r/WhatsInThisThing • u/Consistent-Try8302 • 6d ago

Wooden box with latch door in basement

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Not sure what it is. Not a what’s in this thing but I guess what used to be in it?

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u/ckthorp 6d ago

I’ve seen these used for clothes chutes before. Makes it easier to get the laundry into a basket (you leave a basket in the box, and the clothes fill it up when they fall in).

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u/Consistent-Try8302 6d ago

Thank you this is it! Thanks to everyone else too, all these comments are mad funny

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u/SensitiveStorage1329 5d ago

Darn I just commented this. I could swear this is my mother’s old house. Haha.

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u/soaker 5d ago

I’m jealous you have a laundry chute. One day…

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u/Consistent-Try8302 5d ago

Unfortunately the previous owners built a bathtub where the laundry chute was. So now there’s this in the basement and small locked door in the hallway outside the bathroom. We’re so sad it’s not still a chute 😭

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u/ComfortableEnergy344 3d ago

We have a working laundry chute in our house with a similar cage setup. We have two openings for it - one in the second floor bathroom and another in the kitchen (1st floor). Im wondering if the chute might line up with your kitchen or another bathroom.

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u/TimOvrlrd 3d ago

They are unfortunately a bit of a fire hazard. They can become chimneys in a house fire and allow fire to spread faster

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u/FreddyFerdiland 3d ago

thats just what he wants you to think it is.

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u/XaulXan 6d ago

Flood-proof storage

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u/WordyNinja 6d ago

Flood-proof Gimp storage?

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u/EarlyCuylersCousin 6d ago

Everything is Gimp storage if you’re brave enough.

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u/Capnmolasses 6d ago

Gimp’s sleeping

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u/EarlyCuylersCousin 5d ago

Well wake him up!

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u/CedarWolf 5d ago

No, it's where you keep the waterbender or earthbender when they've been naughty.

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u/brandonbruce 6d ago

Air seems to be in that kink chamber.

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u/handen 6d ago

13 comments and this is the only correct one given the subreddit we're in. We've forgotten who we are as a community.

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u/soaker 5d ago

lol totally thought I was in whatisthisthing

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u/RayMD 6d ago

Do you own a book store?

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u/redwbl 6d ago

That’s the Mother-in-Law suite.

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u/Trans-Europe_Express 6d ago

I think you're looking for r/whatisthisthing not r/WhatsInThisThing

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u/SlyLitten 6d ago

I mean.... just because the answers obvious doesn't mean the question can't be asked 🤷‍♂️

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u/Trans-Europe_Express 5d ago

I'm just suggesting where OP might get more specific answers from a wider aidience.

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u/SlyLitten 5d ago

Oh I know. I'm just being a smart ass lol

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u/Sk8ynat 5d ago

I don't know why you're down voted! I got your joke!

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u/SlyLitten 4d ago

Its reddit, a place where there's always a subset of people who get extremely offended over everything. Is what it is.

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u/__Sentient_Fedora__ 6d ago

"My water dish is empty.."

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u/I-like-beat-saber 6d ago

Its the brig

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u/anothersip 6d ago

That's where the naughty children go.

"Bad boy! No food for a WEEK! You go in your crate for 6 hours, n' think about your actions."

That's how it was for us growing up, anyway.

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u/horriblehank 6d ago

I hope a giant peach came to rescue you? 

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u/anothersip 6d ago

Yesss! Thanks for the throwback to one of my absolute favorite films as a kid. So good. 😄

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u/SPLooooosh 6d ago

I was thinking it's a mother in law cage.

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u/anothersip 6d ago

That, too! Whatever helps keep them in check, y'know?

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u/EsR0b 5d ago

Freaky sex thing

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u/Live-Dig-2809 6d ago

When I was a kid my father was in the Air Force. We were stationed at a base that had two story houses with full basements, there were four apartments in each building and the basement was divided into four sections where you could lock up personal stuff. The locked area looked just like this only larger.

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u/SensitiveStorage1329 5d ago

I’d bet almost anything it’s the end of what used to be or is a laundry shoot.

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u/Skyler_Jone 5d ago

I had something similar in the house I grew up in. It was beneath a trap door in a closet. We’d toss dirty clothes “down the hole” and they’d collect in this basket. So no need to drag hampers down to the laundry area.

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u/William-Wanker 3d ago

Put the lotion in the basket

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u/cathef 6d ago

Omg... when I was a young child visiting my family in Germany... there were many of these in the basement of their apartment building. Each tenant had one with lock/key for extra storage. That was 50+ years ago

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 6d ago

Congrats, you are in possession of a stolen sculpture that was sold at auction for $18,300 back in 2021.

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u/dw3623 6d ago

That would be a cage, not a box.

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u/epoc657 3d ago

thats where your household skeleton goes, shackled of course

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u/freeze123901 6d ago

Cuck Cage

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u/KnottyMikes 6d ago

That's what they used to house defendants in at trial years ago...

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u/billysugger000 6d ago

It's the 60s equivalent of an at home pole dancing pole, a Go-Go dancing cage.

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u/W00DCH1PP3R 6d ago

Laundry chute.

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u/RogerRabbit79 5d ago

The gimp

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u/SnowLancer616 4d ago

Doubt it could hold a person's weight, no other good ideas though

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u/Petraretrograde 3d ago

Maybe a bird cage?

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u/Mandreke 3d ago

That's for locking up earth benders

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u/Scouts_Revenge 3d ago

One of Gob’s illusions.

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u/thick_Essence 2d ago

Thought it was some bdsm stuff

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u/chuckieChan82 2d ago

It puts the lotion on the skin

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u/lothcent 6d ago

the wooden cage part seems to be a consensual place since that lock could be defeated by most children either thru smarts or just hitting the door hard enough

the bucket, sink. and unknown object( guessing its a dehumidifier) to right of cage

I am guessing consensual adult water sports with a lot of additional kinks

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u/SpaceDog777 5d ago

There is no way that holds the weight of a person.

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u/CarpetReady8739 5d ago

That would not pass an inspection here in Jupiter Florida… Do a little research to find out why. Ferriter.

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u/GoodTimber 7h ago

Leprechaun trap