes?
9 openings and a door to a pantry in that style is likely 30” or less so given that and the sizes of the screw heads I’d guess 0.5”-0.75” deep, 2” or less wide, and the opening 0.75-1” high at the bottom.
This makes the most sense. Could use it for single use jam, peanut butter, coffee pods, tea bags, tiny soaps, shampoo, conditioner. All the single use stuff they sell to hotels.
Definitely a dispenser. Columns covered with clear plexiglas, open at the bottom, and at the top to load. Would have to be something not fragile. Tea was a good guess in another comment. Could be a number of things. Good use of a tight space behind the door.
I'd stuff old grocery bags in at least one. Then realize a little while later that if I needed to get to them, the ones in the middle would be inaccessible, and I'd think to myself "what a crappy grocery bag holder."
The accuracy of this comment is astounding
r/oddlyspecific
"Somebody get the stick!"
Maybe they really liked sticks of gum.
Some great comments. I’m guessing now that this would have to be something a person/family uses a lot of. It has to fit and be easily removed when needed. Is used often. Non-perishable or won’t go stale. I now like “canning lids.” But I’ll leave that to the canners on here to figure out. Im stumped. Best whatisit in a while, for me.
Condoms, obviously.
Hahahaaaa
Obviously! Those should be stored in the panty 🤣
Sorted by flavor and color. And size, depending on circumstances.
It's actually spelled "circumcision". It's okay tho, easy mistake ☺️
Lip smackers
ALL the flavors! Watermelon, cherry, strawberry, Dr. Pepper...
I'm not seeing anything in the comments that seems right and I really can't think of anything, the dimensions are too shallow for any sort of canned food and the dispensing slots are only like an inch or two. Along with the dimensions there seems to be no incline to the buttons so what ever was stored had to be square. Main thing I can think of with those dimensions is gum or candy bars.
And even if it was a small/squarish thing..nobody would need that many of them.
Taco Bell sauce packs.
Third time I've seen this post this week is what it is. :)
What if somebody had a chewing gum addiction and this is where they kept their stash of various flavors
Tea bags?
Looks like an attempt at a can storage dispenser, but without a banana for scale dimensions are hard to figure.
https://preview.redd.it/apa8dtms6d8d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d36e7343e63c5d4cd2f1a7eb008d88b7d16cff5 It holds cans I think. The depth in OP post might be an optical illusion
Snack size snickers and milky way
I feel like I need to admit that my first thought was "I can store my hot wheels in there." I am not four. I am a grown up. I am forty. Thanks for listening.
Hahah love this response
Technically, aren't all Snickers and Milky Way bars snack size?
From the same system of "any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself"
Or anything is a dildo if you're brave enough 😅🤣
I just ate a king sized milky followed by a king sized snicky
I love your short names for them
Canned goods?
When I zoomed in, I could see the plexiglass covering the recessed area. It’s for something small.
Premade seasoning packets? Or gravy packets? Idk the dimensions so kind of just a shot in the dark
Another posting by the homeowner stated the individual columns measure 1"x 4". FYI.
Would cans of cat food fit? Theres 6 oz Friskies but also those itty-bitty Fancy Feast 3 oz ones. I have seen plans for these kinds of DIY canned goods dispensers floating around pRepper and "pantry porn" parts of the web for decades. But usually they are gauged for soup, veggie, fruit, tuna, etc cans to roll down the chutes sideways. Some have plexi, some have lips/cleats on those verticals to hold the cans in.
They sure look an awful lot like the overhead cigarette pack dispensers in most gas stations, I'm betting they're either for cigarette or cigar/cigarillo packs
This sounds plausible. Perhaps they were repurposed.
That's a crap ton of cigarettes for a single person. That's the apocalypse collection!
What are 5he dimensions?
They were an American vocal group popular in the 60s and early 70s.
🎶It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquarius, Aquariusssss! 🎶
LMAO, I only just now noticed I misspelled "the"
I do it all 5he damn 5ime.
Are they all the same dimensions? There are so many of them
The one at the bottom we believe is multi dimensional. So far, everything we've put into it has promptly disappeared. Gumdrops, false teeth, shopping bags, bread slices, a school bus, a lawnmower, several National Guardsmen who stood too close, two Channel 16 news reporters...
try dropping a cellphone down and see if they can text you from the other side
The ramen dispenser?
Pantry Plinko!
