Store your spaghetti in a Pringles can
So, you open the spaghetti box. You use half the pasta, and then try to close the box, but every time you reach into the cabinet it threatens to slide out, because pasta boxes aren’t really meant to be resealed. And then you realize HOLY FUCK. I can store my unused spaghetti in this Pringles can!
Combine your iPhone and your wallet
Everywhere I go I bring my cell phone and the cigarette case that I use as a wallet. Which means I always need to bring a purse because two bulky items in my pockets ain’t working for me. Homies, I have found the perfect solution.
Make a hanging garden of jam jars
Love it. Rope + soil + clean jars and some succulents, and you have a hanging garden.
This would work super well with herbs, too, or small flowers like violets!
Make these DIY crystal bottle stoppers
Right? Cupcakes and Cashmere has the tutorial on how you can transform a little epoxy, a pretty stone, a cork stopper and into something super cool for the top of your liquor cabinet. Good for gifts, parties, and little presents to yourself. (The presents of which I speak are boozepresents.)
Build a greenhouse out of recyclables
‘Round my parts, it’s pretty damn easy to find old wood-framed windows. They come out of farmhouses, falling down foreclosed homes…I see them in so many projects I wonder if there isn’t a country-window-growing breed of tree propagating in the Midwest. Well, here’s a way to use ’em up.
Paint the handles of wooden spoons
…More like AWESOME idea of the day. Turn your old wooden spoons into a color-coordinated rainbow-dipped set. Crystal from A Little Bit Funky posted a whole tutorial on her site — including what she used to seal up the spoons safely. You could use them as art OR as useful utensils!
The easiest way to attract loads of butterflies
The Minnesotan recently shared his success with putting black bananas in his bird bath — this one attracted over a dozen butterflies to feed at one time.
Or maybe this just tells you what NOT to leave in your garden if you’re like Ariel who saw this picture and commented, “These are the fucking ugliest butterflies I’ve ever seen.”
Hide mysteries in an oversized spy bolt
Got a small stash of diamonds in your home, and concerned about security? Or maybe you have something a little less international-spy and a bit more typical. Weed? Love notes? Bank account numbers? Amazon’s got a secret stash bolt you can hidey-hole things into.