How to make a good thing out of forgetting to take out your garbage
One of the things that bothers me the most about Pinterest is that every post assumes that you are a fully functioning adult, with unlimited time, monetary resources and the means to remember to clean and buy groceries and take the garbage to the curb. I mean, can I help it if I forget to take my garbage out for a few weeks? I’m busy with far more important things like school and work and wasting time on the Internet.
That’s what makes this craft particularly awesome. It’s not geared towards the wealthy, clean, swimming-in-free-time adult crowd, and it combines two of the more favoured university student pastimes: drinking and forgetting to take out the garbage.
If you’ve got a decent amount of six-pack holders lying around – either because you can’t be bothered to recycle them or because you have, for some reason, been hoarding them – an excellent way to appear to be (a) super crafty, (b) super money savvy, and (c) in complete control of your very adult life, is to turn them into coasters. Repeat after me: you did not forget to recycle those six-pack holders; you were saving them so you could repurpose them, which is both economically and environmentally responsible. Go you!
You will need:
– A few six-pack holders
– Packing tape (you can get this at the dollar store)
– Scissors
– A ruler and a pen, if you’re really bad at cutting in semi-straight lines
This is actually as easy as it appears. If you so desire, measure and outline 4×4 inch squares on flattened six-pack holders. Then, cut out these squares. After cutting, line up two squares with the fun sides facing out, and use the packing tape to “laminate” them by completely covering one side in tape, flipping the coaster over and doing the same to the other side, and then cutting off the excess tape.
There you have it. Not only have you repurposed garbage (which is environmentally responsible), costing at most a dollar (which is fiscally responsible), but you have also saved your coffee/dining room/beer pong table from water damage, which is just overall responsible!