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Does your house hold have a cherished house hippo, porch goose, or other item of a similar nature?
If you lack something of that nature, would you want one and what would it be?
-- Background --
I get posts in my feed from a group called the dull women's club. Various posts are made there about ordinary everyday things that "dull women" find interesting or that cause them to ask many questions. Often, the posts are accompanied by a photo of what they are talking about with a banana laid beside the item for scale. A dull men's group also exists and is very similar (I follow both).
Many times, the "dull women" make their way into second hand stores. A common trend beyond taking pictures of bizzare looking furniture and their fabric, are taking pictures of things they couldn't leave behind. Often times what can't be left behind are hippos of various kinds. Large, small, hollow, solid, it doesn't matter. They call them house hippos, and they greatly cherish them. They seem to be super popular right now. I am unsure if they just like collecting hippos, or if there is a rule of one per house. Sometimes other posts pop up saying they found their porch goose and the like.
House hippos aren't something I know much about. Porch goose on the other hand use to be immensely popular in my neck of the woods, the Midwest of the US.
A porch goose is a large painted cement goose that sits on your porch or front yard. People would dress them up with clothing throughout the year. Sometimes they were connected to holidays, other times they were just creative cute outfits.
Unfortunately, the trend died out with time, and there was issues of theft and vandalism. Generally, a house would only have one. On occasion a house may have two. If they were the same size, they were usually depicted as a couple. If they were not the same size, the smaller one was often a complimentary piece or depicted as an offspring to the larger one. Google says the are a symbol for the desire of connection and community.
The house hippos are not dressed up as far as I am aware. I did decide to Google about the house hippos and came across something interesting. I vaguely remember the "commercial" too, which is actually a public service announcement in Canada and (Eastern?) USA in 1999.
The house hippo is a fictitious small North American hippopotamus found inside home throughout Canada and Eastern United States. It sleeps 16 hours a day, and has a diet of raisins, chips, and crumbs left behind from children (or people in general). The commercial depicted the hippo as smaller than a cat, and it foraged the house looking for items to make a nest to sleep in, such as a lost mitten. The message of the commerical was, "it's good to think about what you're watching on TV, and ask questions".
I didn't expect to find such a meaningful message behind the house hippos, but I suppose a porch goose could also be pretty meaningful if dressed for activism or if it is dressed for a holiday related to history or religion. Maybe I didn't pay attention enough to the geese as a kid.
If you lack something of that nature, would you want one and what would it be?
-- Background --
I get posts in my feed from a group called the dull women's club. Various posts are made there about ordinary everyday things that "dull women" find interesting or that cause them to ask many questions. Often, the posts are accompanied by a photo of what they are talking about with a banana laid beside the item for scale. A dull men's group also exists and is very similar (I follow both).
Many times, the "dull women" make their way into second hand stores. A common trend beyond taking pictures of bizzare looking furniture and their fabric, are taking pictures of things they couldn't leave behind. Often times what can't be left behind are hippos of various kinds. Large, small, hollow, solid, it doesn't matter. They call them house hippos, and they greatly cherish them. They seem to be super popular right now. I am unsure if they just like collecting hippos, or if there is a rule of one per house. Sometimes other posts pop up saying they found their porch goose and the like.
House hippos aren't something I know much about. Porch goose on the other hand use to be immensely popular in my neck of the woods, the Midwest of the US.
A porch goose is a large painted cement goose that sits on your porch or front yard. People would dress them up with clothing throughout the year. Sometimes they were connected to holidays, other times they were just creative cute outfits.
Unfortunately, the trend died out with time, and there was issues of theft and vandalism. Generally, a house would only have one. On occasion a house may have two. If they were the same size, they were usually depicted as a couple. If they were not the same size, the smaller one was often a complimentary piece or depicted as an offspring to the larger one. Google says the are a symbol for the desire of connection and community.
The house hippos are not dressed up as far as I am aware. I did decide to Google about the house hippos and came across something interesting. I vaguely remember the "commercial" too, which is actually a public service announcement in Canada and (Eastern?) USA in 1999.
The house hippo is a fictitious small North American hippopotamus found inside home throughout Canada and Eastern United States. It sleeps 16 hours a day, and has a diet of raisins, chips, and crumbs left behind from children (or people in general). The commercial depicted the hippo as smaller than a cat, and it foraged the house looking for items to make a nest to sleep in, such as a lost mitten. The message of the commerical was, "it's good to think about what you're watching on TV, and ask questions".
I didn't expect to find such a meaningful message behind the house hippos, but I suppose a porch goose could also be pretty meaningful if dressed for activism or if it is dressed for a holiday related to history or religion. Maybe I didn't pay attention enough to the geese as a kid.
it actually did get stolen once, I have no idea how because they're super heavy haha. but they do still have one to this day.