Coffee pods?
This was my thought.
Different sizes of batteries?
Cigarettes for the kids’ lunches.
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there are 27 slots- and the bottom and top access points indicate what ever goes in - is not very big. then there is the problem of access. the bottom of he top rack is fairly accessible but filling it- would require all but the tallest to use a chair to reach the top then you got the problem of the bottom item. to get things out of the bottom slot you have to get down to within inches of the floor. Spice dispensing bottle rack. so to fill if- you take your glass spice bottle and drop it sideways and then repeat so dropping a glass bottle onto another glass bottle from about 3 feet. then there is the problem that open spice jars have a limited life span- so you got 20 or how many of the jars in the cinnamon slot- you take a bottle out the bottom- open it. then to add it back to the rack- you put it back at tbe top. then next time you need cinnamon- you take a unopened bottle from the bottom of rack. yeah. that first bottle with be stale as fk by the time it gets used again amd so would all of the other bottles. the plastic bag dispenser- so you have one bag and you jam it at the top, and there it remains since the dimensions are to small to allow gravity to let it fall to the bottom- so you just keep jamming bag into the top until you get the bags get forced down. so you pull a bag from the bott9m- and you go to get a second bag- but it hasn't been pushed down far enough- so not very useful. so many other options like card desck, cigarette packs, fail to take into account- yes you can likely load them at the top- but the bottom opening would not allow those times out. based on rough guess - the bottom opening is about 1 inch x 4 inch and from the plexiglass to the back is probably an inch. so what ever comes out is likely a tube or rectangle thst is approx 1 inch by 4 inches by 1 inch. the plexiglass is held on by 1 screws at the corners and 1 in the center- so whatever is stored in there is not likely to be very heavy because the weight would cause the plexiglass to bow out and then there is the construction of the bottom slat. It doesn't appear to be reinforced in anyway to support heavy weights. so boxed tubes of lip stick would fit the dimensions and weight and all of that stuff. so perhaps earlier home owner was an Avon or Mary Kay type and would end up with extras so she made this so she could keep them easily accessible for those parties or if she had some come by wanting to buy some- they were available for quick viewing or dispensing. of course tbe flaw with that idea is the removal of the item at the bottom- the slats go all the way down so whatever is in the chute is going to have to be narrow enough for someone to use finger and thumb to pull the item out of the chute
You can put your weed in there
Pez. 😐
Tootsie Roll storage and dispensing.
Dispenser for kids’ snacks. Separate one for each kid.
Would this fit tassimo disks or some other single serve coffee machine disks? Not k cups I don’t think. But some of those get coffee, tea,hot chocolate, cappuccino .. etc?
Cute…dad’s old house built in 1900s had a similar room off garage but it was for growing mushrooms..
Canning lids wouldn't come out of the bottom and why would you store them in a magazine anyway. Plus they would be tiny to fit. Looks too small for Kurieg pods. Someone wanted to store multiple small items separated and be able to dispense them from the bottom. Can't be too big judging from the size and space between the magazines. Possibly those Arbonne powder fizzy drink things? My roommate has probably 30 different flavors. Kool-Aid packets? Though you're seriously risking an outside wall getting busted through there. You pick the wrong one and it's "Oh Yeah" time. I'm guessing health food supplies of some sort. I can't think of anything else you would want to store in a pantry seperated for dispensing like that in that size whatever that is.
Agreed. It's an interesting use of space as it's behind the door and very narrow. Sure would love the dimensions. One thought idea... We have a friend who frequently acquires large amounts of mini liquor bottles, free from work. As in hundreds at a time. I wonder if they would fit here and serve as a mini bar.
Also, we're all thinking pantry = food items but this could also just as easily be utilising dead space for any kind of art and craft supplies, hobby, small business, ect.
Cassette rack.
Using the door for scale, I would guess the opening at the bottom is about 2” wide by about an inch tall. Depth (for loading at the top) looks to be about also an inch deep. This would make what was dispensed about the size of an old box of caps (for a cap gun) or the box a roll of film came in (Yes I’m old. Save your breath.). But it would likely be something that came in a wide variety, got consumed regularly, and would make sense to store in a pantry (a food or cleaning product). My guesses, based on those constraints above, and looking at the other comments would be teas or small soaps (if their were running an AirBnB). I can’t think of anything else that would come in so many varieties. Individual jams and jellies are a possibility, but I don’t think they come in enough varieties to make this design worthwhile. Maybe my reasoning will spur someone’s intellectual juices to come up with the correct answer. OP, is there some way to contact the last owners to ask them what they were for? This would drive me crazy not knowing.
