Tag: misadventures
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Sunscreen Applicator
July 10, 2025 by HTV9 Look at this thing. Photogenic it is not. Anyhow, this is an attempt at putting sunscreen on the middle of your own back without needing help. The idea is to use it diagonally like how you can scrub your back in a shower with a washcloth, by draping its long…
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The Fake Wine Attempts Continue
March 17, 2025 by HTV9 Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying a mix of cranberry and grape juice, equal parts of each, or on their own, or diluted in a lot of water to help me drink more of it. So far so good, but it does not taste remotely like wine.…
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Dusting Tool
Nov 18, 2024 by HTV9 This is more experimental than anything else. It’s three chopsticks rubber-banded together, with one of those knit dustrags I made kind of wadded at the top and attached to it with a hair tie. Does it dust more easily and effectively than just the dustrag itself? Only time will tell.…
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Lemonade Cold Brew
May 14, 2024 by HTV9 The original idea here was to fill up ice cube trays with undiluted lemon juice and sugar mix but the ice cube trays aren’t clean now so that’s out. So here’s what’s going on. This contains the juice of 1 lemon freshly squeezed, about 2 tablespoons of sugar, some tap…
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Edited: It doesn’t work! No-Sew T-Shirt Bag
May 1, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling Here’s a T-shirt that is super worn out. There are a bunch of tutorials online for making sewn T-shirt shopping bags to replace plastic/paper ones, so I initially thought I’d try that. Then I realized due to no sewing machine that would take about five hours per bag,…
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Improved Pizza Box Laptop Holder
Jan 26, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling It started to squish. Filled it with toilet paper tubes and wound up squashing those down to fit inside the pizza box. February 12, 2024 Update: Made it unnecessarily hard to type even after entirely filling it with as many toilet paper tubes as it would hold. I…
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Pizza box laptop holder
Jan 12, 2024 by HTV9 in Uncategorized There is a pizza box under all that, I promise. With printer paper to cover up the laptop art I have going, and the label of the pizza box, it functions to make having a laptop on one’s lap more comfortable. It also cools the laptop more effectively…
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