Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things

Name: Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781510768499
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250 Creative Solutions Using Everyday Items

By Wade Wilgus

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Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things by Wade Wilgus reveals inventive and surprising ways to repurpose everyday household items. From using tennis balls to protect floors and fluff laundry, to applying aspirin for stain removal and car battery care, this book shares practical tips that go beyond conventional uses. Readers learn clever hacks like removing clothes odours with vodka, shining leather goods with butter, and using toothpaste to clean sneaker scuffs.
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Ideal for home enthusiasts, DIY fans, and anyone interested in practical, creative household tips to simplify daily life.

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Most people use nail polish remover to remove nail polish. They use coffee grounds to make coffee and hair dryers to dry their hair. The majority of people may also think that the use of eggs, lemons, mustard, butter, and mayonnaise should be restricted to making delicious food in the kitchen. The Instructables.com community would disagree with this logic—they have discovered hundreds of inventive and surprising ways to use these and other common household materials to improve day-to-day life.

Did you know that tennis balls can protect your floors, fluff your laundry, and keep you from backing too far into (and thus destroying) your garage? How much do you know about aspirin? Sure, it may alleviate pain, but it can also be used to remove sweat stains, treat bug bites and stings, and prolong the life of your sputtering car battery. These are just a few of the quirky ideas that appear in Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things.

Readers of Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things will learn how to:

Remove odours from clothes using vodka
Shine leather belts, wallets, purses, and jackets using butter
Remove scuffs from sneakers using toothpaste
Locate small objects once thought to be gone forever using pantyhose
And much more!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510768499

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Sky Pony Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 487g

Pages: 144

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Wade Wilgus

About the Author

Instructables.comis a bona fide Internet sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes to gadgets that defy categorization.The site hosts more than 100,000 projects. More than 15 million people visit the site each month, leaving comments and suggestions on the ever-growing list of do-it-yourself projects.

Wade Wilgusis a former Oakland middle school teacher whose projects range from useful classroom activities to gluing mustaches to pistachios. He is the managing editor of Instructables, but spends the majority of his time figuring out ways to integrate meaningful research and hands-on learning in the classroom. He is always astounded by the creativity of his colleagues and encourages everyone to check out Instructables to see their brilliant work.