The Household Mythology Creatures Thread.... Bear With Me On This...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I for some reason the other day had the phrase “Toaster Gnomes” come to mind. I started thinking of other mythological/hypothetical creatures juxtaposed with household locations/appliances.

Examples:

Sofa Elves
Fridgewraiths
Vacuunicorns
The Pantry Chupacabra
etc.

This is about the most mundane and pointless thing I can think of, and I really must share it. I bet you guys can think of really good ones, this IS what the SDMB is all about. And I think this has that “could be a great thread” vibe.

Gimme what you got, SDMB.

MarxBoy

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Tubmummies.

Desk Devils.

Dopplehangers.

Dryer wolves.
I like it. My house seems so much more… populated now.

Thanks, MarxBoy.

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How about these:

Bedwyrs - The monsters under the bed

The Nylonic Vortex - the place in your dryer that eats up the matches to socks.

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Lint Filter Fairies
Ice-maker Sirens (They’re calling right now for me to add them to a margarita)
Oven Orcs

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Doorknob-goblins!

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Yeeeeaaahhh.

ooh! ooh! Toilet Trolls!!

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Blender banshees

Bargoyles

Underwearwolves

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I used to live in a place where many claimed that polar bears stole their bedclothes. I never saw any.

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My father had us scared of the “barking spiders.” But that’s old. How about Attic Attilas?

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LMAO, MrVisible

That will probably remain the undisputed champion post from this thread, which is shaping up to be a good one.

(Does MarxBoy dare to dream that one day, HE might be chosen for threadspotting)

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hmmm…

Computrolls.

La-Z-Gnome.

Tele-faeries.

Table dwarves.

And, of course, the inimitable Polaroid Chimeras.

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Sent me running up the stairs many a time. Especially when my rotten little brother Tommy would turn out the light & lock the basement door.

Motto Of The Basement Ghouls—

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I shouldn’t even acknowledge the damned Zero Wing reference anymore, but I believe you mean

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Sorry, with that last post should have been included a new creature.

How about… a poultrygeist that inhabits the meat drawer of the fridge?

Or Speaker Sprites?

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I have a Closet Wraith in my walk-in. It eats things.

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Underpants Gnomes: They steal your nicest pieces of underwear… that reminds me, I’m still missing this really nice expensive thong that matches one of my bras. Has anyone seen it?
Closet/Drawer/Storage Space Gremlins: They move stuff around and take bites out of things when you’re not looking. One of my friends found a big bite taken out of one of his CDs with teeth marks and everything… weird.
Sock Monkey Klan: They gang up with all your other childhood memorabilia and randomly hide old toys, etc. that you were looking for to either give to someone or display.

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Great thread!

I have personally experienced “Pipe Dwarves” - they make the noises in your radiator pipes when they swing their dwarf-hammers.

And “The Fushes” - only my late grandmother could hear them, but they inhabited the bed in our guest room and said “Fush! Fush!” through the night.

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Cereal Dust Fairies

Outrageous Odor Wraiths (they’re invisible, but they’re there.)

Milk Mummy

Change Sprites

The Bottom-Of-The-Laundry-Pile Cleaners

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Pantry pixies

The trolls under the fridge

Mystery Meat Manticore: It Came from Beyond the Coleslaw

Dust pookas (Harvey! :smiley: )

Kitchen kobolds

Clutter cluricaunes

Lampricauns

Sidhets
Is anyone else curious as to what prompted the phrase “toaster gnomes” to drift through Marxboy’s mind?

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Carpet Trolls- live under carpets/rugs. Cause mysterious lumps to occur as to trip hapless humans.

Freezer Fairies- Open the freezer door just after you leave for work to cause all the ice cream to melt by the time you get home. Their secondary repsonsibility is to consume all ice cubes (but one) in any given ice try.

The Secret Society of Clock-Watching Witches- Cause stairs to creak, doors to squeak, and windows to slam when someone is trying to sneak past their parent/room mate/signifigant other at an ungodly hour.

Denim Munching Hell Hounds- chew holes in all of the knees of my 501s.