I made a wallet out of it.

When my youngest stepdaughter Brittany was in school, she got a science assignment: create a way to protect an egg dropped from the 2nd story roof so it doesn't break. There were restrictions: the materials list was very limited, the "device" had to land on a small target on the ground, things like that. Of course, I just HAD to "take charge" of this project, it was too irresistible. The solution "we" settled on was to take stiff posterboard and twist it into a spiral-shaped swirl with a small egg-holder made from cardboard and foam. The idea was that while this thing falls, the air makes it spin, which dissipates the energy of the fall and helps it to fall straight. Thus the egg-pouch hits the ground at a gentle 3 MPH instead of a deadly 25-30 MPH. I should mention that Brittany was very enamoured of Barbie, so when this device was done it was thoroughly decorated with pink Barbie stickers, flowers and hearts. We took a pink marker and labelled it "The Barbie Ovuthopter 2000", and she hauled this contraption around school with her all day until it was time for science class. It fell beautifully, one of only 2 devices to meet all the criteria and succeed. And the Barbie theme caused quite a stir. A real triumph. Oh yeah, there was lots of duct tape used in the production of the Ovuthopter. But no duct tape was harmed.

Pipe bomb.

I sometimes use it to post service on someone's front door (service of legal documents), so myself, my husband (a/k/a my "assistant",) and my secretary all have it in our trunks so that we can, on short notice leave nasty legal papers on people's front doors.

well, the most far out thing was a wart --honest! by putting duct tape on it it will die!

When I was in college, I was getting ready to go on a date and the ONLY belt I had to wear had a buckle that broke (not because of my gut either!). I was already abit late, so I made a belt out of duct tape rolled over on itself and ran it through the loops, and I was good to go. I remember her saying it was kind of "cool." I think she was being kind. I should have had a picture taken of it, since I am sure I looked totally ridiculous with it. But I got distracted at the drive in later, and I think I threw it away the next morning. True love and lust can really bring out the creativity in people. :)

I do believe that I actually have the most unusual use of duct tape. First, I must give a little bit of history. I started using duct tape back before it was as popular as it is today. There was a local company that manufactured it in rolls that were approximately 8 feet wide. When you showed up to buy tape from them, they would use what looked like a portable band saw to slice off a manageable roll for you. The edges of the roll were usually a bit ragged, but this tape was just about the only thing that would make a permanent repair in a ripped Dacron sail. In short, I have been using duct tape for over 30 years, and have used it for many things, including some that you might find it difficult to imagine. A few years ago, we finished our walk-out basement into an apartment for my brother-in-law and his fiancee. There was already a full bath down there, and a room that would become the bedroom. We installed a kitchen and a French door out to a stone patio. The final thing we needed to do to get it ready, was to run heat to the bedroom, as it was a bit cold in the wintertime. Here is where my unusual use of duct tape comes into play...I actually used duct tape to seal the joints in the new ductwork. I still have difficulty believing that fact to this day. Sometimes when our current tenant is out, I just have to go down there and stare at that ductwork just to reassure myself that I actually used duct tape for that purpose!

When I was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson, the back seat of my VW Bug suddenly sunk through the floorboards. It was the middle of nowhere and literally decades before the existence of cell phones. An old Hopi man on foot came across me, and although he couldn't understand me, saw my dilemma and managed to convey that he would return. He must have lived nearby because it was only ten minutes until he returned with two young men in a pickup. They carefully surveyed the situation, produced a roll of duct tape and used the entire thing to patch up the floorboard. They put the backseat into position and refused my offer of compensation for their trouble. I drove the Dub that way for another couple of years -- until the transmission literally fell onto the pavement.

I have used Duct tape to patch many things (Holes in my down-filled coat (feathers flying everywhere when I sat down was a bit comical :)) but the most odd thing i've ever done with duct-tape was this. One time when I worked for an isp, my co-workers and I would all get together after work and hang out (yeah, we liked each other THAT MUCH.) One night we all got drunk and two of us ductaped our friend dwayne, we wrapped it around his ankles, and ductaped his arms to his sides, and then hung him upside down from a pipe in our buddies basement. It was hillarious, he stayed inverted for about five minutes -- long enough for us to stop laughing uncontrollably and get him down from his precarious predicament.

