30 Interesting Uses for Duct Tape

Who says diamonds are a girl's best friend? Ask any redneck woman you know and she will tell you to never be found without a trusty role of duct tape. Believe or not, you can use duct tape to fix just about anything, (or at least hold it in place until Bubba makes a beer run to town and remembers to stop by the hardware store). But seriously folks, duct tape can have just about as many uses for home repairs as you can think of things that need fixing. Here are just a few ways it can be handy in a sticky situation:

1. To hold together the back of the dreser drawer that your 5 year old decided to use as a stepping stool.

2. When doing electrical work around the house, use it to tie off loose wires if you've run out of caps.

3. To fix that one piece of blind that got bent in half by your cat chasing a fly and now keeps letting the sun in right on your tv screen ruining your afternoon soaps.

4. To tape the cord of the blind to the top so the kids don't strangle themselves playing with it.

5. To cover unused electrical sockets and keep out curious fingers when you've lost your last safety plug. (yes duct tape is great for baby proofing in a pinch)

6. To bind the cover of a much loved and well read good book (not really a home repair but still handy to know)

7. To hang the christmas lights that will inevitabley stay on the front porch all year long.

8. To patch a whole in your duct work where the dog chased the cat under the house and destroyed your summer long desire for nice cool air.

9. To patch a tear in your dryer vent hose to avoid all that unpleasent lint and heat in the house.

10. To tape the panty hose filter onto the end of the dryer vent hose when you use it to heat the inside of your laundry room in the winter. (come on people, you know you do it)

11. Wrap it around the end of a stripped out screw that you really need to put back in place but now it wont fit cause the hole is too big due to wiggling the damn screw trying to get it out in the first place.

12. When your garden hose isnt long enough and the connection between the two of them keeps leaking

13. Weather stripping for windows that you are never going to open anyway cause Bubba painted them shut last summer.

14. To make a non recordable vcr tape into a recordable one by tearing a one inch piece and folding it into a quarter inch square and inserting it into the small whole in the back of the tape, for instance you've just seen Deliverance one too manytimes, but can't pass up the urge to tape the next episode of Survivor for posterities sake and the dollar store closed an hour ago. (bet you didn't know that one)

15. To mark the distance for throwing for a game regulated dart board by marking the line with duct tape. Now no one can dispute the throw and Bubba knows how far away to stand to avoid being hit with the frying pan when he's made one to many beer runs.

16. To fix a cracked coffee pot for that one last cup of coffee desperately needed to get you going.

17. To patch the plastic pool in the yard when it springs a leak and you just refuse to pay another 40 dollars to fill it back up for the 3 weeks of summer left.

18. To temporarily patch a hole in the wall until you can get some drywall mud and paint. no one knows how the hole got there, it just appeared this morning before mom got up.

19. To hold the water faucet in the kitchen together cause, once again, the kids used it as a climbing hold to get to the poptarts and this time, it just didnt make it.

20. Wrap it around the j trap under the sink when it springs a leak, it'll do till you get a new one.

21. To patch a hole in your lucky tennis shoes that you noticed just before you went fishing cause there is just nowhere to buy shoes at three am in the middle of no where.

22. To reattach that annoying door shelf in the refrigerator that keeps falling off and avoid messy spills cause someone keeps putting a glass of koolaid right there, knowing the damn thing is just going to fall off the next morning at 4 am and spill everywhere.

23. To hang small wall decor when your frustrated to the point of knocking holes in the wall cause you've already tried 6 times and you cant seem to find a freakin stud to put a nail in and your finger hurts cause you've smashed it at least twice trying to find the freakin stud and your thinking to yourself that you really didn't like that picture that much anyway and you might just throw it in the yard sale next week and get your 5 dollars back.

24. To reattach the chandelier lights to the faux chandelier over the dining room table cause your 5 year old saw spiderman do that on tv and decided to climb on top of the table and try it cause it looked really cool.

25. To tape that one lightswitch that turns off the circuit to which all your electrical appliances are run too (because some idiot wired it that way) into the ON position because no matter how many times you scream at the kids to leave it alone they just cant resist the temptation and apparently no one in the freakin house can read the big DO NOT TOUCH sign you wrote on the wall next to it in permenant marker.

26. To tape a breaker into the on position cause they are apparently pretty damn sesitive and who knew running a hair dryer, curling iron, electric shaver and cd player all at the same time would overload them and blow all the lightbulbs in the bathroom? I didn't know, I swear. ( so thats why they put a reset switch on that light socket)

27. To tape up the end of the little bubble tube in the fish tank so just a tiny bit of water runs through cause your beta fish keeps trying to kill itself. (hum. it must be the pizza and milk the kids keep feeding it)

28. To fix really big holes in upholstry so the stuffing won't come out and eliminate one more thing you'll have to pry out of your two year olds mouth before he swallows it. (that kid has an iron stomach i swear)

29. To keep the wires that run from your computer to your printer to your satelite box to your phone in place cause people keep stepping on them and pulling them loose.

30. To tape the wires that run all around the living room from your surround sound to the ceiling so noone can pull them out of the speakers or chew on them. ( im telling you, that kid will eat ANYTHING)