Duct Tape, the Fabric of Our Lives

The Healthy Indian Diet

I've been more and more interested in trying and making Indian food lately. I make Mark Bittman's dal and even the neighbor kids like it. But I don't know much about the cuisine and all of the recipes I've cooked actually come from old white guys (Bittman, and Andrew Weil.) Indian ...

Duct tape. Whole books have been written on how to use this magical substance for everything from making a wallet to making a laser. Or maybe that last one was a MacGuyver episode, whatever.

My life is held together with duct tape.

DUCT

Hit the mailbox on the way out of the driveway? Duct tape will rescue your mirror.

Son drops the vacuum down the stairs? Duct tape will allow you to get good suction again.

Kids hate their wearing their diapers? Duct tape.

Shelf falls off the fridge door because you’ve crammed too many salsas and ketchups in there? Duct tape even works in the cold.

Hairy legs, and all out of razors? Surely duct tape will work for that, too. Well, actually, I haven’t tried that one. Let me know if it works.

And now I’ve discovered that duct tape comes in decorator colors!

You too can have a classy, matchy-matchy appearance. I’m such a duct tape aficionado, I’ve actually worn duct tape out. I think when I need to replace the half a roll holding my driver’s side mirror on, I’ll go with forest green to match the van. Or perhaps black, to match the mirror. Decisions, decisions…

Duct tape works for me. Check out We Are THAT Family for more Works for Me Wednesday fun!

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Clare September 30, 2009 at 2:57 am

Oh, that is hilarious, and so true. I always have a roll on hand and we have used it for all the above examples ( except the depilation, ouch)

Some other examples would be:
The patch of flooring that is rucked up and tripping people up, the frayed edge of the rug in the ‘den’, the inner bag of beans in the bean bag thats a bit busted and spills the ‘beans’ everywhere, the cotbed mattress that is split…there’s more of course. I also use it for labels sometimes ( I write on it with magic marker).

Milehimama September 30, 2009 at 11:17 am: I will admit to once duct taping a clean cloth napkin over a very dirty throw pillow when company was coming over. You can’t see the tape if you keep the pillow on the couch!

DebbieQ September 30, 2009 at 5:24 am

Duct tape is essential around here! Several years ago we happened to be on a boat, on a rather remote river in Alaska. The boat is humming along until all of a sudden…putt, putt, putt…silence. The boat driver gets up, goes in the back, fiddles around for a time, comes back up to the front, extracts a roll of duct tape from the secret “emergency” compartment, tapes something and away we go.

angi September 30, 2009 at 9:35 am

had a friend that just said the duct tape was the force of all life

Birdie September 30, 2009 at 9:58 am

Our vacuum cleaner is also held together with duct tape. lol

Tia September 30, 2009 at 6:01 pm

I have nothing constructive to say. I just wanted to mention that I love – love – the title of this post! It’s awesome; you should sell it to the duct tape folks!

Mama M. October 2, 2009 at 5:12 pm