What did we do before Pinterest?
For that matter, how did anyone ever open a restaurant before Pinterest?
When it comes down to it, I just really want to be helpful. In my family everyone pitches in. My brother is strong, studied construction, and can basically do anything through sheer power of will. My Mom has a business brain to rival Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, or [insert old rich white guy here]. My Dad is a visionary. He knows what needs to be done because everything fits together in his head like a perfectly completed puzzle. They all fill essential roles in the opening of a restaurant.
But I'm a lawyer. I can limit their tax liabilities and review the zoning ordinances, but those are not at all pressing issues when you're trying pull off a restaurant makeover of reality TV proportions. I can't sand floors or plan menus. I've got no idea where that pipe sticking out of the stove goes. (Hey,does anyone else smell gas??) And while I think it would be cool to learn how to set up a bar tap, its just not in my current skill set.
However, none of that matters, for I am on Pinterest.
Pinterest lets me search strangely specific DIY projects, links to tutorials, and allows me to organize everything so it appears that I have developed cohesive and creative themes. As the only member of my family on Pinterest, I am INDISPENSABLE to the new restaurant effort.
Allow me to demonstrate.
Today I was tasked with organizing boxes that the previous owners had left behind. Most of this stuff was trash (old Halloween decorations and boxes of extra dishes that had not survived the flood), but every once and a while I found something salvageable. On an old shelf tucked away in a basement corner there was a box of gorgeous crackle glaze dishes forgotten by all. In boxes above the stereo were hundreds of coffee mugs just begging for a cafecito. All good, but nothing remarkable.
Then I found the box of clip boards (clipboards?). Hundreds of clipboards.
OK. I have no idea what the previous owners were doing with hundreds of clipboards, but they were there. You know, the wooden kind with the metal clipper part:
Yep. That one.
Now, finding a box of clip boards is not of itself remarkable. But if you happen to be on Pinterest, you know that aspiring restaurateurs upcycle clipboards ALL THE TIME to create unique frames for their weekly menus. Its basically what clip boards are used for.
I just realized that, other than summer camp, I've never actually seen anyone use a clip board.
Actually, I don't even think they had them at summer camp, that's just something I'm getting from movies.
So obviously clip boards were invented to hold menus. It just took Pinterest to show us how we could use items for their unintented intended purpose. Its like searching "clipboard upcycle" opens a whole new DIY world.
Was that world always there? Would I have saved hundreds of clipboards before Pinterest? More importantly, how would we even present our menus if we hadnt found hundreds of clipboards to upcycle?! Would we just hand out paper menus covered in plastic? UNTHINKABLE! You know what Pinterest, thanks for saving us from ourselves.
I don't know if Pinterest is showing me life's infinite possibilities or setting me up for abject failure, but my Pinterest interest has helped us transform the weird box of useless stuff into a boon of new menus for Mojito. I will post the finished product when completed but these are the ideas we are toying with:
It feels so good to be helpful!
With Pinterest, I am the purveyor new ideas, the tracker of trends, the brand (well, really pin board) manager. Pinterest makes the irrelevant (clipboard or out-of-her-element lawyer) useful again! What more can you ask for??
Hey this is my first attempt at blogging so let me know what you think!
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