Not it's Intended Purpose, but . . .

[ShooShooBaby]

the other day i lost the screw to my very old bedroom doorknob. i wedged in a bobby pin and it works just fine! i've fixed SO many things with bobby pins it's ridiculous. speaking of which, mine tend to reside in an ashtray my grandmother STOLE from a vegas hotel in the 60s! lol

i'm also really good at reusing vintage boxes and containers for holding various things.

 

[Spitfire]

And wirehangers for a lot of things.
"Just never leave two of them unattended in a closet - they breed! Next time you open the closet there are five" - as Dave Allen once said
"And you cant get rid of them. Try to put them in a plasticbag to throw them out. They cut their way out.... " lol

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Guitar picks

Bread loaf tab clip for a guitar picks. All of my guitar picks have disappeared. I now prefer the clip found on hot dog roll and hamburger buns packages in the grocery store. Except for a thumb pick, which come from Elgin, Illinois.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I've often used Tic Tac boxes as photographic filters.
And when you're a modeller, lots of common items tend to have some pretty odd uses- Scrubbing pads as tree folliage, fake fur as field grass, pencil caps as barrels and kegs, sandpaper as tar roofing, thumbtacks as benches, corrugated cardboard as a base for a miniature victory garden, painted tinfoil for sheets on a clothesline, toothpicks as building material, ordinary steel wire as all manner of pipes and ducts, old watch parts as tools in a hardware store (picked that up from someone else), staples for railings, pink chewing gum as meat in a butcher shop, to name a few.

Got ya there, Charlie.

My father was always very much into H.O. scale trains and would design and build his own. On one, which he dubbed "Challenger" (because it was a challenge getting it around the layout), he had a large vent on top that he made by removing the blades from a trac II razor. A lot of people look at it quizzically for a while before either finally recognizing it or asking what it is.


Lee
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"First you hear the whistle, then comes the train."

 

[MrNewportCustom]

And wirehangers for a lot of things.
"Just never leave two of them unattended in a closet - they breed! Next time you open the closet there are five" - as Dave Allen once said
"And you cant get rid of them. Try to put them in a plasticbag to throw them out. They cut their way out.... " lol

I think the only Ziggy cartoon strip I remember was when he said, "When it comes to getting our act together, we can all learn a lesson from the coat hanger."


Lee