Strange uses for familiar objects

Girl after my own heart! Great use there.

Jean

Which reminds me of my favorite non-traditional use of a product: a short length of that gray foam tubing, split to fit over pipes, which has an adhesive on the cut edges, makes perfect wrist support for the edge of my desk in front of my mouse pad.

Next....

Beverly

Hubby uses a rotary cutter for cutting straight edges in drywall - I bought a cheap one for him when I saw him looking at the one I have for quilting

Larisa, thinking of other things.....

oh...when we first moved in and had no utensils, but had some small tools, I used a midget prybar as a stirrer for the ravioli. We now call it the ravioli stirrer . Then we have the "regular" prybar, and finally, the napalm, which is the heavy duty prybar that I used for most of the tile removal in the kitchen.

You need to get one of those racy steering wheel knobs to put on it too. Must be some use for one of those.

My father ran a service station and auto parts store in the 40s and 50s. I remember some of those had to be kept behind the counter....

Beverly

Another great use for that stuff is covering telephone cords from chompy kitten teeth. I went through 6 cords in a week when Lilly was tiny. Thank God I found that foam tubing stuff!!

Pora

OT: I've started potty training my cat with the Citti Kitty kit. (Shallow litter tray fits betwen the toilet rim and seat. Take it away after a few weeks and they go straight in the toilet supposedly.) She doesn't get it yet to sit on the edge of the toilet seat and is looking desperately for the litter box. Poor thing... (I've been putting her on the new tray several times a day and scraping the litter with her paw. She's getting right bored of that.)

Clever! That beats spending $49 on a table edge toddler bumper. Vroooooom

Pora

Read of another way to do this: acquire an old toilet seat (no lid). Affix to litter box. After a couple of days, add some string across the top of the box so that kitty can't actually use it, but that "do it here" aroma remains. Then you gradually, over several days, elevate the lid-box ensemble to match the height of the real toilet. Eventually the litter box goes away.

Keep that toilet lid UP!

HTH

--Karen D.

One of mine is a hair barrette on the toothpaste tube. (I hate the plastic tubes but understand the rationale.) DH grumbles if the toothpaste isn't right at the top ready to leap onto his brush. I solve the problem by folding (once only) the tube up and holding it with a barrette. Whatever works. (or as DS used to say, 'Whatever blows your skirt up.')

Jean

My favorite laundry sprinkler is labeled "oil-o-pump/The Healthy & Enviro-Safe Way To Spray Your Cooking Oil!"

I should have known, when I saw where they thought capital letters belonged, that it would clog up if I tried to make my own Pam -- but it sprays a fine mist of water. Also useful for combing my hair in the winter: spray a cloud, walk through it, no static!

Joy Beeson

OMG, necker knobs! I'm sooooooo old I actually know what those are *sigh* Completely illegal now. Bucket seats, consoles and seat belts took care of that snuggle while he drives stuff. I remember my uncle had one in his souped up Plymouth coup, when the steering wheel was turned so the knob was at the bottom the lady was upside down and her skirt fell over her head so you could see her pink panties.......when mother saw it she was horrified and we weren't allowed in his car anymore.

Long term memory clear as a bell, short term memory shot to hell.......where DID I put down my coffee cup?

Val

I bought a spaghetti spork to use as a back scratcher. It covers more area than a conventional one so you get a better and bigger scratch faster. I also use an old wooden Coke case (the kind that use to hold 6 ounce bottles of Coke way back when)for a spice rack at my cottage. It fits flat against the wall, turned on the long side, and holds 24 spice jars and I can sit larger jars on top. Juno

ROTFLOL! You'll probably find your coffee cup somewhere near my reading glasses....

Beverly

This has been a great thread, thanks Cea!

Beverly

DD found my coffee cup 6 months later in the linen closet. (Complete with a quarter inch layer of mold!) Wonder how it got there...

Jean

Sheesh, only a quarter inch? My what wimpy mold you have...

;->

Beverly

I finally found my reading glasses in the pocket of my knitting case

-- where they belong.

Joy Beeson

It was not all that many years ago that a friend of mine got one of those after she broke her wrist. She had to drive to get to work, and the knob made it so much easier. And yes, she did get it falling off a barstool........ which we had a wonderful time ragging on her about.