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Duct Tape Prom Apparel Office Uses for Duct Tape Valentine's Day St. Patrick’s Day Outdoor Uses Energy Crisis Hurricane Preparedness Holiday Uses Halloween Costumes Mother's Day Father's Day Y2K (power outage) Back to School Bookstore Uses Golfing Uses More coming… |
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Top ten reasons why you should wear duct tape to the prom
by the Duct Tape Guys, authors of The Duct Tape Book(s)
10. Cheaper than renting a tux or gown.
9. Resistant to punch spills.
8. Prom decorations start falling down? Just peel off part of your outfit and repair 'em on the spot.
7. The gals' dads LOVE those hard-to-remove duct tape gowns.
6. As you grow, you don't have to buy a new gown or tux, you just add more duct tape.
5. With duct tape hosiery, there's no need to shave your legs for weeks after the prom.
4. The sauna-like nature of duct tape apparel allows you to loose up to 20 pounds in one night.
3. Blame your lack of dancing skills on the stiffness of your duct tape tux.
2. Rip your outfit? Get out your roll and patch it!
1. Couples wearing duct tape tend to "stick together".
Nah, that ain’t enough... Let's go for a few more (from the Duck® people):
-1: No more pins in the chest. Tape-on corsages are all the rage!
-2. Duct tape your parents' bedroom door shut and have After Prom at your place.
-3. Duct tape two cars together to make a limo.
-4. Curfew? No problem, duck tape the hands on all your clocks to 10:30 p.m.
-5. Wrap your feet in duck tape so you don't get blisters from dancing all night.
-6. Make duct tape mannequins of you and your date, so the chaperones will think you are there when really you're under the bleachers making out.
-7. Duct tape your date's "wandering hands" to his sides.
-8. Anyone can be prom queen with a duct tape crown.
Could we list more? Sure, there are no limits to duct tape... but we gotta go duct tape something!
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Best OFFICE Uses for Duct Tape
by the Duct Tape Guys, authors of The Duct Tape Book(s)
10. Who needs Post-It™ notes? Duct tape turns any piece of paper into a self-stick note.
9. Cubicle redecorating: Use Xtreme® Duck Tape (in bright fluorescent colors) as wall paper border for your dull cubicle.
8. Practical joking: Use duct tape to tape the backs of desk drawers so they won’t open.
7. Tape over the mouth of the office gossip.
6. Want more privacy? Build a roof on your cubicle with duct tape and discarded appliance boxes.
5. Always have a roll of duct tape handy to fix whatever is broken around the office. You will save the company thousands of dollars. We smell a promotion!
4. Adhere duct tape, sticky-side-out, on your office walls for a floor to ceiling self-stick bulletin board.
3. Too much internet or computer game time during office hours? Duct tape over the offender's entire computer monitor leaving bare a one inch strip across the middle. Their computer viewing will be dramatically reduced.
2. Duct tape your boss to the wall.
1. Never misplace your coffee mug again! Duct tape it into your hand.
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Valentine’s Day Uses for Duct Tape
by the Duct Tape Guys, authors of The Duct Tape Book(s)
10. One rose traditionally means "I love you." A dozen roses made entirely out of duct tape means "I'll love you forever!"
9. If your sweetheart is dieting, wrap that heart-shaped box of chocolates in ten to twenty layers of duct tape - they'll either give up entirely, or burn about 300 calories while opening it.
8. Or, forget the box of chocolates, just give your sweetheart a roll of duct tape. Duct tape is 100% fat free.
7. No more cupid's bow and arrow necessary. Just wrap yourself in duct tape, sticky-side-out and fling yourself against the object of your desires.
6. Valentine's Day dinner apparel is spill-proof when you make it out of duct tape. Dribble some red wine? No problem, just hose yourself off!
5. Make a giant Valentine's Day greeting card: Write "I LOVE YOU..." on your garage door with duct tape. You might make friends with the neighbors using this hint, also.
4. Popping the question? Do what Tim did. Duct tape yourself to your askee's leg until she accepts your proposal of marriage.
3. Make a Love Bug: Cover a Volkswagen Beetle (any vintage) in red or pink duct tape hearts. Don't have a Beetle? Duct tape an old claw-foot bathtub upside down on the top of your car and it will kind of look like a bug.
2. Make your sweetheart a sexy duct tape teddy or negligee out of red and black duct tape (warning: hair removal eminent)
1. Duct tape your bedroom door shut so the kids don't come in during your romantic interlude.
Note: (Duck® brand duct tapes and Duck® brand X-Treme tapes come in great colors including red, hot pink, two colors of green, etc. and are available at most Wal-Mart stores.)
