PHOTO UPDATE: Sugar Glider's Foraging Treat Box Toy Mini Treasure Chests: The Destiny of Things, Story 581

PHOTO UPDATE: Sugar Glider's Foraging Treat Box Toy Mini Treasure Chests:  The Destiny of Things, Story 581

What a creative way to use these mini treasure chest lockets!   BEFORE:

 I love it when Etsy buyer's let me know of new ways to use something!  Usually these 4-6 mini treasure chest lockets are ordered to hold a kids until they get home from school, available in 6 different colors here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Here is the note I received:

Super fast and just what I was looking for.
Will buy again! I use these treasure chests to put treats in for my sugar gliders. They love opening them and getting goodies

Sugar Gliders?  Never heard of them, have you?  Googled!  They are a type of possum that can glide like a flying squirrel and known for their sweet tooth?  OH my!

Introducing a sugar glider with his little treasure!

That's the cutest little thing!  And look he/she has opened up it's mini treasure chest treat!  Wonder what kind of goodie that is, maybe a piece of hard sap or nectar?  Photo via Etsy buyer!  Thank you!

Saying Goodbye:  I'd love to say "Hello!" to a Sugar Glider!  Well, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have one as a pet, but I think I'd go for babysitting one!  As for the mini treasure chests, as a third grade teacher has to have a lot of these on hand for all the loose teeth that end up falling out during the school year and I ended up with a hoard of them!  Now they are one of our popular items and I see, not just for safe keeping teeth anymore!

These are simply made, so I check each one of them to make sure the hinges aren't broken and each one closes and opens properly.  These aren't made to last forever, just so long enough for a child to hold a tooth until they get home for safe keeping and get tired of playing with it, available here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

What I Learned:

1.   Again, I've learned something new today!  I know what a Sugar Glider is, looks like,  their foraging habits and penchant for sweets!  I've also learned, I'd rather house sit one, than have one.  Plus, I don't think you can have just one, they are very social and need at least a mate or they can get depressed in isolation.  I guess they aren't the only species!

2.  We have backyard full of critters.  Here is the list and the babies usually come in threes this year:  A family of possums, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, lizards, all kinds of birds and of course, the feral cats.  So far, they all get along with each other and the rest of the garden, except for the cats, they love the lizards, mice and gophers.  Occasionally we get visited by coyotes and falcons.

What did you learn today?  I hope whatever it was, it was awesome and eye opening!  And just as fun and meaningful as what I learned!

These tooth lockets may be good for Sugar Glider treats too and a little more challenging for them to open, since it doesn't have a tab.  Keep your critters curious!  Available here, photo via VintageToGoEasy

Thank you Etsy buyer for sharing your educational story and letting me know a new way to use the mini treasure chests!  I get the backyard squirrels would love them!  I wish I could be a fly on the wall and watch your Sugar Gliders forage!  I'd like to see them take the foraging challenge of all different kinds of lockets to open!  So fun!  Thanks again for the your thoughtfulness.

Sales were crazy during Memorial weekend and most weekends, but today we've had one sale, so here I am!  We had some set backs last weekend, so not much going on at the shops this week, but hopefully next week, things will get back to normal and I will power list again next week!  On to stitching today!

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard: HoarderRehab with 166 items, The Destiny of Things- 158 items, VintageToGoEasy - 164 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 160 items.   And now, Mending Ways with 76 items!  My new goal is to list 170 items on each shop and to keep a full 3 pages on Mending Ways.  I am immensely grateful, thank you all who are supporting my alternative to hoarding!

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!  All pleasant lookieloos are appreciated!

 

Here is a teeny tiny metal pumpkin locket with a hinged closure.  I wonder how long it would take for a SG to get into one of these!  This pumpkin locket is so tiny it only holds grains of rice!  Available here, photo via VintageToGoEasy

  

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."---Cyril Connelly

 

 And these!  I wonder if the SG's could open these!  A lot of treats will fit in there, maybe a whole meal or a live insect, which is their main nutrition! 10 or more, available here.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

 

Thank you readers for your visit and support from my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!