Realtor.com: A New Spin on Storage: 8 Clever Uses for the Lazy Susan
- Maeve Richmond
- Mar 22, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: May 4, 2022
Maeve shares the history and origins behind 'The Lazy Suzan' with Realtor.com.
Thanks to Realtor.com for featuring us in their recent post, A New Spin on Storage: 8 Clever Uses for the Lazy Susan by Jennifer Geddes. Check out Maeve's tip below!
Who was Susan, anyway?
Historians are fuzzy when it comes to this item's origin, but some point to our third president as Lazy Susan's founding father.
"Apparently, Thomas Jefferson named the gadget 'Lazy Susan' after a daughter who wasn't keen on doing chores or serving food," explains Maeve Richmond, founder of the organizing company Maeve's Method.
Others trace the history to 18th-century England, when the spinner was called a dumbwaiter.
"Household help was on the decline, so it was used as a servant replacement," Richmond explains. Eventually, Lazy Susans were built into wall elevators to lift and spin heavy trays of food.
Today, these items top tables and counters in many U.S. homes. Newer homes have them built into kitchen cabinets as an easy way to grab pots and pans.
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