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St. Patrick’s Day Uses for Duct Tape:
by the Duct Tape Guys, authors of The Duct Tape Book(s)
10. Make one of those "DO NOT CROSS" lines out of duct tape to keep people out of the street during the St. Pat's Day parade.
9. Not born Irish? Look Irish by using red or orange duct tape to create a Irish-looking hair.
8. Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow? Heck no! Ours is a case of duct tape!
7. Turn yourself into a leprechaun: Duct tape shoes to your knees and walk around on your knees.
6. No green apparel? Cover an old suit in bright green Duck® brand X-Treme™ tape.
5. If you are having trouble with your Irish brogue? Just put a little piece of duct tape, sticky-side-out on the tip of your tongue so it hangs up behind your front teeth when you talk.
4. Cover your paper plate entirely in duct tape to prevent the corned beef and cabbage juices from soaking through.
3. Duct tape an "O" in front of your name to sound like you're of Irish decent.
2. Cover your beer stein in green duct tape to avoid the need for artificial coloring in your beer.
1. Duct tape cement blocks to your feet to help you stay upright when you've had one too many.
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1. Duct tape over light switches so you think twice before flipping them on.
2. Dish washers take lots of energy. So, eat off of paper plates. To make them reusable, cover them entirely in duct tape. After you use them once, simply add a clean layer of duct tape.
3. Keep your food cooled and preserved without the use of a refrigerator: Wrap it in several layers of newspaper and two layers of duct tape. Add rock salt before the wrap and it may keep for months.
4. Extend the wear of your clothing while reducing your laundry: Duct Tape over clothing.
5. Related hint: Duct Tape over each armpit reduces odor and thus the need to wash clothing.
6. Duct tape your eyeware down to little slits. Using the box camera principle, this will seemingly increase the amount of light entering your eye in low-light conditions thereby reducing the need for electric light.
7. Make your own wind-powered generator: Duct tape six boat oars to a wheel hub attached to an axle which turns a generator which powers your dwelling.
8. Reduce your reliance on fossil fuels: While waiting at a stop light, turn off your engine, put your transmission in neutral, then duct tape your vehicle to the vehicle in front of you.
9. Turn off the television. Create the ultimate in reality TV: Duct tape your cat and dog tail to tail and watch the hilarity begin. No pets? Take turns duct taping each other to pieces of furniture and time the escapes.
10. Put a stop to "rolling blackouts" once and for all. Just duct tape them in place.
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10. Hang stockings from the chimney with Duct Tape
9. Fasten decorative lights to railings of house with Duct Tape
8. Thin strips of Duct Tape make great self-adhering tinsel
7. Cover the inevitable gift fruit cake with Duct Tape and use as door stop
6. Wrap gifts in Duct Tape for the gift that says, “Open me... eventually.”
5. Cover Christmas tree boughs with green Duct Tape to prevent needles from dropping
4. Control that hideous holiday weight gain... Duct Tape over your mouth
3. Duct Tape over the names in last year’s greeting cards and resend them
2. Duct Tape over an old suit or dress to make shiny holiday formal wear
1. Duct Tape great grandpa upright in his chair
Make party cleanup easy! Cover the feet of your party guests with Duct Tape, sticky-side-out, and they’ll be doing the vacuuming for you as they walk around.
Read our reader-submitted holiday uses for duct tape by clicking here.
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Duct Shuiing Your House for the Holidays, click here.