A long time ago, when we had no money to replace an old lawn mower, we used duct tape, for sealing the holes in the rusty one, so grass would not blow every where.

Last year me and my friends were hanging out in my basement. We got bored, so we all went to the doller store and bought 8 rolls of duct tape and taped each other to the basement wall. It was fun till we had to get untaped from the wall. It was very painful... our arms and legs were bald after that. *****and were doing it AGAIN...lol, right after im done typing this. i'll see if i can get a picture soon*******

I knew this one chick in high school that made a skirt & a pocket book outta it. & this dumb ass redneck I knew patched his pants with some.

Taped down the sunroof so it would not fly away.

I made a bracelet/bangle thing out of brightly colored duct tapes. It had hot pink, lime green, bright orange, and fleuroescent yellow It was pretty cool actually. But I did it cause some kid had them and I saw it as an alternative to being bored to death in class. I also made a huge ball out of 4 rolls of duct tape with a friend once. I don't really know why, it was just laying around. I also taped a duct with it once. Who does THAT?!

I used to skateboard all the time and the grip tape would rip my soles so I would rap layers of duct tape around my shoes to protect my feet

I had one pair of handcuffs and three prisoners. what did i do? you guessed it. my handy roll of duct tape. I used half the roll on each one. it took us 10 minutes to set them free, once we reached the jail. Did it hurt, when taking off the duct tape? I will not answer that question. (i did have a smile on my face)

I have done many things with duct tape, but the weirdest... once, I got bored and thought it would be a great idea to make myself a top out of duct tape. It was quite cool, but it hurt like hell getting it off! (sometimes my ideas aren't the best)

Tape for holiday gift wrap. A former employer and I were always trying to outdo each other's style and creativity. He used to always get the most incredible gift wrap and would obviously spend hours wrapping all the gifts he would give. One year, I became fixated on outdoing him so I hunted down this absolutely amazing wrapping paper. It was thick, matte black handmade paper that looked like it had been all bunched up. It was very soft, almost like fabric. Needless to say, it was also very expensive. I think it actually cost more than most of the things I was wrapping! It was WAR! Damn the expense! Being my usual, procrastinating self, I waited until the morning we were to all exchange the gifts before I got around to wrapping them. It wouldn't have been that big of a problem, except I had no clear tape in the house. I did, however, have a huge roll of duct tape. I thought about using little pieces of the duct tape, hiding it under the edges of the wrapping paper, but I did NOT want my glorious paper to be overshadowed by people wondering why I used duct tape instead of ribbon or clear tape. I had to come up with something creative! So, I just folded that way-too-expensive paper over the gifts and seamed everything up with the duct tape. Got to work, we exchanged gifts, and everyone marveled at how gorgeous and contemporary my wrapping looked. Even my boss wanted to know where I found that paper and the silver tape!

I somehow got it inot my head a while back to try to wrap myselfe in duck tape and go as a mummy for halloween, I ended up ripping out the hair on my right arm.

My mom kept saying pull up your pants so one day i put duct tape on my butt crack

welll the most ridicolous thing i ever used it for was when my sis and i were fighting so i took duct tape and i put it all over the wall and furniture and (NEW) white carpet to divide the room in haf and we cudnt pass it!lmao yes!i was only like 7 and i had nothing much better to do lol

Back when I was skinny (hahah) my pleather pants ripped before we went on stage for a performance. Let's just say-right in the girlie regions; and we used a bunch of duct tape to fix the upper leg and other areas like an ace bandage of sorts to close the hole. (Yeah, yeah, bad pun!) But it worked and lasted the whole set. Sweat and all. It was really neat the silver against the black. But needless to say, the end of my pants! And the getting the stuff off was TERRIBLE pain! WOW!! So much for fashion friendly...so there's my story. And a life's lesson in what not to use for waxing. Yuck. Thanks for asking!

Once when I was performing a trouser role (when a girl plays a male role)in an opera the costumiere ace bandaged my boobs flat and then duct taped the bandage to make sure it stayed in place.

I used duct tape to temporarily stop the blood flow of a nasty, deep cut in my husband's forearm until we could get to the hospital and have a doctor stitch it with appropriate sutures. Also, a couple of years ago an elderly neighbor had left his dining room window partially open and a wad of cash was in plain view on top of the table; I put duct tape sticky side out at the end of a broomstick, and got the money out one bill at a time. I made $350 that day, and I was real broke. To this day the old man is still thinking that he may have left the door unlocked and somebody went into the house and stole the money; he even asked me if I had seen someone suspicious around his house {of course I hadn't!}.

