Things you can ruin to realize it didn't make sense to DIY

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jerk-sock

jerk-sock on a vacuum


old car

old car


perfectly good tennis balls

perfectly good tennis balls


dry wall

dry wall


sharp blades

who needs sharp blades anyways


art degree

art degree


Any more suggestions?

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What's a jerk sock? Also, if you get use out of it, you arguably did not ruin it.

A sock that you cum into..

I actually really like the plastic bag and bottle trick.

It's a lot of plastic. What if a canning jar was used instead? Then we just have to convince Packaging to switch to waxed paper bags or something.

It looks to be reusing a bread bag and an empty bottle, so those would have been trash. Reuse/repurposing is better than just throwing away.

Reduce
Reuse <- You are here
Recycle

Not using it at all would be better, sure, but if you don't have that option for whatever reason, reusing it is the next best thing. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

I think you may have meant to respond to the other person since this is pretty much what I said

I was supporting your point. I forget that comments are seen as counterargument by default.

But you're right, my comment would have been more useful in reply to the other person.

You raise a great point about comments being seen as a counter by default. And if you try to give a disclaimer in your comment (like saying you agree) you still get downvoted for some reason. I'm very cautious about participating in any serious topics because of this, jokes, one-liners and sharing (unimportant) personal experiences are pretty much the only safe comments.

Come on over to Beehaw, where we don't have downvotes, then!

It forces people to actually take time and effort to disagree with you, rather than just hitting one button, and somewhat unsurprisingly, that deters a lot of "drive-by" negativity.

Most of these seem pretty reasonable to me. I guess I don't get this post.

Op, do you just hate fun? most of these are pretty cute or funny and just because they're not the most efficient design doesn't mean they're not allowed to exist?