by the Duct Tape Guys author of The Duct Tape Book(s) 10. Duct Tape flowers on last year's Father's Day card converts it to a Mother's Day card. 9. Duct Tape the kid’s feet, sticky-side-out, and they’ll be doing the vacuuming as they run around the house. 8. Give Mom a good night’s sleep for a change. Duct Tape a car muffler to Dad's mouth to silence his snoring. 7. Refashion Mom's old coat into a heavy metal raincoat—cover it with duct tape. (If mom is on the heavy side, send her off to the disco hall as the human mirror ball.) 6. Speaking of the heavy side... If Mom is on a diet, help her out: Duct tape the refrigerator shut. 5. Duct Tape is “Wonderbra on a roll.” 4. Duct Tape over siblings’ mouths gives mom some peace and quiet for a change. 3. Wrap Mom's gift entirely in duct tape for the gift that says, "Open me... eventually." 2. Nothing says "I love you" like a dozen roses, nothing says, “I’ll love you FOREVER like roses made entirely from Duct Tape. 1. Duct Tape the toilet seat down! Media: If you use this list on the air, please mention www.ducttapeguys.com - Thanks
9. Keep the junk mail and bills away by duct taping the mail box shut. 8. A gift necktie made entirely out of duct tape is not only a nifty fashion statement, but also resists stains from Dad’s spilling problem like the dickens! 7. Lower Dad’s receding hairline by applying a strip of duct tape from the forehead to the underside of chin.When Dad open’s his mouth it will pull that hairline right back down into place. 6. Dad’s hairline recession on it’s way down the BACK side of his head? Simply fashion a duct tape toupee and tape it onto Dad’s dome. He’ll be able to swim in it, play tennis in it, even bowl in it with complete confidence! 5. Cover Dad’s golf club head with duct tape—the impression that the ball makes in the tape will show him why he keeps getting that nasty hook or slice. 4. Soak strips of beef in marinade, then stick the strips of meat on a piece of duct tape hanging over the kitchen sink (to catch the drips) until it air dries into a tasty beef jerky for Dad to enjoy at his next poker party. 3. Here’s another nifty gift idea: Grass Clipping Retrieval Shoes. Simply cover an old pair of snowshoes with duct tape, sticky-side-out, so Dad is picking up the grass clippings as he mows. (He'll also be a few inches taller by the time he gets done mowing!) 2. Another Bald Dad Hint: If Dad misses that fly-away hair look, duct tape a couple of pigeons to his head. And the number one use for Duct Tape this Father’s Day: 1. Duct Tape the toilet seat UP! Media: If you use this list on the air, please mention www.ducttapeguys.com - Thanks
9. Contruct your own backpack! Cover a grocery bag entirely in Duct Tape, then duct tape the bag onto your kid's back (over clothing to avoid back skin and neck hair loss). 8. Book covers: Cover your books in paper, then cover the paper with duct tape. Don't tape right onto the book (school administrators are not real duct tape friendly, and will probably fine you for duct tape stickem all over your returned books). 7. Lunch money clip: Duct tape your kid's lunch money to the back of their leg so they don't loose it or have it stolen by the school bully. 6. Note from home security: Tape those notes from home onto your kid's forehead so they don't forget to give them to the teacher. 5. Reusable lunch bag: Don't waste your money purchasing a nylon reusable lunch bag... simply duct tape over a paper lunch bag - your kid will be the envy of the classroom, and this bag will last them right through to college! 4. Sandwich safety belt. Avoid the stain and embarrassment of sandwich spills. Duct tape around the sandwich holds the fillings in place. You just eat down to the duct tape - then squeeze the contents out. 3. Book straps: Some schools are forbidding backpacks because of security issues. The Duct Tape Guys suggest making a book strap out of duct tape (like grandpa and grandma used as kids). To avoid books from spilling out of the strap, duct tape the spines of the books to the strap. 2. Duct tape fashion: Save HUGE bucks... instead of purchasing expensive brand name clothing, cover your last year's outfits entirely in duct tape. Go with silver for the heavy metal look, black for a mysterious/artsy look, or try one of Duck® brand duct tape’s NEW Xtreme Tape® - it's duct tape in dayglo colors: hot pink, lime green, citron yellow, and blaze orange. The same colors that are so trendy with the Xtreme Sports participants. 1. Make a knowledge magnet. Duct tape around your head sticky-side-out, and every word that your teachers say will stick to the tape and soak into your brain. (This has not been fully tested, it's just a theory at this point). Media: If you use this list on the air, please mention www.ducttapeguys.com - Thanks
13. Duck tape a small child or midget to your back and go as a “hunch-backed-two-headed guy.” (If you can’t locate a child or midget, decapitate a department store mannequin, duck tape its head to your shoulder, and go as “The Thing with Two Heads”). Media: If you use this list on the air, please mention www.ducttapeguys.com - Thanks
Duck Tape is Y2K Compatible. Therefore, Jim and Tim, the Duck Tape Guys have put together this list of ten "Y2K uses for Duck Tape" Media: If you use this list on the air, please mention www.ducttapeguys.com - Thanks
#10. Place duct tape, sticky-side-out, on book covers so customers find them hard to put down. And the #1 bookstore use for duct tape: To post a “Yes, We Have The Duct Tape Guys’ New Book!” sign to your front window. Bookstores: Get the Jumbo Duct Tape Book, Duct Shui, and our newest, "The Original Duct Tape Halloween Book" today! Call Workman Publishing 1-800-722-7202
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TEN Father’s Day Uses for Duct Tape:
by Tim—the Duct Tape Guy author of The Duct Tape Book(s)
10. Remote Control Control: Duct tape the remote onto Dad’s arm so he never has to relinquish remote control use to the wife and kids.
