Unusual Uses for Everyday Items

Teabags are good for dyeing plus medicinals.

 

Then there are these guys too.

 

corn cooker? is that like large steamer? *scratches head* i cant figure this one out @DKR

 

hard to see but you can safety pin the edges of metal file hangers together to keep over full files from taking up so much room

 

and i know you boys can use this

Stop Static Cling. Sick of your skirt sticking to your tights? Fasten a small safety pin to the skirt lining or your slip. The metal in the safety pin will conduct electricity and divert the static

 

Milk Can Dinner - Food for 40 - BarbequeLovers.com this lays it all out.

 

BBQ grill as hot water heater?

 

OK, not on topic, but too fun not to post.....

 

Because there are so many different plastics I don't throw much away i can as welding material.
Most metals as well are a material resource to fix improve or use a s filler for something else.
I rebuild light bulbs so I can use regular incandescent lamp's and their fixture sockets modified for 12 volts DC .

 

nice one @arleigh !

@DKR love teh water heater grill

 

Worth its weight in gold....errr, copper. OK, gold might be cheaper...

 

Six AAAA from one 9V battery.

 

Too easy? Empty barrels into burn barrels

 

Nitrile glove fingers as muzzle covers for fowl weather fowling.

Keep your powder dry.

 

Brake drums into wood stoves.

 

Cartridge case bottle openers.

 

Not bad, that. I set mine up on cinder blocks, and instead of holes, I cut out a squarish opening and drop a section of salvaged deck grating in. That way, I can shovel the ashes out and the drum doesn't fill up before it burns out.

 

I used to just walk around the barrel with a 10/22 and shoot ten holes through the side and bottom of the old barrels. This one was so heavy I couldn't penetrate the side on an angle. Self preservation caused me to break out the hole saw. I did 3 additional large holes in the bottom, and five around the side about 5" up from the bottom. This burns yard waste and paper very well and reduces everything to light white ash. I think next time I'll drop the holes in the sides down to three so the ash that falls out of them will be between the three cinder block supports. If I keep up with it I can make a barrel last a bit more than a year. When they're thoroughly burned out that they start to lean over I just squash them flat with the tractor and haul them to the scrap yard.

 

Old metal straps into cookie cutters for the kids.