School Budget Helper
(above) We found these creative uses of duct tape in the Women's locker room of the Roseville, MN High School (don't ask what we were doing in the women's locker room).

Alex's Throne I just wanted to share my latest project, duct tape high chair, for the baby who rocks. Hope y'all like it.
Thanks, Meg C., Bryan, TX We think Alex will grow up to be a King or President or a Duct Tape Guy or something with this throne!

"Snowy" satellite reception?
Gregg S. of Albion, MI poses this question:
Got a satellite TV dish? Live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Losing your signal due to snow buildup on the dish? Frustrated by trying to clean the snow off the dish so you can get back to the game? Get your hands on the following: dust pan brush, telescoping Christmas light string hanger, and, of course, duct tape. Works great! Excellent idea, Gregg!

Duct tape on the High Seas
The West Canada Creek (NY) make-your-own boat and float competition was graced by the Pirates of the West Canada (Earl Wilson, Jim Okey and Goe Bessmer) again this year. And what a mass of duct tape they used! Over three miles of duct tape! Yeah, they probably pirated the tape.

Christmas Stocking Fix Not having a Christmas stocking and still wanting a substantial haul from Santa Claus, I got out my red and green duct tape and fashioned this sturdy sock. It's hung on the closest thing we have to a mantel, our television shelf. Yes, I'm quite optimistic. - Kyle J

Holiday Footwear I didn't have the appropriate shoes to go with my hoilday party dress, so I grabbed my roll of silver duct tape and had at an old pair of orange bride's maid shoes. The conversion took about ten minutes and got rave reviews all night. - Ginger

Musical Fix On November 1, 2008, the Roller Mills String Band was playing at the Attic Books and Coffee in Green Bay.  As we were setting up, the fiddle was accidently fell on the floor and the ebony fingerboard  separated from the instrument.  Our fiddler, Jim Burch, reached into our all purpose repair kit (consisting of one handy roll of duct tape, a screw driver and a pair of pliers).  He took two small strips of duct tape, rolled them up and put them on the back of the fingerboard.  Then, he pressed the fingerboard back on to the neck and viola, he was able to fiddle the night away. - Dale P.,The Roller Mills String Band

Paris Bus Repair I didn't do it, but I saw it. My wife and I were in Paris in April '08 waiting to board a tour bus to take us to Notra Dame when I noticed the left rear bumper of the bus. Even in France, Duct Tape has 1001 uses. The moral of this story is if you are going to buy a tour bus, be sure it's gray, so when you back into something and bang-up the bumper it's easily repaired with duct tape. - Del L. Benicia, CA

Hey, Tim - I'll tell ya a secret... Del didn't do it. I did. Don't tell nobody, okay?

Hawaiian Stylin'
Gabi caught this duct tape sighting at the Haiku Flower Festival in Haiku, Maui (check out his right leg).

Vasectomy Helper
A long time ago, when my dad had his vasectomy done, he went back to work two days later as suggested by his doctor.  Since he worked in construction, however, he accidentally did way too much, and tore his incision.  Being on the job, there wasn't much to choose from for a quick fix, so he grabbed the nearest roll of duct tape and repaired to the port-a-potty.  Don't ask how it felt coming off. Strange but true!!! Michelle H., Hiram, GA

Another Duck Tape Repair I live on a farm and have many ducks.  One day I noticed one limping with something caught on it's leg.  I told my husband that it got into something and he said no, i found it with a broken leg, so i duct taped it together.  I said, omg, that won't work, you need a splint.! I forgot that, he said.  Well, a year later, the duck (they are pets) is still gimping around the farm and still has most of his duct (duck) tape intact. - Cindy S., Warren, CT

Mascot Clothing
Well, it's kind of hard to find clothing that fits our class mascot, Scooter the Otter, because of his abnormal measurements and the fact that rigor mortis does not allow him to move any limbs. Therefore, we use the only other plausible source for his outfits- duct tape. We dress him up for many occasions, such as Christmas and the school dance, and I'm pretty sure the archer and knight outfits were just random. My name is Tim (not kidding) U., and my friend who makes most of the outfits is Matt L. If this does make it on the website, please be sure to mention Matt, as it is his otter, and I don't want to take all the glory. We are in the class of 2010 at Caldwell Academy, which is in Greensboro, NC. What better use for duct tape than to save our class mascot's dignity? Consider yourself mentioned, Matt. Nice work!

Duct Tape Decorative Wallets
I just wanted to share some of my wallets with you. I am a broke fulltime student and fulltime employee so i do this on the side to help pay for school. Plus its fun. hope you like them.
Duck tape Rocks! Emilia D., Omaha, NE

See our other wallets in the Duct Tape Fashion Accessories pages.

Duct Tape Camper
Scott and Randy of DePere, WI (right down the road from Jim and Tim's Duct Tape World Headquarters) fashioned this stylish vinyl Airstream trailer (Duct Tape Camper) using a utility trailer, PVC tubing and duct tape. Check out their story and watch videos of the construction process here.

Duct Tape assists Lazer Vaudeville We're sure that the Lazer Vaudeville team uses duct tape for more than this, but, here is a shot of a makeshift flower vase for the LV Tour bus.

Dog Training I compete in dog agility, my dog is Rhodesian Ridgeback mix and her name is Junebug.  She's very, very good at agility.  I made some practice jumps and weaves out of PVC pipe and duct tape.  To make them easier to carry around I used an old tarp, duct taped it into the shape of a bag, poked a couple of holes near the top and used a spiral type rolling method to make a string out of duct tape to put through the holes to tie around the top so the poles don't fall out.  I also made a handle out of duct tape folded over on itself and wrapped with more tape and taped it to the bag.  I can now carry it like you'd carry a suitcase or sling it over my shoulder.  It's waterproof and very convenient as well as light weight (I'm a five foot tall female with fibromyalgia and don't have a lot of strength). - Jean and Junebug

Walking Dishwasher I grew up with a brother who constantly used duct tape so when I saw your book at the library I just had to read it. Thanks to a broken wheel on our dishwasher, we put a small hole in our lanolieum floor. We tried clear tape first. It fell off and soon our hole grew and I kept tripping on it and making it grow more. Then I read your book and a lightbulb went off in my head . I need to use duct tape. So I did and the floor is fixed for now and I don't trip walking through my kitchen.- Brenda E. Casco, Michigan

How to Fight Off Boredom at Work
Some Co-workers and I got really bored working the night shift one week and we pooled our minds together to create the duct tape gladiator armor. Its complete with helmet, chest piece, skirt, shield, bracers, and shin guards. Total amount of materials used two and one half rolls of duct/duck tape, two boxes of tongue depressors (500 in each), about 4 feet of parachute cord. - Warren, Dover, DE

Brit Tote Repair If you wind up with a small tear in the bottom of your Tote's town boots or almost any galoshes, don't throw them away. A little duct tape will keep them snug for years in the snow and rain. Of course we don't get much snow here, and when we do, no one can go anywhere anyway. - Herb B., London

Dome Light Dimmer After a minor collision, the dome light on my car refused to go out when I shut the door. I put layers of duct tape on the inside of the door until I had built up enough thickness to push the light switch closed when the door was shut. Problem solved. - Robert R., Laramie WY