Did you know there's an online urban dictionary? You can learn quite a bit there (some of it stuff you never wanted to know and may now wish you still did not know, so be warned).
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1. A clever or elegant technical accomplishment, especially one with a playful or prankish bent. A clever routine in a computer program, especially one which uses tools for purposes other than those for which they were intended, might be considered a hack. Students at technical universities, such as MIT, are famous for performing elaborate hacks, such as disassembling the dean's car and then reassembling it inside his house, or turning a fourteen-story building into a giant Tetris game by placing computer-controlled lighting panels in its windows.
Ooooh, that sounds cool. I have very few technical accomplishments. In fact, I can't think of any. But I do think this bathroom rubbish bin is elegant:
In its former life it was a large flower pot. I needed bathroom rubbish bins, and I didn't have them, but I did have a surfeit of flower pots (inherited from a beloved late uncle who had a green thumb). In fact, all my bathroom trashcans are large ceramic plant pots. I was inspired by a visit to a home where instead of hanging the toilet paper on a hardware roller , the mistress of the home put it in a large crystal bowl on the floor in an accessible corner.
This was a Christmas present for my eldest daughter:
I picked up a gold and green frame for a quarter at a thrift shop, because the elegant little frame was framing a hideous portrait of bozo the clown done on kelly green velvet with garishly colored tempera paints. I threw out the clown (he was really very badly done). I cut out a square of silk from a thrifted shirt (it fit none of us, but was so inexpensive and such an elegant color that I had to have it) for the background. I snipped the bonnet from an old card from Victoria Trading Company. The gold ribbon on top is also from a thrift shop. Our thrift shop had a surplus of craft items, so they put them all on a table for 2.00 a bag- you fill your own bag. I filled it with ribbons, buttons, embroidery hoops, floss, Christmas craft kits, miniature roses that one of my daughters uses to make flower fairy dolls, and more.
Best of all, I made this right beneath the recipient's nose and with her unwitting input. I did this by hiding my work every time Pip, a different daughter, came through the room, and by asking my first-born questions like , "Do you think Pip will like this? Which bonnet do you think she'd like best? " And then on Christmas morning it turned up in the first-born's stocking!
This is my 11 year old's ribbon bulletin board made from a cardboard box, thrifted wrapping paper, ribbons, and doo-dads. There's another one here, and it hangs in my room.
Doll stands for porcelain dolls are usually pretty easy to find at thrift shops. They also make great hat stands. If you weight the bottom down (how about in a pretty pottery bowl covered in an assortment of river rocks?), you can also use one for a bathroom counter towel stand for hand towels.
To jury-rig or improvise something inelegant but effective, usually as a temporary solution to a problem.
I needed a long table cloth for two tables pushed together. I used a quilt or a king sized sheet. Later I bought two table cloths the same color and pattern, and when they are spread over the two tables you don't really notice.
In an emergency hemming situation I have been known to use masking tape. All situations where I might be asked to hem something are deemed 'emergencies.'
A shelf or two in our refrigerator- held together by duct-tape. In another house with a different refrigerator my husband simply cut me a new shelf from a bit of scrap lumber.
I have been known to use jar lids as candle holders to keep the wax from ruining my furniture, and clean, empty jars are drinking glasses around here (I don't like drinking from plastic, and I am tired of buying glass glasses at the thrift shop only to have them break).
The turtle's 'tank' is a clear plastic under the bed storage tote. I had the plastic tote on hand; a glass tank of similar size would have been prohibitively expensive.
A person (usually possessing thorough knowledge in no single field), who is talented at devising superficial "fixes," which are nothing more than auxiliary work-arounds for problems which eventually have to be solved "correctly" by a "trained professional."
Hackers are self-motivated, and learn through experimentation and persistence, as opposed to through "traditional" means.
That, I think, pretty much describes everybody on the Frugal Hacks blogroll, don't you think?
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January 18th, 2008 at 8:25 am
For the toilet paper idea..I bet you could get a tall, wide glass vase & put the extra rolls in there..maybe line the inside w/wide ribbon…hmm
Candle holders: I needed something to put under 2 big pillar candles my DH picked out, but didn’t like the ones in the candle aisle, so I went to housewares & picked up 2 shallow square wooden bowls..looks really cute in our “shades of brown & tan” living room!
January 18th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
So funny you mention the jars for drinking. All of our “real” glasses have gotten broken, but my husband’s favorite glass is a mason jar that once held WalMart brand salsa. And, it’s lasted months and months!
January 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I need motivation to clean out my room = our master bedroom – I have such a mess in there -
It’s Sunday – I am so very bothered by the ‘clutter’ prob in my house -
Does anyone know where to start? We have bought a 3700 buck new bedroom king suite for our room – and by February 8, we have to have it allllll out and ready to put the new stuff in -
I have an overabundunce of shoes -size 12 and clothes that are darling – mostly from goodwill but very classy – I am a hoarder and I need motivation to clean it out – to get rid of so much stuff! HELP! pray for me -
lv, working mama
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