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If You Have Chickens, You’re Going to Want This ‘Egg-Cellent’ Crochet Apron

Sometimes I stumble upon a product or service that I have to hide from my wife. It’s not that I don’t want to buy her whatever her heart desires. It’s more that I’d like to not put any additional work on myself. This product is a case in point. For years, my wife has been telling me she would like to raise some chickens so that we can have farm-fresh eggs. We live in the country, so it would technically be completely feasible. But here’s the thing: I know who would end up doing most of the work for these darn chickens. Hint: it’s not my wife.

When you raise chickens, it’s not as if you just put them out in the yard and tell them to go be happy and lay eggs. You have to bring them out in the day so that they’re “free-range,” and then you have to put them up at night to keep the wild animals from getting them. It’s just a lot more work than people realize to keep laying hens. Also, there’s this. I don’t eat eggs. At all. Now, my wife does, so it would be nice for her, but she goes in spurts, you could say. She’ll eat eggs every day for a week then not eat another egg for a month or more.

Is it worth having chickens on-site? Honestly, I’d rather just buy a dozen eggs for her when she wants them. However, if she saw this really clever egg-gathering apron, it would intensify her efforts to try to get me to get her some chickens so that she could have fresh eggs. I just know it. And honest, the apron is so cool, it almost (ALMOST) makes me want to get some chickens just so we can get this cool apron. The Etsy shop called HeartHookHome has tiny pockets that are specifically designed to fit eggs from the laying hens. The apron holds a whopping 19 eggs, which would mean I would need to get my wife 19 hens.

Also, the apron has a catch-all pocket that’s bigger than the small egg pockets. You can use that pocket for your cell phone and other supplies. You can buy the pattern at the Etsy shop and make as many aprons as you wish. This may save me because my wife doesn’t crochet. Yet.