So, I was out driving today and I had just finished eating a small sandwich when I felt something stuck between two of my teeth. I hate this feeling more then anything, so I quickly began searching my car for floss, only to remember that I had just perviously used it up last week.

This is when my craftiness kicked in. I have been doing this for awhile, and don't tell my dentist he would likely smack me. When I am out of floss I will generally grab a piece of a grocery bag or a some thin sheet of paper like a receipt, pull it taught, and then slide it between my teeth to liberate the particles.

This got me thinking, what other crafty things have you done, or do you do often, when you find yourself in a pinch?

What crafty Macgyver things do you do / have you done?

I found myself stuck in the same situation a while ago, and found that by reaching in to the baggy cargo pockets of my khakis, I could find loose threads that were easy to pull out and very handy as floss.

There is nothing as annoying as needing floss and not having any.

Was smoking a joint that got way too small. No roach clips around, but one of the chicks I was with had some tweezers. Hell yeah!

I was locked out of my apartment, and even though my husband was inside, he was asleep and therefore dead to the world. Couldn't hear a thing.

I went downstairs to the hallway closet where we kept the shared brooms/vacuum for all the tenants to use in their hallway, and took out a wire coat hanger. Went back upstairs, climbed out a hall window onto the fire escape outside my apartment.

Then I somehow managed to wiggle the coat hanger between the upper and lower windows (which were locked), turn it around so the hook caught on the window latch, and turned it hard enough that it popped the window unlocked.

Then I crawled into my kitchen and b***hed my husband out for not waking up when I was banging on the door.

I've also been known to... fix a doorknob with a paper clip, use my belt as a makeshift leash when I found a stray dog, fix the hem on my jeans with one of those flag lapel pins, replace a missing screw in my glasses with a twisted staple, and make a long handled hook out of brake line in order to retrieve my grandfather's keys out of a well.

I'm handy.

OR...... you could have murdered him in his sleep as could anyone else with the intent of breaking into your house and robbing it.

Sorry to start sounding like my Dad, but if you can break into your own home then so can a thief.

Last week I used a cold 6pack of Coca Cola to cool an overheating tape drive.

Well I don't STILL live there. lol That was definitely one of those dumpy, not totally safe, but-we're-young-and-broke-and-it's-cheap places that most people have at one point or another in their young lives.

I was definitely pretty disconcerted when I realized it took me all of 8 minutes to break in, AND that my husband (boyfriend at the time) never even woke up through all of that.

I once broke out of captivity in hostile territory using only my shoelaces, a stick, and three toothpicks. On my way out, I came upon a tent with a radio, a camping stove, a sleeping bag, and a hustler magazine. I used those materials to build a fighter jet.

After using said fighter jet to destroy enemy camp, I flew back home. Lockheed Martin used my design as inspiration for their famous F22 (see avatar).

After the ordeal, when I finally arrived home, I broke into my house with my hidden front door key.

you sure you've never lived in detroit?? i used wire hangers to break into cars it's quick and easy same concept..

but yea one time I didn't have any condoms so i used a ziplock bag and a rubber band.. i was very drunk obviously but it got the job done, also try saran wrap and plastic grocery bags..

when you break a cigarrette near the base use clear tape to tape it back together so u can smoke the top part still, or empty out some of the bottom part still attached to the filter and shove the other side in it.

no water to make ramen noodles, use 5 o clock vodka.. lol

The last night my dad was alive, they let us stay at the hospital most of the night. The front doors won't open from the outside at night, but the inside motion detectors will still open them. Of course we realized this once we were outside for a smoke. I grabbed an advertisement from one of those free community newspaper machines, folded it over, slid it between the doors and up to the top and wiggled it. Voila! It triggered the motion detector on the inside, and the doors opened.

I was out at a party and there was of course beer. And it was at this party that I learned a rather interesting trick, and managed to test one of my own.

You can open a bottle of beer with another bottle of beer. It took awhile for me to get the hang of it, but once I did I was a bottle opening machine. It involves hinging the top on the curves of the other cap... I dont know how to explain it. (Then I found my keys... which had a bottle opener all along.)

I also got to try a trick I learned in Esquire magazine, using the binding of a magazine, held tight together, can be used as an edge to open a bottle on.

Many moons ago Two of my friends and I were exploring a cave system in the middle of the desert, The mouth of the cave is submerged in a spring and requires a dive and swim of about 20 feet.On my second or third trip out for supplies (beer) I surfaced to soon and broke a ledge ,The falling ledge pinned me under the surface of the water about six inches down .One of my friends grab the beer bong and tore off the hose and stuck it in my mouth .I breathed thought the hose until they stopped laughing their asses off and removed the rocks off my dumb drunken ass and pulled me out of the water.

I actually know how to open a bottle with my forearm. What you do, is put your forearm on the unopened bottle cap, and put some pressure on the cap, and give it a twist. It's a simple trick, that will make you look slightly cool....ish.

This was a rare blonde moment followed by a genius moment for me. I was sleeping over my friends house while I was living in NJ and she had told me that if I wanted to go outside for a smoke I needed to keep the basement door open by jamming something underneath it to hold it open. Well I forgot completely about it and went outside for a smoke and forgot to prop the door.

Now the way her apartment was set up, it was the ones that are side by side, no alley ways just the door to the basement which led upstairs. So I looked around and tried calling out to her but she couldn't hear me.

Then I remembered the big tree behind me and the shovel next to it. It had some pretty decent branches so I grabbed the shovel and beat one of those branches off. I then grabbed the clothes line, tied it to the branch along with a couple of knotted areas and then threw it at the fire escape near her window(the fire escape ladder was busted and wouldn't come down). After a couple of minutes I managed to get it to latch and climbed up the rope and onto the fire escape.

I go to her window and started to bang on it which scared the s**t out of her. I told her what happened and we both laugh about it to this day.

We discovered that beer can be opened with a clipper lighter

This was after I had spent almost a full night opening them with my teeth.

any lighter works with opening beer bottles.



I prefer using my ring as well.

BWWWWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Too fuggin funny!!!

You can open beer bottles with almost anything.

Some items I've used so far:

lighter

screwdriver

garden chair (various ends)

hammer

Black & Decker roto hammer

grinding stone (don't try this at home!)

beer bottle

garage door

teaspoon

doorknob

flashlight

tent peg

external hard drive

fork

spade

windowsill

film splicer

sharpie

car key

brick

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Next baked goods package might include a bottle opener...