2007-09-20 06:32:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Constantly. I save candle jars, decorate & embellish them after cleaning them out and use them to hold pralines, chocolates, and candy that I make as Christmas gifts. I use many of my antique tea sets to hold q-tips, cotton balls and bathsalts in the bathrooms. I use Japanese soy sauce & wasabi dishes as salt and pepper cellars for dinner parties. I keep broken pieces of jewelry to embellish picture frames, napkin holders, gift boxes and handmade cards. I use vintage tablecloths, linens, hankies and napkins as window treatments. I use an antique ice bucket to hold guest towels in the guest powder room. I use vintage china that has been broken as shards in the bottom of my plants if they cannot be repaired and if they can as saucers underneath house plants. My long fingernails serve often as tweezers or screwdrivers... And that is just what I can think of off the top of my head...
2007-09-20 06:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by eskie lover 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. This is common in tools. Cresent wrench for hammer, screwdriver for chisel. Knee-high nylons make great "filters" over the end of a washing machine discharge hose that exits into a sink. I strain cooking oil through undecorated paper towels. Steel wool makes a dandy "blocker" for holes where a mouse might enter.
2007-09-20 13:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A knife as a screwsriver, a shoe as a hammer, a plastic plate as a frisby, and once used furniture polish instead of hairspray .......... cos my brother thought it would be really funny to swap the cans over .... you can all laugh, expecially whenyou add the fact that I was bent over spraying it up side down and my hair was very very very long...I was not best pleased I can tell you
2007-09-20 18:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by StressedMumOf2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definatley, I use a massive carving knife to reach plastic containers ( butty box type things/containers to food in fridge) off the top shelf in my kitchen. I have learnt to balance the container by the lip of the lid on the tip of the knife whilst I lower it from the shelf. I've got it to a fine art now and it always produces a giggle when I have friends round.
I put a pair of knickers on my head (clean ones) to keep my hair out of my face whilst doing my make- up.
I use a bulldog clip to stop my towel from falling off after showering
baby oil and baby wipes to remove make-up
newspapers to clean windows as they don't leave marks on them.
cotton buds to put eye shadow on
the list is endless.........................
2007-09-20 14:22:04 · answer #4 · answered by chill out 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't find my potato masher the other day so I used a biscuit cutter instead. I use eye and lip liner as a pen, smaller screws as nails, everything should be a multi-tasker.
2007-09-20 13:44:26 · answer #5 · answered by Cassthinking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course: here is a few.
Shirt sleeve = handkerchief
Chair/table = ladder
Hammer & nail = drill (bash in a nail, pull it out put in raul plug & screw)
Stickytape & tissue = a plaster
Side of a babys cot = bulkhead, (stops me getting hit by stuff in my van.)
2007-09-20 13:45:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Wifes cake mixer to stir up tins of masonary paint, worked a treat but took hours to clean up and put it back.
Deep xxxx if she reads this.
2007-09-21 14:13:19 · answer #7 · answered by Robert T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We used to hammer screws into crates.
We always said it was ' irish screwdriver versus american nails'
Plus an actual screwdriver is a crowbar, scraper, hammer and weapon.
2007-09-20 13:41:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the first mobile phones were like house bricks.....
My mate used his as a hammer. serious.
2007-09-20 19:30:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh heck YES! And many times sorry I did!
2007-09-20 13:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by Sandyspacecase 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