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.
Keep Your SD Cards in One Place
Technology nowadays moves in the direction of storing everything on clouds and not being dependent on physical storage devices. However, this hasn't always been the case and there is a good chunk of everyone's information stored on devices such as USB sticks, SD cards, and even, god forbid, floppy disks (ask your parents if you don't know what they are).
Now, teeny tiny little SD cards were definitely efficient for their time and saved us a lot of physical space but they were also very easy to lose. With this duct tape hack you can create a little wallet for whatever loose cards you have lying around the house and store it somewhere safe and accessible.
Clean Under Your Fridge
One of the places that we neglect to clean as part of our ongoing routine is the space under the fridge or the stove. It's not like there is a health inspector who might shut down your kitchen if there are too many dust bunnies stuck underneath there but you know they're there and it's driving you crazy.
While moving the fridge and the stove might help you with your woes, it also requires heavy lifting that most of us would rather avoid. This is where this hack comes into play. Wrap a velvet hanger with a washcloth and then secure the washcloth in place with a piece of duct tape. Voila! You've got the perfect gadget to make the dust bunnies under your fridge a thing of the past.
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.
A Doggy Carrier
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.