30 Creative Solutions To Everyday Problems From Backyard Engineers
The best solutions to everyday problems don’t come from professionals with expensive tools. They come from regular people solving issues with whatever’s lying around in the backyard.
These clever solutions from amateur engineers prove that creativity beats conventional methods. Duct tape, zip ties, and pure ingenuity solve problems that “proper” fixes would cost hundreds to address. Backyard engineering gets the job done.
1. “This gentleman at Target who reversed his hooded sweatshirt to make a puppy pocket”
2. “Technologia.”
3. “Been sick this week, taking a lot of baths to steam my sinuses. Water always cools down too fast and never enough steam. With a $10 vinyl sheet I made a steam room.”
4. “The boots are great, but the tread was worn down and it’s slippery outside. Problem solved, hopefully.”
5. “Use letter trays as additional freezer shelves”
6. “I found this in the elevator at the hotel I’m staying at.”
7. “Anti frost devices”
8. “Keep your toddler safely in the grocery cart seat (and prevent abductions) with a carabiner.”
9. “I use my fan to vent the fumes away from me when onion chopping”
10. “Cut a pool noodle in half to make a comfortable armrest for the truck. From Australia.”
11. “To my fellow gardeners: if you need less ‘chunky’ soil use a litter scoop”
12. “Wheelchairs in Bosnian hospitals.”
13. “My 13yo daughter invented a way to clean hair brushes.”
14. “My gas cap stopped closing properly, so I came up with a solution”
15. “When you’ve got too many groceries for your reg cab pickup.”
16. “Door bell backup”
“I expecting the gas company to come by today to change out my propane tank and they said that they rang the doorbell but no one will come to the door and when I try to call me they just went to voicemail.
I don’t know what was wrong with the phone but it turns out my doorbell and pick that time to malfunction. I need tank change out bad so I come up with the emergency backup doorbell.”
17. “Clothes pegs fit nicely between brick to hold Xmas lights”
18. “Water powered weenie rotisserie”
“Me and my brother in law made a water powered weenie rotisserie yesterday in my backyard (we have a very small creek on the property) using a bike wheel, bike fork, coroplast sign, paint stirrers, zip ties… and a Weenie Wheel (12 hot dog rotisserie for a grill from the 1950’s) I bought off ebay. cooked up some Saugy Franks on potato rolls with French’s mustard.”
19. “Seamless fix”
20. “Used a leaf blower and a funnel to inflate a pool. Actually worked fairly quickly”
21. “Steering wheel broke, needed to finish the yard. Thankfully I know how to drive a stick.”
22. “Parenting Hack #2446”
23. “If you run out of AA batteries for anything, AAA batteries and a small crumbled-up ball of aluminum foil will make a good replacement.”
24. “Found this fork in my brothers house and asked him why he had done it…. then he ran upstairs to grab his IPad”
25. “Redneck repurposing of kids’ recreational toys”
26. “My dad was quoted $1200 to fix the AC. This is his ‘no cost’ solution.”
27. “The temporary fix has become a permanent fix”
“The temporary bucket has been sitting on the floor for months collecting a leak. It was recently upgraded to a permanent fix with a drain hose plumbed into a pipe that leads to a nearby sink.”
28. “Glove Box won’t work? $5 and some superglue for a fix!!”
29. “Daughter wants to work in the garage with dad. needs hair pulled back. Dad hack 101.”
30. “Homemade smoker from FB”
