Contraptions

My digi-box has been overheating again causing the TV to cut out midway through Country File. Not so bad when it's a Matt Baker item but I can't accept it when the lovely Clare Balding is presenting. So to prevent it happening again and the unnnecessary expense of buying a new one I've built a digi-box cooling contraption. It's basically a fan propped up on two telephone directories. All I have to do is point the fan at the digi box and switch it on at the critical time, usually at the best bit of the programme. It got me thinking of other money saving contraptions I have built over the years. I once sellotaped four brightly coloured feather dusters together and stuck them to a ceiling corner to stop a particularly industrious spider repeatedly weaving webs in the same space over and over, despite me dusting them away every other day. Did it stop him? Not sure, he was found dead by a plant pot the following week. I also used seven of my late grandad's old string vests to build a rather natty trellis for the back garden, it sagged somewhat in the rain but was cheaper than going to B&Q. Have you ever built any money saving contraptions for the home?