What’s the coolest thing you’ve done with something you bought on Meh? {Closed}
1Sure, anyone can use a coffee maker to make coffee or throw a speakerdock in a dumpster (the intended uses of those products) but what Meh items did you get creative with? What came in handy when you least expected it?
If you can't think of anything cool you've done, what better day than today to try something stupid? It is our birthday after all.
Super extra double bonus points if you can show us a picture.
Our favorite will win a prize! Contest ends at 11:59pm Eastern.
Intended use is for suckers.
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Wow.... that needs a think. I may need to macguyver something up tonight.
I know I won't be in the running (not a really cool story or anything) but I will share anyway. My husband and I had a contest with your helicopters. We would see who could fly certain paths (such as starting from the coffee table, around the dining room light, turn around at the dog dish and back to the coffee table) and land it without crashing. I never won.
That, coupled with the fact that I shut down in crisis situations, taught me I would be a terrible pilot. Good thing I'm terrified of flying anyway, or else my dreams would be crushed.
Looking forward to reading everyone elses submissions!
PS- I also use Meh's fanny pack for when I go metal detecting. I look like an ultra-dork but it sure is handy to keep the various metals I find in.
@ABitterWoman I was thinking you sound like an awesome couple and I hope someday I marry someone who's that much fun, right up until I read about the metal detecting. :-P
@jqubed Metal detecting is just me, but my husband is sweet enough to tolerate it in small doses. He also bought a moped to go riding with me (I have a 78 vespa and he a 76 motobecane). Mopeds are pretty dorky but he did it for me. He seems to enjoy it a bit though.
He also puts up with my horror obsession (video games/movies/shows) and will watch one with me from time to time. He's pretty great. :)
I took stuff I bought but didn't immediately use and made a random box for my Christmas exchange. Included a power bank, a TOCCs snap cable, cutting boards, and then threw in a horsehead mask. Made for a pretty awesome yankee swap exchange.
An inside-out Built kindle case makes my ipad all shiny and fingerprint free.
At the school I teach at, students earn points for good behaviors. (I'm a Special education teacher working with students with severe behaviors.) At the end of the year we have a huge auction and all the prizes are free will donation. So I saved up stuff throughout the year and donated about $600 worth of stuff to students that under normal circumstances couldn't afford them. Not really transforming stuff but still, Mehs deals helped to make about 50 really happy kids!
Oh a more personal usage note. I took the 60 neoprene sleeves i got and gave them to my grandma and told her to make something out of them. She decided to make a giant neoprene quilt for my daughter. Id post the picture however she is still working on it. She estimates that it will be about 6 ft by 4 ft of neoprene goodness. Gonna have her embroider MEH across the top of it.
@studerc that'll be one non-breathable quilt!
and heavy
Gave it away.
Modified a dirt cheap Belkin BT keyboard case to fit my HP Touchpad. Yes, I still use the HP Touchpad for work by taking notes, sending email, remote desktop, etc... The keyboard case while not ideal, is better than having a separate BT keyboard that I had to bring to meetings. (I use that one for my phone now)
@medz The real question is: Are you using WebOS, or Android.
@medz Loved my Touchpad. Sad when one day it apparently died in it's sleep.
@smigit2002 Mostly Android CM9. WebOS would probably run smoother for just email and calendar though. Haven't booted it in awhile.
@medz Nice. I've been meaning to break out mine and give it a nice, fresh ROM, it's been so long!
@medz My first tablet was the touchpad that I acquired during their first fire sale. Played with it for a while, then rooted and installed a dual-boot android build. After some time, I upgraded to a proper android tab, but I would not have ever been in the market for it had it not been for the HPTP. Fond memories there.
A while back, I bought a food scale. I took it to a flea market, and traded it to a vendor for a banana.
-NotReally
@lichme The little blue food scale? I loved that thing, it's help me lose weight since I now actually measure proper servings instead of heaping food on and saying "that looks about right! (om nom nom)"
@lichme So it was "banana for scale" transaction?
@TaRDy precisely
I took the Roomba I won a year ago and reprogrammed it to not work at all, whatsoever. All I had to do was remove the main board. Easiest hack ever!
I use the Kindle Fire I bought on meh to buy more stuff on meh. Lots of stuff on meh, enough to keep my sweetie pissed at me at least part time. It's won me some fuku's and a fuko and lots of giftable stuff.
That may not be the most original use of an item, but it's far from Amazon's intended use of only buying more stuff from Amazon. I even hacked Google Play onto it, and that may qualify in certain corners of the universe as stupid.
@2many2no I could never get the play store to work on the kindle I kept. (sold the other!) You're a better haxor than I am.
@medz GIYF
@2many2no GIWITBWU
I use the Meh fanny pack as a holder for the "dummy pot" for my monthly pool games. When someone knocks a ball off the table, fails to lag past the halfway point, a non-player offers unsolicited advice on a shot or other similar bone-head moves, a dollar is placed in the fanny. For being an ass.
Dummy pot goes to the winner of 3-ball on the next month's game.
@ACraigL I should have mentioned, a common phrase during the night is, "Put a dollar is the ass-bag". As more beer get imbibed, it devolves to a simple finger-point and guttural "Ass bag".
this sucker's happy
with intended usage but
all things are cat toys
Used as intended!
