Cans

Don't recycle those cans yet -- they have 13 extraordinary uses!

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Clever Tricks With Cans

Keep tables together
When you're having a large dinner party, lock card tables together by setting adjacent pairs of legs into empty cans. You won't have to clean up any spills caused by the tables moving this way and that.


Make light reflectors
It's simple to make reflectors for your campsite or backyard lights. Just remove the bottom of a large empty can with a can opener and take off any label. Then use tin snips to cut the can in half lengthwise. You've just made two reflectors.


Quick floor patch
Nail can lids to a wooden floor to plug knotholes and keep rodents out. If you can get access to the hole from the basement, nail the lid in place from underneath so the patch won't be obvious.


Tuna can egg poacher
An empty 6-ounce (170-gram) tuna can is the perfect size to use as an egg poacher. Remove the bottom of the can as well as the top and remove any paper label. Then place the metal ring in a skillet of simmering water, and crack an egg into it.


Make a miniature golf course
Arrange cans with both ends removed so the ball must go through them, go up a ramp into them, or ricochet off a board through them.
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