Years ago, I bought a potato brush at a kitchen store and wrote the word “potato” on it with a Sharpie. An essential kitchen tool. Until . . . I found my husband cleaning his work boots with it. That was the end of the potato brush. I’m always surprised by the unconventional uses people find for products. When the contractor came to make templates for my new countertops, he brought long pieces of balsa wood and a hot glue gun. Like a grandma in a crafting group, he cut the wo