Pet stores will have you believe that you are never done buying equipment for your furry friend. You get the basic stuff like a leash, a bowl, and perhaps a toy or two, and yet somehow you end up with animal equipment worth more than you’ve ever planned to spend.
Well, this hack is here to save you on at least one doggy item (provided your dog is under a certain size, of course.) If you are good with your hands or even the least bit crafty, you can make your pooch a custom-made carrier using nothing but a nice roll of duct tape.
Cheap Protection for Your Phone
We all have that one clumsy friend. Hey, sometimes we are that clumsy friend. You know the one we were talking about — the one whose phone is always chipped, cracked, or otherwise broken. They have not yet met the phone case powerful enough to protect their phone from themselves and at some point it just seems wasteful to keep buying new ones.
Thanks to duct tape, there is no need to. As this image shows, some carefully placed pieces of this magical sticky paper might just do the trick and save you the few dollars you were going to spend on a new phone shield.
Patch Up a Fence
Okay, this picture needs some context. Yes, we can see that is a wire fence with what appears to be a piece of drywall duct taped to it, but why is it there? Well, the woman who posted this picture on Instagram was sharing how she solved the problem of her puppies sneaking out of their kennel: Duct tape, obviously.
The weak spot in the fence was the part between the door of the kennel and the side of it so she went ahead and DIYed a solution. A nice, piece of drywall and some duct tape patched up the hole in the fence and required the use of exactly zero power tools.
Cover up Furniture imperfections
Let's be honest. Most of us can't afford to refurnish our house every couple of years. No matter how new your homeware is, eventually, some pieces of furniture are bound to gather some marks. It's only natural. It shows that they've been used and loved. That being said, those love marks might not always be aesthetically pleasing.
In some cases, your furniture may already be secondhand and marked with evidence of its previous owner. Whatever the reason, if the imperfections are subtle enough, a nice piece of printed duct tape could cover them up and give your furniture a new life.
Fix a Chair
working on this article is slowly making us believe that there is nothing that duct tape can't fix. We wouldn't be surprised if we stumbled upon a random picture on social media showing a person standing next to their livable duct-taped house that is full of their mostly functional duct-taped furniture.
Furniture like the desk chair in the picture. In a variation of the sugar packet under a wobbly table leg hack, this person saw fit to fix their wobbly, wheel-deprived desk chair by taping a water bottle instead of the missing piece. What a fantastic way to reuse plastic.