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Top Ten Back to School Uses for Duct Tape
10. Backpack reinforcement - help that old backpack make it through one more year of school - reinforce the bottom and seams with duct tape.
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The Duct Tape Guys’ List of Halloween Costume Ideas:
(we made this one a Top 13) Click here to see our Duct Tape Halloween Costume Video
12. Modern Metallic Mummy: cover yourself head to toe in duck tape and speak in inaudible groans. Feeling old fashioned? Go with white duck tape.
11. “Wizard of Oz” Tin Man: Simply follow the instructions for the mummy costume but don’t duck tape over your face. Instead, put a funnel on top of your head and carry around a duck tape covered oil can and axe.
10. Duck Tape Man: Use duck tape to fashion a mask and cape, cover an old pair of tights (or long johns) with duck tape for the pants, make a big duck tape “D” on the front of your shirt, and break the ice with other party goers by sticking a swatch of duck tape on everyone you meet!
9. The Human Shower: Don a raincoat, then use an old broomstick to help duck tape a Hula-Hoop™ over your head. Add showerhead and shower curtain to the Hula-Hoop™.
8. Wear something pink or minty green, Duck tape a shoe to your head, and go as “Used Gum.”
7. Duck tape over your puffy down ski jacket and go as a baked potato! (Don’t forget the dallop of sour cream on your head - created, of course, with white Duck tape.)
6. Take the lid of a shoe box, cut a one inch by six inch slit in the middle of it and tape it to your head so your eyes look out of the slit. You are now the bouncer at a speak easy! “What's the password?”
5. Black pants and a black turtle neck with white duck tape “bones” makes a quick and easy skeleton costume. Or, use silver duck tape to make a “Terminator” skeleton.
4. Duck tape mirrors all over yourself. You will either look like The Invisible Man or like everyone else at the party.
3. Duck tape two boxes to your shoulders tall enough to match the top of your head. Pull a turtle neck over them, and put on a sport coat. You are now “Headless Guy.”
2. Duck Tape Biker: Cover your pants and jacket in black Duck tape, Duck tape a set of handlebars into your hands and your “Ol’ Lady” to your back. A black or brown Duck tape toupee (complete with “duck tail” flip in the back) looks like totally greased-back biker hair.
1. (Dads of teenagers will relate to this costume idea.) Cover yourself with silver Duck tape and hang a twenty dollar bill out of your mouth. Presto! You've become the Human ATM!
Have a fun and safe Halloween! From the Duct Tape Guys
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Y2K Uses for Duck Tape
Yeah, it’s over and nothing happened… these are still good for power outages:
Assuming the power will be out, bring on the ultimate (no power needed) power tool:
10: Hang pieces bread with strips of duck tape over candle flames to make toast without burning your fingers.
9: Duck Tape-reinforce bed sheets and blankets to help retain body warmth during cold winter nights.
8: Duck Tape over plywood panels angled outside your windows to increase reflection of sunshine into your house. At night flip panels over windows to help retain house heat.
7: Duck Tape over your computer to prevent the entry of (or to trap) that Y2K computer bug.
6: Create giant Duck Tape water storage pouches.
5: Music for the New Millennium: The sound of Duck Tape pulling off the roll.
4: Car out of gas? Create Duck Tape tow ropes to hitch a ride from Amish wagons.
3: Phones down? Attach two tin cans with long strips of Duck Tape for interoffice communication.
2: No television? Duck Tape your cat and dog tail to tail for hours of free, high energy entertainment.
1: Use Duck Tape, sticky-side-up, to trap mice, squirrels, woodchucks and other woodland creatures for the evening meal.
Note: Hints 2 and 1 have not been endorsed by PETA or the ASPCA.
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Top Ten Bookstore Uses for Duct Tape
#9. Use duct tape to reinforce binding on used books.
#8. Use a strip of duct tape to add a touch of class to?otherwise boring new book covers.
#7. Duct tape edges of carpet runners and floor mats ?to prevent ugly lawsuits.
#6. Duct tape easily binds shoplifters until the police show up.
#5.Use duct tape to cover “naughty” cover art on romance novels.
#4. Duct tape arrows on the floor point the way to the checkout — the perfect place to impulse-sell a truckload of The Jumbo Duct Tape Book.
#3. Duct Tape the floors in your most popular sections to prevent wear and tear on your floor covering. (A great look for sci-fi sections).
#2. Duct tape beverages into your customers’ hands so they don’t spill all over your merchandise.
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