"First, there was girl math. Then there was girl dinner. And now we'd like to introduce you to girl tools. It's like the time you opened a bottle of wine with nothing but a Bic pen or the time you repaired your glasses with eyelash glue. Girl tools - they are ingenious, they get the job done, and they might just be a high-heeled shoe or a Lego block, who knows?"
"'girl math' this, 'girl dinner' that what about girl tools??? i once used a bottle of lotion to nail a tapestry to my ceiling wbu," she wrote. And so many women replied with hilarious answers. "This is my favorite thread of all time," one of the most popular replies reads. "It's not MacGyvering, it's MacGirlvering," another said. "Instead of 'Jack of all Trades,' I prefer 'Jill of all Skills,' another quipped."
"Need to crush spices? Can of beans. Hammer something? Can of beans. Weigh some fabric down? Can of beans. Light arm workout? Can of beans. Still a couple inches from reaching something up high? Can...of...beans. "I keep my chainsaw tools in a @lululemon bag." Oh! 😂 I just remembered this one -- Last year, I used my son's skateboard to help me move an old sofa out to the street for heavy trash day."
Women shared numerous inventive ways to repurpose everyday objects as practical tools, highlighting creativity and humor. Examples include using lotion bottles to tack tapestries, Bic pens to open wine, eyelash glue to fix glasses, and cans of beans as hammers, spice crushers, weights, or reach extenders. Other solutions include storing chainsaw tools in a Lululemon bag, using a skateboard to roll a sofa, a butter knife as a screwdriver, and a hands-based 'measuring tape' technique for fitting furniture. Responses framed the improvisations as clever problem-solving and playful rebranding of MacGyvering into 'MacGirlvering' and 'Jill of all Skills.'
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