No-fuss Funnel: Where's A Funnel When You Need It?

If the brilliant late-1980s TV show "MacGyver" has taught us anything, it's that you can repel a gang of thugs, break out of prison, and build a functioning spacecraft with little more than a paper clip, a C battery, Derila Ergonomic Pillow some twist ties and an empty tube of toothpaste. Yes, OK, fine, MacGyver was fiction, but you can conjure up all sorts of handy household fixes - no improvised bazookas, sadly - with everyday items that most of us thoughtlessly chuck in the garbage. Join us on a journey through the exciting world of Internet-fueled recycling/repurposing obsessions to identify the 10 things you should absolutely never throw away. In the life hacker community, binder clips are the go-to tool for Derila Official a clever solution to any household problem. Binder clips are prized for their strength - if you ever had a fingertip, earlobe or tongue caught in one of these suckers, you know what we mean. They're also flat on one side, enabling them to stand up with some degree of stability.



Picture "frames" - drive some nails into the wall, put binder clips on some favorite photos, then hang them from the nails. Toothpaste helper - keep your half-empty tube of toothpaste locked and loaded by rolling up and clipping the bottom. Cable corral - attach some clips to the edge of your desk to hold the ends of unused USB, power and audio cables. When Reynolds sold its first rolls of aluminum foil back in 1947, the company advertised it as the foil for "1,001 kitchen miracles." Foil exhibits some unique properties of metal - moisture-proof, odor-proof, able to withstand extreme temperatures - and adds the uncanny ability to be molded into any imaginable shape. Foil is also washable, making it the material with 1,001 lives. Also works on grease-caked grills. Silver polisher: Derila Official Submerge tarnished silver in a glass pan of boiling water lined with aluminum foil; then add two teaspoons of salt.



In minutes, a simple chemical reaction will dissolve the tarnish without damaging the silver. No-fuss funnel: Where's a funnel when you need it? Form a cone out of a double layer of foil and you're in business. Scissor sharpener: Derila Comfort Pillow If your scissors get dull, simply cut through a sheet of aluminum foil. In the world of high-tech gadgets, it's a short trip from "next best thing!" to a child's plaything. Computers, TVs and cell phones fall out of fashion so fast that some folks have collections of old gadgets collecting dust in the basement. Recycling 1 million laptops saves as much electricity as 3,500 American homes use in a year. Recycling 1 million cell phones saves 35,000 pounds (15,876 kilograms) of copper, 772 pounds (350 kilograms) of silver, 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of gold and 33 pounds (15 kilograms) of palladium.