Funky mailbox, anyone?

[mrsreynolds4]

We need a new mailbox.  Ours is rusted and ready to fall off.  It's been ignored with all of the other house/landscaping projects going on.

I looked around and found this on Amazon.  It seems to be pretty good quality, the colors work well with the house bricks and landscaping bricks, and it's not expensive.


DH, however, just enlisted DS1 to repaint ours like the classic WWII Spitfire with teeth.  I'm imagining something like this but in black.  :?



I'm torn between "no way" and letting them since they rarely do any projects together.

[Deleted]

I say let them. It's only a mailbox and he'll be all proud of himself.

Signed,
Dairy
Whose mailbox is a red CASE IH tractor she bought DH by choice as an engagement present.

It also makes giving directions easy.

[mrsreynolds4]

Jul 23, 2014 10:51:55 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

I say let them. It's only a mailbox and he'll be all proud of himself.

Signed,
Dairy
Whose mailbox is a red CASE IH tractor she bought DH by choice as an engagement piece.

It also makes giving directions easy.

Good point. 
 I don't think they're going to do a red nose on the front so it'll probably look more like a shark than a Spitfire, but it will make our house hard to miss. 

[my4girls]

I like fun mailboxes

[raangoli]

Haha, that is so awesome! I kind of want one now, too!

Obviously, I say go for it!

[dr.girlfriend]

Thumbs up.

[sjh722]

Ha! That's fun. :-)

[zoomzoom]

I like it!

[lavender444]

I would like to say that I would be laid back enough for a whimsical mailbox. But sadly, I just couldn't do it. I would go with the first option. But then let DH and DS paint the old mailbox and mount it in the backyard or garage to store sidewalk chalk and other small outdoor stuff in.

[msmerymac]

I'm sure my parents would have liked that option, but growing up, ours got nailed by the snow plow every winter, so we had to find the most heavy duty mail box in existence. If you can, just do it. What's the harm, really?

[Deleted]

Since I live in the land of mail kiosks I would do just about anything if it meant having an individual mailbox. So I'd let them paint it. Plus like Dairy said, it'll make giving directions a lot easier. If somebody misses the house with that mailbox then well...

[TBM]

Jul 23, 2014 13:37:35 GMT -5 lavender444 said:

I would like to say that I would be laid back enough for a whimsical mailbox. But sadly, I just couldn't do it. I would go with the first option. But then let DH and DS paint the old mailbox and mount it in the backyard or garage to store sidewalk chalk and other small outdoor stuff in.

I was thinking almost exactly the same thing.

There was a time when i would have gone for something fun like that, but my first thought was to repurpose the fun one elsewhere in the yard or house, to be enjoyed by the family.

Maybe it depends on the house or the neighborhood.  If we had had individual mailboxes at our last house, I probably would have done something fun to help with the individuality in a street of cookie cutter homes.  Here I have an unusual home in a street of more normal homes, so I don't need to do much to be different.

I do like for people to put something out there (meaning on their house, in their yard, their mailbox,etc.) that reflects their interests or personality, and I do love people who don't take themselves too seriously. ;p