Help! I've cut off my thumb!

By Fern Abbott

 

It was one of those freak accidents, the kind you read about and think, “that would never happen to me." But it did.My small town in NJ had had recycling for years, separating cans, glass, and plastics. I had four plastic milk crates to hold them, stacked one on top of the other. When I needed to get to the bottom one, I'd have to pick up and move the other three. One sunny Friday morning in late June, I decided to get them organized so I could stack them in a holder, drawer style, instead of having to constantly move or rotate them. There wasn't anything I considered suitable for my needs in stores or catalogs, so I decided to build one. read more