“Dental Floss Is Great For Cutting Cake”: 30 Surprising Ways You Can Use Everyday Items

I used them for electronic circuit board repairs.

Also good for working with scale miniatures, the tools I've bought for hobby purchases are much like some dental tools.

TIL obviously, you can find plenty of old dental instruments at flea markets somewhere.

I use them for my warm glass-work. My dentist has to discard his tools after a set period of time - I asked and he gave me what he was going to discars

That's brilliant.

In Denmark it's normal to buy a block of cheese and an accommodating device that lets you slice the cheese. We are so sorry for you.

Be careful with it. I used to do that for years but almost lopped off a finger last time!

You can also use dental floss...

Or, you could use a cheese cutter.

You can run cable along a ceiling using binder clips and Command Strips. Just pinch open, insert cable, remove pinch arms, press flat side to strip on ceiling. You can also clip the binder clip to the edge of a table or shelf and remove the pinch arms to feed cables through, then reattach the pinch arms to hold the cable ends where you can easily grab them. The cable length moves freely through.

These serve a myriad of purposes if you are creative enough to test their limits

I use tongs to get stuff off the high shelves too. Dragging the step-stool out every time turns a five second job into a five minute job.

My mother in law uses tongs to get laundry out of the bottom of the washer. Otherwise she would end up head down and stuck til someone could free her.

My FIL was a wheelchair user and had this grabbing tool for reaching things higher up. We got one for our home too and I use it all the time! I'm 5'4 and hubby is 6'1 so we have a lot of high shelves/cabinets.

I have those barstools where you can flip the seat up and it's a step stool. I also organize stuff I use most often on lower shelves and things rarely used in top shelves. I'm not about to lug a ladder into my kitchen, but tongs would be too clumsy for me.

I love my loud fan!

White noise.

You can also buy a little machine that just makes the fan noise and uses way less energy.

Isn't a sound machine cheaper in terms of energy consumption? Seriously asking, there's so much less weight needing to be moved....

Rob a bank at 10am, ski at 11am.

You mean a mask that was initially designed for skiing, then repurposed for robbing, now re-repurposed to skiing. Full circle

Funny.

Ummm… that’s their original use isn’t it? To protect the head from the cold?

When I was young they were called ski masks.

People that post pictures of food or talk about politics on social media need hobbies.

Food p**n. :)

Oh dear...

You were grounded. Was that for destroying the bean bag chairs or for the mess on the basement floor? It sounds like fun, though.

...and those tiny styrofoam balls are still around everywhere in the house 28 years later?

NEW IDEA

Done this plenty of times when I forgot shaving cream. I shave in the shower so this works great

aloe conditioner is the best

Which one provides the most shaves for the cost?

UNWAXED & UNFLAVORED FLOSS ONLY!!!!

Or you could use regular thread

But do this BEFORE using in on your teeth !

I've even seen people use kitchen tongs to cut a cake.

What’s really good is to use a larger flat object, like the head of a wrench, to sit on the nail head and hit that with the hammer. It gives you a larger area to strike, and keeps your fingers safe.

If you are a nail, everything looks like a hammer

Don't try and use a priceless Ming vase as a hammer though (speaking from personal experience)

My hubby leaves mountains of his clothes on the rocking chair. I call it the rockingdrobe.

I suspect teenagers do this because of the temporarily increased gravity in teenage bedrooms...would take inhumanely huge effort to pick things up and put them in the wardrobe.

I harvested a clothes chair recently and fund a buch of stuff that fits again, as thus far I've lost 40 pounds.

Becky, is that you?