Quick, easy LED garden lights

For a late night summer party, we wanted to deploy an array of maybe 20 or so little LED garden lights along the periphery of our back yard. And since it was for a one-time event, there wasn't much sense in buying (or building) a set of nice looking permanent solar lights. So here is an alternative: make your own ultra-low cost temporary garden lights using LEDs, lithium coin cells, and mason jars.

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USB Mini-fridge

DIY $5 Mini USB Fridge! - video powered by Metacafe

Homemade speaker

Styrofoam Plate Speaker - video powered by Metacafe

Solar collector from trash

A normal water bottle...

Make your own Twinkies

Print on Anything

Airline Secret Seats

Sit on your coupons for a month

"...take the coupon section out of the Sunday paper and put it aside for four weeks - don’t even bother to look at it. Four weeks later, open it up and clip everything that’s even remotely of interest, whether you’d buy it normally or not.

At that point, take the wad of coupons to the store and just look at the shelves. Magically, most of those coupons you have will sync up very well with stuff that’s already on sale on the shelves. When you combine the sale price and the coupon, you’ll usually be able to get items for next to nothing."

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"Natural" soft drinks