The most unusaual with duct tape. i got pissed at my little brother one day a day before he turned 12 and when he was asleep before his birthday i taped him to his old army cot. He woke up not knowing it until he tried to stand up.

Temporary fixes: Hinge on a box broke: Duct Tape! Tore my leather coat: DT then black marker Showtime rotisserie- 'window tracks' cracked on the bottom- DT! The best ALL TIME use: Put an inside out loop of it on the tip of a yardstick, and you can kill really big spiders on the ceiling, walls, anywhere without getting close to them!

To tape the cat-flap door for our 4 cats to a permantent 'open' position because they do not understand how the flap part works (despite training and the flap being see-through and the cost of the new pane of glass to fit the damn thing in being £200 UKP.)

I was a volunteer at a local Equine rescue center a couple of years ago here. One of the "old timers" a gelding, had not been able to retract his penis. Why they had not put him in a warmer, sheltered area, I have no clue. When I arrived they had him in and were attempting to treat the swollen frost-bite that he had sustained on his member, which now...with the swelling he REALLY couldn't retract into the sheath. We treated the frostbite but because of his advanced age, and slightly declining health, he wasn't able to retract. So....we used a sock, some medical wrap tape and then some gauze and THEN THE DUCT TAPE to more or less stuff him back into the sheath as much as possible so that the penis wouldn't become more inflamed by cold or frost. As you might guess...I suggested we move a younger, more healthy horse out of the barn and put the old boy in for the night. I have to admit, while I was pretty pissed off that something of this nature (preventable) had happened, watching 6 women try to duct tape a horse's penis back into his sheath...was rather laughable. I don't volunteer there anymore...the stupid people tricks and political BS just didn't align with the goals of the Mission Statement or my own concepts of what should have been going on.

When I was dating a woman who had occasional episodes of psychotic breaks where she had flashbacks to a violent attack on her, she would think I was the attacker and attack me! One time, I could not get her calmed down the usual ways or get pills in her to calm her down plus she had grabbed a chef's knife with a 10" blade. So, I managed to knock the knife out of her hand (actually kicked) and when she was holding her hand I grabbed her and got her face down on the floor. I was right by a spot in the kitchen where the drawer had hardware and tools in it. I opened it and there was some duct tape! I taped her hands behind her back, and "escorted her" into the spare bedroom while I dialed 911. That was the last incident I think before I decided I couldn't live with that any longer. Sleeping with an eye open and with someone who could become violent (whether they knew what they were doing or not) was just too much for me to handle. Anyhow, the duct tape was indeed a great binding device and I remember when the 911 people came they actual left it on her and the cop said to do so also, since she was violent.

I am known as the DUCT TAPE QUEEN.. I use it for everything! Literally! I live by that age old adage--if it can't be fixed by duct tape and super glue, it can't be fixed. The most unusal thing I have used duct tape for was when I was in Memphis on a business trip...giving a presentation with four other presenters on 'useful ways to implement current programs' and it was boring, so as it was my turn to speak--(and yes, I drew the longest straw so I was last), people began to leave . I always have a roll with me and I whipped out my grey roll and I unrolled the tape, sticky inch by inch, walked around the room, giving my portion of the presentation and I taped people in their seat! I finished the presentation WITHOUT a single person getting up. I went around the room three times! No one moved...to get them to leave, I had them jump over the tape! Ones that couldn't, crawled under!

We have a Bernina Brand computerized embroidery machine. The fabric that is being embroidered has to be held in a hoop so the automated system can move it under the sewing foot. If the piece of fabric is too small to fit in the hoop, or if it is an odd shape... Duct Tape is sticky enough to hold the fabric to the edges. My wife gets very unpleasant when she notices that I have used this method. I CAN'T imagine why. ;-)

To temporarily repair a torn bicycle inner tube. I also use it (inside out) to take objects out that have fallen down the sink drain.

Sadly, this story isn't something ~I~ did, but in high school a friend of mine made herself a prom dress and her date made his tux entirely out of duct tape! It was for some scholarship contest, they were actually rating people's prom outfits that were made of duct tape, it was hilarious! They looked better than some of the people who showed up in actual dresses, there were some UGLY dresses there, haha!