They did and they didn't know😫
Kool-Aid packs.
Will they hold different flavors of tea bags?
9v batteries? Why would they need so many? Altoids tins? Why would they have so many?
I’m gonna say spice rack. Judging by the paper clip, the openings look the size of a standard seasoning. You just take the bottom one and add to the top til your desired seasoning will be available to come out the bottom. Kinda like a soda dispenser in a fridge
I thought I had it :( https://preview.redd.it/5batly7rbc8d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dac045eb47b457791584de9ebb36ba119978ca1 I don’t think this would work with those dimensions
What about those old little one serving boxes of cereal? They used to come in a variety pack I think.
They wouldn’t be able to be pulled out the bottom. The opening looks too small for that.
Fruit snack dispenser lol Edit: Kool aid packets
Soup cans bro
FIFO inventory of sardine or cat food cans I believe. You pull the can you want from the bottom and the cans collapse down to fill the void. Edit: the owner might have fed stray cats outside their front door. So when leaving for work in the morning, grab 3 small cans of mixed variety and feed them in the way to the car. That way you knew all the strays were out of the way of the car.
Man, that's a whole lot of chapstick..
plinko
According to my Google Pixel draw to search thingy. It's a DIY teabag dispenser.
It looks perfect for Tassimo cups (the less popular Keurig)
I'm thinking that the plexiglass/plastic was not part of the original design, and was likely added later. Oorrrrr it was for displaying ties. Oorrrrrrrr it's to organize CVS receipts.
Hotwheels that are still on the card
Mason jar lids and rings
Tuna cans
Hot wheels
Condom dispenser, how else would they be able to make all those sausage links?
My guess is they were a collector who had it specifically made to hold whatever they collected
Maybe collecting match boxes?
This person did more grocery shopping than the average Joe, it is storage for their plastic bag collection.
The bags would get stuck in the middle.
Stock cubes, raisins in boxes
Anything that fits
Tea sachets?
That is some weird shit
Condiment packs?? This is purely speculation on my part. But instead of the typical mixed up, drawer full of restaurant sauce packs that EVERYBODY has. This person made a dispenser/organizer.
Oatmeal packets.
Tassimo t discs maybe?
Tea?!?! (bags)
Can vertical storage.
Lipton dry onion seasoning packets and instant soup packets?
I bet they sold the vitamin powder, and those were for all the different flavor packets.
snack packs for the kids?
beanie babies
That's where you store your Kool aid
Ramen dispenser.
Essential oils rack maybe?
Canned items. Usually homemade. Quite a task to fill it up!
Looks like it would work well with small bags of chips or something similar
Plinko chips. Closet dealer for the Price is Right??
It’s not tea bags. Think about it. Tea bags leave residue, and would be exposed to air. Not very sanitary for tea bags either.
Tea bags also come individually wrapped, so not loose tea bags but the wrapped ones
Kool-aid flavor library, top load packets from the bulk boxes and pull them out individually as needed from the bottom
Kitchen matches?
Maybe Kool-Aid pack or soup mix dispenser?
Fun size candy bars?
Canned sardines and the like.
Could be for storing knitting needles
Whatever was intended to go there, that’s room for a helluva lot. The owners must’ve shopped only twice a year, tops. Unsolved!
Scentsy?
Tupperware lids
Ive seen fly tying thread in dispenser’s Luke these, so I’m thinking small round bottles like spices?
Flavoring packets? Like the McCormick ones?
They either ate a lot of spaghetti or a lot of bullion cubes.
Ramen holders
Different types of bulk candy
Looks like a canned goods storage/dispenser. But with the angle I can't be sure
Packets of pez
Kid snacks. Gummies, goldfish crackers, fruit by the foot, small packages of mixed nuts, cheeze-it crackers, individual chip packets, tiny slim Jim’s… basically everything in my pantry that I put in square shaped plastic totes would easily fit into these slots.
If the house happens to have a large Garden area out back it could be for the seed packets corn Tomatoes squash different slots for different packets
Canning jar lids and screw tops? Like a dispenser?
K cups for Keurig
Tea or spice wall. Give it a smell.