@mdrcoast Ah! I don't suppose you'd care to swap for a more creative model.
Picked up this Lithium-ion tool set back in February. I have a bunch of Ryobi tools, and have always wanted to try out a multi-headed tool, but didn't feel like spending real money on it. However, for $58? That's less than one head from Ryobi's version, so I figured "meh, why not"
It's come in QUITE handy. It's pretty much my go-to tool bag for helping friends move. One friend... I swear, she owned at least one of every large piece of furniture from IKEA, and the place she moved into had a VERY tight staircase. EVERY SINGLE DRESSER/DESK/what have you had to come apart. The right angle drill was perfect for this, just enough power to get it apart without tearing it to pieces, and small enough to get in the nooks and crannies.
And then there's my summer project: refinishing the basement bathroom. Again, right angle drill for those hard to get to places. Used the scraper to peel up all the old mastic from when the previous owner had linoleum. And since it has a universal multi-headed tool head, I picked up a diamond blade designed for getting rid of grout and used it to clean out the extra thinset between the tiles before laying grout.
Overall, fantastic purchase, fantastic price, a surprisingly un-Meh experience. But don't tell Irk!
I reaffirmed my son's belief in Santa by procuring one of those awesome helicopters for his "last minute" Santa item.. Soooo love that @hollboll for getting it here in time!
@mikibell Aww that's awesome!
I used a full pack of beautiful cedar planks meant for grilling salmon to ignite a stubborn pitfire. It smelled wonderful.
So my original kickstarter fuko had a bunch of reading glasses in it. I popped the lens out and twisted the frames to make it into a sort of wind chime thing. It broke like a week later, but it was still fun while it lasted!
@Jamileigh17 huh, I was always wondering what I should do with all those glasses...
@smigit2002 It probably would have lasted longer if I had a more weatherproof place to hang it (my balcony is pretty windy). Used a hair dryer to make the metal more flexible, and some garden twine I had to hang a few pieces of metal pipe I had laying around from another project.
@smigit2002 I got rids of a lot of them at a garage sale. $0.50 a piece of pure, sweet profit.
Ok, so, dude - you're gonna love this.
I bought a shirt - and wore it. On my torso. Crazy, right?
@Thumperchick Not as pants?
I made tomato sauce from scratch (real scratch, not canned) and the Panasonic immersion blender made the process way easier. That thing is still the best.
(sry yea that's all pretty normal and boring)
The slimmer neoprene Kindle sleeves make great wine bottle coozies for picnics in the park!
Now I regret never sewing jiggly eyes on the toes of my Mediocre socks. Committing to fully accessorizing puppet critters was beyond me. Maybe next year.
I use a Contigo mug to carry hot steel-cut oatmeal or breakfast burritos to work.
Using the Vermont tools I built a small simple closet. Poor saw isn't straight anymore, but the closet is standing strong
The question isn't what is the coolest thing I've done with something. It is what my cat has done with something. I bought one of the Cat's meow toys a few weeks ago. My cat has figured out how to turn it on. Now several times a day he walks over to it, pushes the button to turn it on and plays until it times out. Sometimes this happens in the middle of the night :>/
@Psikic Actually got a video of it today.
I haven't actually done this yet, but I plan on filling up the Tweety and Sylvester MP3 players I got for my niece and nephew with every kid-appropriate song I have and give them to them for Christmas. (I hope I have enough -- they each hold 2,000 songs.)
@christinerenee I get audio books from the library and keep a different one on Sylvester and Tweety.
@christinerenee Be sure to include a KidsBop version of Gorilla by Bruno Mars. The kids love Bruno Mars.
@medz Haven't heard that but I'll check it out. Thanks!
I packed at least 8 neoprene cases inside of each other, a la matryoshka dolls, and some lucky person received them at a white elephant
Cough...cough...@JonT. ???
@studerc this, I mean, cough.
@ACraigL @JonT cough cough cough c ough cough cough
@studerc That is an AWFUL cough you have!!
Not for the contest, but it rained on vacation so I put the model kit from the fuko together. Just wondering if anyone else did.
@sammydog01 How about a spoiler alert?!? Sheesh!
@ACraigL You mean from the fuko in April? You haven't opened yours yet? Sorry.
@sammydog01 Ha! Assumed it it was the current one. I got nothing like like that in my Fuko, so no way for me to judge. That being said, it's a perfect likeness. :P
@ACraigL I know, I was being a smartass. :) A bunch of people got really cool monster car kits, and some got these weird surfer kits. I forgot how fun model kits were.
@sammydog01 I just wrapped my weird car kit up for Christmas stockings! I had forgotten all about it.
@JonT will announce the winner today, I'm sure.
@ACraigL Yes, and the prize will be a unicorn.
@ACraigL Today is a possibility... BUT WHICH YEAR?
@Starblind The contest that never ends...
Congrats @studerc & @sammydog01!!!
Expect a mediocre prize to come your way...eventually!
@JonT @studerc @sammydog01 Gratz guys. My buddies were sure my "ass-bag" was going to win. Now if I had turned it inside-out... maybe.
@JonT Thanks! For the record, I would have messed around with more entries except you overwhelmed me with the Meh Birthday awesomeness! Not enough time to do everything, but I had a blast.