Creative, Imaginative, Or Just Plain Cheap? (Singles Innovations... and Inventions.)

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Oncefallen

Oncefallen

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Years ago I drove tow trucks for a living. The truck I drove had the fuel shutoff solenoid go bad about 200 miles from the shop. Using tie wire I had to wire the solenoid into the open position to get back to town. I ended up driving the truck like that for a couple of days while we waited for the replacement part to come in.

It was a nuisance. Every time I needed to start the truck I had to open the hood, wire the solenoid open, then hop in and start the truck. When I needed to shut the truck down I had to turn the key off, open the hood and release the solenoid.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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By the way, Wal-Mart really needs to hire a solutions expert. I imagine a person who knows what Wal-Mart has and is creative enough to use it for whatever is needed. I could walk in and tell the solutions expert what I need and he could tell me how to do it.

The reason is because a while ago I needed a small collapsible table about waist-high. My keyboard is a MIDI keyboard, it requires a computer to make any sound. I have a stand for the keyboard but I need a stand for a little laptop right at my left hand. I eventually got one of their folding bar stools and took the cushion off. It's a perfect little end-table that collapses for travel and it fits nicely in my keyboard carry-bag.

Now see, if Wal-Mart had a solutions expert he could have told me that was what I needed.
 
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Lynx said:
By the way, Wal-Mart really needs to hire a solutions expert. I imagine a person who knows what Wal-Mart has and is creative enough to use it for whatever is needed. I could walk in and tell the solutions expert what I need and he could tell me how to do it.

The reason is because a while ago I needed a small collapsible table about waist-high. My keyboard is a MIDI keyboard, it requires a computer to make any sound. I have a stand for the keyboard but I need a stand for a little laptop right at my left hand. I eventually got one of their folding bar stools and took the cushion off. It's a perfect little end-table that collapses for travel and it fits nicely in my keyboard carry-bag.

Now see, if Wal-Mart had a solutions expert he could have told me that was what I needed.
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Wal-Mart has on the other hand hired a lot of dissolution experts that can give you what you don't need. They are at your service around the clock, not.
 
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Hellooo

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I stick my kindle in Ziploc bags to read in the bath.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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Ziplok bags are wonderful. I use sandwich bags for CD cases - when I give someone a disk I put it in a bag. Cheaper, just as effective and they can put a sandwich in the bag later.
 
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Charcoal

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I Made Redneck Scentsy!
I took an empty tin can (short olive can was a pleasant size, unlined, and since it was a pop top, it has a slosh resistant ring!).
I scooped out chunks of wax from a scented candle that won't stay lit (sup with that?) and put it in the can.
I keep the can on top of the wood stove.
Whenever I economically heat my house (don't plague me with the enviromental implications... this is all wood that was cut down by a tree service and would (pun) have ended up in a land fill if I didn't have a connection with the owner of said tree service) the room magically start smelling like berries.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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Charcoal's burning wood? Hmm... if he were burning coal, would that make him a cannibal?

Speaking of environmental consequences, the whole global warming uproar kind of lost me when they started claiming that pet owners were bad for the environment because their pets produced CO2. Er... if that were really causing global warming we'd have been parboiled by now. Every farmhouse has a dog on the front porch. Been that way for many many years.
 
Grace-Like-Rain

Grace-Like-Rain

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Lynx said:
Charcoal's burning wood? Hmm... if he were burning coal, would that make him a cannibal?

Speaking of environmental consequences, the whole global warming uproar kind of lost me when they started claiming that pet owners were bad for the environment because their pets produced CO2. Er... if that were really causing global warming we'd have been parboiled by now. Every farmhouse has a dog on the front porch. Been that way for many many years.
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Wha...? How does a pet produce more CO2 than the rest of the animal kingdom...? :confused:
 
Grace-Like-Rain

Grace-Like-Rain

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Yeah, I mean... There goes the herd of ferrets I was totally planning to raise...
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I wonder if God knew how big an ecological footprint ferrets would make when he created them. What was he thinking?? :rolleyes:
 
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ServantStrike

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Grace-Like-Rain said:
Wha...? How does a pet produce more CO2 than the rest of the animal kingdom...? :confused:
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They're going after the cows the hardest. Cows produce a lot of methane, and the environmentalists hate methane even more than Co2.


The cows...

I like steak on rare occasions (man it's expensive). I don't want to live in a world without red meat.


Then they tell us Co2 is a problem, but also say no to nuclear power. I think it's only fair if that's true, then those who are worried about Co2 but won't accept a power source that can service base loads without producing Co2 should simply stop breathing - because they are producing Co2 in the process. I think they might get silent after a minute of trying this, and finally come to reason, because people seem to enjoy breathing.

Earth day should be national hold your breath for a minute and think about how ridiculous you sound day.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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In the spirit of the OP - some of you may understand this and some may not, but... I install my whole computer system on a flash drive. You can do that with Linux distros. It's basically my computer on a stick, just needs some hardware to run it on. Whatever computer I stick my flash drive into and boot, it's automatically my computer - my programs, my files, my settings, my background, on whatever box I'm running it on.

In fact my computers don't really have to have a hard drive. I can't remember when was the last time I accessed the hard drive on this computer I'm using right now. The whole show is running from a flash drive.
 
cinder

cinder

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Ok so I don't have access to a clothes dryer where I live now and the days are getting cloudy and cooler. So this is my cheap rigged up clothes dryer. It's especially useful when there is no wind.

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Lynx

Lynx

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Rule #7: Go with what works. :)
 
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