After my incredibly large and oafish dog put himself through my double paned storm windows (he appeared to be just wrestling around), I had no choice but to duct tape a kitchen towel around his arm until we get him to the vet. He ripped off one of his pads and tore a 7 inch long piece of skin when he went through and he was just bleeding everywhere. It was pretty funny watching him try to figure out how to get the towel off. He is fine now, by the way, and the tape was not on his fur.

I had to duct tape my hood on my car closed or else it would fly up on the highway.. that was annoying..and scary.

I would duct tape flooring to the wall behind the dart board. So, When I'm playing darts I don't miss and hit the wall.

I went to prom with a girl that wore a whole dress made of duct tape!

well i don't know how strange this is but its kind of embarrassing and it did work. My trunk latch broke and i tried everything but after all was said and done i eventually had to move down to taping down my whole trunk . u could actually see it friom very farrrr away!!!

well i don't know how strange this is but its kind of embarrassing and it did work. My trunk latch broke and i tried everything but after all was said and done i eventually had to move down to taping down my whole trunk . u could actually see it friom very farrrr away!!!

well i don't know how strange this is but its kind of embarrassing and it did work. My trunk latch broke and i tried everything but after all was said and done i eventually had to move down to taping down my whole trunk . u could actually see it friom very farrrr away!!!

My favorite has to be taping around work boots to keep the sole from falling off.

Richard Simmons.

It's great for getting pet fur or fuzzies off a dress coat or pants by just turning it inside-out.

The other day when my hazard lights were going off on my car and i kept pressing the button and they wouldnt go off! Thankfully the tape come in handy and i stuck it over the button... It's still on their now!

Taping my mate half way up a support column.

I use duct tape on my packages I send out and use it on my drums + 5

When I break into someones house and tie them up... I like to put it around there mouth because usually they say really mean things to me and yell and stuff... I don't like it when they do that because it hurts my feelings... :o(

Taping up my head to keep it from exploding when listening to stupidity. (as suggested by Glenn Beck)

Well, I think duct tape is one of the best inventions ever! I can't say I have a FAVORITE use for it but my most recent use for it was holding on my rear view mirror for a couple days until I could get the special kit to re-attach it.

Duct-taping someone to the floor/ceiling after they've had a hard night of drinking.

To hold the flap of our cat flap open by sticking it to the glass of one of the conservatory windows. We have 7 cats, all adults and they don't understand how to use the thing. When the flap is down they simply look at it, assume it is broken and wait by the back door instead. The thoughts of training all seven is too much to even consider.

emergency auto repairs.

this http://www.ducttapeguys.com/walltapings/

For my birthday one year a friend made me a picnic basket out of duct tape because I said I didn't have a picnic basket.

Wrapped it around helicopter rotor blades that had bullet holes through them, worked great, got the bird home and repaired properly soon after.

I broke my pelvis in college, and I used duct tape to keep it in place so I wouldn't have to get a full body cast.

Where I live it is not unusual to see mailboxes ducttaped to their posts.

Actually sealing duct work

Taped the trailer hitch on to the toe ball.

I made sunglasses once, out of duct tape, but, hey, it was a slow day at work, ok...

make a bag

My friends made a prom dress and suit and and got a scholarship for it. They looked pretty slick for prom. And there are all different colors of duct tape. Ooh wouldn't it be interesting to make a scenery with it?

http://www.ducttapeguys.com/art/images/duct_tape_mummy.jpg http://daddytypes.com/archive/duct_tape_baby_mianro.jpg http://allnarfedup.com/wp-content/2004/duct_tape_wallet_bifold_inside.jpg http://www.nakedprotesters.com/public-nudity/duct-tape-bra.jpg http://davidzinger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/duct-tape-neck-tie.jpg

Make an airplane or a hang glider.

I won't get too graphic lol, but I'll say generally 'bondage' ;)

Make a wallet, a kid in 7th grade did it.

The most creative duct tape use I have ever heard of is to wrap it sticky side out around your knees and hands and crawl on the floor to vaccum it.

Heres a start!

Build a camper! They don't finish in this video but you get the idea. I saw on TV the other day one that was finished, with windows and all. It was pretty cool.