Nerds... Not!

Have you ever wondered about stuff like:

How did they come up with calling batteries "AA" and "AAA"? How about "B" batteries? Seems like "B" got skipped. How about "CC" or "DDD" batteries?

What was best before sliced bread? In other words, what did they say before they started selling sliced bread in the stores?

Why is it pair of pants while it's only one?

How is it, while we are out numbered by bugs millions to one, why aren't we up to our ears in bugs?

There are tons of other stuff, but I can't think of them to write them. How about you? What have you been thinking about lately? Any comments on the stuff that I just posted?

This is a duck tape door hanger that I just kind of made up from a plan I had in my head just now. It has a little window that you can write whatever you want. Like:

Please Knock!

Do Not Disturb

Little sisters (or brothers!) do not come near!

Or you could draw stuff on it. But, now, how to make the thing.

1. Take some duck tape (whatever color you want, maybe to match your room?), and lay down a strip, sticky side up.

2. Now, lay another strip of duck tape sticky side up, halfway covering the first one. Keep doing it until you have a piece of "duck tape fabric" as wide as you want.

Note: your finished product will look better if you cut strips of duck tape a little longer than you want the finished product to be, since it'll always look better to cut some off, than to add little pieces here and there.

3. Turn the piece of "duck tape fabric" so that the strips of duck tape go up and down, instead of sideways. Now, start  covering up the sticky side. Just lay pieces of duck tape on top of the other ones, sticky side DOWN this time. Be careful to lay them down slowly, not to get any bumps or anything.

A variation: Before you do the other side, you might want to put something in between the layers to hang the sign in a more "professional" way. I used a pipe cleaner, but you could experiment, with string, wire, a folded-over duck tape rope, who knows what!

4. Now that all the sticky parts are covered up, you can trim the piece of "fabric" to the exact dimensions that you want. Once it's all trimmed, take some more strips and cover up the cut edges. Lay the strip down, sticky side up, and put the piece of "fabric" on the strip of tape, so that it covers up about half the width of the strip. Fold the strip over. Do it over and over again until all the cut edges are covered up.

5. Now, make the white-board part. Take a piece of paper an inch wider and an inch longer that you want your white board to be. This is because you will be covering up a half inch border. Cover it in clear packing tape, just like you did with the duck tape. Strips covering up half of the last one. Then, trim the edges and cover the cut edges with some more packing tape.

6. Take some duck tape again, and cut a strip that's a half inch longer than your white board piece, and lay it down, sticky side up. Fold over about a third of it, right on top of itself. Lay the still-sticky part down on the edge of the duck tape fabric you made earlier. Do it three times, once for each of the bottom three edges (like the bottom, left & right sides). Tape down the corners, so that there are no flaps hanging.

7. Slide the white-board part into the slots you just made, between the flaps and the main part of it.

8. Make another flap, for the top edge, but don't tape the corners down. You might want to take the white-board out and do some major cleaning of it (it's gonna get kinda dirty!), or maybe even make a new one.

9. Unless you went ahead with the variation between steps 3 & 4, you still need something to hang it with. Well, you have a few choices:

 -Make a little strip to hang the sign on a tack out of a really short, folded over piece of duck tape

 -Make the same type of thing out of string, or any other thing that you can think of.

 -Take a longer piece of string and tape both ends of it to a corner of the back of the sign with duck tape

 -You might be able to think of some other way to hang it, and if you do, go with it!

I hope you like my idea, and I hope the instructions made enough sense for you to do it. Have fun, and if you do it, and it works out, tell me aobut it!