Random Question OTD: 😁 How many steps stools do you have?

0 I’m 5’9 and live in a 1600 square foot house two story with a loft. 

I’m 5’6, 4500sf house, and we have two: pantry (main level) and storage room (basement).

Ha, I think it’s time for an intervention!

We only have 2, but I want another one for the pantry that I can pull out with my toe. Our home is 2 stories, 2400 square feet, and I believe in using all of my vertical space for storage. We have 2 fold-out 3-step ladders, one for each floor, and we keep them in a central location. One next to the fridge, which you can’t really see from the rest of our open floor plan, and one in the laundry room upstairs. I’d love more, one for each area I would use it, but I don’t like storing them.

However, I don’t use them all that often unless DH is out of the house, and he prefers it that way. I have lost my sense of balance so it’s often dicey when I’m up there. But, to be honest, I didn’t use them much anyway. I’m 5’4” and he’s 6’5” (yes, we look ridiculous together). We seriously considered having my parents make us a pretty white wooden stool for our wedding kiss , don’t remember why we didn’t. Anyway, when I need something I just yell out “tall person!” and he understands he’s needed and why. He gets asked for assistance at the store all the time, even in the feminine products aisle. They often seem a bit embarrassed, no matter what aisle. But he is happy to help and personally I think he gets a small esteem boost whenever it happens.

eta: Ceiling height is 9’ downstairs, and he can’t quite change the canned lights without a stool, but all of the other lighting he does. And upstairs he can reach everything on the 8’ ceilings. So handy!

Hmmm. I have a wooden one that sort of floats around the upstairs depending on where I need it, a wooden one downstairs that the cats use to get to their food station (otherwise the dog will eat their food), and two of the multi-step ones in the garage that I pull out for when I’m changing lightbulbs in ceiling fixtures, painting, etc.  

We only have one.  It's in the laundry room.  I'm 5'4".

I’m 5’1” and have zero (well there’s a step ladder in the basement). I use chairs, barstools, counter tops. When you’re short you get creative 😉

No stepstools. I’m 5’ 8” and DH is 6’ 3”. We do have a 6’ ladder and an extension ladder that both live in the garage. The former is for stuff like changing lightbulbs in recessed lighting, smoke detector battery changes, etc. Neither of us can reach with just a step stool (I think our ceilings are 9’?). The extension ladder is for exterior maintenance tasks.

2400 sq ft house. I'm 5'3" ish.

I have a 1-step stool in the kitchen for reaching the top shelf of the cabinets. There's a 1-step stool in the bathroom for when my grandson brushes his teeth over here (although he doesn't really need it anymore...but it will stay for the younger grandkids when they can brush their own teeth). Another 1-step stool in my craft room so I can reach the top shelves. And we have a 3-step stool that floats around the house.

I'm 5'3" in an 1800 sqft single story house with vaulted ceilings. We have a bunch of ladders, and 1 2-step stool that is in the garage. If I want something in an upper cabinet, 9 times out of 10 I climb up on my counters.

dewryce, my mom is 4'10" and my dad was 6'6" . Awkward for sure. In my mom's defense, he was 5'9" when they got married at 19. He grew a full inch in his 40s.

I have one. I’m 5’8”.

Its main use is when I’m decorating the Christmas tree.

Our ceilings are 14’, so we have to get out the giant ladder to do tasks like changing light bulbs.

ETA: I’m not sure if it counts as a step stool reading this thread. It’s metal, folds, and has two steps. Is that a step stool?

5’1”. 2 story house with a finished basement - so about 3200 sq ft. I think?

Upstairs - a folding 2 step aluminum step stool in the master bed room closet. There’s a plastic single stool that moves around the other 3 bedrooms as needed.

Main floor - a wooden 2-step stool in the walk-in pantry that stays there all the time unless I pull it out for the laundry room or kitchen. There’s an identical foot stool in my craft room.

Basement - none that I know of. Nothing is up high down there except some book shelves.

Garage - There’s a 3 step could be called more of a short ladder or tall stool right out side the door to the house. Easy to grab if needed. Also, my DH 5’10” has too many ladders of various heights to count. It’s crazy.

So total count for foot stools - 5. Ladders - undetermined. Ha.

Being so short is the reason I’m having a new set of a washer & dryer delivered tomorrow and the washer is a front load. I spend enough time trying to reach things in high cupboards. I don’t need one more activity where I need to climb up one a stool and risk hurting myself.

We have 3 step stools - one upstairs, one downstairs and one in the garage.

One plastic one
One with three steps that lives in the pantry
Two two step ones that we've had forever