Questions tagged [container]
Hacks related to improvising and/or using containers innovatively and with efficiency.
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How can I fix this cup, deformed by boiling water?
Accidentally, I poured boiling water into this special cup of mine, now warped by the boiling water. How can I unwarp it?
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How to make a large custom-size cardboard box?
My goal is to make a cardboard box that has the very unconventional size of 70" x 20" x 12". It's for transporting a piece of furniture but we don't want it to be any larger than that. ...
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How to organize food containers better?
We have plenty plastic storage containers for food leftovers, travel snacks, work lunches etc... Currently there's two cube drawers of Tupperware style containers. Oftentimes the lids get separated ...
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How to dry a plastic-and-fabric bag overnight
My lunch bag got wet at work today. It has a flexible plastic lining, inside a fabric bag. It must also have something between the plastic and the fabric to keep its box-like shape. It's about 12" x 8"...
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How do you turn water white?
I put beautiful bottles out with colored water as part of my decorations for each holiday. I can't figure out how to make white so I can have red white & blue for the 4th of July. Does anyone ...
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How do I make a lid for this bin?
There's a popular chain of home furniture store, which shall go unnamed, from which I've gotten a couple of bins which look like this:
Unfortunately for me, that store doesn't sell lids for these bins....
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Checking microwave proof containers
Although there are markings in form of symbols to tell us if a container is microwave safe or not, I have some plastic containers which don't have any symbols but are microwave safe. Is there any ...
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How to get water from can into bottles with less effort?
Nowadays we are using water container as shown below for drinking water.
Suggest any hack to get water without either bending or this manual motor.
Note that I have to exchange this water container ...
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What is the most appropriate type of water bottle for home use?
When at home I use a bottle to drink water from instead of a glass. For some time - actually, several yaers - I used glass bottles, since:
they can be reused many more times without involving any ...
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How can you reuse a disposable water bottle indefinitely?
I like to reuse disposable water bottles as many times as I can so that they get many uses before having to be recycled.
Assuming you continue to properly wash the disposable water bottle, is it ...
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Can hot water container be used to keep cold water? [closed]
I have wondering whether hot water container can be used to keep cold water or vice versa. It is a trivial question, but I haven’t found any information online.
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Keeping the spoon on the surface of a sucralose container
In the coffee corner in my family's kitchen, we have a plastic cereal container (similar to the one shown below) that's filled with loose Splenda or other sugar substitute. We keep a spoon in there ...
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How do you open a tin of corned beef with a broken lid?
So horrible i cant eat any food. Need to fix now
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How can you get the first brownie out of the pan without destroying it?
When I bake brownies and cut them, it's always difficult to get the first brownie out of the pan without breaking it. The subsequent brownies are easier to get out because of the open space created ...
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Open a bottle without bending the cap
Given a bottle that has a non-twist metallic cap (e.g. on a beer bottle), is there a way to remove the cap and end up with it not being bent?
Could it be removed without being bent? Or is there a way ...
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